Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/01/05

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Subject: [Leica] surgery
From: jbcollier at shaw.ca (John Collier)
Date: Thu Jan 5 14:13:29 2006
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My father-in-law is on his fifth hip operation and third complete  
hip. Admittedly a nasty one as he was thrown from a from a log picker  
onto a stump.

John Collier

On 5-Jan-06, at 1:53 PM, Don Dory wrote:

> Adam,
> I believe that the friendly doctors are being just a little modest  
> about the
> life of the joint replacement.  My dad's hip is going on almost  
> thirty years
> with no issues.  Until the last year or so he has been pretty  
> active so the
> longevity doesn't have much to do with bed rest.  :)

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