[Mishmash] On my way to the hospital

[Ingrid & Eric Holzman]

Hey Fred,

Hope all went well.  I had my second arthroscopic knee surgery back in 
January.  I healed fast the first time (8 years ago) and even faster this 
time around.  Within one week I was back to bending my knee.  Both times I 
had work done on the meniscus.  I've torn it now 5 times total.  The latest 
doctor thinks it's bad luck -- I call it bad genes.  I've had knee problems 
since I was 12 years old.  You'll probably recover quickly since you have a 
good muscle base to work with from your karate workouts.

Good luck!
Ingrid
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Fred Atkinson" <fatkinson at mishmash.com>
To: "Mishmash" <Mishmash at mishmash.net>
Sent: Tuesday, August 15, 2006 7:35 AM
Subject: [Mishmash] On my way to the hospital


> Folks,
>
>    Also, I'm on my way to the hospital this morning.  I have having
> arthroscopic knee surgery.  There appears to be a very small, loose object
> in my left knee that is getting caught between the two bones (they think 
> it
> is a loose piece of calcified cartilage).  It causes my knee to buckle and 
> I
> have to shift all my weight to my right leg to keep myself vertical.  It 
> has
> never caused me to fall.  I guess all that Tae Kwon Do training gave me 
> that
> ability.
>
>     I should be home by about five PM at the latest.  Will try to let you
> know how well it went.  I'm going to be home bound for three days
> afterwards.
>
>    To that end, my cablemodem has been down since Thursday.  The 
> cablemodem
> technician finally came over yesterday morning and found that I had too 
> many
> splitters up under the house.  He removed them and we got a good level.
>
>    However, I'm still having trouble with the cablemodem.  I woke up this
> morning to discover that my router had no IP address from the cablemodem
> provider.  I tried rebooting the router, but still didn't have any IP
> address.  So I rebooted the cablemodem and miraculously the router gained 
> an
> IP address from Mediacom.  So I'm back up.
>
>    That's bad because I have Internet telephone service at home.  If I
> loose that IP address, I will not be able to receive telephone calls until 
> I
> reboot the cablemodem again.  If I am not aware of it, I won't be able to
> receive calls.  If it goes down altogether, I will not be able to make or
> receive calls.  Since I won't be able to drive either, that's a big 
> problem.
>
>    I called Mediacom about it.  They are sending someone back here 
> tomorrow
> morning.
>
>    I've had Cisco look that router over.  They can't find anything wrong
> with it.  But I'm also experiencing slow throughput.
>
>    Maybe they'll swap out the cablemodem unit itself and see if the 
> problem
> clears.
>
>    Regards,
>
>
>
>                                                            Fred
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> Mishmash mailing list
> Mishmash at mishmash.net
> http://mishmash.net/mailman/listinfo/mishmash_mishmash.net