Patrick Volkerding Back to Work

AndreaP writes "Patrick Volkerding, the maintainer of Slackware Linux, is apparently recovering from his health problems and is back to work. From the ChangeLog of Slackware-Current: 'I'm back in California and I'm happy to let you all know that I'm feeling much better. :-) Here are a few updates so you can see that I'm trying to get back into the swing of things. Hopefully 10.1 won't be too far off ...'"

Great!

[chrisgeleven]

Thankfully this guy has finally appeared to be cured or on the road to being cured. That was one scary story we all read just a month or two ago and it is great to hear all turned out well in the end.

Re:So... that's it?

[Anonymous Coward]

Hopefully since he was so public with his symptoms he will be as public with his diagnois and prognosis.

Cancer probably

[PoderOmega]

If you RTFA he is plugging a cancer specialist he either has or cancer or maybe a benign tumor that could they thought could be cancerous. But I doubt it is benign if he was having symptoms. Either way he doesn't want to come out and say it.

Cmon Pat!

[Anonymous Coward]

You gave us tons of info before, but now, NOTHING!

I know health problems are private and all, but you kinda made yours public. And now, you've just left us all hanging.

The reason I'm curious, is I have been dealing with the exact same problems for over the past 2 years, and the docs can't find a thing wrong with me.

Did a prescription of Zoloft fix the problems? Or was there more to it? Because, I'm starting to think that I just need some psychoactive drugs to fix my problems since every doc tells me they see nothing wrong. Except the pain and symptoms are real.

Even if it was some terrible STD, we love you all the same. I've certainly had some interesting ones.

Re:PubMed

[Anonymous Coward]

Remember that one of the reasons for terminology is to make it seem to yourself and others that you know what your tallking about.

Of course some terminology is helpful to making meaningful statements in a given field of discourse.

Medline is a bibliographic database of articles published in medical journals. It represents current and historical thought of the medical profession.

If you or someone you love is ill and you are intelligent then I would advise the best thing to do is to apply your analytical powers to understanding, questioning and supporting your doctor.

Certainly really knowing some terminology may help to elucidate discussions with one's doctor. It may encourage your doctor to go into more technical details.

Self diagnosis is not a good idea...remember doctors dont generally treat themselves or their loved ones where serious conditions exist.

Re:his doc's blog

[leofaoro]

Hey This community is *really* impressive. Came here to check where all this traffic was coming from :-) I am also glad he is back. regards, Leo

Re:So... that's it?

[teromajusa]

Heh, maybe the fact that the replies he got were mostly just alot of scolding for not managing his health better has convinced him to keep these things private from now on. Compassion does not seem to be a big priority with alot of the slashdot community.

What details?

[The Cisco Kid]

His two postings from November are as detailed as they were then, and the new posting has absolutely no details at all.

Curious /.'s want to know - so what happened? Did they find a mysterious alien implant, or the right way to kill a nasty bug? All he says is that he's 'feeling better'

I wonder what InternationalCow has to say now...

[achurch]

. . . after dissing [slashdot.org] Volkerding's Google-based self-diagnosis?

Re:So... that's it?

[Angostura]

Scolding? A lot of it was fairly sensible advice about how to manage the medical profession... i.e don't keep swapping doctors all the time, because they will tend to begin at the beginning again.