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Subject: [Leica] IMG: In memory
From: photo at frozenlight.eu (Nathan Wajsman)
Date: Thu, 5 Apr 2012 18:49:28 +0200
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Wonderful portrait and poignant words, Adam!

Cheers,
Nathan

Nathan Wajsman
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YNWA



On Apr 5, 2012, at 6:22 PM, Adam Bridge wrote:

> With no warning I lost someone important from my life last weekend. He was 
> my surgeon who put together my shoulder after our car accident, replaced 
> my left knee and my right hip. I trusted him absolutely and it was clear 
> that so did everyone who who worked around him.
> 
> But he had a bigger influence than merely working on my bones.
> 
> When I first saw him it was for extremely sore knees. I weighed almost 350 
> pounds. He talked about steroid injections and how those would relieve the 
> inflammation for a while and then about knee replacement because even in 
> 2005 my knees were pretty much bone on bone. He talked about the expected 
> life-time of a knee replacement, how the studies were based on people with 
> a body weight in the neighborhood of 180 pounds for men, how the materials 
> would degrade with increased load, how a 2nd replacement would be more 
> difficult, more risky and probably not be as effective as the first. But 
> there was no judgement, only facts. That office visit lead to my weight 
> loss effort, and to my wife's as well. It changed my life completely.
> 
> After the accident Dr. Lubin told me the shoulder was "a mess" but that 
> the injury was actually fairly common. He'd had a great deal of experience 
> dealing with exactly this sort of thing in his residency in LA. He hoped 
> for a reasonable outcome but wasn't sure how much use of the shoulder I 
> would have. But the outcome was great. I cannot swim freestyle or 
> backstroke any more but the physical therapist says I have "low normal" 
> use of my shoulder.
> 
> There is never a day I'm on my bike that I don't think of Dr Lubin. I ride 
> normally because of his skill and perfectionism.
> 
> I do not know the depth of his pain but I have been awfully close to it 
> myself in the past. I'm sorry he succumbed to it.
> 
> He was a fine doctor, a gifted surgeon. He will be missed.
> 
> <http://adam-bridge.smugmug.com/gallery/22288982_39qLkn#!i=1780877614&k=x9MS64L&lb=1&s=A>
> 
> Leica M8, 35mm f2.0 summicron.
> 
> I'm sharing this here, I guess, because it's a community of people who may 
> understand and I want to honor him beyond the local community.
> 
> Adam Bridge
> 
> 
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