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Skip to comments.I have cirrhosis of the liver
Posted on 07/03/2012 8:29:13 PM PDT by fourth and three
I lurk here a lot but don't really post. I just thought I would post here to see if anybody is familiar with all this.
I learned about 3 months ago that I have cirrhosis of the liver, probably caused by alcohol use. I never thought I drank that much -- maybe 4 or 5 beers a night -- but I had such a habit for many years.
I had no warning of such a problem, and only learned about it when my abdomen started becoming oddly swollen, and uncomfortable. Finally, when I was looking like a pregnant woman (literally}, I was sent for an ultrasound and ascites associated with cirrhosis was diagnosed. This came like a bolt out of the blue. When you get ascites, the prognosis is rather grim, with an expectation of 3 years to live without a liver transplant.
I don't feel like I'm dying, but I've been drained of about 2 1/2 gallons of fluid twice since then, and take diuretics and drastically limit salt intake. I want to work but I constantly feel weak, and I am not sure how honestly I should talk with an employer about my condition.
I also have a six year old girl who doesn't understand why daddy feels so weak all the time.
Just wondering if anyone knows about this condition and might have information that is valuable to anyone who has this disease.
I don't know about that condition but I am very sorry to read of your trouble.
May God bless you and family.
Any chance of recovery? I know the liver has a high rate of regeneration.
I don't know but I'll keep you and your family in my prayers.
I don't have any advice for you, but prayed for you, and your daughter. I am sorry you are going through this.
Jesus, have mercy. What can we do, but ask? We pray for fourth and three.
My dad had it and refused any surgery. If the transplant is an option in the future def have it. Of course stop the drinking. Dad also drank a lot of beer. The cirrosis was diagnosed 10 or 15 years after he quit drinking. I'm very sorry you have this but they can do wonders with transplants nowadays.
That's one of the tougher diseases to get. You will be in my prayers.
I think a liver transplant might be an option for you, if you can get it done before obammycare starts.
I heard the liver is one body organ that actually will regenerate itself. I'm not a doctor, but I heard they coul go in and cut off the diseased part of the liver and the liver will actually grow back. I heard Herman Cain talk about this. He had cancer in his liver and the doctors cut that part of the liver off and today he has a full, healthy liver again..... Ask your doctor about that.
For now, obiviously, no alcohol for you.
Gods blessing on you my FRiend.
Stop drinking ***NOW***!
No ifs ands or buts.
Do ~EXACTLY~ what the doc tells you.
It's really simple if you do what they tell you, you've got better than a 50/50 chance of survival.
If you don't, you die.
Medical researchers are making progress every day and the longer you hang in there, the more likely there be a fix soon. Depending upon what stage you're at, don't waste any time getting on a recipient list.
God watch over you in the meantime!
Hopefully you are on a list for a transplant at this point.
I'm putting a note on my fridge to pray for you as often as I see that note. I pray not only that you'll get a transplant, but most importantly, that you have a saving knowledge of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ.
God Bless you and your family!
my understanding is it takes two things to get your condition. First you need a genetic predisposition. Then you need to drink. Using tylenol speeds up the process. There are lots of people who drink heavily and live to their 70s and never develop liver problems. They don't have the genetic component so they don't have to worry.
I have a family member that had a liver TX over 9 years ago and is still going strong. Get on the TX list ASAP. Prayers for you and your family.
Prayers for you and your daughter. I gave up drinking and pot smoking after becoming a christian 3 months ago.I was 25 yrs with the habit,have health problems but live for the Lord now.May God bless you.
I noticed you post health/medicine related articles.
Perhaps you could comment on this situation?
Prayers up for you and your family. Any of us here could succumb to this disease.
Best wishes sent to you.
God of mercy, we bless You in the name of Your Son, Jesus Christ, who ministered to all who come to Him. Give Your strength to N., Your servant, bound by the chains of addiction. Enfold himlher in Your love and restore himlher to the freedom of God's children. Lord, look with compassion on all those who have lost their health and freedom. Restore to them the assurance of Your unfailing mercy, and strengthen them in the work of recovery. To those who care for them, grant patient understanding and a love that perseveres. We ask this through Christ our Lord. Amen.
Look up and research milk thistle supplement. A family friend was diagnosed with cirrosis a few years ago, he takes milk thistle now every day and his liver enzymes have went down, it has a positive effect, but is no miracle cure. Check it out, see if it may work for you.
Dr Bert Berkson, MD, is perhaps the world's leading expert on liver disease and treatments to regenerate the liver w/o going the transplant route.
Dr. Berkson and his patients are partners in the healing process. He creates a holistic program for each patient that combines conventional medicine, vitamin and herbal supplements, nutrition, healthy lifestyle practices, and antioxidants like Alpha Lipoic Acid (administered at Integrative Medical Center). Click here to learn more about Alpha Lipoic Acid, a natural substance produced by our bodies that Dr. Berkson has worked with since 1977.
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You need to read up about Hepatic encephalopathy as well as becoming aware of the symptoms from your ammonia levels increasing. The swelling of your abdomen is caused by ascites. You can also expect problems with your platelet levels because of compromised spleen function.
Get yourself to a specialist ASAP.
I will pray for you.
Good News!
My grandfather had it. Though I do not know all the ins and outs of the disease, he was very ill. There were days when he felt up to mowing lawns and days he did not. Some of the medications he was on made things even worse.
The fortunate thing is they were able to find a doner for him. After the transplant he was able to return to a normal life.
That is ultimately going to be your only out. Financially there are grants you can get from some private companies to help with expenses. There are several databases to get on for a donor.
Also the Southern Baptist church has helped many people needing transplants and major surgery financially. There are also some Catholic organizations that will assist with these types of expenses. They may also be able to help get you on some of the lists for donors. Most local hospitals will give you a list of organizations that can help you with these types of expenses as well.
I wish you the very best with your illness. These things are never easy most especially with small children. Tomorrow I will call and see if I can get more specifics for you.
I am very sorry to hear about your health condition. It must have been devastating news.
But don't give up! — do what you can and need to do and also talk to doctors at university medical centers, see if there are treatments that help or at least slow down the progression, keep you from getting complications, etc., explore whether you could get on a liver transplant list, and so on.
Regarding your work, I think you need to discuss it with your boss, so they understand, rather than assume you just don't feel like working as hard. I don't know what kind of job you have, in some jobs they may let you do some work from home. Also I don't know how much sick leave you have, if any, to maybe take a day sick leave and work 4 days.
God bless you and give you strength to pursue options that may help you.
Prayers for you and your family. We do have a family friend that was diagnosed with something similar to you (after years of hard liquor consumption). He was placed on the transplant list BUT denied such a transplant because they checked for alcohol (he was positive). Now... he was diagnosed about five years ago. He is still very much alive but he does get flare ups. Again... prayers for you. Fight this condition with everything you have.
My brother in law got a liver transplant a few weeks ago.
To qualify for transplant, or too simply live longer, you must stop drinking.
Carr Shelby lived over 20 years with a transplanted heart, into his 80s.
Sounds brutal in terms of the disease.
In terms of work you're probably going to have to think outside of the box.
If your detail oriented you can probably find internet marketing or other jobs that involve placing ads on craigslist or other internet sites on Craigslist.com, elance.com or vWorker among lots of other things.
The pay won't be great, but you'll be able to contribute, pay some bills and if you can only work an hour here or an hour there, if you manage client expectations you might be able to generate some revenue.
The most important thing is to be good to yourself and get well.
My heart goes out to you. Hope you kick this thing to the curb!
Some potentially helpful info about ascites:
scroll down about a third down the page:
May God hold you close during this time.
I can't help but think there are so many reasons to drink these days.
But the best reason to stop is your wonderful daughter. She'll need you in these trying times.
Wish I could help with info, but I can only offer prayer.
Consider supplements such as alpha lipoic acid and milk thistle (active ingredient is silymarin) http://www.earthclinic.com/CURES/liver_damage.html
I'll pray. It's grim.
Amen, in Jesus name. Amen
Amen, in Jesus name. Amen
Prayers up!
Will pray for you and your family.
My heart goes out to you. Thank you for your honesty and courage in opening up about your condition. You do have a lot to live for with a six year old daughter. She will always need you regardless of the bad decisions that may have brought you to this point.
I am a cardiac nurse and have had this conversation with many patients facing their life as you are now. You now have a choice to make about the path of your life from this point forward. Your body is frail and only your strength of will can change it. The medical team can assist, but in the end, only you can change the outcome. Accept the past and change the future.
Cirrosis of the liver has a poor prognosis because the patient is usually not willing to make changes in lifestyle that can improve their health. It is difficult but you alone must decide whether you are willing to participate in healing your liver or continue on an ugly path of liver failure.
Educate yourself on liver functions and health. You can make changes that will allow the liver to heal. Become the captain of the team of doctors and nurses with the goal of being alive for your daughter and fulfilling your purpose. Even if you fall to extend your time you can extend your legacy.
Choose to become who you were meant to be and maybe you can extend the time you get to be that man.
My heart goes out to you. Thank you for your honesty and courage in opening up about your condition. You do have a lot to live for with a six year old daughter. She will always need you regardless of the bad decisions that may have brought you to this point.
I am a cardiac nurse and have had this conversation with many patients facing their life as you are now. You now have a choice to make about the path of your life from this point forward. Your body is frail and only your strength of will can change it. The medical team can assist, but in the end, only you can change the outcome. Accept the past and change the future.
Cirrosis of the liver has a poor prognosis because the patient is usually not willing to make changes in lifestyle that can improve their health. It is difficult but you alone must decide whether you are willing to participate in healing your liver or continue on an ugly path of liver failure.
Educate yourself on liver functions and health. You can make changes that will allow the liver to heal. Become the captain of the team of doctors and nurses with the goal of being alive for your daughter and fulfilling your purpose. Even if you fall to extend your time you can extend your legacy.
Choose to become who you were meant to be and maybe you can extend the time you get to be that man.
Avoid using pain relievers tha contain aspirin or especially NSAIDs. Limit yourself to acetamenophen only, and even that carries some risk so keep it to a bare minimum. Alternative therapies using SAMe and/or Milk Thistle may be helpful, please research the matter thoroughly and consult yoir doctor before actually pursuing either of these.
SAMe has proven benefit for liver function, numerous clinical studies bear this out. It also has several other beneficial effects. It stabilizes or even enhances mood, and it's helpful with inflammatory joint and connective tissue disorders. It's available over the counter in the vitamin and supplement section of Walmart as far as an affordable source. More options at stores such as GNC.
Beyond these, I hope you've found the strength to discontinue the use of alcohol.
Yes, I was going to suggest silymarin,(Milk Thistle) too. It's great for the liver.
Milk Thistle seed, schizandra, bupleurum.
You can help yourself a lot, and quite affordably.
Do not drink another drop. And look into Milk Thistle Supplements- cheap at Walmart.
...and add some Burdock root..
You can grow it yourself in 5 gallon plastic pots from seeds....the root will spiral around and is easy to remove...otherwise growing Burdock in the garden the root keeps on going down and is a major task to remove.
(above ground it looks like a thistle.)
First of all I am so sorry you have to go through this, my thoughts and prayers go out to you and your little girl
My suggestion to you is to start looking at family members and friends who might be potential donors. The liver is an amazing organ, a person only has to give half their liver to you and in a span of a few months it regrows back to its normal size, same would happen to you. So that is what I would start doing first, the sooner the better, that way you can get the transplant done while you are still physically strong enough to do the operation. You don't want to do it when your so weak it will be difficult for you to tolerate the surgery.
Your in my thoughts and prayers, God Bless
"An important antioxidant, glutathione, or GSH, cannot be used as a supplement because this substance cannot directly enter the cells threatened by oxidative stress. However, researchers are using a precursor compound, the molecule Sadenosylmethionine (SAMe), which can enter the cells and then break down to form the helpful antioxidant. When SAMe was given to patients with alcoholic cirrhosis in a clinical trial, they were significantly less likely to die or require a liver transplant within the next 2 years, compared with patients who had received an inactive substance (that is, a placebo) (19). Moreover, the study detected virtually no harmful side effects of SAMe treatment. Thus, this approach appears to hold promise for the treatment of patients with ALD (20)"
You should also be taking glycine. The Study Of Therapeutical Effects And Mechanism Of Glycine On Hepatic Fibrosis And Cirrhosis In Rats
He might be a little out there, but you should read Ray Peat.
These are all things you can do in parallel with the doctors. Good Luck!
The liver illness results from the continuous irritation as a result of processing the alcohol. The liver is capable of taking quite a bit of abuse processing all kinds of materials in the diet. However the continual abuse causes the new growth in the liver to be somewhat a form of scar tissue that does not allow for normal fluid movement through the liver. Develop enough of that material and you have Cirrhosis, and there are various stages. Your symptoms indicate that it is pretty advanced if you are having the swelling and fluid retention. At some point a transplant may be the only option.
However, there are a few things you can try to do to possibly improve the situation. These are pretty safe and not radical in any way. Look at using a few supplements. "Google around" a bit for more information on these as they are not part of the general medical advice. Look at Curcumin as something the has wide ranging benefits for reducing inflammation and possibly reverse early stage Cirrhosis. A couple of cups of Green Tea every day may also help along the same lines. Include a couple of grams of the Fish Oil with the higher values for the EPA and DHA. Take a daily dose of 5,000 IU of Vitamin D. Also Google up information on Bruce Ames + Alpha Lipoic Acid + NAC + Milk Thistle + Liver. I have found some very interesting information available at the website of Science Daily. They provide the press releases that announce the study results. At the Science Daily site there is a search feature that you can use to look at study results for the last ten years. Search there for Liver, then Cirrhosis, then Curcumin, then Green Tea.
One other bit of general diet advice is to suggest that you look at the work of Gary Taubes. The general idea is that the high quantities of grains and sugars in the diet cause a somewhat general form of inflamation, causing much of the obesiety problem in the US. They also increase the daily continuous liver stress factors. I believe that Taubes is really on to something worthwhile.
And finally, I do wish you good luck in dealing with the Cirrhosis. The human body is a pretty amazing system that is still poorly understood in how it functions. There is quite a bit of new information being discovered weekly. Most of the MDs were trained to burn it or cut it to solve the problem. That is really not a great way to go for treatment, unless absolutely necessary, when dealing with the liver. I believe there are some other routes to try before doing that.
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Some feel the Big Ten title game clash between Ohio State and Michigan State is the most anticipated league battle since No. 1 Ohio State played No. 2 Michigan in 2006. It very well could be.
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This Unisource TSC PTFE chemical hose assembly is suitable for chemical or gas transfer operations. It is constructed with a nonconductive smooth-bore PTFE (polytetrafluorethylene) tube for resistance to chemicals and high temperatures, and a cover reinforced with a single braid of 300 series stainless steel to provide the strength for its maximum pressure rating. This hose exceeds Compressed Gas Association (CGA) Standard E.9 for flexible, PTFE-lined pigtail hoses for compressed gas service and has a minimum burst pressure rating four times that of its maximum working pressure rating, also known as a 4:1 safety factor. It can withstand temperatures ranging from -65 to +450 degrees F, and comes equipped with two factory-installed brass female Joint Industry Council (JIC) fittings. This hose assembly is suitable for a wide variety of commercial and industrial applications, including automotive, gas conveyance, food processing, pharmaceutical, chemical transfer, or other applications where the chemical and heat requirements exceed the protections offered by rubber, metal, or plastic hose.
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KABUL, Afghanistan -- The Afghan soldier who killed a U.S. two-star general and wounded 15 other people hid in a bathroom with a NATO assault rifle then opened fire when a group of officers from international forces passed by, an Afghan military official said Wednesday.
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When my dad came to after his emergency quadruple bypass surgery last month, he had a revelation: "Everything is bullshit."
Actually, "revelation" is too strong. It's the same thing he's been quietly teaching me and the rest of his kids his whole life--that all the nonsense we busy ourselves with, all the ego-gratification and entertainment we chase is superfluous to the world that goes on inside us, and wholly unsatisfying compared to a quiet moment spent alone or with someone you love. I suppose he, like any parent who sees their kids come out of the gate so strong and unsullied by the dullards, wanted to tattoo on us what e.e. cummings wrote:
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It's easy to give up that fight. I do it in little ways every day. My kids live in America, so sometimes they eat at McDonald's, watch commercial television, wear shirts with sports teams' logos, and go to birthday parties at Chuck E. Cheese. But they also have heard the sound of weird music and their parents' voices ripping their country's leaders and lame children's entertainment, and these days they know full well my feelings about the St. Paul Winter Carnival's Ice Palace. A nice place to visit. With a blowtorch.
I haven't taken them, and I don't plan on it, because it's one of those really fun things that has been sold to me as such, and, because I still happen to have a few critical synapses firing, I get knee-jerk cranky at the whiff of such hype. Moreover, there is a deeper anger embedded in those letters to the editor bitching about the irony of an ice palace that's been built across the street from a homeless shelter: At a time when things feel so slippery, when politicians' lies vie for airtime with commercials for the new season of American Idol, when the international debate is about rebuilding a country that this country tore down, we here in Minnesota build a castle that will soon be a big puddle.
Unlike other things people work hard to build, the Ice Palace is too easy and too easily disposed of, like so many other distractions that get hyped-and-gone these days, so I look at it from afar and say, Why bother? It might be easier if I could lighten up, get with the festivities, exult in the magic of it all, or even goof on the absurd lengths to which we'll go to entertain ourselves during January in Minnesota. And the fact is, I still might put on the robot suit and take the kids to see all the pretty lights and the 27,000 blocks of ice, and they'll probably think it's cool. Or not.
The Saturday before the palace opened, I took them to Lake Harriet, where we happened to run into a kite festival. There were no colored strobe lights, but the sun was out. There was no cover charge, but there was complimentary cocoa. There was no webcam or live remotes or bumper-to-bumper traffic, and no nothing-attracts-a-crowd-like-a-crowd crowd, but if you walked out into the middle of the lake, you could hear the tinkle of tinny banjos and mandolins wafting out from the bandstand PA.
The music was the only sound, save for the occasional whoop from a fallen ice-walker or skater or the crunch-crunch of feet padding over snow mines. The wind made the music sound like the last-gasp garble-and-break of a dying cassette tape, but the deejay's irony cut through: He played some Dixieland, "The Girl from Ipanema," some Hawaiian slack-key guitar stuff, "Let's Go Fly a Kite," and, most surreal of all, "The Summer Wind."
It was great. There was a guy in a parka lying on his back in the middle of the lake, grinning and staring up at the cold sun, enraptured by the fallow season he'd found himself living through. There was a horse and buggy clip-clopping around the bike path, a dozen American flags jutting out from the ice, a wooden sled with two kids being pushed by a Hans Brinker type, and collies and bird dogs and St. Bernards and huskies and golden retrievers sniffing everything in sight. It felt like a hundred years ago, and like a surprise that everyone there had spontaneously discovered all at once.
Two giant octopus kites flew over the lake and my kids, who craned their necks and shielded their eyes from the sun and spoke reverently of "Ollie," the great mythical octopus that inhabits the deepest parts of Lake Harriet. They've been raised on stories of Ollie, so when my daughter crawled over some bubbles that looked like they were captured confetti from an underwater parade and came upon a fossilized weed, she swore it was one of Ollie's tentacles. My son slid and break-danced on the ice and said, "Minnesotans have the life." It looks hokey in print, but it wasn't at that moment, because even he could tell that a frozen lake in the middle of the city is better than some lame ice castle.
This sort of thing--people making their own fun, making it up as they go along--happens all the time, though you'd never know it, given all the Your Official Ice Palace Slut coverage. For example, last weekend at the 7th St. Entry, Heart of a Champion Records threw what felt like an indie-rock potluck. Four or five bands played, and all these people who support independent labels, record stores, and radio stations came out. Nobody paid any attention to the Ice Castle's kindred evil spirit across the street, the Hard Rock Café, but during Mike Gunther's fire-and-brimstone act, a guy behind me yelled, "Move the Lutherans!" and at the end of the night, Eleni Mandell warmed the place with some sexy time-stopping gin-soaked jazz.
After shows like that in the summer, I've sometimes liked to go to the lake, for a drive or for a swim. This night, I felt like going again, even though it was below zero, because I'd been there a couple nights before to see what it was like at night. I parked my car behind the port-a-potties so the rent-a-cops wouldn't nail me, and started walking. The wind on my face was ferocious, and I kept looking over my shoulder, because I had the creepy feeling that something was sneaking up on me.
The only sound was the breath in my chest, my boots on the ice, and a door banging somewhere near the bandstand. A muffled wind chime harmonized with the occasional car engine, whose purrs suggested heated seats and warm fans and glowing cigarette lighters. I stood in the middle of the dark lake, alone and calm but also terrified of what might lie beneath, of what would happen if I fell through the ice, of what the cops would have to do to recover the body.
I looked at the shore, where the houses looked cabin-cozy but miles away. I listened to all that stillness, and thought about what a bargain it is to be able to walk on water and look at a few stars for free--which is how you feel when you're away from the numbers and making it up as you go along.
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[Satellite TODAY 08-08-12] Satellite broadcaster SiriusXM Radio grew its revenues by 13 percent in the second quarter of 2012 to $838 million on top of a jump in subscribers that prompted its management to boost the company's annual profit forecast, according to Sirius XM's latest results issued Aug. 7.
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I have a default header image and Im trying to write a function that will check if z_taxonomy_image_url has a value in it, if not my default header will display. I also have to check if header_top exist.
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It seams that the function always exist so my default header never shows, so I need a function that not only checks if the function exist but if its blank. So my default header code will show when header_top and taxonomy image are blank.


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Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders
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Employment Activities and Experiences of Adults with High-Functioning Autism and Asperger's Disorder
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There is limited large-scale empirical research into the working lives of adults who have an autism spectrum disorder with no co-occurring intellectual disability. Drawing on data from a national survey, this report describes the employment activities and experiences of 130 adults with Asperger's Disorder (AD) and high functioning autism (HFA) in Australia. Outcome measures include current occupation; occupational skill level and alignment with educational attainment; type of job contract; hours of work; support received to find work; support received in the workplace; and positive and negative experiences of employment. The findings confirm and expand upon existing evidence that adults with AD and HFA, despite their capacity and willingness to work, face significant disadvantages in the labour market and a lack of understanding and support in employment settings.
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- Employment Activities and Experiences of Adults with High-Functioning Autism and Asperger's Disorder
- Journal
Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders
Volume 44, Issue 10 , pp 2440-2449
- Cover Date
- 2014-10
- 10.1007/s10803-014-2112-z
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- Autism
- Asperger's Disorder
- High functioning
- Employment
- Overeducation
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- Susanna Baldwin (1) (2)
- Debra Costley (1)
- Anthony Warren (1)
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- 1. Autism Spectrum Australia (Aspect), PO Box 361, Forestville, NSW, 2087, Australia
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This happened to me once when I had a new wallet. As others have said, there was a tag hidden under a flap of fabric.
It had happened to me several times, and I finally got tired of it and decided to figure out what was doing it. I started taking things out of my pockets, handing it to my son to hold, and walking through the sensors again. After about 6 trips through the sensors (and setting off the alarm), a store clerk came over to see what was going on. I explained the situation, and they played along.
Again, as others have said, you have a tag somewhere -- holster maybe? Those sensors are digital -- nothing's going to set them off that can't communicate digitally.


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Opened 8 years ago
Closed 8 years ago
#7450 closed (invalid)
Documentation mistake about use of LANGUAGE_CODE and LANGUAGES
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I18n docs say:
If all you want to do is run Django with your native language, and a language file is available for your language, all you need to do is set LANGUAGE_CODE.
This didn't work for me, and I got confused until I understood that several lines later there is a notion that LANGUAGES setting must be added.
I think it will be useful if the docs state the necessity of setting LANGUAGES in the first place.
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Changed 8 years ago by Damian
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comment:1 Changed 8 years ago by Simon Greenhill
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comment:2 Changed 8 years ago by garcia_marc
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- Summary changed from An i18n doc fix to Documentation mistake about use of LANGUAGE_CODE and LANGUAGES
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Sorry for reverting the triage stage, but I can't see any problem when following documentation. It works perfectly when setting just LANGUAGE_CODE and not LANGUAGES.
Could you explain exactly why it didn't work for you, and what exactly is the problem, please?
comment:3 Changed 8 years ago by telenieko
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- Status changed from new to closed
The issue is documented a bit below:
Only languages listed in the LANGUAGES setting can be selected. If you want to restrict the language selection to a subset of provided languages (because your application doesn't provide all those languages), set LANGUAGES to a list of languages. For example:
A bit above there's another important part that explains HOW Django selects the language presented to the user. So, if you set LANGUAGE_CODE to "de" but your visitor (or yourself) send "en" as a requested language Django will answer in English.
So, that is already documented, you just need to read the whole document and interpret it, you'll see that LANGUAGE_CODE is the *last* thing that Django cares about when selecting the language.


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