Nah that will be ripped apart to find out what cancer it is and what stage it's at. The size of it at the end I don't think I have a big enough keyring to carry it around.
First full day at home today and I am feeling down and in pain. I don't want to take any more opiates as they make me feel like a space cadet. Time to start some uni work then... Well maybe later.
I have tried and failed for the last three days to do any work towards the TMA. I have been staring at a blank word doc unable to find any inspiration to start.
Think I need to contact my tutor and see he can point me in the right direction.
What're the tutors like for your course? I did a distance learning MCSA a while back and the tutors were all terrible to the point I ended up not speaking to them. The seemed to come across as nothing more than answer checkers, persumably referring to an answer sheet for each TMA rather than having any true knowledge of the subject.
So far the tutors I have had have been pretty knowledgable but very dry. I can only remember one tutor bringing a bit of life to a course and that was because his day job helped with his subject (helicopter modifier and project lead for BAE). My current tutor has responded but offered no more than to start writing and attend the lecture on Tuesday. The writing part is what I'm stuck on so hopefully the lecture will help me a bit more.
If I don't have any solid direction on where to begin, I write down a list of words and/or ideas, edit it (add/delete/rearrange) and eventually organize the result into an outline. Break down the overwhelming task into bite-size bits. This also works for coding. Unfortunately, it doesn't work for cleaning up my work area.
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"We're introducing this change so that we can show a powerful application full of high-quality content, rather than what we have now which is a equal mixture of awesome and sadness"
I feel for you. I've been diagnosed with a disease that has been ruining my life for 3 years now. What I want to say that you're lucky to have your family that supports you. You have kids by now and even if you won't have more in the future, you're not alone. Coming through this all alone is the worst thing that can happen to a human being, so I wish you the best with your treatment and hope you'll beat cancer's ass!
So, it seem I have kicked cancers butt, well removing my testicle did anyway! clean removal and no trace of spread. Small chance of it possible moving up into my stomach but that will be cut to around 3% after I have a dose of chemotherapy.
Awesome sauce all round. Thanks for the support guys its been pretty emotional but things seems to be picking up again. I also got a promotion (well sort of) last Friday. No longer a Sys Admin but now SAAS operations manager (so a remote network sys admin with some extra bits) with the product I helped create on Azure which has been picked up as our main product.
Now I just need the insurance to pay and and for Alex to fall pregnant and I will defiantly be back on track.
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