Surgery Today (Dec 17), Slowdown in releases and updates for a few days (updated Dec 22)

Just wanted to wish you all the best so you have something to read once you get back
Merry Christmas!

and hope it doesn't give you too much grief over Christmas.

Get well!
You do a a great work with the portable apps projects... So.. Get well first!

kindly regards from COLOMBIA!

Best Wishes from sunny north-east Australia^

Like everyone else is saying - get well.

Take your time getting back into your PortableApps work - we will still be here - your health is MUCH more important.

^ if you'd like some oppressive heat, 80%-90% humidity and no forecast of relieving rain/storms in the near future I could try and send some over to you

Take care, and don't try the ice for a while
Merry Christmas and a Happy (and healthy!) New Year!
Greatings from the "low lands" (the Netherlands)

I wish you all the best!
Take all the time you need to recover, I hope you are in the company of peolple you love!

Franz

Task #2: Enjoy the holidays.

Don't take on more than two tasks at a time.

Best wishes from me as well.
I hope you get better real quick and can enjoy the holidays with your family!

Best regards,
VSG

Please get well! Updates can wait (long holidays are coming). Best wishes from Belarus.

Get well soon
/ / we now also in Russian ice planned already snowed and was thawing : waiting for frost.

Get well soon! All my blessings.

There are spikes you can buy to put on your shoes. Maybe something to wish for christmas?

I read about your surgery and happy it was successful.
I wisk you a speedy recovery, but now do not think about this place, we can wait. Relax and enjoy next Christmas Holydays!

Greetings from Argentina! Best wishes to you and thank you for a wonderful project. I hope that you recover soon.

Merry Christmas and happy new year.

John,
Best Wishes from Hong Kong...

Merry Christmas

Dear John! Best wishes from St Petersburg, Russia. Spasibo (thanks) for your work!

If you venture outside, make sure your crutches have crampons!

Take care & may u recover soonest Merry Xmas!

Sorry to hear of your predicament. I wish you a speedy and event-free recovery, and hope that your holidays won’t be impaired.

best Wishes from France
Get Well

Rest and calibrate the holidays.
we will wait for you as you come back.

Does anyone have a portable leg for John? Just kidding, get well and use this well deserved rest.

BTW, the homepage's link for this article is broken. You can only come here through the full news' page.

Take care John.
Thanks for all you do here. We have a good thing going.

Nothing is more important than your health. Most are occupied over the holidays with personal matters and will not mind some extra time between updates. Take the time to get well. A thought - what about an app that tracks weather statistics so you can avoid situations where you might find ice? Speaking of ice - it is best served in a glass with some sort of alcohol spirit at this time of year so keep your feet up (probably your Dr. recommendation too) and look forward to next year's achievements.

Dear John

Hope you'll soon Be well again.

Best Regards

Havvy

Hope you get well soon.

Never been to NYC. As a teenager I used to fall on ice in my hometown and fractured my hip bone and it took me 1 month to recover.
Now I've been in California for 12 years. But I may soon have to relocate

Happy holidays! I can't live without my computer and my PC can't live without you!

Just registered only to tell you stay well!

Seems like I haven't been the only one who signed up just to wish you well and a fast recovery. Thank you for your efforts, you're awesome!

Sorry to hear about your injuries. Hope you get to feeling better very soon!

I hope you have a very Merry (and pain free) Christmas!

Dear John!
First and main of all GET WELL SOON, let there be no more pain and trouble. As for work and updates - all those can wait, better update your health. Anyway a lot of thanks for handy and useful apps.
Alexey, Saint-Petersburg, Russia
P.S.: To solace you: here in North-West Russia the weather is much colder and the roads are more icy - a great problem each winter, so pray for us. Happy Christmas to you!

your post and your (portable) apps is helpfull. hope for you to get better soon... and Merry Christmas to you.

Like everyone else I'm saying - get well.
I hope that you recover soon.

I hope you get better real quick and can enjoy the holidays with your family!
Merry Christmas and happy new year to you and your family!

I wish you a happy Xmas and a great new year.

As romel said, you really do a a great work with the portable apps projects. But get well first.

How are you? I hope pain have stopped and that pain killers are suspended now. And I hope you get well very soon, in time to enjoy holidays at home.

Greetings from Brazil

As others said, ...

I wish you all the best!
Take all the time you need to recover.

Take care Mr. Haller, keep it smart with the painkillers, watch out around NYC in every corner, and hopefully you will have a nice christmas after all this. Regards.

get well soon

Great to hear - sorry, read - that everything went well.

Get well and take your time. Having two perfectly working legs is more important than any software in the world

Take care !

I just donated a bit to PortableApps.com and think it would be very "christmasy" of other did too, especially in light of what happened to John.

We havent had a wikipedia-style donation sprint but I am hereby starting my own. Please take part if you can.

Poor John! I wish he could get better soon!

John,

Thanks for all that you do for us; we really appreciate it. Please take a few days for yourself and your loved ones to rest and recover. Sometimes, we just need to stop and enjoy the present (even if it is laced with pain and pain-killers).

Peace be with you,
Mike.

Dear John,
May God bless you for a speedy recovery
Take care
Best regards

dear John,
get well ASAP!

merry Christmas and happy, successful 2014!

franco

A close friend did this recently so I know how inconvenient it is! Hope the break mends well and quickly and you can get off the crutches as soon as possible.

Seasons greetings from the UK.

I hope you will have a speedy recovery. Best wishes for the oncoming holidays!

Best wishes to you and thank you for your wonderful project.
Take all the time you need to recover, I hope you are in the company of peolple you love!
Merry Christmas and a Happy and Healthy 2014!

Greatings
Mauro

Hello John

I wish you a speedy recovery and power despite all spend a beautiful holiday season! The important thing is that you get to recover from this situation!
Take care of you!

Raymond (France)

Hope you continue to do well and thank you for the Xmas you provide 365 days of the year thru portableapps.com

I hope it mends fast and the pain meds are the right amount. Get better with all speed. Thanks for the info on what is going on. Be well!

I can imagine how you felt.
A few years ago, a close friend of mine had preterm contractions at 26 weeks (37-42 weeks are considered full-term) so she went to ER at one of the most prestigious hospitals in Nor Cal. Residents and medical students tested her and after deliberating with attending physician determined that she needed C-section. They also offered several drug options and told her if she agreed to use one of those she would contribute immensely to clinical research and help out the women in the whole world. Smartphones were not popular then and who would take out a phone to checkout the information when you're told you need to undergo surgery? Anyway she and her husband signed all the paperwork in horror.
Just then her mother (who was a doctor in another country) called and found out what had happened. Her mother told her firmly to hang in there, use magnesium sulphate (the traditional drug, not any new double-blind new drug) and reject C-section. Soon her other close friend (in that same country, had a child already) called her too to encourage her and decline C-section.
So she begged the doctors to allow her 12 hours on magnesium sulphate and if her cervix dilated and contraction would not abate, she would agree to C-section.
As you can imagine, she pulled through and was released from ER.
13 weeks later her child was born at 39 weeks full term and healthy, mostly because her mother put her interest first.

Joyeux Noël et bon rétablissement.

Daniel Emonts.

I hope you'll get better very soon !
Cheers

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All the best to you.
Cheers from germany!

Hi John ..
Hope your recovery is going well. I empathize entirely with your situation. I have arthritis and have had my left hip replaced. I live in Ottawa Canada so I know how bad winters can get. I got some rubber slip-ons for my boots. They are covered in cleats for getting a good grip when out on ice and snow. They're not expensive and have literally saved my a$$ on several occasions. I won't leave home without 'em.

Good luck with the recovery process. Sounds quite serious so take good care of yourself ..

Steve Dupuis
Oracle DBA - Unix, Linux, and Windows
Ottawa, Canada

i hope the healing process is a fast one. i am running the beta on my flash drive now and it is pretty damn stable for how old the beta is (talking about the platform, by the way). take your time on the platform release, your own health and well being comes first before this as always. so if it takes months to get PA.c platform 12 to come out then so be it. so go ahead an take whatever form of Vicodin or Oxycontin you got (but use only as prescribed, we don't want you to get addicted to it :)). so take care and take your time!

John,
I just checked in after a long while and was surprised to hear about your accident. I feel for you. I had a Jet Skiing accident 15 years ago and shattered my right ankle with what they called a "pile driver" fracture. 8 screws and a steel plate later I'm able to walk but with pain each and every day. Motrin barely dents the pain and I walk with a cane sometimes. Hopefully yours will either heal up better or was less damaging to the joint itself. Either way, I've been where you're at right now, so take it slow and good luck...

Ken Mazie

Geez! I just read about your surgery and then about the boob doctor who ran into your leg while your were in the recovery room! Holy crap! I hope you are ok and all is healing well!! Take care!