[Leica] Back in Canada for the Summer

[vick.ko at sympatico.ca (Vick Ko)]

Wow, Howard.

Enjoy your time on Pender Island.

It is about the best place on earth that I can think of, to recover from 
any form of surgery.

....Vick


On 6/8/2010 1:56 PM, H&E Cummer wrote:
> Hi Luggers,
> I have been off the LUG since late April when I was hosting my 
> youngest daughter's in-laws from Maine and then spending money for her 
> wedding dinner in Hong Kong. After that pleasant and fortunately sunny 
> event I went into the Matilda hospital in Hong Kong and had a 6 hour 
> sextant TLIF operation (google it if you're interested) to fuse my L5 
> and S1 vertebras together while keeping enough space for my sciatic 
> nerve to pass through using titanium screws and spacers. For airport 
> security I have a letter from my Doctor which I am going to laminate! 
> Just 12 days after the operation I flew to Canada to recover over the 
> summer. The operation and its recovery time are miracles of modern 
> medicine.
> If anybody wants first person experience on expensive (US$46,000) 
> complicated back operations please do contact me off list. :-)
> It's nice to be back. Did I miss anything important?
> Cheers
> Howard (now on sunny Pender Island with a long list of cabin chores to 
> do)
>
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