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When I got home I was given more time off work to recuperate. I met up again with
two of the consultants who between them had done the operation. I was sat on the
bed, naked from the waist up. They were stood in front of me admiring their handiwork.
They had done some cosmetic surgery after they had removed the cancer as they told
me that I only had small breasts! Here am I thinking I had a good sized pair at
38C! They had re-positioned the breast tissue to fill in the hole so that the breast
would look almost as good as new. They then said that my left breast now hung lower
than the right breast that they had operated on, what a shame they said, should have
sorted that one out at the same time! I informed them, with a smile on my face,
that my left breast had always hung lower than the right one…. Anyhow they did a
wonderful job and continue to do a wonderful job. Sadly I am not post menopausal
yet, my first blood test that said otherwise was a ‘fluky’ which can sometimes happen,
so I have to have Zoladex injections every four weeks as opposed to Arimidex tablets.
There are some side effects from Zoladex that I never got from Arimidex when I was
first put on them for four months – awful hot sweats and memory loss being the worst
two. However, I must be grateful that there is such wonderful medication to help
keep the cancer away. I did the ‘Race for Life’ last year 2007, I wanted to do my
bit to say thank you for everything that had been done for me. There were a few
girls from work there along with my daughter and some friends of mine. When I saw
the pictures of the person they had on their backs, the reason for them doing the
run, I was shocked, it was me! That was the first time I can honestly say that it
hit me, that I had suffered and beat this horrible disease called cancer. I had done
such a good job of blocking it off and thinking only of positive things. It did
not take long for everything to get back to normal with six monthly checkups and
an annual mammogram. I did get a lump after the radiotherapy and had to go through
the motions again but that proved to be just fatty tissue. I completed my web page
and have since done an ‘Extreme Makeover’ which is what you are logged into now.
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SEE WINDOWS THROUGH MY EYES
He came to me and said ‘Please help me, I have to get these slides and photographs on to this laptop and I do not have a clue.
So I was presented with the problem of how to explain Windows Explorer in simplistic terms that he could understand. I had to think of something to which he could relate. Something he could compare to and then an idea started to form in my head.... Imagine this house is your computer, well in your house you have many things that can be compared to a computer so let’s start at the beginning shall we…. The ‘Login’ or user name is the address of your house and you need that to get there! The ‘Password’ is the key to the front door without which you would not be able to enter. The ‘Desktop’ is the screen you see on your monitor after you have switched on your computer. It’s a bit like a notice board. You can put short cuts on your desk top that takes you to a place in your computer, just like messages left for you on your notice board. ‘Shortcuts’ are messages that your mum or the cleaner (if you are lucky enough to have) has left for you telling you where to find things, a quick way of getting from ‘a’ to ‘b’. ‘Start’ – this is like the front door to your home and the first menu that pops up is like the hallway you see when you open the door. Clicking on it is the process of getting from the front door to wherever you want to go. Right clicking is another way of calling up short cut menus and right clicking on the start button will give you the option to load Explorer. ‘Explorer’ is a bit like having a housekeeper to tell you where everything is, and shows you the floor plan of the house. You look at it before you decide in which direction you are going and what you are going to do when you get there. ‘Directories’ or ‘Folders’ can be compared to the various rooms in your house or the storage furniture or boxes in your rooms. The bigger your house the more rooms it can have and the more storage area. ‘Files’ are stored in these directories and sub-directories like a book on the shelf and they too can contain pages. There are many sorts of files each with their own properties. Don’t you have many different things in all those cupboards, drawers and boxes? ‘Program Files’ are important files that only the specialists really understand, much the same as your electricity, gas, water, telephone and TV, to name but a few. They are integral parts of the whole picture without which the house or computer would not function correctly. A ‘Virus’ is the term given to programs written by people that get passed on to your computer via the Internet in the same way as germs are passed on from one person to another. The ‘Internet’ can be looked on as the whole wide world that has many houses, that you can visit, if you know where they are. These houses can contain all sorts of things and be like museums, loaded full of information, an encyclopedia at your finger tips. ‘Firewalls’ are like fire extinguishers, they stop things from being destroyed by influences beyond your control, viruses and hackers. ‘Hackers’ are like sick people who knowingly pass on their germs. If you do not look after your body properly, eat correctly, then your immune system is low and you are more susceptible to illness in the same way as a computer, if it doesn’t have any virus prevention software then it can get sick and stop working. ‘Toolbars’ - Once you have loaded your software you will see a menu running across the top with commands like ‘File’, ‘Edit’, ‘View’ – these are like options that help you to use things, there are buttons on your washing machine or fridge that does similar sorts of jobs. A particularly useful one is the one that nearly always appears at the far right and is called ‘Help’. You need to use that as you would use an instruction manual that explains what all the buttons do! Defragmentation’ can best be described as a cupboard with loads of drawers where the items in them have been mixed up after much use, like your sock drawer, no matching pairs left. When a computer is defragged the files or socks are emptied out and put in another temporary space, sorted out, and then put back in the correct place, nice, neat and tidy. The result is that you end with more space in the drawers and a more efficient system. So how did he get his slide on his computer? He already new the address of his house so he puts the key in the door, looked at the floor plan to see if there was anywhere for him to store his slides, there was not so he bought a fancy new electronic storage box. He did not know how to use this box so he clicked on help to read the instructions, opened the storage box and ‘voila, job done!
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WEB PAGE DESIGN
The trials and tribulations of teach yourself web page development! Many a night I have woken up, the brain buzzing and for what? It’s a small matter of not understanding what is supposed to be the best in web page design - ‘Dreamweaver’. I am the sort of person who teaches themselves how to use software from reading the manuals and working it out for myself, what can be so hard me thinks, as she loads Dreamweaver....two months later and still no sign of the finished product. Why won’t that square stay in that place when I view the page through the Internet browser? Why does that font change, it sure wasn’t that size when I was in design view, why do the PayPal buttons take up so much space? How can I make the page stretch to full size? The questions are endless, I did not even know I had to pay to have a place on the web!. So very frustrating when you do not know how. I muddled through it and eventually finished, I was rather proud of my efforts, until I started looking at other sites then realised just how ‘naff’ it was. 12 months later I plucked up the courage to give the web page an ‘extreme make-over’ in the hope that I would not cause any irrecoverable damage plus we had another 2 hundred or so photos to put on-line. I needed help, I needed some software with wizards, lots of them, I found WebPlus 10 and never looked back. Great for the novice and what you see today is the results of 3 weeks work. However, now that the wizards have walked me through most of the hard work and I have a good feel of the way it should be done, I am not giving up on Dreamweaver. It can do so much more so I bought a book from one of those ‘In Easy Steps’ range on Dreamweaver, a must for the teach yourself manics like me so watch this space! I would like to say thank you to the people in the various forums too that helped me so much, you know who you are. My advice to all those budding web page designers... do not give up, stick it out, use the forums as I could not have done this without their help and the rewards are very fulfilling. The only thing you cannot get enough of is ‘constructive criticism’. Sometimes you cannot see the wood for the trees, so if you have any comments or views on any part of
