[Leica] Health Update

[Howard L Ritter Jr]

Glad to hear you’re making progress, Gerry! It’s good to have a project to give you focus and a process while rehabbing. Maybe you should throw a photo challenge to the group like Dr Ted did!

“Green for Gerry”?

—howard

> On May 21, 2017, at 11:42 PM, Gerry Walden <gwpics at me.com> wrote:
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> Firstly, a very big 'thank you' to all the LUG members who have wished me well following my cardiac arrest. I have been deeply moved by the friendship expressed by a group of people who, by and large, I have never met.
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> Progress has been slow, and I have been a lot weaker than I ever expected, but I am delighted to say that I can see slow but steady progress now. One of the biggest problems has been my inability to lie down to sleep because of pain. However I have now had two sessions of sleep (albeit short) in a horizontal position and last night managed around 3 and a half hours undisturbed which was excellent. Because of my sleeping position, and my slowness of walking , I have had severe problems with fluid retention in the legs and feet but thankfully this now appears to be slowly abating.
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> A plus-side to this has been that I have spent some time scanning images from around the year 2000 etc., most of which were shot on my M6 using slide film. I must say that I have been very pleasantly surprised with many of the results with the quality of image available using various films being quite amazing, having a certain tonality which is different to  digital. I appreciate all that digital has to offer but it would now not worry me greatly if I had to go back to film as standard.
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> I will report again but in the meantime thank you all once more for your unconditional support.
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> Gerry
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