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The word for today is Diverticulosis
After another fun day spent in the welcoming arms of the medical establishment, the diagnosis has come down that my mom has diverticulosis. I'll spare you the gory details, other than to say it involves inflamed pouches inside the colon. These are almost certainly the cause of her recent bleeding, as well as her current abdominal discomfort. The good news is that this is a very common thing (according the the research I did almost half of all people age 60-80 have this, and virtually everyone over the age of 80 has this). Of all the possible causes of her bleeding, this is actually a pretty benign one and very well understood and easy to treat. She is scheduled for the colonoscopy on Wednesday and they will confirm the diagnosis then and take care of the problem at the same time. So in the short term it is fairly unpleasant for her, but nothing particularly scary.
In other news, I have oddly enough been doing a great deal of research on telecommuting recently with a particular focus on how to be successful at working remotely in my field. Although the most common concern of managers is that the employee will be goofing off most of the time, in actuality one of the most common pitfalls is that you overwork yourself. I was reading a passage suggesting that you keep a regular schedule and at the end of the work day you flat out turn off your computer so that you aren't tempted to pop back on "just for a few minutes" to take care of something. As I was reading this I was thinking, "yeah, right." I mention this because I worked from home this afternoon. At the end of my regular work day I put down what I was doing, but I did not bother to shut down my laptop. A few minutes ago I found myself knocking out some new code, and then stopped abruptly when I realized what I was doing. I have a nice quite evening at home, and what am I doing? Working on a bug with a Low Annoyance priority that nobody particularly cares if it makes it into this month's maintenance release. Must. Stop. Working.... On that note, I am going to go take a long hot bath and read for a while.
In other news, I have oddly enough been doing a great deal of research on telecommuting recently with a particular focus on how to be successful at working remotely in my field. Although the most common concern of managers is that the employee will be goofing off most of the time, in actuality one of the most common pitfalls is that you overwork yourself. I was reading a passage suggesting that you keep a regular schedule and at the end of the work day you flat out turn off your computer so that you aren't tempted to pop back on "just for a few minutes" to take care of something. As I was reading this I was thinking, "yeah, right." I mention this because I worked from home this afternoon. At the end of my regular work day I put down what I was doing, but I did not bother to shut down my laptop. A few minutes ago I found myself knocking out some new code, and then stopped abruptly when I realized what I was doing. I have a nice quite evening at home, and what am I doing? Working on a bug with a Low Annoyance priority that nobody particularly cares if it makes it into this month's maintenance release. Must. Stop. Working.... On that note, I am going to go take a long hot bath and read for a while.