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Subject: [Leica] Angioplasties and a Friday Flower
From: richard at richardmanphoto.com (Richard Man)
Date: Sat, 10 Dec 2011 02:22:06 -0800
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Howard, I wish you a speediest completest recovery!

On Fri, Dec 9, 2011 at 2:16 AM, H&ECummer <cummer at netvigator.com> wrote:

> Hi Luggers,
> Some of you may have noticed my radio silence over the last month or so
> but only a few safari friends know the reasons why.
> I have been learning about the miracles of modern medicine first hand. On
> November 11th I had my first angioplasty involving 7 stents in the two left
> arteries.
> Just the day before I had had a dye CT scan which showed major narrowing
> in all three arteries - despite having normal range LDL numbers - which I
> have tracked for years.
> And the first miracle was that I was able to be operated on the day after
> the scan - in fact the cardiologist wouldn't let me leave the hospital but
> checked me in right away.
> The second miracle is that the medical technology is straight out of Star
> Wars (made by Siemens Germany) allowing three dimensional imaging of the
> operating area
> through the use of contrast dye and little R2D2 xray boxes that zip around
> by remote control with a large X ray wheel swiveling overhead. My first
> angioplasty lasted 4 hours and I took in so much contrast dye that the last
> right artery was left for another time to avoid over loading my kidneys.
> The second angioplasty took place on Tuesday this week and it wasn't so
> successful.
> The cardiologists couldn't get in due to a double S bend in the artery
> near the heart so no stents were installed. That's the bad news. While they
> were in they checked the earlier stents and everything is settling in well.
> The blood flow from the left arteries is strong enough that capillaries are
> developing to feed blood to the nearly blocked right artery and if that
> trend continues the cardios say that open heart surgery may not be
> required. So that's the good news.
> So, I am back and here is a friday flower to celebrate - taken with the
> Fuji X100 in macro mode.
>
> <http://gallery.leica-users.**org/v/Howard+Cummer/**
> HKFall2011/OrchidW.jpg.html<http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Howard+Cummer/HKFall2011/OrchidW.jpg.html>
> >
>
> Please look large and enjoy.
> C&C always welcome.
> Howard
>
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-- 
// richard <http://www.richardmanphoto.com>


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