While this blog post is more personal than the average posts on
this blog, I'm posting it as it's impossible that what happened to
my family won't have an impact on my level of commitment to the
Umbraco project in the near future.
Yesterday August - my seven year lovely first born son - was
diagnosed with Diabetes
Type 1. He's ok. I'm lucky to live in a country with amazing
health care and near a hospital with amazing knowledge on the
subject. He's the most brave person I've met and thank god he
doesn't appear to have inherited his father's fear of needles.
Something which is clever when he'll need to prick himself more
than ten times a day for the rest of his life.
As a parent there's a lot to learn in very little time. This
means that August will naturally be my (almost) only concern in the
next few weeks where my wife and I are given intense instructions
on diabetes by doctors, dieticians, psychologists and other experts
that I've been shaken hands with the past 24 hours but yet to
remember what role they had. As crazy as it may sound, I've felt
blessed numerous times of living in a country where I'm given these
opportunities. I know that I'm more lucky than the average parent
of a child with diabetes.
The side effect is naturally that my evolvement with Umbraco
will be at an all time low. However, I feel blessed again. Even
though there's never a good timing for an event like this, the
project is at a stage where I'm not indispensable. The core team
knows v5 better than I do, work is being done on getting 4.7.1 out
of the door (albeit delayed until coming weeks), my wonderful
coworkers at HQ (the Umbraco company) knows how to run it without
me and the community ethos is stronger than ever.
So this doesn't mean that I'll go away - after all the Umbraco
community is my second family. Please take as good care of it as
I'll do of my number one in the coming weeks and months.
Love,
Niels…