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[IowaDevil]

I'm asking for all the prayers and vibes you can spare for a friend in Arkansas. I've known her for almost 20 years; she's one of my sister's best friends from college and a fellow choir member at my old church in Little Rock. She was diagnosed last week with stage 4 ovarian cancer and is scheduled for surgery on Tuesday. This one absolutely breaks my heart. She has a 2 year old daughter and 3 stepchildren. Cancer really sucks.

It definitely puts all of my gripes about the professional ethics of my colleagues, current and former, into perspective. In the grand scheme of things, it just doesn't matter.

Vibes, prayers & hugs to all!

[captmojo]

I'm asking for all the prayers and vibes you can spare for a friend in Arkansas. I've known her for almost 20 years; she's one of my sister's best friends from college and a fellow choir member at my old church in Little Rock. She was diagnosed last week with stage 4 ovarian cancer and is scheduled for surgery on Tuesday. This one absolutely breaks my heart. She has a 2 year old daughter and 3 stepchildren. Cancer really sucks.

It definitely puts all of my gripes about the professional ethics of my colleagues, current and former, into perspective. In the grand scheme of things, it just doesn't matter.

Vibes, prayers & hugs to all!

From here too!
I have a friend diagnosed with stage 4 bone cancer, discovered 3 weeks ago.
The current question is...chemo? or Hospice?
Prayers for both.

[ArkieDukie]

I'm asking for all the prayers and vibes you can spare for a friend in Arkansas. I've known her for almost 20 years; she's one of my sister's best friends from college and a fellow choir member at my old church in Little Rock. She was diagnosed last week with stage 4 ovarian cancer and is scheduled for surgery on Tuesday. This one absolutely breaks my heart. She has a 2 year old daughter and 3 stepchildren. Cancer really sucks.

It definitely puts all of my gripes about the professional ethics of my colleagues, current and former, into perspective. In the grand scheme of things, it just doesn't matter.

Vibes, prayers & hugs to all!

From here too!
I have a friend diagnosed with stage 4 bone cancer, discovered 3 weeks ago.
The current question is...chemo? or Hospice?
Prayers for both.

Prayers for your friend, captmojo.

[captmojo]

As painful as I've heard that bone cancer can be, how can you ignore it until it has reached stage 4?

[DukePA]

Prayers and hugs to all!!!!!

[lawgrad91]

I'm asking for all the prayers and vibes you can spare for a friend in Arkansas. I've known her for almost 20 years; she's one of my sister's best friends from college and a fellow choir member at my old church in Little Rock. She was diagnosed last week with stage 4 ovarian cancer and is scheduled for surgery on Tuesday. This one absolutely breaks my heart. She has a 2 year old daughter and 3 stepchildren. Cancer really sucks.

It definitely puts all of my gripes about the professional ethics of my colleagues, current and former, into perspective. In the grand scheme of things, it just doesn't matter.

Vibes, prayers & hugs to all!

From here too!
I have a friend diagnosed with stage 4 bone cancer, discovered 3 weeks ago.
The current question is...chemo? or Hospice?
Prayers for both.

Prayers for both.

[ArkieDukie]

Went for a 40 min bike ride followed by a brief dip in the apartment complex's swimming pool. I was unimpressed. The darn thing is only 3 ft deep; it's a resort-style pool. Next time I'll cool off in the large natural wave pool that's just across the road from where I live.

[Very Duke Blue]

I'm asking for all the prayers and vibes you can spare for a friend in Arkansas. I've known her for almost 20 years; she's one of my sister's best friends from college and a fellow choir member at my old church in Little Rock. She was diagnosed last week with stage 4 ovarian cancer and is scheduled for surgery on Tuesday. This one absolutely breaks my heart. She has a 2 year old daughter and 3 stepchildren. Cancer really sucks.

It definitely puts all of my gripes about the professional ethics of my colleagues, current and former, into perspective. In the grand scheme of things, it just doesn't matter.

That is so sad. Hugs to you.

[Very Duke Blue]

Vibes and prays for your friend Capt'.

[DukieInKansas]

Prayers, hugs, and vibes to the friend of AD and to the friend of the Capt.

[IowaDevil]

How many days til Basketball starts? I'm ready!

[ArkieDukie]

My friend had her surgery today. The surgeons called the tumor resection ''optimal' and put her prognosis on the encouraging side. All remaining rumors are less than 1 cm in size, and apparently this is the size that responds well to chemo.

Please keep the prayers and vibes flowing!

[DukieInKansas]

My friend had her surgery today. The surgeons called the tumor resection ''optimal' and put her prognosis on the encouraging side. All remaining rumors are less than 1 cm in size, and apparently this is the size that responds well to chemo.

Please keep the prayers and vibes flowing!

Prayers continue from Kansas.

[bluebutton]

I'm teaching myself to use a relational database (via EasyPhp) to manage my research data instead of using a spreadsheet.

It's fun but rather slow. And I'm frequently wishing I had learned all this stuff earlier but that's not what my profs were into.

So that's been my day so far.

[Very Duke Blue]

Our dinner tonight was BLT'S, deviled eggs and fresh peaches over pound cake and wipe cream. It hit the spot for me. The family was happy. I fed 5 tonight.

[ArkieDukie]

I'm teaching myself to use a relational database (via EasyPhp) to manage my research data instead of using a spreadsheet.

It's fun but rather slow. And I'm frequently wishing I had learned all this stuff earlier but that's not what my profs were into.

So that's been my day so far.

Relational database? What's that? Is it something that would help a science nerd like me?

[DevilAlumna]

I'm teaching myself to use a relational database (via EasyPhp) to manage my research data instead of using a spreadsheet.

It's fun but rather slow. And I'm frequently wishing I had learned all this stuff earlier but that's not what my profs were into.

So that's been my day so far.

Yay, fun!!

Databases are awesome.

[bluebutton]

Relational database? What's that? Is it something that would help a science nerd like me?

I wouldn't be surprised if you're already using one. MS Access and SQL (in all its flavors) are common relational databases. I'm not sure about your statistical packages, but relational databases are everywhere.

The reason I'm learning this from scratch is that I work with qualitative data and there are a few programs developed for managing qualitative data but they tend to be expensive.

I used to keep my "bits of data" on flashcards and hand code them and reshuffle the cards whenever I needed to examine another questions, like "how did speakers talk about someone if they had already talked about them before?" Obviously, this doesn't scale very well as I collect more data. So basically I'm using SQL to hold a giant flashcard collection and letting it sort the cards when I want to see different combinations.

[bluebutton]

I'm teaching myself to use a relational database (via EasyPhp) to manage my research data instead of using a spreadsheet.

It's fun but rather slow. And I'm frequently wishing I had learned all this stuff earlier but that's not what my profs were into.

So that's been my day so far.

Yay, fun!!

Databases are awesome.

HAHA. Well, I will say that I probably wouldn't be bravely trying this if my husband weren't a programmer. SQL is very well documented and I can find most answers online, but having him around to do some hand holding and for moral support is huge.

I do think the payoff will be worth it--managing lots of qualitative data can be tricky--but it's steep learning curve for me.

[IowaDevil]

Our dinner tonight was BLT'S, deviled eggs and fresh peaches over pound cake and wipe cream. It hit the spot for me. The family was happy. I fed 5 tonight.

Yum! All this out of a kitchen that is under remodel! You are amazing!