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The Art of Photography => The Coffee Corner => Topic started by: Jonathan Wienke on August 25, 2007, 06:37:52 pm
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I've been having some significant health problems; details can be read in my blog (http://blog.myspace.com/jonwienke). The short version is that I've developed some coordination and speech problems, and an intermittent tremor in my right hand. The Army has done all kinds of tests, but I don't have all the results yet, and still don't know what's causing these problems. Further updates will be posted to my blog as warranted. Thanks for reading.
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Good well soon, Jonathan.
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Sounds very odd. Best wishes for a full recovery, Jonathan. Maybe army life is just not right for you.
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Sending good thoughts your way, Johnathan...
Mike.
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Our thoughts and prayers are with you...
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Thanks everyone for your kind words. They are greatly appreciated.
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Thanks everyone for your kind words. They are greatly appreciated.
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Hope you will recover quickly Jonathan.
Henry Goh
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Thanks everyone for your kind words. They are greatly appreciated.
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Best wishes from over here as well Jonathan
regards.. gerry
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Just because Canon brings out a new camera there is no need to get sooo excited ;-)
I hope it is not the German beer, that would be a real bummer not to be able to have another drink. Hope it passes quickly (the illness, not the beer that is) and that you are back to full duties asap.
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Just because Canon brings out a new camera there is no need to get sooo excited ;-)
I hope it is not the German beer, that would be a real bummer not to be able to have another drink. Hope it passes quickly (the illness, not the beer that is) and that you are back to full duties asap.
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Hope you have a quick recovery Jonathan,my prayers are with you.
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Hey, Jonathan, all the best to you from me here in Spain.
I don´t know about you, but I find that too much time on the web can wind my nerves up to a hell of a pitch. I had my first heart adventure some four and a bit years ago after spending an evening exchanging heat with some dodo - as I don´t even remember the guy´s name, it seems such a waste of good time! And health.
Hope you find a reason and a solution soon.
Ciao - Rob C
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I don´t know about you, but I find that too much time on the web can wind my nerves up to a hell of a pitch. I had my first heart adventure some four and a bit years ago after spending an evening exchanging heat with some dodo - as I don´t even remember the guy´s name, it seems such a waste of good time! And health.
I've kind of given up on squaring away all of the free-floating stupidity out there; I now look at it as a kind of competitive advantage--the more retards there are out there, the better smart people like me look in comparison...and then there's the whole bit about having more important things to worry about than some fool's stupid internet posting. It will probably be a few weeks before I have a very definitive diagnosis, which is a long time to wait wondering if your whole life has just taken a very unexpected turn, and not knowing if the symptoms are temporary and treatable, or long-term and degenerative. It's very frustrating, much more so than reading some noob posting his cockeyed theories about color management, or the exact same DOF question for the 127th time.
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I've been having some significant health problems; details can be read in my blog (http://blog.myspace.com/jonwienke). The short version is that I've developed some coordination and speech problems, and an intermittent tremor in my right hand. The Army has done all kinds of tests, but I don't have all the results yet, and still don't know what's causing these problems. Further updates will be posted to my blog as warranted. Thanks for reading.
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perhaps it's just some chemical imbalance, lack of magnesium or b12 or something from your diet...perhaps spasmophilia, i think that's what it's called...both my acupuncture doctor and my osteopath mentioned this to me...
i've had that the past three or four months, the speech problems, some coordination problems and extreme fatigue...in my case we're thinking it was my diet, lack of certain minerals and vitamins...any major changes in what you eat?...
i went through all kinds of tests too and they found nothing, the only thing that's helped were magnesium supplements and i started seeing someone for acupuncture...i'm just about back to normal these days...
as an aside, several years ago i had some mild hand tremor stuff too, at the time i thought it was just due to my always low blood pressure...i'm not sure it has anything to do with anything but nine months or so later i had my first angioplasty and a stent put in for an artery in my heart that was about 90 percent closed...
the body is a mysterious thing...no matter how good medicine is these days the doctors still do lots of guessing...it isn't very reassuring...they try their best...i'm guessing you have all the best in medicine available to you...
hang in there johnathan...you'll be in my thoughts...
M
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Let me add my sympathy and wishes for a very speedy and complete recovery.
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Momo2
The stent. I have one too; it almost gave me another heart adventure when they told me the price of that tiny little vein-stretcher, €3200, if my memory serves me right! But it works and I´m still here, which is what I, at least, think matters most. In the end, the insurance policy paid me back about two-thirds of that, but I´d originally been told in the hospital that it wasn´t covered and had to be my own purchase.
On another note, you are lucky to live in France; they produce more good photography books than any other country I know about - I had to stop buying PHOTO because of the frustration that all those book reviews created!
Ciao - Rob C
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Best wishes for a quick diagnosis and an easy recovery. I know how stressful mysterious health problems can be. My sympathy...
Lisa
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Momo2
The stent. I have one too; it almost gave me another heart adventure when they told me the price of that tiny little vein-stretcher, €3200, if my memory serves me right! But it works and I´m still here, which is what I, at least, think matters most. In the end, the insurance policy paid me back about two-thirds of that, but I´d originally been told in the hospital that it wasn´t covered and had to be my own purchase.
On another note, you are lucky to live in France; they produce more good photography books than any other country I know about - I had to stop buying PHOTO because of the frustration that all those book reviews created!
Ciao - Rob C
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Hi Rob...happily, our medical plan here covers everything...i had one stent put in that was 2000 euros...i think it's called drug eluting or something like that...i have three other 'normal' stents and if i remember right they went for about 800 euros each...between the angioplasties and meds i'm lucky our health coverage is so good...i'm 100 percent covered for anything to do with my heart problems...it's reassuring...
years ago, while i was an art director in new york for a big publisher, i bought a subscription to a magazine called Photographies, i often used the images for reference for illustrators or photographers...not only did they have great book reviews but every issue was a treasure of great photographs...I wonder if it's still being published...and yes, so far, living in france is good...
kind regards...
M
and hey, jonathan, keep us posted on your tests, ok?
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Get well soon...
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Momo2
I think the Spanish state medical system covers most things too, but life here is further complicated by the mixture of private and public medecine. I went into hospital on the private route because a private hospital is fifteen minutes drive away - the state one takes an hour on a good night. I might probably not have survived the journey. So, once in the private system (to which I pay a huge insurance sum) there is little point in moving in and out during events!
However, the state one here is state-of-the-art. If I lived in a big town then perhaps I´d forget the private bit, but you have to weigh up the choices in life and not everything comes down to cost.
Best of luck, Jonathan, and let´s hope you get a speedy solution to what´s amiss.
Ciao- Rob C
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jonathan best wishes, a quick recovery and continued health.
amnon
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Jonathan, you have my sincere support.
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Jonathan, in July 2000 I was diagnosed with liver cancer with a tumour the size of a melon. When they operated they found two more; the smallest as large as a plum. My wife was told by the surgeon to go home and start making arrangements, I was told that I would not survive. I lasted another month, so they put me on intensely aggressive chemotherapy (notoriously ineffective against liver cancers), which was a living death. I survived 6 months of that, but was told that the chemo had been ineffective and I would not see my 3-year old daughter's next birthday. I refused to accept that I would not see my little girl grow up, and that she would not live with the trauma of losing her father so early in her life.
7 years later I'm still here, after two more 10+hr surgical procedures to remove new tumours, and three more procedures to deal with the hernias that have arisen as a result of the surgeries. I have another procedure scheduled to remove more tumours in a couple of weeks' time. Liver cancer should have killed me long before now, but it hasn't.
If I may presume to give advice, it's this - there is no greater mobilisation of your body's own natural defences and healing than a powerful and TRUE positive attitude. It helps if, like me, one has a natural tendency to be confident and perhaps bloody-minded, but use whatever fuels that belief. Whether you believe that you will be cured by a macro-biotic diet, by the deity of your choice, or by cutting the left leg out of all your pairs of trousers, if it works for you then it's right. Draw strength from your family and friends, count your blessings. Think of those that are dear to you and how lucky you are to have loved and been loved by them. Thoughts of 'Why me?' are destructive to the positive attitude you build: accept it, and set out to persevere.
Parents of a dear friend of mine, an elderly and infirm Polish couple who were prisoners in Auschwitz in the second world war, walked all the way to the top of Krakow cathedral so they may touch the Great Bell and say a prayer for me. That walk took all their strength and most of a day. How can such devotion not inspire one?
Since my diagnosis I have completed (for me) a record deep scuba dive, I have re-opened my love for photography, and I took a job that's far less stressful and permits me to spend more time with my wife and daughter.
I wish you well sir; believe in yourself and accept the support of your loved ones - you will prevail.
Peter
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Our thoughts and prayers are with you...
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You look too young to be suffering from the ill effects of Agent Orange.
Best wishes for a successful prognosis.
Bud
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Thanks for all of the support; I've posted (and will continue to post) updates to my condition here:
http://blog.myspace.com/jonwienke (http://blog.myspace.com/jonwienke)
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Your friends are thinking about you and wishing you the best.
Fred