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Mom is in the hospital again. May 21, 2006

Posted by atharkhan in : Personal , add a comment

Due to a drastic drop in White Blood Cell count, Mom had to be hopitalized. She sounds tired. Apparently, a drop in White Blood Cell count is normal but when it is too sudden or drastic, it can leave one’s body at risk for life threatening infections.

According to Cancerhelp.org.uk :

After each chemotherapy treatment, your white cell count will begin to fall. It will be at its lowest at the mid-point between treatments. For example, if you have treatment every 3 weeks, then your lowest counts will be at about 10 days after your chemotherapy injections. This is called the ‘nadir’ (pronounced na-deer). When your white cell count is at its lowest, you will probably feel very tired.

Buffalo Tech Nfiniti Wireless (WZR-G300N) prevents access to Google.com May 19, 2006

Posted by atharkhan in : Tech , 4comments

I have an interesting issue to report. My home router is a Buffalo Nfiniti (WZR-G300N). About 3 days ago, it started preventing me from accessing google.com and anything else with google.com in the URL e.g. gmail.google.com.

After a lot of troubleshooting, I narrowed it down to the router. I called Buffalo Tech today and found out that it is indeed an issue. They have had a similar issue with Comcast and have released a fix for it. Now, they are working on resolving the same problem for Cox subscribers.

As I understood it, an “improper vlan tag” was preventing Comcast subscribers from accessing Google.com as well as other sites. It might be the same issue with Cox as well.

Let me know if you have had this issue and what you did to fix it.

Thanks.

-Athar.

Follow Up Post on 1st Chemo May 19, 2006

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As someone had cautioned me at the outset of my mom’s chemo treatments, it’s unwise to be excessively elated or saddened by any particular event or news. This person told me “It’s not bad news. It’s not good news. It’s just news. So, think of it as that.” At the time, that didn’t make much sense but now it does.

I was pretty happy that the 1st chemo didn’t affect mom negatively. However, four days into it, she is beginning to feel the effects. She is suffering from body aches and pains and a general feeling of tiredness and exhaustion. Luckily the nausea isn’t too bad as yet.