Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2008/10/12

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Subject: [Leica] IMG: Sunday Flower
From: kididdoc at cox.net (Steve Barbour)
Date: Sun Oct 12 19:22:31 2008
References: <47BDD721-9E00-4826-A3F5-A85420D06ED0@mac.com>

On Oct 12, 2008, at 7:11 PM, Barney Quinn wrote:

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> Some of you may know the story behind this image. For those of you  
> who don't I'll put you in the picture , as it were. :-) Last month  
> my wife Judy went in to have her left knee replaced. It should have  
> been a routine procedure, but it wasn't. The surgeon accidentally  
> cut the arteries and the veins in the back of her knee which supply  
> blood to the lower leg and foot. She was on the operating table for  
> nine hours. They had to send to Georgetown  University for a  
> Vascular Surgeon to repair the damage. She lost seven units of blood  
> in the process. She was lucky. There is no permanent damage done.  
> Many people were kind enough to send her flowers. My mind was not  
> really on my viewfinder, but I was able to photograph some of the  
> get well gifts sent to her by friends and family. This is the first  
> of the three which I was able to shoot. It is a live miniature  
> Azalea which is now in her garden. I thought that I would post these  
> pictures over the next few weeks as a thank you for people's  
> kindness and in gratitude that I still have a wife.
>
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Barney/Azeala_1.jpg.html


omg Barney, this sounds scary awful...

and somehow I missed this...

I am so glad that she is stable and OK now...



Steve
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> Comments and criticisms welcome.
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> Barney
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