[Leica] Absence

[imra at iol.ie (Douglas Barry)]

Herb, I'm glad you're on the mend, and that all too frightening medical 
excitement is almost at an end. I heard a 99 year old Vera Lynn this morning 
on the radio and she sounded as sharp as a tack. Puts it down to maintaining 
interest in a variety of things, and people.

Douglas

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Herbert Kanner" <kanner at acm.org>
To: "Leica Users Group" <lug at leica-users.org>
Sent: Friday, June 10, 2016 1:53 AM
Subject: [Leica] Absence


> You can say that I?ve been on medical leave from LUG.
>
> First, an oncologist, on a routine visit, noticed an inflammation on my 
> left leg. To my amazement, an exam table being in the room, she and her 
> assistant got down on the floor and with fiber-points, drew a circle 
> around my leg a bit above my ankle, prescribed an anti-biotic, and told me 
> that if the redness got above that line, I should see my primary care doc 
> about intra-venous anti-biotic.
>
> My doctor being on vacation, I saw two other doctors in the next week. 
> Each one modified the oral anti-biotic. When my doctor returned, she 
> instantly sent me to the emergency room (ugh?the only quick way to get 
> into Stanford Hospital) and I got intra-venous anti-biotic over night. By 
> noon the next day, they decided it wasn?t an infection after all, but 
> states dermatitis, and discharged me with treatment info.,
>
> I think that treatment triggered overt congestive heart failure. I just am 
> reluctant to believe in coincidences, and there4 was another non-trivial 
> event that makes me believe that. My hemoglobin the night I entered the 
> hospital for the anti-biotic was 12.8 and the day I left it was 10.8! 
> Anyway, the symptom the following week was such extreme shortness of 
> breath the walking from one room to another left me panting. I did not 
> have the brains to be frightened, because in the course of the day, this 
> gradually went away to the extent that by afternoon I was happy to walk up 
> and down my driveway picking blue-berries from five bushes. Luckily, by 
> the end of the week, I realized I must be in serious trouble, phoned my 
> doctor, and got admitted to a cardiac unit at the hospital, where I spent 
> a week before they sent me home. I had required oxygen at the hospital and 
> they arranged for home installation, so shortly after I returned home, 
> fifty feet of hose attached to a magic machine the sucks in air and puts 
> out 92% oxygen was installed. All that hose so that I could walk to any 
> room. And some small oxygen tanks for when I had to leave the house for a 
> medical appointment.
>
> All a waste! In two days, using my own pulse-oximeter, I established that 
> I no longer needed oxygen?this agreed to by the visiting nurse. I?m pretty 
> sure that between one an two weeks from now, I?ll be functioning normally 
> and be out taking pictures with my M.
>
> I see tantalizing discussion of a new LR release. I was just too cheap to 
> subscribe to LR and just bought the LR6 upgrade. Then I got annoyed with 
> continued failure to format decently a 4x6 print with their print module, 
> and back-tracked to LR5?it seemed to me that the non-subscription LR6 at 
> the time had no significant feature for me beyond those of LR5. I will now 
> follow the discussion on the LUG of LR features. If they sound like stuff 
> I would want, I?ll subscribe. Hell, I can afford it?I just have been 
> offended by Adobe?s money grabbing tactics.
>
> Herb
>
> P.S. I turned 94 today.
>
>
>
>
>
> Herbert Kanner
> kanner at acm.org
>
> Question Authority and the authorities will question you.
>
>
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