Hodgkin disease update Woohoo! Today I got all the results from all pending tests: bone marrow biopsy, echocardiogram, tomographies, blood tests and more. All these examinations were needed for two reasons: to determine the stage of Hodgkin disease and to proceed with the proper treatment. I’m happy to hear that the stage of my illness is 2B, which is good. Hodgkin disease can be categorized into 4 stages (1 through 4). Stage 1 and 2 are initial phases, but stage 3 and 4 means almost terminal phases (really bad). The doctor explained that my illness can be categorized as 1A because the disease is spread in one single region (righ side of my neck) but she wanted to declare stage 2B because there’s a little alteration in my thymus that could be related to the cancer, or not. To be safe, she said, that she will declare my illness as stage 2B and since the beginning of the treatment they will monitor my thymus. I have to return to the hospital next Wednesday to get the approval for my treatment, which will consist on ABVD chemotherapy.

I love to code TL;DR: I love to code. I have a passion for front-end development and I'm capable enough with the back-end. Usually, I'm inventing with new/trending/emerging technologies. In my spare time, I'm creating code and releasing them as open source software. Sometimes I'm collaborating with other software such as LessCSS to prove my gratitude, or I'm looking how to help other in StackOverflow providing practical answers to questions related to JavaScript or Laravel. I'm a happy coder!

The things I do for living I don't want this to sounds like a resume, but I will try to simply explain what I do for living. I have studied Industrial Electronics, and I have been graduated. But I have just worked for 1 year in that field. After that I got an opportunity to do software development, and from then I have been doing that for living. I learn the basics from computer programming when I was studying Industrial Electronics, but I learned a lot with free resources found on Internet and with a lot of practice. That's it! Currently I'm a software developer working remotely from home for an Australian company. I'm very happy with this life style, that allow me to spare time with my wife and doing other stuff that are more important.

Why I want to improve my skills on English? Hello everyone! I'm Rubens Mariuzzo, I was born on Lausanne, Switzerland, so my mother tongue is French. During my childhood, my family and I moved from Swtizerland to Dominican Republic, I learnt Spanish from my parents and from school. Currently, I am a software developer and I'm starting to work remotely from home. I believe on working remotely, but also I believe that strong communication is an important point to preserve good relationship, both professional and personals. Saying that, I recognize that I need to improve my skills on English, here on Dominican Republic, we don't have too much contact with English native speaker, so I can't improve my speaking. I need to be more competent with my clients who request services from me. Furthermore, I ABSOLUTELY LOVE learning new languages, I have already learn Haitian Creole, and I can speak fluently, have given several public talks, and Haitian people seems to understand. So, I don't have any anxiety or obstacle to learn, I just need to get better. I'm little bit shy, but pretty sure that I can overcome any rock found in the path. Sincerely, Rubens Mariuzzo.