How long after Proton Therapy can I expect to be able to travel?

@robertov
Your welcome! I think it is imporant to continue with things you like to do. Mental health is extremely important when going through cancer diagnoses and treatments.

Having and doing something you like to do is really going to help you with your journey.

I could not ride my bike prior to, during and right after my diagnosis and treament. I liked bike riding as was like being a kid again. I also loved doing water aerobics and was able to continued doing them which really helped. I did walk and swim during my treatments also and I think that helped with only having slight fatique.

Interesting. I also worked for a big insurance company for 9 years. Lots of Cobol, But I started working on the IBM main frames and doing a lot of an assembler language programming. When something would go wrong in the computer room they would call me in. I’d sit down at the main console and figure out what program was failing, Had to read the hexadecimal lights. That was before they had monitors that could show what was happening just one console to manage the punch card programs being run., You’ve seen those panels with all the lights on them, That’s when I used to work on the IBM $6M 360s and 370s. I then worked with at a company in the early 80s where they gave me a 4800 modem and a 32 line terminal and I could reboot the test a $6 million server from home, testing operating system changes. They got a program called visicalc on the main frame And I created spreadsheets to work out my taxes. I even hired one of the IBM support guys from the insurance company to work for me on mainframes at the other company. My boss at that company was an MIT graduate. When they moved him up, they gave me his job, I didn’t have a college degree at the time, just lots of real experience and great writing skills.

Here’s a picture of the masthead from a $6 million Computer I keep in my home office.

Woah, those words reverberate through my head. Also spent 9 yrs in Insurance company with 360/370s. Plenty of COBOL, never any good at it. But they paid for my MS in AI. I never got into the entrails of Big Iron. Did PC COBOL for a while. I guess all 3 of us are the Brothers in multiple ways!

Interesting. I also worked for a big insurance company for 9 years. Lots of Cobol, But I started working on the IBM main frames and doing a lot of an assembler language programming. When something would go wrong in the computer room they would call me in. I’d sit down at the main console and figure out what program was failing, Had to read the hexadecimal lights. That was before they had monitors that could show what was happening just one console to manage the punch card programs being run., You’ve seen those panels with all the lights on them, That’s when I used to work on the IBM $6M 360s and 370s. I then worked with at a company in the early 80s where they gave me a 4800 modem and a 32 line terminal and I could reboot the test a $6 million server from home, testing operating system changes. They got a program called visicalc on the main frame And I created spreadsheets to work out my taxes. I even hired one of the IBM support guys from the insurance company to work for me on mainframes at the other company. My boss at that company was an MIT graduate. When they moved him up, they gave me his job, I didn’t have a college degree at the time, just lots of real experience and great writing skills.

Here’s a picture of the masthead from a $6 million Computer I keep in my home office.

I worked for Gulf Oil ( Westbelt Center, Houston) many yrs ago- junior COBOL programmer...in fact so junior that I assisted a gal who was COBOL guru in the mornings and took self paced programming in library with VHS tapes..that could put you to sleep in 10 minutes..

long to short, I never was a programming green beret ( COBOL was unforgiving about commas, etc..I was daydreaming about girls, surfing, fun stuff all the time) ..a few yrs later I moved on to exec recruiting ...but the technical training and learning the terminolgy/jargon was invaluable.. I also made some good friends with the IBM team who worked on site supporting the big mainframes..we also had a DEC system for gasoline sales...

In those days, I dont think I even knew I had a prostate because it was very well mannered and performed like a champ...little did I know !

About a year after I left the insurance company one of the programmers called me and asked me to help with her cobol program problem..

I told her to bring me the program itself, the bug report and the assembler language dump from the operating system.

Took me about five minutes to find the missing comma in her program .

She was a little embarrassed.

I used to love all that debugging stuff.