Hello everyone, Im matt from lexington, ky and currently work at insight communications
I've been a member from dslr now for a while and decided to join a team, i plan on setting up a cluster of machines to do crunching or other assigned tasks at work and at home
Re: [Team Discovery New Members Only] Introductions
Hi all,
My name is David. I currently live in Orlando,Fl. Relocated here 3 years ago after 23 years in the keys. I currently work for Orange County Public Schools. Been at BBR since '03 and should have done this a long time ago. Lost my mom to cancer in 1986 and have had numerous skin cancers of my own surgically removed because of my prior line of work. This puter runs 24/7/365 so it was time to put it to work while I'm not face to face. Let's find a cure.
Hi everyone. I'm Bob, 46, from Missouri (Go Tigers).
Well, I guess I should give you some information about me here. Let's see, I'm currently waiting on the Gov., to give me a hearing date for my disability. I suffer with Chronic and excrutiating pain caused by Arnold-Chiari Malformation. The disease is when your Cerebral Tonsils to herniate (go down) into the Forum Magnum, where your brain-stem and spinal cord meet. When I turned 40, I began having issues with Migraines, back pain, etc. I went through the whole gamut of Doctors, none could tell me what was the problem, until I finally went out of Network (always works that way doesn't it?) Anyway, this doctor told me I suffered with this disease, and I should find a doctor that specializes in ACM Patients. So, I did some research and found a Neurosurgeon who did just that, only 2 hours away. It took 6 weeks to see him, all the while my workplace is getting a bit ansy about all my time off. In December of 03 my boss and I decided that I could work from home, until the time I go have surgery, then I would take medical leave. I finally got to see the Doctor, and he said I was a great candidate for surgery, but, he told me that there's no guarantee that my current symptoms would lessen.
So, I finally had surgery on March 15, 2004, one week after finding out my Father was dying from Small Cell Lung Cancer. It was pretty scary having surgery all by myself, but, I went thru with it (If someone hadn't actually driven me there I would have left). So, the staff took me to this room where I was told to undress and put on the surgery stuff. When I was doing this, my anaesthesologists (sp) came in to introduce himself, and I promptly threw-up on him Anyway, after getting myself all empty at the toilet, I apologized for the occurence, to which he laughed and said 9 out of 10 people do that, nothing personal. We talked about the drugs I would be given, and I told him morphine doesn't work on me, so we need something else in the pain pump. He was cool with this and we decided Fentanyl would be in the pain pump I got, and I would be given a dose of diladud every 6 hours. Then it was time to get on the table, get my pre-surgical shot and go off to dream land. I woke up in in ICU, searching for my pain button. I hit that little button 187 times in a 24 hour period Yes, it hurts when they put a whole in your head, open your Dura, and then poke around in your neck and brain Anyway, the pain in my back didn't lessen at all, although I stopped having migraines every other day
Anyway, that catches everyone up to this day, where like I said before, am waiting on the govt. I do live with my mother, because I made a promise to my father that I would watch over her until she goes to join him. It's been good and bad, I'm sure everyone understands that.
I did recently change my pain medicine. I was taking 360MG/Oxycodone a day, and it was not helping out as much as we needed, so I started taking Lyrica, and lo and behold, it worked. I had tried Nuerontin before and had no effect. I am pushing the limit on the Lyrica, taking 600MG a day, which they say is the upper-limit, but then again, they've never met me I have the same metabolism as my Father, I have a very high threshold for pain, so by the time I actually feel the pain, it's level 8 or higher. Not only that, but then some meds do nothing. Morphine is just like having water, and there have been others like that. So, I am very happy to be on Lyrica, but it does turn me dumb and uncoordinated. I've falled down more times in the last month, then in the past 7 years
Well, I hope that's enough from me, would love to hear from others in the group!
Hi, I'm Malcolm from Texas, but not a native. South Carolina by birth, but grew up in Louisiana - both southern and northern.
I started my career as a geologist, then left in the late 90's to go to IT where I've been ever since. I work for a major telecom doing Microsoft server support on a large server farm.
My wife of 24 years and I have three children - two boys and a girl aged from 21 to 16.
My father died of brain cancer in 1990. My paternal grandmother lost a kidney to cancer. My wife lost her sister to a long battle with Hodgkin's. My mother was just diagnosed with inoperable cervical cancer (she's got Alzheimer's and is too weak for treatment). So, I've got some personal reasons among others to find new techniques or treatments for cancer. I leave my computer on 24x7, so it is chewing up power for nothing other that background processing. Time to use the electricity for some good other than to heat the house. Regards, Malcolm
I'm Joe. I've been in TD since 2003. I'm now a career fireman working in Virginia. I've was born, raised, and live in Maryland. I lost my grandmother to cancer when I was very young. Hopefully, we find the cure and get rid of it for good!
Hi everyone, my name is Doug, just like my screen name without the numbers, lol. I'm 19. I currently live in texas, originally born in North Carolina. Moved here because my dad went overseas. Even though I never had an experience, myself or my family, with cancer, I wanted to help since I know it is a bad disease and hopefully by help crunching, we can find a cure for it.
I guess you can say I am part of the wood work here at BBR. If you do not know me I had been a Mod here for 2 years and the Host of three forums then as well.
I just go my way and try to continue to be of use and help here when I can.
Lost a Father and Younger Brother to Cancer and felt it was about to to try and help to make a difference.
Hey everybody. My name is Bill and I'm 39 y/o married and have a little boy who's 3. I'm in Hoosier country (Indiana) but originally from Arizona. I work in technical service (machinery). I just want to do my part and help out. Thanks.
My name in Emlyn Pugh and am a new member to Team Discovery WCG. I have been crunching for a very long time in TSC, UD,and others. I just changed to WCG and got recognized as a new member.
I found out about about Team Discovery as a BBR member. I like to have my computers on all the time so why not put then to good use when I am not using them. I think that this is a worth while project to do.
I have not been very active in contributing to the forms but now that I have retired I will have more time. I used to have a lot of free time at work to browse the forms.
I retired from a community college where I was the media manager for 29 years. I installed high tech classrooms and maintained the equipment as well as taught teachers how to use it. Prior to this I worked for 17 years as a broadcast engineer.
Hi I am mike5026 and my name is Mike. I am 22 and I currently work at home taking calls for several call centers. I currently live in Rockford, IL about 90 miles from Chicago, IL. I have two wonderful boys and they're age is 3 yrs old and the other one is about 19 months.
I just joined Team Discovery, and am happy to use my computer to hopefully make a difference.
I'm 22, have been doing freelance (web development / design / graphic design) work for around 8 years now. I play lead guitar/mandolin in a rock/country band, work full time night audit at a hotel, part time web design / marketing, and taking full time classes starting the 27th this month.
Overall pretty busy, but I always try to make some time to help out if I can.
I decided to join because I lost a really good friend a little over a year ago to cancer. I'd like to help as much as I could because it feels like I'm still helping her even though she is gone.
Joined the project. Was crunching for SETI but their servers are slow and I'm not getting any work right now. I read a post about one of your team members who passed and I though maybe rather than only looking for alien signals I could add WCG to my project list and maybe help do some good "locally".
Hi all, I have been a supporter for some time though I was slacking and didn't actually join until 07/01/09. I was thinking of joining several causes but decided that picking one team and gearing up for up for such would be for the best. I have a mom who died from Alzheimer's an uncle who died from cancer and a sister that I live with who has RSD. I am happy to become part of this team and just upgraded my CPU today from a Duo core2 to a Quad. So as of today I am running 24/7:
MB: Asus - P5NE-SLI CPU: Quad Core - Q9550 Ram: 4G of ram Os: Vista Ulitimate 64 Video: GForce 8500GT 512MB
I'm Joey and I'm 26 years old living in Florida. I own my own computer repair company and have been a BBR member for several years. I decided to join simply because too many people suffer from cancer year in and year out. A close friend of mine's father has been diagnosed with liver cancer recently and is not doing too well.
Hi, I just joined. My name is Chris, I'm currently 27, and work as a software engineer for the federal government in the DC area. My father is 57 and has colon cancer (currently in his liver). He will be on chemo for the rest of his life (he's endured a year of it so far - every two weeks). His oncologist told him a few weeks ago that he is the longest living patient he's ever had. My father's father had colon cancer, and the doctors have said that my sister and I have a 50/50 chance of carrying a genetic trait that will guarantee cancer in our futures as well. It is a nasty disease.
I am new on this team but have been crunching since 2004. I retired 5 years ago. Now I have lots of time to give my wife, my children, my grand children, the house and my dogs, in that order. I stop crunching for 4 years since I was not sure it was used for what it is clamed to do. I am still not sure.
I have the greatest distrust in governments, and parallel institutions. On the other hand, I have hope for humanity. But we will have to be very lucky if we want to make it to a class 1 civilisation.
My name is Mark from Pittsburgh, currently living in New Cumberland, WV.
I am new to this team but have been crunching since 2006 for the project with Stanford (folding@home).
My grandmother died from breast cancer before I was born, I would have liked to have met her.
My mother-in-law is a 15 year skin cancer survivor, I would like for her to see my children grow up.
My uncle is a 10 year prostate cancer survivor, I would like for him to see his grandchildren grow older.
My wife was incorrectly diagnosed with Uterine cancer in 2005 (the tumor has not tested positive for cancer since 2007). We spent a lot of money on treatments, which I do not regret, but would have much rather spent the time between 2005 and 2007 without the pure fright and hell that we went through thinking that she would not be around much longer.
My name is Jason. I am a Children's Pastor and IT Specialist.
Kids are awesome and so full of life. I know many kids that face those things that we all dread and do so early in life... all while keeping a smile on their face.
I also have a grandmother that is facing breast cancer at age 78. She has that same love of life like a child and even though she is facing a tough disease she is still... smiling.
I want to honor that love of life and do whatever I can to help them...
My Name is Ricky. I'm 28 from North Carolina. I work in retail management, and used to be a member a while back. My username was -ToXiC- but I forgotten my password and can't seem to find the account either.
I don't have anyone in my immidiate family that has had or hase cancer, but I would like to help out in any way that I can.
My name is George, I am 38 and currently going to school (University of Phoenix) full-time for a Psychology degree. Working on building a business and just seeing what life has in store.
I used to crunch for team Canada but lilhurricane asked me to join this team and it being pretty much neck and neck with team canada i figured id go for the underdog.