Patrick Volkerding returns home [LWN.net]

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New Entry:  Hi folks.  Well, I'm back in California and I'm happy to let you all know
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Patrick Volkerding returns home

Posted Dec 20, 2004 18:30 UTC (Mon) by Duncan (guest, #6647) [Link]

> in the end what did they conclude he suffered from?

He's not been specific in saying. This announcement is the most info
available, from what I've read.

There's an article about it over on /. The options of posters there (and
that's all they are, speculations of folks that have read the above
announcement and posted, so nothing more informed than here) tend toward
three things:

1) It's personal and he has a right to keep it private.

2) Personal acknowledged, but he was the one that made it public, and now
the public deserves at least /some/ bit of detail as to what it all turned
out to be.

3) Some speculation around the fact that he linked a cancer forum.

IMO however after reading the above, that last, the cancer forum thing,
may not be directly related at all. He says one of the public things one
of his doctors does is that cancer forum, and he likes the work that
doctor did and thinks his public work in the form of the cancer forum
deserves some attention. That isn't the same as saying he had some sort
of cancer himself.

Further, while I could be /very/ wrong, if it's in any way cancer and with
that heavy a set of symptoms, I'd not expect it to simply "go away". The
critical case symptoms might be immediately treatable, but symptoms that
bad usually don't happen until near end-stage with cancer from all I know,
so I'd expect if that was it, he'd have months to live.

Maybe he does and is still coping with it personally so hasn't made it
public yet. However, I'd tend toward the already expressed opinion that
his problem was unrelated, but that the cancer forum is the only public
forum available that he can steer public appreciation and attention
toward, it being an unrelated project of his doctor. (BTW, someone,
apparently the doctor, posted on /. that he had to come over and see where
all the new traffic was coming from. He said he was impressed with the
community, but (rightly) kept patient confidentiality and didn't mention
anything about Patrick specifically.)

Anyway... article on /. if people want more discussion, but at this point,
there's no additional actual information that Patrick has chosen to make
public, so...

Duncan

Patrick Volkerding returns home

Posted Dec 20, 2004 21:41 UTC (Mon) by iabervon (subscriber, #722) [Link]

I'd guess that he's right about "complicated infective endocarditis", but that isn't really anything more than a description of the symptoms. Probably, it was some virus without a name that his immune system eventually beat, plus a bacterial outbreak due to the damage from the primary infection. There are actually remarkably few viruses which modern medicine can actually fight; most work in this area is keeping the patient alive while sick or giving the immune system a head start by teaching it what to kill in advance (for the few things where this helps).

Patrick Volkerding

Posted Dec 20, 2004 21:46 UTC (Mon) by allesfresser (subscriber, #216) [Link]

I am certainly no expert on the subject, but it seems to me that the situation's been going on a little too long for a viral infection (since 2001, I believe Pat said in the first message he posted.) Wouldn't his immune system have done something about it a long time ago if it were viral? Bacterial infections can stay for a long time from my experience but viruses tend to be an acute thing.

Of course, I could be badly mistaken...

Patrick Volkerding

Posted Dec 21, 2004 4:45 UTC (Tue) by iabervon (subscriber, #722) [Link]

That's right; I hadn't read that far down in the link. The recent acute stuff sounds more viral without the similarity to the chronic part beforehand. (There are viruses which last forever in your system, kept under control by your immune system, notably chicken pox and related things; but those are acute first and minor afterwards unless your immune system breaks down.)

Patrick Volkerding

Posted Dec 22, 2004 6:59 UTC (Wed) by leews (guest, #4690) [Link]

Accoording to my wife (an MD), he got a nasty fungal infection.

This is deduced from reading his txt file, so it's just IHHO.

Cheers,
WS

Patrick Volkerding

Posted Dec 23, 2004 17:58 UTC (Thu) by mmarsh (subscriber, #17029) [Link]

I can certainly empathize with that. I had histoplasmosis and a bacterial infection at the same time, which put me in the hospital for about a week. Five treatments of Amphiteracin B (each followed by a seven-hour saline flush) later, I was feeling much better. My lungs still look like they were hit with buckshot, though. I hope Patrick's recovery is as complete as mine was.