LL-L 'Member news' 2006.09.29 (01) [E]

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L O W L A N D S - L * 29 September 2006 * Volume 01
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From: 'Mark Dreyer' [mrdreyer at lantic.net]
Subject: LL-L 'Member news' 2006.09.26 (04) [E]

Dear All:

Subject: LL-L 'Member news'

Well. I'm out. The Doctor told me on Monday that if I continued to progress
as
I had, he might consider discharging me on Friday. But this Thursday morning
on his rounds he found me sitting beside the bed writing a letter, & said,
Hell: Go home!

So here I am. Ruth reports that I was the Life & Soul of the party, but I
don't remenber, only that as I was signing out of Intensive Care after my
first op the matron nudged me in the back, & said, "Ask the doctor for a
beer - in German."
Deferring to an impression culled from his build & physiognomy I called out
as he was leaving, "Herr Doktor Doktor, woss vun a kalte lager?"
The man turned & addressed me in a proem of pure Bayerisch (which I
can't
do, let alone quote), that if I went up Lynnwood Road behind the main campus
gate of Tukkies, there was a fine stube where he, personally, would stand me
one he wasn't ashamed to offer a Munchner. I'm sure he would. Of course, he
was addressing me, but the chaff was directed at the staff, all the nurses
were rocking around, banging into walls & hanging on each other, in fits of
giggles. That was the last time I was funny. I was passing into the 'only
when I laugh stage' & fearfully tender, as I still am, of my tummy muscles.
Tell me no jokes, & on this subject, Ron, my seconds will see you, about a
certain cartoon...
As it happens, Dr Scharf was the premier battlefield surgeon through the
Border War, & thanks to currant conditions in South Africa, has kept his
hand well in. Isn't Scharf a good name for a surgeon?
I'm happily lurking guys. God bless you all & thanks for your prayers &
concern.
Yrd,
Mark.

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From: R. F. Hahn [sassisch at yahoo.com]
Subject: Member news

Welcome home, Mark!  It's great to have you back.

The hospital has returned to being its dull, dreary self, and you will no doubt
be missed there. (I bet they wouldn't be able to handle you and me at the same time.)

OK, no jokes from me to you for a while.

But promise us to obey the doctors' and Ruth's orders!  No chopping wood and
reroofing the house for the time being!  And don't give Ruth a hard time!  She's
been a sweetheart in your absence.

Keep up the good progress!

Love to both of you.

Reinhard/Ron

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