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Patrick Volkerding Battles Mystery Illness
sethadam1 writes "Calling all Slashdoctors! Pat Volkerding, maintainer of Slackware Linux, needs your help. This morning, he posted his very detailed account (mirror) of his battle with Actinomyces here on the Slackware FTP server. Patrick has given his blood, sweat, and tears to the open source community for years in Slackware, one of the oldest surviving Linux distributions. If you can, please help!"
He's sick... so you slashdot his ass
I'm sure he appreciates that though... even if his ISP doesn't.
Anyway... I'll be sure to keep him in mind. A real terrible ordeal.
Hopefully thanks to a slashdot linking, google will index that ASAP, and the next person to have these symptoms will benefit from his detailed posting.
Repeat after me: self medicating for 3 years is a bad idea. I hope he gets the attention he needs in time now.
That being said, it looks like Google may have saved his life...
There's so little difference between politics and jihad lately...
"Please call only if you can help get me some high-dose antibiotic treatment."
I'm sure this guy is a good guy in all.... but who here is really ready to commit a felony just to help him save a few bucks?
Don't ask us for medical help. Get you ass to a doctor and then ask for money.
Technology, the cause of and solution to all of life's problems.
Geez, this guy needs to start eating and brushing his teeth. 6'2" and 145 lbs? Nasty breath from 50 paces? Don't wanna turn the light on to brush your teeth because your wife is asleep? Put the toothbrush in the kitchen or close the bathroom door before you turn the light on. Self-medicating with Cipro? Driving 1600 miles after you've already rushed to the hospital thinking you're going to die? FORGETTING to mention coughing up "plaque" granules to the doctor? Not returning to the doctor after finishing an antibiotic for followup MULTIPLE times? Waiting YEARS to seek definitive treatment?
Only thing that comes to mind is that if he was Canadian, his medical timetable would fit in with the long delays for healthcare there.
WTF is this?
A plea to help this guy illegally obtain drugs that he has no subscription for?
WTF is wrong with slashdot, I don't care what the fuck this guy has to do with GPL this or that.
I don't need no instructions to know how to rock!!!!
No, I am a Profane MuthaFucka. Self-centered was accurate though.
Fascism trolls keeping me up every night. When I starts a preachin', he HITS ME WITH HIS REICH!
No, this is what you get when some idiot thinks he can treat himself by searching google.
45 million uninsured Americans is propaganda to get you to think with your emotions instead of your brain, and you fell for it. Medicare and medicaid take care of the children and pregnant women who don't have other insurance, and people can buy catastrophic policies to cover hospitalization and surgery.
Embryonic stem cell research is not being funded on the federal level. It's not banned at all. California will be doing research on the state level. Adult stem cell research is alive and vibrant, and produces many medicines being used today. You just fell for another propaganda attack, and also showed us that even though you may be a doctor, you sure don't know much about the state of medical stem cell research.
You can tell a great deal about the character of a man by observing those who hate him.
While I praise your intention, I don't know how anyone can believe that a "good thought with a deity" can change anything about the reality of someone else you're not in direct contact with. It may make you feel better, I won't argue with that, it may make him feel better if he does it, I won't argue with that either, but how a post recommending a "good thought with a deity" as a means for changing the physical reality of someone else gets rated the highest on a science.slashdot.org topic completely baffles me!
Traitor! We voted for MORAL VALUES which means we remind all gay people that they're nothing but fags, as Jesus taught us!
Eh... sorry to make light of your very serious point. I don't have anything meaningful to add. Sorry.