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Subject: [Leica] IMG: In memory
From: rgacpa at gmail.com (Robert Adler)
Date: Thu, 5 Apr 2012 21:12:50 -0700
References: <FD48AD8B-BB64-4D2E-9092-1D369ECDEF92@mac.com>

How tragic. I am sorry for this loss, Adam. Thank you for sharing this
wonderful image.
Bob

On Thu, Apr 5, 2012 at 9:22 AM, Adam Bridge <abridge at mac.com> 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
>
>
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-- 
Bob Adler
Redwood City, CA
http://www.rgaphoto.com


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