Not A Lot of Action Here
Comments
-
Funny-I was just thinking the same thing this week-except, of course, for the heart wrenching post from EAD on the 12th-but I just know that science and God would not allow this woman and mother to leave her family and this life prematurely. She and everyone else on this site are certainly in my prayers every night. What an excellent support system and forum the AMS has provided for us! I only wish my grandmothers who both died young from this horrible disease had had this kind of resource in their day. Donna0
-
There's been action in my part of the oncology world, but not the kind anybody would probably want to hear about. Our radiologist has had to cancel several days worth of appointments because she says she transferred some measurements from her PC (hooked up to E-Mail and the hospital computer network) into the mainframe computer that is connected to the radiation machine. You guessed it! The current set of computer worms got transferred and brought treatment for everyone to a standstill. I hope that the person who invent these new computer viruses feel "proud" that they disrupting people's cancer treatment like this. I hope nobody has a real setback because of it. The radiologist can always reload her operating system and all the individual radiology settings, but this all takes a lot of time. The IT staff thought they had installed every conceivable virus protection, but new viruses and worms keep showing up. The staff says the current machine is only 2 years old and prior to all these major computer virus outbreaks, they have never had to cancel treatments for more than a half day. In the past 4 weeks, they've had to cancel treatments on five different days.0
-
I think 1 reason for the slowdown is that here in the East we've had blackouts for 2 days and have been unable to log on to the computer. You will also see there are slowdowns at times but it does pickup again. Be patient. We're all here when we can be. HUGS!!! Cathy0
-
Sorry to go off on a tangent but Rizzo15 that is awful. I don't think I even put virus and worm problems into that situation. How stressful for all of you, workers and patients alike! I am sure the very small minded people that develop these system invaders never gave "us" a second thought. But, to be honest they would say Bill Gates made them do it and blame him. There is just such a lack of common sense in the USA these days. So, my prayers are for a speedy repair and no more interuptions to treatments. I had one week of Chemo post-poned and it just drove me crazy I couldn't wait to get back so I could hurry up and finish. Good Luck and God's Blessingsrizzo15 said:There's been action in my part of the oncology world, but not the kind anybody would probably want to hear about. Our radiologist has had to cancel several days worth of appointments because she says she transferred some measurements from her PC (hooked up to E-Mail and the hospital computer network) into the mainframe computer that is connected to the radiation machine. You guessed it! The current set of computer worms got transferred and brought treatment for everyone to a standstill. I hope that the person who invent these new computer viruses feel "proud" that they disrupting people's cancer treatment like this. I hope nobody has a real setback because of it. The radiologist can always reload her operating system and all the individual radiology settings, but this all takes a lot of time. The IT staff thought they had installed every conceivable virus protection, but new viruses and worms keep showing up. The staff says the current machine is only 2 years old and prior to all these major computer virus outbreaks, they have never had to cancel treatments for more than a half day. In the past 4 weeks, they've had to cancel treatments on five different days.
0
Discussion Boards
- All Discussion Boards
- 6 CSN Information
- 6 Welcome to CSN
- 121.2K Cancer specific
- 2.8K Anal Cancer
- 440 Bladder Cancer
- 306 Bone Cancers
- 1.6K Brain Cancer
- 28.4K Breast Cancer
- 391 Childhood Cancers
- 27.9K Colorectal Cancer
- 4.6K Esophageal Cancer
- 1.2K Gynecological Cancers (other than ovarian and uterine)
- 12.9K Head and Neck Cancer
- 6.3K Kidney Cancer
- 666 Leukemia
- 789 Liver Cancer
- 4.1K Lung Cancer
- 5.1K Lymphoma (Hodgkin and Non-Hodgkin)
- 235 Multiple Myeloma
- 7.1K Ovarian Cancer
- 53 Pancreatic Cancer
- 486 Peritoneal Cancer
- 5.3K Prostate Cancer
- 1.2K Rare and Other Cancers
- 532 Sarcoma
- 717 Skin Cancer
- 647 Stomach Cancer
- 190 Testicular Cancer
- 1.5K Thyroid Cancer
- 5.8K Uterine/Endometrial Cancer
- 6.3K Lifestyle Discussion Boards