Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2008/10/12

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Subject: [Leica] IMG: Sunday Flower
From: afirkin at afirkin.com (Alastair Firkin)
Date: Sun Oct 12 20:33:57 2008

Beautiful flower, and all our best wishes for a speedy recovery. Even 
without the "trauma" of the vascular mishap, there is a lot of recovery work 
to be done. Good luck to you both

Cheers

Alastair

--- bjq1@mac.com wrote:

From: Barney Quinn <bjq1@mac.com>
To: Leica Users Group <lug@leica-users.org>
Subject: [Leica] IMG: Sunday Flower
Date: Sun, 12 Oct 2008 22:11:47 -0400



Some of you may know the story behind this image. For those of you  
who don't I'll put you in the picture , as it were. :-) Last month my  
wife Judy went in to have her left knee replaced. It should have been  
a routine procedure, but it wasn't. The surgeon accidentally cut the  
arteries and the veins in the back of her knee which supply blood to  
the lower leg and foot. She was on the operating table for nine  
hours. They had to send to Georgetown  University for a Vascular  
Surgeon to repair the damage. She lost seven units of blood in the  
process. She was lucky. There is no permanent damage done. Many  
people were kind enough to send her flowers. My mind was not really  
on my viewfinder, but I was able to photograph some of the get well  
gifts sent to her by friends and family. This is the first of the  
three which I was able to shoot. It is a live miniature Azalea which  
is now in her garden. I thought that I would post these pictures over  
the next few weeks as a thank you for people's kindness and in  
gratitude that I still have a wife.

http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Barney/Azeala_1.jpg.html

Comments and criticisms welcome.

Barney



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