> Ronn!Blankenship <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >I wrote:
<snippage> > >"...The Zimmer Minimally Invasive Solutions > 2-Incision > >technique allows surgeons to install the same > >artificial hip joint through two small incisions -- > >each no more than 2 inches long -- rather than the > >traditional single incision between 4 and 12 inches > >long...With this technique...nearly 90% of patients > >leave the hospital the > >day of or day after their hip replacement surgery, > >instead of the traditional weeklong stay..."
> Been nice if they'd discovered it a quarter of a > century earlier, before my > mother had both of them replaced, after all else she > had gone through with > her back and hips and all after the chimney fell on > top of the bed she had > gotten under when the tornado hit their house when > she was about twelve years old . . .
Ugh, lucky to survive that... <irreverent thought> She didn't grow up in Kansas, did she? <tiny smile>
From <<http://www.crh.noaa.gov/mkx/climate/torout.htm>>
FAMOUS LARGE TORNADO OUTBREAKS IN THE UNITED STATES Ranked according to severity
[...]
8. DEEP SOUTH OUTBREAK
* March 21-22, 1932
* Deep South (especially Alabama)
* 33 tornadoes
* 334 deaths (268 of these in Alabama)
* Damage $5 million
* 3:00 pm - 1:00 amIt was about 7 pm when one of the tornadoes passed through Clay County and took out their house (located at 33� 23.67'N, 85� 40.68'W). Her back was broken, but they didn't find out until a few days later. Prior to the hip replacements, she had at least a couple of spinal fusion operations that I recall, and as you may know, back then that meant something like six weeks in the hospital before they let you go home. All the abuse caused her to develop arthritis with some massive bone spurs, some of which had to have something done about them, too.
-- Ronn! :)
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