[Leica] surgery

[tedgrant at shaw.ca (Ted Grant)]

Adam Bridge said:
>>Maybe I can get Ted to come down and shoot mine when they hack off my 
>>knee! (but not
> for a while yet.)<<<<

Hi Adam,
Hey its a piece of cake with the neat power saws and really really big big, 
long, like very long drills! :-)

Lot's of stuff goes on before they attach the new knee. Not to worry, you 
wont feel a thing as they hammer away pounding it into the hole where they 
drilled out the marrow to make it fit. ;-)

But later after all the pain, physio exercise is over you can take a shot at 
the 100 meter final in the next Olympics! ;-) Like the bionic-man. ;-)

But wait for the fun time when you first pass through the airport metal 
detector and you ring it like you've got an AK-47 strapped to yer leg! Like 
Holy jumpin' cat-fish!  Before you know it the goon squad have you face down 
on the floor and a half dozen heavy weapons touching your head...... 
suggestion. Don't twitch! Smile, have medical paper showing you have a nice 
new metal knee! Still don't twitch when the biggest guy stands on the back 
of your knee to see what happens.
Hang tough don't make a sound, smile. :-)

However,make sure you have clean under shorts on because when they rip yer 
pants off for the world to see yer metal knee everybody is going to be 
lookin' ;-) Of course no one can see it because it's inside under the skin 
just like the original parts. :-)

Now with any kind of luck the pictures are here. ;-)  Not in the OR getting 
the old one cut off and new one installed. ;-) However, I'll do the OR 
stuff, because I'm not crazy enough to take pictures of you and goon squad! 
Not when they operate on a shoot to kill first, ask questions later! ;-)

Now before anyone gets ants in their knickers about the above look at the 
smilies! It's fun house time today! Damn don't go get all serious and screw 
it up. Because if we who travel don't try to make some humour out of today's 
flying conditions you truly will wish you had your own wings to fly! :-)

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ted


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