[Leica] thank you all

[Don Dory]

I must say that the instrument and soft goods counts are rather important.
I was involved with a legal matter with a surgeon that left a surgical
towel inside a friend.  Infections were a serious problem until another
physician noticed the towel on a diagnostic test.

You should be in a diminishing concern state from this point onward as
Victoria recovers.  I hope she has a good pain tolerance as the
initial rehabilitation workouts are not pleasurable.

I would have a chat with Tina as her knee replacements would be similar in
recovery although hers were at a considerably younger age.

On Mon, Dec 21, 2020 at 9:38 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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Don
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