[Leica] thank you all

[kcarney1 at cox.net (Ken Carney)]

Good news about no gear left behind.  I?ve been on the wrong side of that 
one, pretty sick for eight months.  I hope you both experience a great 
recovery. 

Ken

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> On Dec 21, 2020, at 9:38 AM, Brian Reid <reid at mejac.carlsbad.ca.us> 
> wrote:
> 
> ?Bill, thank you for keeping LUGgers informed of my wife's accident and 
> thanks to all of you for your good wishes and flower pictures.
> 
> I must spend the day today seeing to the rental of a medical bed, a 
> wheelchair, a walker, and other such "durable medical goods" that we will 
> need for her convalescence. The layout of this house is such that she will 
> need to sleep in the living room while she requires the motorized bed.
> 
> I've had family hospitalized before, but this experience was the worst 
> because I was completely cut off from her. The hospital would not let me 
> in the door, and was not able to provide me with any information about her 
> status. No telephone contact, no email, no text messages. Her surgery was 
> re-scheduled 3 times, but I was never notified. Brutal.
> 
> I eventually found the location inside the hospital's online 
> patient-tracking system in which the doctors filed their notes, and was 
> able to follow what was happening by reading those notes. It takes a 
> certain amount of determination to read the notes of an orthopedic surgeon 
> documenting the use of drills and saws and hammers on your unconscious 
> spouse.
> 
> My favorite entry from the surgeon's notes was "Instrument, sponge, and 
> needle counts were correct prior to closure and at the conclusion of the 
> case." Nothing accidentally left inside.
> 
> About 4 hours after the end of the procedure I was able to talk to 
> Victoria on the telephone very briefly, but it was enough to let me sleep.
> 
> 
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