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Subject: [Leica] I've recovered
From: kcarney1 at cox.net (Ken Carney)
Date: Tue, 18 Feb 2014 19:16:36 -0600
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Herbert,

Very happy you are feeling better.  If the winter weather plus the flu 
won't get you down I don't know what will.  Plus, I get sick whenever I 
have to take antibiotics.  I had to take cipro for 30 days year before 
last.  If we have a terrorist anthrax attack I'll take the anthrax, 
thanks.  So where is the Computer History Museum?

Ken

On 2/18/2014 11:59 AM, Herbert Kanner wrote:
> Some time ago my wife and I came down with fever, a cough and a liquid 
> nose. independent doctors (her?s and mine) after a chest X-rays that ?did 
> not rule out pneumonia? were prescribed the same anti-biotic. We were sick 
> for about three weeks. It was quite profound: my weight is down by six 
> percent, and for a few days, you could say that I was clinically depressed.
>
> While the ?quacks? wouldn?t commit themselves: we both had flu shots and 
> they said there were no statistics on people getting flu after having the 
> shots, I?m convinced that it had to have been flu. It was too profound.
>
> The effect  of the temporary depression was that I couldn?t communicate 
> with friends. While last Saturday, I felt that I had recovered 
> sufficiently to do my regular shift at the Computer History Museum, which 
> was participating in a 45 minute lecture demonstration of the Babbage 
> Difference Engine, followed a quarter hour later by a one-hour guided tour 
> of the Museum, the very next day I felt as follows:
>
> I couldn?t bring myself to phone my geocaching buddy, a friend since 1986. 
> I went almost under protest to a performance of Die Fledermaus and sat 
> there wishing I were somewhere else. My wife had organized a party of 
> friends for dinner after the performance, and I just opted out; asked to 
> be dropped off at home. I just couldn?t talk to people.
>
> The next day, yesterday, I was over it. Strange.
>
> Herbert Kanner
> kanner at acm.org
> 650-326-8204
>
> Question authority and the authorities will question you.
>
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