Out and Back

I'm getting to know the ER really well. They released dad at 3:30 this afternoon and he was back in at 8:30 with the same thing that brought him in Sunday night (only this time he didn't wait until the pain was so bad he needed paramedics). I got home a little over a half hour ago.

I wonder what tomorrow will bring…

Madness

I just heard from the hospital. They are releasing dad, they decided about an hour ago. They have no idea what brought on the abdominal pain, nor the second heart attack. They did not run a stress test, they have not given him solid food for two days. Are they nuts?

I think they are trying to drive this family nuts. My two uncles haven't slept much for days, nor has my mother nor myself. And they're sending him home without testing his heart first!?!?! Are they insane?

I tell you, this could drive someone to drink!

Update (2004/12/28, 17:17 PM): The general practitioner was doing a discharge on the advice of my father's normal doctor, who is presently on vacation and not credentialed at this hospital anyway (hence the need for the temporary general practitioner who is credentialed at this hospital). My mother just talked to me after she heard from the doc again, who apologized for overstepping his bounds. Seems that the good doctor was relying on the said normal doctor's advice rather than the cardiologist's. After talking to the cardiologist, they have determined to wait until tomorrow when they can have dad run a stress test. Thank-you!

Dad's normal PCP is a jerk. He's released my dad early once, was trying to do so again, did not call for an emergency angiogram two weeks ago when the chest pains first occurred, and previously put my dad on statins (step as far away from cholesterol medicine as you can, it does far more harm than good from what I've seen, although I'm no doctor), which — it seems — have caused the vein growth that requires a rare procedure in the future to keep them from stealing blood from the heart. He also screamed at my mother over the phone before seven in the morning yesterday for having my dad at the wrong hospital (which was the only choice, given the severe pain, but the doctor didn't care about that).

At least this doctor apologized for the misstep, I know that's hard for an M.D. to do.

More News Tomorrow

Lots of stuff to post about today, but I need sleep more than I need to post, so I shall do it tomorrow. Hope y'all had a good day.

On the Second Day of Christmas...

we return to the hospital. Deciding to spread things out we had a family Christmas party tonight. By the end of the night dad had a bad stomach ache. And it got worse until we called 911. The ER thinks its “pancreatitis,” which seems to be able to be caused by post-surgerical medicines, trama, etc. I just got home, its 2:13. I need sleep. Hopefully, I'll be back sometime tomorrow.

Prayers, as always… would be appreciated. Thanks.

Merry Christmas Once Again

Hope you had a great Christmas! Remember, today is just day one of the twelve days of Christmas…

Welcome to the Other Side

Welcome to SAFARI 2, codename “Alexandra.” The more I use SAFARI 2, the more convinced I become it is really still alpha quality rather than beta. Here is what is still broken, ordered in two lists, one that contains “soon to be fixed” stuff and one that contains later stuff.

• RSS will return in the next few days.
• Lingering display problems will be corrected.
• Blogroll will return ASAP.
• Topics will work again.
• Problems in admin panel will be fixed.
• “Remember Me” cookie for comment will function.
• Friendly URL's will return (in backwards compatible way, no need to change your links to any post on asisaid, it will work again ASAP).
• Posting a comment pages will retain look of asisaid.

• Proper rendering of trackbacks.
• Trackback support.
• Pinging of Weblogs.com/Blogrolling.com.
• Tons of other stuff.

If you see problems on these pages, please let me know in the comments below so that I can try to put it on the list of things to fix.

This will likely be my last post before Christmas, so have a very merry one. Blessings to you on the day of the celebration of Christ's birth. “Immanuel Hath Come to thee, O Israel”!

Progress as Promised

It looks like my new blogging software might be able to be unveiled later tonight or, at worst, on December 26. At least that's how I'm thinking at the moment. Right now, there are a number of key things missing, such as listing the proper number of comments on the front page, but that's more of a cosmetic issue than a serious issue that should be a showstopper. It's still better than no blog, right?

By the way, I want to give a really big “thank-you” to Christopher for offering WIT as a “home away from home” that I could post at temporarily. While I don't think I'll need it, given the progress I've made, it was nice just knowing I'd have a place to go, need be.

I wasn't sure how successful transfering the data from a flat file (plain text) database to MySQL would be, but it worked after spending a few hours hacking together a script to do so. The rest can come later, I figure. The big remaining job is to copy SAFARI 2 over onto the asisaid domain — right now I have it on a test domain and I'd like to keep that domain a test domain so that I can continue to work on progress to a “gold” 2.0 version of SAFARI without breaking asisaid (right now, I'd consider SAFARI 2 somewhere between late alpha and early beta stage — it works, but it still has some problems).

Anyway, just thought I'd give an update. I don't think I'll be done in time to do the Christmas post I wanted to do, but I'll just do it in a belated fashion. The other, really good news that I didn't have time to discuss yesterday is that the hospital released my dad yesterday. On Wednesday, he had sung “I'll Be Home for Christmas” to my mother — I'm glad he wasn't disappointed. The doctor seemed quite optimistic about the way things are going.

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Buh Bye

The old blogging software I've been using seems to have given up its ghost. It's dead. As a doornail. Gone. Bit the dust. Bought the farm. All the entries now refuse to appear, although all the data is intact on the server. I have no idea why.

Fortunately, I've been planning a blogware update to my new SAFARI 2 Content System. Unfortunately, I discovered some bugs in it this afternoon as I was considering migrating it (this was all before I realized my blogware had died). Fortunately, I've fixed most of those bugs. Unfortunately, I haven't fixed all of them yet.

My big hope is that I'll return to the blogosphere within the next few days, at worst, maybe tonight, at best. In the mean time, I'll update this page, but I don't want to put too much effort into this static page.

I've placed a place holder article on OfB.biz where you can comment on this “entry” if you'd like to. Click here to read and post comments.

In the mean time…If you have not visited all of the sites on my blogroll before, why not visit one of them right now?

About Fantastico

Eduardo upgraded to WordPress 1.2.2 the other day, and when he did, I asked him if he had used Fantastico to perform the upgrade. Ed followed my advice to Eduardo and that killed his blog. Well, not really, but it made it look like it had choked. As it turned out, Fantastico did not run the upgrade.php script included in WordPress, and thus the database was not arranged properly.

I checked around Fantastico and could not find a way to fix it directly from there. But, running the aforementioned script did the trick just fine. I thought I'd share this in case anyone else tried to follow my advice.

What I Bought

Music and Words by Matt Slocum; Sung by Leigh Nash (the two founding members of Sixpence).

if I could have the words to change 
to speak into the world would they fly 
I wonder if they'd put them in a jeweled box for sale 

Chorus 2
Chorus 1