When?

[Joseignacio]

Wow, Steve, you say it in a funny way but you must have gone throug hell and now it must be purgatory. I am very sorry for you an I hope you recover as soon and completely as possible.

[Red Prince]

Don't worry, Jose. From the way the man is working, you might think he started with three eyes in the first place! [:D]

Seriously, I think I can speak for all of the beta-testers when I say that we've all been worried about him. As much as Steve tells you that we keep him busy, it's fair to say he does the same with us. Truly, he's back on the job chugging away at 150%, so we all hope that means his recovery is going well.

-Aaron

[wworld7]

Shannon,

I hope you have a speedy recovery. Eyes are delicate, about ten years ago one of the veins in my left eye exploded (dropping my vision from 20-20 down to 20-200 (in that eye). I get shots directly into the eyeball (NO FUN) about evey two years.

My prayers are with you, and my own personal feeling is you need your eye more than we need a game.

Be well,

[Klydon]

I hope things work out for you and your eyesight/health.

I think sometimes we all take good health for granted. 

[Centuur]

ORIGINAL: Klydon

I hope things work out for you and your eyesight/health.

I think sometimes we all take good health for granted. 

Yes, and that is not true. I'm working with all kinds of disabled people and see daily how lucky I am.
Steve: be careful with this and listen to the body.

[HansHafen]

Damn Steve, I hope you can get all the vision back. Good luck and follow the doctors orders.

[npilgaard]

Very sorry to hear about your eye!
Best wishes regarding the recovery!

[tigercub]

All the best steve...

[oscar72se]

I'm really, really sorry to hear about your eye. Hope your recovery will be a quick one, stay in there!

Best regards,
Oscar

[CSSS]

I have Steak and Margarita therapy for you any time in Texas! Just tell me when and my girlfriend and I will prepare the guest bedroom for you!

[rtamesis]

Steve, I hope you get better, and I hope you have an excellent vitreoretinal surgeon there in Hawaii to fix your detached retina. For others who are curious about the different therapies available for ocular melanoma, here's this article: http://bit.ly/q5fwmF

[rtamesis]

You may also want to consider going on a ketogenic diet to starve any remaining tumor cells of glucose.

http://www.time.com/time/health/article ... 84,00.html

[Shannon V. OKeets]

ORIGINAL: rtamesis

You may also want to consider going on a ketogenic diet to starve any remaining tumor cells of glucose.

http://www.time.com/time/health/article ... 84,00.html

Thanks. Interesting reading.

[rtamesis]

Here's a video of a lecture at the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center which talks about how cancer cells hijack glucose and why the ketogenic diet makes sense in cancer patients.

http://www.mskcc.org/mskcc/html/102310.cfm

[rhondabrwn]

Dear Steve, Hoping for the highest possible level of recovery!

Don't overwork yourself... no game is worth it. When it's done, it's done... I can wait and veryone else can wait as well.

The "bestest" possible wishes flying your way from Snowflake, Arizona [&o]

[kadeen]

Hi Shannon,
I have been following the development of WIF for years and am in awe of the job you have taken on and the obvious quality of your work.  My day job as vitreoretinal ophthalmologist has given me some experience with managing choroidal melanomas.  Wills is definitely a melanoma Mecca, so you went to the right place.  I also wanted to mention that in many cases the type of retinal detachment associated with melanomas is an exudative detachment caused by fluid associated with the mass.  An exudative detachment unlike a rhegmatogenous detachment (the more common type which is caused by a tear in the retina) will many times resolve without the need for surgery as the tumor shrinks in response to plaque therapy.  Hopefully that will be the case with your detachment, and save you from any more surgical intervention.  I know a lot of people on this forum will be hoping for just that "roll".  Best wishes, take good care of yourself, and thank you for your tireless efforts to get this project out the door!

[Shannon V. OKeets]

ORIGINAL: kadeen

Hi Shannon,
I have been following the development of WIF for years and am in awe of the job you have taken on and the obvious quality of your work.  My day job as vitreoretinal ophthalmologist has given me some experience with managing choroidal melanomas.  Wills is definitely a melanoma Mecca, so you went to the right place.  I also wanted to mention that in many cases the type of retinal detachment associated with melanomas is an exudative detachment caused by fluid associated with the mass.  An exudative detachment unlike a rhegmatogenous detachment (the more common type which is caused by a tear in the retina) will many times resolve without the need for surgery as the tumor shrinks in response to plaque therapy.  Hopefully that will be the case with your detachment, and save you from any more surgical intervention.  I know a lot of people on this forum will be hoping for just that "roll".  Best wishes, take good care of yourself, and thank you for your tireless efforts to get this project out the door!

Whoa, there are a lot of unusual people monitoring this forum! I love your vocabulary. I'll have to figure out how to throw some those words into my monthly reports.[;)]

You might be right about it being an exudative detachment since the fluid is the major annoyance to me presently. And I thought I detected a slight improvement in the range of my field of vision since the plaque treatment in Philly. I wasn't sure if I was imagining things or not.

Dr. Wee is my retinal specialist in Honolulu and I'll see him late next month. I'll let you know what he says after that exam.

Thank you for your kind words of wisdom.[&o]

[Empire101]

Hi Shannon,

I have been scanning this Forum for years as the board version of WiF is my favourite all time game, and am looking forward to the release of MWif .....
( whenever that is [:D] ).

I read about your eye, and I wish you all the best.... get well soon

Regards
Chris

[Josh]

Sorry to hear about your eye problems Steve, do take care, and all the best.

[jinks]

Hey Steve

Sorry to hear about your eye [:(]

Not been here for some time, but wanted to wish you best of luck with your recovery and its good to see you still got your humor.

So to lift the spirit and provoking a laugh a joke is in order:

Moses and Jesus Playing Golf
It was a beautiful, sunny Sunday afternoon while Moses, Jesus, and another guy were out playing golf. On the first tee-box, Moses pulls out his driver and blisters a shot up the right side of the fairway, rolling fast towards a water hazard. Moses quickly raised his club, parting the water while his ball rolls through to the other side safely.

Next up on the tee, Jesus hits a really long drive right towards the very same water hazard. His ball came to rest dead center of the pond, hovering just over the surface of the water. Jesus casually walks out onto the pond, and chips it up onto the green within a couple feet of the flagstick.

Not impressed, the third guy steps up to the tee without taking any time and just randomly whacks at the ball. Rightfully so, the ball is hit with a nasty hook that clears the left OB markers and goes over a fence into oncoming traffic. It bounces off a truck's windshield hitting a nearby tree, bounces onto the roof of the greenkeeper's shed, back out onto the fairway and towards the same pond that Moses and Jesus hit. Before it gets wet, the ball ricochets off a small rock and bounces onto a lily pad on over the water when a bullfrog jumped up and ate the ball. Right at that moment, a bald eagle swoops down and grabs the frog, flying away. As it flew over the green, the frog squeals with fright and drops the ball right next to the flagstick, taking one bounce and landing in the cup for an astounding hole in one.

In disgust, Moses then turns to Jesus and says, "I hate playing with your Dad."