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Subject: [Leica] thank you all
From: mak at teleport.com (Mark Kronquist)
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 2020 21:22:09 -0800
References: <CA+yJO1B1YBpgLC-=7NgZMYtfxedtcnJ3sst7N1c_Y4v=Z4q4zA@mail.gmail.com>

I can send you real hospital logo scrubs etc!  ;-). Mark

Sent from my iPhone

> On Dec 21, 2020, at 7:53 AM, Tina Manley via LUG <lug at leica-users.org> 
> wrote:
> 
> ?Wow.  I can't even imagine.  That would be my worst nightmare, to not know
> anything or be able to contact a loved one in the hospital.
> 
> I hope she will be able to come home soon and that there will be no more
> separations!!
> 
> Best wishes and lots of love,
> 
> Tina
> 
>> On Mon, Dec 21, 2020 at 10:38 AM Brian Reid <reid at mejac.carlsbad.ca.us>
>> wrote:
>> 
>> Bill, thank you for keeping LUGgers informed of my wife's accident and
>> thanks to all of you for your good wishes and flower pictures.
>> 
>> I must spend the day today seeing to the rental of a medical bed, a
>> wheelchair, a walker, and other such "durable medical goods" that we
>> will need for her convalescence. The layout of this house is such that
>> she will need to sleep in the living room while she requires the
>> motorized bed.
>> 
>> I've had family hospitalized before, but this experience was the worst
>> because I was completely cut off from her. The hospital would not let me
>> in the door, and was not able to provide me with any information about
>> her status. No telephone contact, no email, no text messages. Her
>> surgery was re-scheduled 3 times, but I was never notified. Brutal.
>> 
>> I eventually found the location inside the hospital's online
>> patient-tracking system in which the doctors filed their notes, and was
>> able to follow what was happening by reading those notes. It takes a
>> certain amount of determination to read the notes of an orthopedic
>> surgeon documenting the use of drills and saws and hammers on your
>> unconscious spouse.
>> 
>> My favorite entry from the surgeon's notes was "Instrument, sponge, and
>> needle counts were correct prior to closure and at the conclusion of the
>> case." Nothing accidentally left inside.
>> 
>> About 4 hours after the end of the procedure I was able to talk to
>> Victoria on the telephone very briefly, but it was enough to let me
>> sleep.
>> 
>> 
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> 
> 
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