Breats cancer month and I have a brain tumor :) You can help!

[Yucca Nel]

Dear friends over at the ranch, I was recently diagnosed with a brain tumor and am currently undergoing treatment to fight it. Sadly and ironically I may be able to start an application that I had planned to evelop beforehand for the android platform to fight this scurge of diseases that at times are not curable. I wish to pass on my ideas to others to prevent things like this from taking lives unnecessarily especially with regards to cancers that are detectable at early stages before they progress to dangerous phases. Although my tumor has nothing to do with such cancers, it is breast cancer month and software is long overdue to remind both male and females to check their bits on a monthly basis to avoid any regret down the line. Such software, need only work on a timer( set for once a month) or may even be useful in a root OS scenario where it is installed directly in the OS.

Further I wished to enhance such an application with a feature to have a record of medical allergies and current medication that anyone may be on. Why? Well, imagine that you are in an accident one day and are allergic to a type of medication, but are unable to talk? Your phone could talk on your behalf. There are dangers though that need to be countered in the scenario of a handset being resold, so once again it may be better to build this in with any OS to pick up aim swaps etc.

Hope this helps some people in the future or the idea can help save lives.

Best regards and prayers are always welcome.

[Wouter Oet]

Let me start of with wishing you lots of strength in overcoming this disease. Please don't take it personally that this topic isn't getting lots of responses. It's a difficult topic and not everybody is comfortable talking about it.

About your solution. I'm sure that there are many initiatives to tackle this problem. Here in the Netherlands we have the "Elektronisch patiëntendossier". Which is basically a network of databases with all your medical information. This way hospitals can access your information. But they still need to know your name. But here everybody needs to be able to show identification so that is usually no problem. Your phone could provide such information but that can be stolen/lost/ect. Storing all your information on your phone could be a privacy risk (phone gets stolen/lost). An easy solution would be injecting a chip into your body with an identification number. But I am not really keep on injecting stuff into my body so that is also not really a solution. I think that we could discuss this problem for ever and never reach a solution that is ideal.

About the checks. I don't think we should use software to remind people to do it. I think that we should properly educate them and make them realise why it should be done. In the end it is their decision to do or not to do it. There are many thinks that we should do in order to stay healthy; eat healthy, reduce your salt and sugar intake, exercise on a regular basis, measure blood values once every x years etc. But the number of people doing that is very low. I don't do it although I know I should. My excuse is that I'm young . But the point I'm trying to make is that we should change people instead of reminding them that they should change.

Regards,
Wouter

[Henry Wong]

Wouter Oet wrote:Let me start of with wishing you lots of strength in overcoming this disease. Please don't take it personally that this topic isn't getting lots of responses. It's a difficult topic and not everybody is comfortable talking about it.

Agreed.

Wouter Oet wrote:
About the checks. I don't think we should use software to remind people to do it. I think that we should properly educate them and make them realise why it should be done. In the end it is their decision to do or not to do it. There are many thinks that we should do in order to stay healthy; eat healthy, reduce your salt and sugar intake, exercise on a regular basis, measure blood values once every x years etc. But the number of people doing that is very low. I don't do it although I know I should. My excuse is that I'm young . But the point I'm trying to make is that we should change people instead of reminding them that they should change.

Another issue is that the timing for the checks may not be very useful. For example, for me, with no family history, the test that would have caught my case early isn't due for another five years.

Henry

[Yucca Nel]

Mny thanks to all for support I am almost halfway with chemo and with God I can make this Hard to believe I passed SCJP, SCJD, SCBCD, SCWCD with an orange size tumor growing in my head!! Keep praying and I will keep fighting My site is a mess as I can't code atm, but will get it up and running one day... busy reading a droid book atm.

[Kaustubh G Sharma]

Best of luck ... I'll remember you in my prayers for sure

[Yucca Nel]

Thank you all. I am making progress and I redid my site http://thejarbar.org and I put a ton of beginner vids on YouTube while on chemo.
http://thejarbar.org
http://www.youtube.com/user/thejartender?feature=mhee

I'm currently at a firm doing the oddest thing. They scout sites and improve them. Here are two sites I redid:
OLD
http://buhaugane.com

NEW
http://thejarbar.org/buhaugane

OLD
http://dinlege.no

NEW
http://thejarbar.org/dinlegeno