[Leica] Present again

[richard-lists at imagecraft.com (Richard)]

Welcome back! May your viewfinder always be bright, your battery always 
charged and you always have film or memory cards handy.

At 02:05 PM 9/18/2006, Didier Ludwig wrote:

>Dear Luggers,
>
>Thank you very much for the many touching sympathies sent on- and offlist 
>while I was hospitalized, and a special thanks to Nathan who was so kind 
>to transmit my message.
>
>Two weeks ago, I noticed a certain shortness of breath while doing bicycle 
>training. Had to give up at hills where I usually climb up without 
>sweating. As I have had a thrombosis a year ago, my wife, a nurse, was 
>rather unsettled about that and fortunately sent me to the doc, which 
>diagnosed several pulmonary embolisms and immediately passed me over to 
>the next hospital, where I stayed until today.
>
>Will presumably need to take coagulating (blood-thinning) meds for the 
>rest of my life. Nothing to complain about, considering the fact that the 
>biggest clump had a size that might easily send one to the happy hunting 
>ground: http://tinyurl.com/l5gq3 It's the grey shadow in the red mark. The 
>black areas are the lunge's inside. Shot with off-topic gear, a Philips 
>computer tomograph. The DOF is very narrow but the bokeh looks rather dark 
>:-)
>
>I have been commanded to go for long, slow walks. You can bet I'll take a 
>camera with me, and post the results here.
>
>Thanks again to all, and I wish a pleasant photokina time for all who go 
>there. Looks like the M8 will be the show stealer...
>Didier

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