Text 9053, 120 rader
Skriven 2008-06-14 17:46:12 av Ruth Haffly (1:396/45.28)
   Kommentar till text 8897 av Nancy Backus (1:3634/12.0)
Ärende: Rochester
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Hi Nancy,

 RH> I ripped out (not a simple tear like most athletes do to theirs) the
 RH> ACL and Medial ligaments in the knee, as well as chipping off the bone
 RH> sections that held them in place.  Due to Strong's mis diagnosis, it
 RH> was another 3 days before an orthopedic surgeon looked at it--and then
 RH> operated the next morning. He was skeptical I would ever walk on it

 NB> It appears you were very blessed... and/or stubborn.  (G)  And, yes,
 NB> I've also noticed that if other parts of the body are also
 NB> complaining, it's less likely that one will notice any particular one
 NB> over the
 NB> others...  ;0

And it seems they all wait until you want to settle down for the night
before kicking up.

 NB>  NB>> injury (to right leg, and secondarily to left knee) was more
 NB> recent,  NB>> but the residuals don't seem likely to totally go away

 RH> They usually don't, especially if you've injured a joint.  A weight
 RH> bearing one like the knee or one that gets a lot of use (like Sean's
 RH> wrist) will probably never recover 100% of what it was, pre injury.
 RH> That's why you see a lot of athletes using braces on joints that have

 NB> The more I know of injury first-hand, the more it amazes me how fast
 NB> athletes get back into the game after theirs...  I suppose it could
 NB> explain why they have often more problems down the road with things
 NB> never completely healing properly, though...  But it also appears that

They want to earn those performance bonuses. Anyway, what they get paid,
even while injured, buys a lot of groceries.

 NB> braces and more elaborate surgeries, as well, are more the rule for
 NB> athletes than for us.  I know that sometimes they are using braces on
 NB> joints that are merely susceptible to injury than necessarily already
 NB> injured, too.

That as well with some of them. After all, if you're injured, you can't
play so why not try and prevent an injury?

 RH> It's sort of like what we're doing in the military with the Family
 RH> Readyness Groups (FRGs). There's a battalion wide one but also each
 RH> company has one.  We had a battalion wide picnic in May; other events
 RH> are planned thru out the year for the group as a whole and each company
 RH> does various things. It builds a sense of cohesiveness or "family"
 RH> which, since most soldiers and family are far away from mom, dad,
 RH> siblings, etc, can be very good.

 NB> A family-away-from-family.  :)

Sort of, depends on the unit. Some get very cohesive, others don't. Our
unit in HI had town hall meetings every other month with a cook out &
pot luck before hand. Usually the different companies were assigned
categories like desserts, salads, etc and the unit furnished hot dogs &
ham burgers. It was a good way to encourage unity and get information
out.


 RH> And ths is now. Kodak still employs lots of folks but it's just not
 RH> the same.  Are the other big union places as good (Xerox, Bausch &
 RH> Lomb) or are they drifitng down like Kodak, bringing the Rochester area

 NB> Xerox has been laying off as many or more, just quieter... as have all
 NB> the big industries locally.  What's kept the economy from tanking
 NB> altogether here has been that there have been a number of laid-off
 NB> workers becoming entrepreneurs and starting their own businesses.  The

Sounds interesting, any new restaurants coming out of it?

 NB> small and medium size businesses are still managing to hold their own
 NB> area. And the colleges are taking over as the areas' largest
 NB> employers,
 NB> particularly U of R, with its Medical School and connection to Strong

Not surprising there. The colleges have had a major part in the industry
and I know that some of the industries hire college kids for part time
work.

 NB> what it used to be.  And, BTW, Kodak still isn't union, although the
 NB> talks about the possibility have more listeners now...

OK, for some reason I was thinking it was.  In a lot of respects, it
seemed like one.

 RH> research can kill as well, as it did with Kodak--they should have come
 RH> out with an inexpensive digital while developing other, fancier ones.

 NB> I don't think it was over-research at Kodak, as much as not paying
 NB> attention to all the research that was or could have been going on...
 NB> they stopped encouraging the research that was producing the good
 NB> stuff for down the road, as they didn't see anything in it for the
 NB> short run. A lot of the very good inexpensive products that Kodak came
 NB> out with in the past were from the same research that was also
 NB> producing their
 NB> high-end stuff.

Oh well, they learned from it, even if it was a hard lesson.

 RH> The loss of the instant developing camera lawsuit brought by Polariod
 RH> crippled them too.

 NB> And that was a lawsuit they should have won... they were using a
 NB> totally different technology to produce similar (but superior)
 NB> results.  But
 NB> technology isn't always the easiest thing to explain to courts, etc.

Very true. (G) I had one of the cameras and did like it for on the spot
pictures of the girls.

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Catch you later,
Ruth
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