Happy Holidays

[Collins Richey]

On Fri, Dec 30, 2011 at 2:25 PM, Lonni J Friedman <netllama at gmail.com> wrote:
> Keith,
> Its great to hear from you!  Sorry that you had such a challenging
> 2011
> On Fri, Dec 30, 2011 at 1:22 PM, Keith Antoine <kantoine at optusnet.com.au> wrote:

>> Guess that I had a bad year in 2011 what with Diabetes going through the
>> roof at Easter and going onto Insulin.
>> Then on my walk 31st Aug I just never came home for 6 weeks. I fell on
>> the track and completely ripped out all muscles and connective tissue to
>> the knees.
>> Hence at my age I have had dual operation and re-learn to walk again;

>> Still have a computer but had to change to M$ for the photographic progs
>> that I wanted.
>>

>> Keith Antoine AKA 'Skippy'

Great to hear from you, Skippy. I can't quite match your tail of woe
or the age (I'm only 69), but I too have had some challenges in 2011.
I spent the weekend leading up to Oct. 24 sick as a dog with flu-like
symptoms. Shortness of breath on Monday morning led my wife and I to
suspect pneumonia. When we got to the emergency room, they discovered
acute ventricular tachycardia (heart totally out of rhythm) and almost
total shutdown of the kidneys. After a jump start of the heart
(spooky), I felt much better. I spent a week in hospital, got a stent
and an embedded ICD (pacemaker, defibrillator combination). The
kidneys recovered once the heart was working well again. Fortunately I
have no signs on incipient diabetes.

Now I'm in cardio-rehab (exercising) 3 days a week and feeling better
than ever. I lost 20+ pounds that weekend, so I'm really light on my
feet now. Fortunately I had switched my insurance to my wife's company
a couple of years ago. The list price for my little "vacation" was
about $350K, but I'm only liable for about $2500!!!

I hope that the rest of you are in the best of health. I'm still
working (linux administrator for a lot of servers -centos and oel -
including a few solaris boxes) and loving every minute of it. I'm
thinking retirement is for the birds.

My home PC has been happily running PCLinuxOS KDE4 variant for about 2
years now. Continuous upgrade model is great.

-- 
Collins Richey
     If you fill your heart with regrets of yesterday and the worries
     of tomorrow, you have no today to be thankful for.