Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/11/23
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]In the week preceding week 46, my father in Copenhagen complained of feeling weak and not being able to walk very far. He is 78 but is normally very active, so something was clearly wrong. As the weekend came, his condition worsened, and on the Sunday I drove to Copenhagen to see what was going on. When I arrived Sunday afternoon, it was clear that something was very wrong--he could barely stand up. I had him hospitalized Sunday evening, and fortunately the good doctors at Glostrup Amtssygehus outside Copenhagen were able to diagnose the problem within 1 hour. Apparently, a new blood pressure drug he had been prescribed had interacted with an existing medication to produce dangerously high levels of some chemical in his body, in fact so high that it would have killed him within a few days. As it was, they immediately began treatment. My sister from Poland arrived Monday morning, and we immediately went to the hospital. Here is my father talking to my sister, still in bed but already much better than the night before: http://www.wajsmanphoto.com/2003_46.jpg On Monday afternoon he was visibly better, now out of the bed: http://www.wajsmanphoto.com/2003_46alt1.jpg Tuesday morning, better still: http://www.wajsmanphoto.com/2003_46alt2.jpg He was finally discharged Wednesday afternoon, and that evening we had dinner with our good friends Marek and Tamara. Here they are, showing my father some dirty joke on the Internet. It was so good to be back to a normal life! http://www.wajsmanphoto.com/2003_46alt3.jpg Finally, it has become something of a tradition that every time I go to Copenhagen, I take a picture of the garbage burning plant in Avedøre from my father's 12th floor balcony: http://www.wajsmanphoto.com/2003_46alt4.jpg All pictures taken with a Voigtlander Bessa R2 on Neopan 1600, the main and first 3 alternates with a 35mm Summilux, the last alternate with the 90mm Apo Summicron. The complete PAW index is at: http://www.wajsmanphoto.com/indexpaw2003.htm and comments/critique are always welcome and appreciated. Nathan - -- Nathan Wajsman Almere, The Netherlands e-mail: n.wajsman@chello.nl Mobile: +31 630 868 671 Photo site: http://www.wajsmanphoto.com - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html