My Deneb is here! (a little excited here)

[mbrantley]

Darrin, glad your wife is home. Hope the doctors get to the bottom of what ails her soon.

Also pleased to hear you got the USB CD-ROM working so well. The Deneb really does drag us into the new century when it comes to modern, common peripherals. If I didn't already save several external NEC SCSI CD drives from the trash at work, I'd go with USB for optical drives sure.

My final vote of confidence for Deneb and Poseidon: I ordered a second Deneb from AmigaKit yesterday and a couple of Belkin F5D5050 USB Ethernet adapters from Amazon today.

Once I get networking through USB/Deneb working on two Amigas, I will have freed up two X-Surf cards for two more of my Amigas.

[amigadave]

@Darrin,

Have they checked your wife's breathing rate?  I have an irregular heart beat from time to time that was traced to the fact that my respiration is very slow, half what is normal and I have a lung capacity that is 20% to 30% larger than normal for my body weight (something to do with being athletic when I was young, I ran everywhere).  They told me that when carbon-dioxide builds up in my lungs it can trigger an additional heart beat that is out of sync with my normal rhythm and can feel like my heart has skipped a beat.  When it happens several times in quick succession it feels like my heart has stopped for several seconds and can be painful.  I look down at my chest and ask "are you going to start back up, or what?"

There was no treatment recommended, but it is still troubling and I think I am going to get a second opinion soon, but it does not happen often and sometimes I can go for many months without a single occurance.  Hope this is helpful, and if it is not the case for your wife, at least you can rule out one more possible cause.

@mbrantley,

Let us know how the USB networking goes on the Amiga, what was the price for the USB networking adapters?

[mbrantley]

amigadave wrote:
Let us know how the USB networking goes on the Amiga, what was the price for the USB networking adapters?

Will do. The Belkin adapters were $21.27 apiece, and I ordered two. I was hoping to find one in town today (Staples had this on their Web site), but I had no luck with that. So this will be a project for next week, maybe.

Edit: I guess one of these posts made me a "Technoid." Gotta get me a propeller hat.
 :-P

[Darrin]

mbrantley wrote:

Once I get networking through USB/Deneb working on two Amigas, I will have freed up two X-Surf cards for two more of my Amigas.

Keep us informed on that please.  I only have one Amiga hooked up to the net at the moment and that's one of my A1200 towers via a PCMCIA network card from Amigakit.  I have to say that teh software AMigakit supply with it maked setting it up a breeze.  I only wish I'd bought their wireless card instead of the wired one.

[Darrin]

amigadave wrote:
@Darrin,

Have they checked your wife's breathing rate?  I have an irregular heart beat from time to time that was traced to the fact that my respiration is very slow, half what is normal and I have a lung capacity that is 20% to 30% larger than normal for my body weight (something to do with being athletic when I was young, I ran everywhere).  They told me that when carbon-dioxide builds up in my lungs it can trigger an additional heart beat that is out of sync with my normal rhythm and can feel like my heart has skipped a beat.  When it happens several times in quick succession it feels like my heart has stopped for several seconds and can be painful.  I look down at my chest and ask "are you going to start back up, or what?"

There was no treatment recommended, but it is still troubling and I think I am going to get a second opinion soon, but it does not happen often and sometimes I can go for many months without a single occurance.  Hope this is helpful, and if it is not the case for your wife, at least you can rule out one more possible cause.

They've checked everything with her.  They even removed her thyroid because they thought that was to blame and fused two vertebras in her neck in case it was the pressure from a ruptured disk on the spinal column that was causing it.  They can see the problem on the charts, but they just can't narrow down what's causing it.  At least it's not heart disease and the medication she's on now helps a lot.

She's back to work now and thankfully she's a Registered Nurse so if she has a turn at work then she'll be in the right place.   :-)

I’d go for a second opinion if I were you.  It certainly won’t hurt and it might shine some light on the problem.