[Leica] Absence

[Jim Nichols]

Hi Herb,

First, Happy 94th Birthday!

As we get older (I'm 86), what might be small events get turned into 
monsters in proportion to the number of physicians involved. I spent two 
days in the hospital a couple of months ago, and my heart attack 
symptoms turned out to be from a spastic esophagus. The heart is fine.

I'm happy to hear that you are moving toward recovery and still have a 
desire to take photos.

I wish you the best of success.

Jim Nichols
Tullahoma, TN USA

On 6/9/2016 7:53 PM, Herbert Kanner wrote:
>   You can say that I’ve been on medical leave from LUG.
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> 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.
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> 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.,
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> Herb
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> P.S. I turned 94 today.
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> Herbert Kanner
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