[Leica] Absence

[kanner at acm.org (Herbert Kanner)]

 You can say that I?ve been on medical leave from LUG.
  
First, an oncologist, on a routine visit, noticed an inflammation on my left 
leg. To my amazement, an exam table being in the room, she and her assistant 
got down on the floor and with fiber-points, drew a circle around my leg a 
bit above my ankle, prescribed an anti-biotic, and told me that if the 
redness got above that line, I should see my primary care doc about 
intra-venous anti-biotic.

My doctor being on vacation, I saw two other doctors in the next week. Each 
one modified the oral anti-biotic. When my doctor returned, she instantly 
sent me to the emergency room (ugh?the only quick way to get into Stanford 
Hospital) and I got intra-venous anti-biotic over night. By noon the next 
day, they decided it wasn?t an infection after all, but states dermatitis, 
and discharged me with treatment info.,

I think that treatment triggered overt congestive heart failure. I just am 
reluctant to believe in coincidences, and there4 was another non-trivial 
event that makes me believe that. My hemoglobin the night I entered the 
hospital for the anti-biotic was 12.8 and the day I left it was 10.8! 
Anyway, the symptom the following week was such extreme shortness of breath 
the walking from one room to another left me panting. I did not have the 
brains to be frightened, because in the course of the day, this gradually 
went away to the extent that by afternoon I was happy to walk up and down my 
driveway picking blue-berries from five bushes. Luckily, by the end of the 
week, I realized I must be in serious trouble, phoned my doctor, and got 
admitted to a cardiac unit at the hospital, where I spent a week before they 
sent me home. I had required oxygen at the hospital and they arranged for 
home installation, so shortly after I returned home, fifty feet of hose 
attached to a magic machine the sucks in air and puts out 92% oxygen was 
installed. All that hose so that I could walk to any room. And some small 
oxygen tanks for when I had to leave the house for a medical appointment.

All a waste! In two days, using my own pulse-oximeter, I established that I 
no longer needed oxygen?this agreed to by the visiting nurse. I?m pretty 
sure that between one an two weeks from now, I?ll be functioning normally 
and be out taking pictures with my M.

I see tantalizing discussion of a new LR release. I was just too cheap to 
subscribe to LR and just bought the LR6 upgrade. Then I got annoyed with 
continued failure to format decently a 4x6 print with their print module, 
and back-tracked to LR5?it seemed to me that the non-subscription LR6 at the 
time had no significant feature for me beyond those of LR5. I will now 
follow the discussion on the LUG of LR features. If they sound like stuff I 
would want, I?ll subscribe. Hell, I can afford it?I just have been offended 
by Adobe?s money grabbing tactics.

Herb

P.S. I turned 94 today. 




 
Herbert Kanner
kanner at acm.org

Question Authority and the authorities will question you.