Nice People Thread Number 11 - A Treasury of Nice People

CKhalvashi

Generali wrote: »

How long do the deleterious effects of chemotherapy last BTW?

Sounds nasty Gen!

I was sick and was tired right the way through, until about 7-8 weeks after treatment. My pre-chemo energy still hasn't come back (although is now much better), and I'm about 5 months post-treatment now.

I am, however, on Ciclosporin, which may explain some of this.

CK

purch

Generali wrote: »

Thursday Back to work where they won't stab me with needles

Nothing like when you worked at Goldman then :eek: (although they probably don't stab each other in the back with needles)

Generali

purch wrote: »

Nothing like when you worked at Goldman then :eek: (although they probably don't stab each other in the back with needles)

They're all Vampire Squids sucking at the face of humanity.

There's quite a famous story about Goldmans. One of the partners told a bunch of grads to come to his office on a Friday evening. He left them waiting outside for hours. The first one to leave was fired on Monday morning.

As an alumnus I can well believe it.

chucky

Generali wrote: »

Ok, to update everyone

You're a fighter Generali, good to see that you're confronting it head on.

You're positivity is inspiring.
Take care.

Generali

chucky wrote: »

You're a fighter Generali, good to see that you're confronting it head on.

You're positivity is inspiring.
Take care.

Thanks chucky.

TBH I don't think that being positive or negative has much impact on the end result. I resolved many years ago to be as happy as I can in my life. Ok, I get down sometimes just like everyone else but I try to be positive. Life is short so we might as well enjoy it.

If I have a cancer that is mild or one which is hideous nothing changes. If my life is going to be shorter than I hoped then that's all the more reason to be happy! If it isn't then that's great news.

Luckily I have a form of cancer which has a 71% survival rate at 5 years, the time at which they measure such things. Once you add into the mix that in the 29% will be the people that seem to think that if the doctor hasn't given them a diagnosis then they're not ill, the people that go through the public system so have to face waiting lists, the people that are very old and so have a much greater chance of dying of the cancer or the treatment of the cancer, smokers/druggies and people that are just too dumb to follow what the doctor tells them to do then I quite fancy my chances of getting through this. I'm sure there'll be some challenges but the odds are pretty good on me coming out the end of this mostly unscathed.

And I'll have a scar from the op. Chicks dig scars. Given my already striking handsomeness I think I will be basically unable to go out in the city on a Friday night any more.

Doozergirl

Generali wrote: »

They're all Vampire Squids sucking at the face of humanity.

There's quite a famous story about Goldmans. One of the partners told a bunch of grads to come to his office on a Friday evening. He left them waiting outside for hours. The first one to leave was fired on Monday morning.

As an alumnus I can well believe it.

That's interesting. When I was 19, I sold mail order baby shoes for a lady from her front room. Her H worked for Goldman Sachs. I think he had about two weeks paid holiday. She passed on the same sort of working conditions and expectations on me, earning probably £14k. He left his job in a flurry of excitement - it wasn't harmonius and he said they'd treated him like the proverbial. I don't think she saw the link to me. I left her after a year, totally miserable after working harder than anyone I knew and 'meeting expectation' at my annual review.

She was a bit of a biyatch, but they introduced me to some of the finer things in life - good wine and food in nice restaurants. She used to lend me her interior design magazines I also knew how to run a small business, which set me up for my next job, which I loved, did more than meet expectations and found some confidence in my ability. That led to now, so I wouldn't change it. Maybe I'd still be drinking cider or fermented wine!

Generali

Doozergirl wrote: »

That's interesting. When I was 19, I sold mail order baby shoes for a lady from her front room. Her H worked for Goldman Sachs. I think he had about two weeks paid holiday. She passed on the same sort of working conditions and expectations on me, earning probably £14k. He left his job in a flurry of excitement - it wasn't harmonius and he said they'd treated him like the proverbial. I don't think she saw the link to me. I left her after a year, totally miserable after working harder than anyone I knew and 'meeting expectation' at my annual review.

She was a bit of a biyatch, but they introduced me to some of the finer things in life - good wine and good food. I also knew how to run a small business, which set me up for my next job, which I loved, did more than meet expectations and found some confidence in my ability. That led to now, so I wouldn't change it. Maybe I'd still be drinking cider or fermented wine!

Yeah, I learned a lot from working for the Vampire Squid. Chiefly it was that if you're going to do something don't just play at it, be the very best in the world at it. That's something I find very frustrating now when I work for other companies, it's like they're messing about at things.

In my last job, people used to complain all the time about how busy they were yet the office was dead at 5.30pm every day and everyone seemed to have 2 screens: one for work and one for Facebook.

chewmylegoff

Generali wrote: »

Your choice of course but I'd be fixing as long as possible right now.

I think people will be very surprised by how quickly rates will rise. NZ have already increased hers and I suspect it won't be long until Australia follows suit.

I did think about it long and hard. 5 year fixes were around 3.5% whereas 2 years at 2%. Although as you say pressure is starting to build for rates to increase but at the same time forward projections for growth are under 3% for the next couple of years, eurozone growth much lower and the uk economy still looks fairly weak outside London. So in the end I thought I will probably be able to fix for at least another 2 years at under 4% so it will probably be cheaper this way. Our mortgage is technically IO so ultimately even if rates go to 10% the interest payment will still be under 50% of our combined net salaries (and I could afford to pay it from my salary alone and just about cover other outgoings and afford to eat). If it goes to 15% we are in real trouble!

Plus I wanted an offset and I couldn't find an offset which was reasonably structured with a competitive fix beyond 3 years (and that was 3% rather than 2%).

neverdespairgirl

Generali wrote: »

That might all get disrupted by chemo.

How long do the deleterious effects of chemotherapy last BTW?

Do you mean overall, after you finish the course, or each time?

The effects vary, so you feel rubbish after each session, and then better, but your immune system is at its lowest some time after you feel most rubbish, so you need to be careful not to catch things.

I also think the effects feel a bit worse each session, it's cumulative.

silvercar

TBH I don't think that being positive or negative has much impact on the end result.

I thought that positive people have better outcomes?

How long do the deleterious effects of chemotherapy last BTW?

It is cumulative generally. The first round may not have much effect at all. By the last round my Dad pretty much spent day 2 and 3 in bed, but perked up considerably by day 6 or so.