[Leica] Absence

[Tina Manley]

Congratulations, Herb, and happy birthday!!  It sounds like you are really
on top of your meds and in control of your health care.  That is very
necessary these days!  I hope you have many more happy years.

You will not regret upgrading to the subscription LR.  The newest one is
fantastic!!

LOL

Tina

On Thu, Jun 9, 2016 at 8:53 PM, Herbert Kanner <kanner at acm.org> wrote:

>  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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