Hang in there - it sounds like it has been an epic ordeal, but you are fighting your way back to health and that is the important thing.
stan On Feb 13, 2010, at 7:02 AM, eckinator wrote: > Hi again gang, > > right now I feel like my life's a sorry pun... > > I am finally back again, hopefully for good this time - spent another > full week in hospital after another, more serious breakdown (I was > fully conscious but left side paralyzed and aphasic, i.e. couldn't > communicate any more in any meaningful way, threw up all over the > place, finally became disoriented and extremely irritable) so luckily > they looked a little deeper, punctured my spine and inspected the > liquor which was full of proteines and dead cells that didn't belong > there and decided on meningitis which was later changed to > encephalitis; both have a letality rate in excess of 10% so this time > I do consider myself seriously fortunate as it seems it could have > gone undetected after all, took them over a week to identify and they > had already declared me fine and aborted therapy once when the lab > found it... no idea when they pulled out their heads and started > thinking... > > Anyway, strangely becoming to a punster with my dirty mind, the virus > bears the fabulous name of Cocksackie so no wonder I am feeling a lil > bit fucked... there is no drug to fight it so I will have to deal with > it myself but luckily I have developed the antibody and they say I am > in an excellent state of repair so to say otherwise so if I take it > easy, I can make it and have reasonably little to worry about given my > immune situation. This is immensely good news to be thankful for. It > is not a this will be my 2nd birthday feeling but there is a deep > knowledge of this could have gone worse so I guess I will think twice > before and about a number of things as well as two times less before & > about some others. > > Speaking of things I have to perhaps be quick about, is book > submission still open? > > Cheers (from the heart) > Ecke > > 2010/2/7 Toine <[email protected]>: >> That sounds like a serious burnout. Take care of yourself and >> photography is a perfect therapy to clear your head. >> >> Toine >> >> On 5 February 2010 01:10, eckinator <[email protected]> wrote: >>> glad to announce: >>> >>> - was released from hospital saturday after a major cardio & nervous >>> breakdown thursday morning following 38 hours of non stop pc work >>> - on a good way to a full functional recovery >>> - one more hospital exam to go, looking good so far >>> - will get weeks off from work for stress relief, me time and so on >>> - am not to come back until back at at least 110% >>> >>> plus >>> >>> - picked up my k10d and 16-50 from checkup, cleaning, minor repairs >>> and focal plane and back focus adjustment today >>> >>> - seems ok, too except for lens barrel appear slightly loose, can >>> anyone comment if this is normal (never paid attention before) please? >>> >>> essence >>> >>> I was given a windfall of time and gear for finally some serious >>> shooting since a vewwy long time >>> so i wanna thank my maker and the fat lady >>> >>> cheers >>> ecke - so glad to be still around (mind you my life was not in danger =) >>> >>> -- >>> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >>> [email protected] >>> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >>> to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and >>> follow the directions. >>> >> >> -- >> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >> [email protected] >> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >> to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and >> follow the directions. >> > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
