Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/04/05
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Wonderful portrait and poignant words, Adam! Cheers, Nathan Nathan Wajsman Alicante, Spain http://www.frozenlight.eu http://www.greatpix.eu http://www.nathanfoto.com PICTURE OF THE WEEK: http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws Blog: http://nathansmusings.wordpress.com/ 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 > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >