Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2017/05/21

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Subject: [Leica] Health Update
From: gwpics at me.com (Gerry Walden)
Date: Mon, 22 May 2017 04:42:24 +0100

Firstly, a very big 'thank you' to all the LUG members who have wished me 
well following my cardiac arrest. I have been deeply moved by the friendship 
expressed by a group of people who, by and large, I have never met.

Progress has been slow, and I have been a lot weaker than I ever expected, 
but I am delighted to say that I can see slow but steady progress now. One 
of the biggest problems has been my inability to lie down to sleep because 
of pain. However I have now had two sessions of sleep (albeit short) in a 
horizontal position and last night managed around 3 and a half hours 
undisturbed which was excellent. Because of my sleeping position, and my 
slowness of walking , I have had severe problems with fluid retention in the 
legs and feet but thankfully this now appears to be slowly abating.

A plus-side to this has been that I have spent some time scanning images 
from around the year 2000 etc., most of which were shot on my M6 using slide 
film. I must say that I have been very pleasantly surprised with many of the 
results with the quality of image available using various films being quite 
amazing, having a certain tonality which is different to  digital. I 
appreciate all that digital has to offer but it would now not worry me 
greatly if I had to go back to film as standard.

I will report again but in the meantime thank you all once more for your 
unconditional support.

Gerry

Gerry Walden LRPS
www.gwpics.com
+44 (0)23 8046 3076 or
+44 (0)797 287 7932








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