[Leica] IMG: In memory

[lluisripollquerol at gmail.com (Lluis Ripoll)]

Thanks for sharing this, I understand your thoughts and I share it.  
Nice portrait for remembering, he was very young!

cheers
Lluis



El 05/04/2012, a las 18:22, Adam Bridge escribi?:

> 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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