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North Star

Quote from: Cato on January 23, 2019, 12:17:53 PM
And this just in!  His regular doctor thinks that a FULL RECOVERY is not unreasonable!!!  8) 0:)
Hooray!
"Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it." - Confucius

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André


springrite

Quote from: Cato on January 23, 2019, 12:17:53 PM
And this just in!  His regular doctor thinks that a FULL RECOVERY is not unreasonable!!!  8) 0:)
Great news! Of course Karl can do it!
Do what I must do, and let what must happen happen.

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Quote from: Cato on January 23, 2019, 12:17:53 PM
And this just in!  His regular doctor thinks that a FULL RECOVERY is not unreasonable!!!  8) 0:)

Great to hear! This is cause for celebration: round of drinks on me everyone! Cheers!

Jaakko Keskinen

"Javert, though frightful, had nothing ignoble about him. Probity, sincerity, candor, conviction, the sense of duty, are things which may become hideous when wrongly directed; but which, even when hideous, remain grand."

- Victor Hugo

Elgarian Redux

Truly excellent news. So very pleased to hear about recent progress.

Florestan

Quote from: Cato on January 23, 2019, 12:17:53 PM
And this just in!  His regular doctor thinks that a FULL RECOVERY is not unreasonable!!!  8) 0:)

I knew it! Hip, hip, hurrah!
"Ja, sehr komisch, hahaha,
ist die Sache, hahaha,
drum verzeihn Sie, hahaha,
wenn ich lache, hahaha! "

Draško

That's indeed very nice to hear. All my best wishes! 

bhodges

Quote from: Cato on January 23, 2019, 12:17:53 PM
And this just in!  His regular doctor thinks that a FULL RECOVERY is not unreasonable!!!  8) 0:)

Such great news. Who could have imagined this outcome a few weeks ago?

On a related note, maybe there are health benefits to this composer thing.  ;D

--Bruce

Harry

This news is hope! And that's always good news. I am confident that you will recover completely my friend!
Nana sends her best too.
"adding beauty to ugliness as a countermeasure to evil and destruction" that is my aim!

Papy Oli

Olivier

Karl Henning

Karl Henning, Ph.D.
Composer & Clarinetist
Boston MA
http://www.karlhenning.com/
[Matisse] was interested neither in fending off opposition,
nor in competing for the favor of wayward friends.
His only competition was with himself. — Françoise Gilot

Karl Henning

How my adventure began
In the wee hours of 20 November I stepped to the loo, I was standing there and I saw a kind of starburst, and I felt the sense of balance pass away from my lower body I fell forward, hitting my head on an inside corner of the wall, and fell to the bathroom floor.
I tried stepping out of the bathroom into the kitchen and collapsed on the floor; the evening before I had draped a Woolen coat over the back of a kitchen chair in my collapse I dragged this to the floor with me I found myself lying prone on the Woolen coat, and felt the cold kitchen floor beneath I felt comfortable and had the thought well perhaps I could rest here and get a little sleep; which, in hindsight, would have been a terrible.mistake.
But I thought if I'm going to lie flat and try to get some rest, I want to go back to the bed, so I made my way back to the bedroom crawling on hands and knees;while I was doing this I tried reciting a text we had sung in the recent Triad concerts, and I heard my speech slurring in my ear. So as I crawled I had a very powerful sense that I needed serious medical attention
I got back to the bed I found my cell phone, I futzed with it a bit but was unable to use it to call, however I reached for the landline and dialed 9-1-1 there is a firehouse just at the core end of the street, so their response was very rapid, they brought me to the hospital and there the journey began
Karl Henning, Ph.D.
Composer & Clarinetist
Boston MA
http://www.karlhenning.com/
[Matisse] was interested neither in fending off opposition,
nor in competing for the favor of wayward friends.
His only competition was with himself. — Françoise Gilot

Cato

Quote from: k a rl h e nn i ng on January 25, 2019, 05:56:45 AM
How my adventure began
In the wee hours of 20 November I stepped to the loo, I was standing there and I saw a kind of starburst, and I felt the sense of balance pass away from my lower body I fell forward, hitting my head on an inside corner of the wall, and fell to the bathroom floor.
I tried stepping out of the bathroom into the kitchen and collapsed on the floor; the evening before I had draped a Woolen coat over the back of a kitchen chair in my collapse I dragged this to the floor with me I found myself lying prone on the Woolen coat, and felt the cold kitchen floor beneath I felt comfortable and had the thought well perhaps I could rest here and get a little sleep; which, in hindsight, would have been a terrible.mistake.
But I thought if I'm going to lie flat and try to get some rest, I want to go back to the bed, so I made my way back to the bedroom crawling on hands and knees;while I was doing this I tried reciting a text we had sung in the recent Triad concerts, and I heard my speech slurring in my ear. So as I crawled I had a very powerful sense that I needed serious medical attention
I got back to the bed I found my cell phone, I futzed with it a bit but was unable to use it to call, however I reached for the landline and dialed 9-1-1 there is a firehouse just at the core end of the street, so their response was very rapid, they brought me to the hospital and there the journey began


WOW!  Thanks for the details of your adventure!  It is interesting how the thought processes were still operating, but not quite correctly!

Thank heavens for that landline!!!
"Meet Miss Ruth Sherwood, from Columbus, Ohio, the Middle of the Universe!"

- Brian Aherne introducing Rosalind Russell in  My Sister Eileen (1942)

TheGSMoeller

Quote from: Cato on January 23, 2019, 12:17:53 PM
And this just in!  His regular doctor thinks that a FULL RECOVERY is not unreasonable!!!  8) 0:)

Best news of the day! Keep it up, Karl!

Karl Henning

#7675
cheers, gents!
Karl Henning, Ph.D.
Composer & Clarinetist
Boston MA
http://www.karlhenning.com/
[Matisse] was interested neither in fending off opposition,
nor in competing for the favor of wayward friends.
His only competition was with himself. — Françoise Gilot

North Star

Quote from: k a rl h e nn i ng on January 25, 2019, 05:56:45 AM
How my adventure began
In the wee hours of 20 November I stepped to the loo, I was standing there and I saw a kind of starburst, and I felt the sense of balance pass away from my lower body I fell forward, hitting my head on an inside corner of the wall, and fell to the bathroom floor.
I tried stepping out of the bathroom into the kitchen and collapsed on the floor; the evening before I had draped a Woolen coat over the back of a kitchen chair in my collapse I dragged this to the floor with me I found myself lying prone on the Woolen coat, and felt the cold kitchen floor beneath I felt comfortable and had the thought well perhaps I could rest here and get a little sleep; which, in hindsight, would have been a terrible.mistake.
But I thought if I'm going to lie flat and try to get some rest, I want to go back to the bed, so I made my way back to the bedroom crawling on hands and knees;while I was doing this I tried reciting a text we had sung in the recent Triad concerts, and I heard my speech slurring in my ear. So as I crawled I had a very powerful sense that I needed serious medical attention
I got back to the bed I found my cell phone, I futzed with it a bit but was unable to use it to call, however I reached for the landline and dialed 9-1-1 there is a firehouse just at the core end of the street, so their response was very rapid, they brought me to the hospital and there the journey began
Yes - as horrible as that must have been, you were incredibly lucky to stay conscious, to realize, on your own (!!), that your speech was slurring, to have a landline, and be able to alarm help from so near, making full recovery possible, and faster.
"Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it." - Confucius

My photographs on Flickr

Ghost of Baron Scarpia

Quote from: k a rl h e nn i ng on January 25, 2019, 05:56:45 AM
How my adventure began
In the wee hours of 20 November I stepped to the loo, I was standing there and I saw a kind of starburst, and I felt the sense of balance pass away from my lower body I fell forward, hitting my head on an inside corner of the wall, and fell to the bathroom floor.
I tried stepping out of the bathroom into the kitchen and collapsed on the floor; the evening before I had draped a Woolen coat over the back of a kitchen chair in my collapse I dragged this to the floor with me I found myself lying prone on the Woolen coat, and felt the cold kitchen floor beneath I felt comfortable and had the thought well perhaps I could rest here and get a little sleep; which, in hindsight, would have been a terrible.mistake.
But I thought if I'm going to lie flat and try to get some rest, I want to go back to the bed, so I made my way back to the bedroom crawling on hands and knees;while I was doing this I tried reciting a text we had sung in the recent Triad concerts, and I heard my speech slurring in my ear. So as I crawled I had a very powerful sense that I needed serious medical attention
I got back to the bed I found my cell phone, I futzed with it a bit but was unable to use it to call, however I reached for the landline and dialed 9-1-1 there is a firehouse just at the core end of the street, so their response was very rapid, they brought me to the hospital and there the journey began

Wow. So often our lives hang by a thread, and somehow the thread doesn't break.

Reconsidering my decision not to get a landline.

JBS

Karl, thanks for sharing.....


Note on landlines:  in any area where the electric power goes off for an extended period, whether from windstorm, flood, or anything else,  cell phone towers will not operate once their back up batteries use up their stored power.  Meaning cell phone service in those areas will not be available until the power comes back on.

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André

Thanks for sharing, Karl. I'm struck by how impaired talking (to oneself or other) may be a telltale sign of a serious health issue.