Out for surgery
 

I have a ruptured disk in my lower back and will be having surgery.


My current set of CPU resources is not large and I just lost 3 machines when
a public lab got shut down.. C'est la vie. This was 15% of my resources.

7,277+ is about 85% sieved, but I do not know how long it will take to finish.

My sievers are automated, but if the server goes down, or my laptop that
stores the data goes down etc., I have to restart everything. And I won't
be at work for a while to perform the restart. So whether the sievers
continue to run while I am out will be somewhat a matter of luck.

I am just waiting for the surgeon to give me a date........

All the best for a successful surgery and a speedy recovery, Bob!

Yes, may you be back on your feet soon.

I hope the surgery goes well.

I wish you all the best for your surgery!

NFS can wait, good luck with the surgery and best wishes for a speedy recovery afterwards.

Good luck with the surgery.

Doesn't your medicare plan cover helper-monkeys that you could train to monitor your computers and restart the sievers? :philmoore:

Good luck Bob!
I was trying to find a related smiley, but the best I can do is: :bob:

Good luck with the surgery, Bob.

Luigi :et_:

I hope your surgery goes smoothly and you recover quickly!

Gute Besserung, Bob!

Alex

I never realized that factoring was so dangerous to ones health :-)

Best wishes.

Good luck and best wishes for a speedy recovery!

I will join the chorus, wishing a favorable outcome, on one of the surgeries that has one of the poorest odds for success.

Hope you and your machines fly through with minimal down time.

[QUOTE=Uncwilly;160732]I will join the chorus, wishing a favorable outcome, on one of the surgeries that has one of the poorest odds for success.

Hope you and your machines fly through with minimal down time.[/QUOTE]

I have already had 6 spinal surgeries! 3 on cervical vertebrae, 3 on lumbar.
My L3/L4 disc is essentially gone. The vertebrae are virtually touching..
This time, I have a right side large herniation on the L4/L5 disc.....
The L3/L4 disc isn't herniated; there isn't enough left of the disc
to cause a bulge....

The last lumbar surgery was in 95.. It worked fairly well. I did have
a fusion done in 2001 on the C7/T1. It cured the neck pain, but
did permanent damage to my vocal chords. The left side of my
chords is paralyzed owing to nerve damage. It actually requires a
deliberate effort for me to talk; I have to work to force words out.

I enquired about fusing the lumbar discs. I was told that it would have to be
a multi-level fusion, L3/4, L4/5 and L5/S1 and would be MAJOR surgery.
Fusing just one disc would put excessive strain on neighboring discs
given the general messed up condition of my lumbar spine.

I'm sorry to hear that litany of woes; I hope this surgery goes well.