Thanks Tom. Was there an injury that preceded his surgery.
He must be doing well to be back to skiing. Kenneth Waller ----- Original Message ----- From: "Tom C" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: RE: OT - 600mm FA or Knee - what's a photog to do ? > Hi Ken, > > I thought there must be a reason you've been a little scarce. Get well > soon. > > My son had scoliois surgery last May. An incision from the top of his > waste > to midway around his shoulder blades. Two titanium rods up both sides of > his > spinal column, bolted in at ever vertebrae. The X-rays look absolutely > barbaric. So far he's skiied four times this season and I simply cannot > keep up with him. > > Tom C. > > >>From: "Kenneth Waller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>Reply-To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List <[email protected]> >>To: "Pentax-Discuss Mail List" <[email protected]> >>Subject: OT - 600mm FA or Knee - what's a photog to do ? >>Date: Fri, 9 Mar 2007 12:37:17 -0500 >> >>After hobbling around for the last several months on a bum right knee, I >>finally had a complete new knew installed Monday morning. I figured if I >>didn't get the knee, I'd probably never use the 600 again. I knew I had to >>do something when I had to cancel a fall shoot in the Upper Peninsula of >>Michigan. >> >>Everything went well & I was home by Wednesday morning with the makings of >>a >>fine 5 inch scar & some more reasons not to sail by airport security. >>The Dr. I chose does around 800 of these a year (with his two >>assistants) - >>he does the actual installation. >> >>Should be back to some semblance of normalcy in around 4 to 6 weeks. The >>Dr. >>is a sports medicine orthopedic & believes in very aggressive therapy. I >>had >>4 pre operation therapy sessions and will start next week on 3 a week >>sessions. I was up & walking within 4 hours of the surgery. >> >>Kenneth Waller >> >> >>-- >>PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >>[email protected] >>http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
