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Posted by Brian Hendel (Member # 61) on September 27, 2014, 02:00 AM:

It's 3 am and I am strapped in a hospital bed in New York City where I have been for a full week now. No, not in a psych ward - I had heavy spinal disc surgery. It's usually standard, but surgeons say I have one of the Top 20 worst cases ever recorded in the U.S. Giant bone fragment is crushing nerves to my legs and I can't move at all! I miss my films. So everyone watch a movie for me! I'm sure it's the morphine drip talking but I just wanted to share my terrible plight!

Posted by Larry Arpin (Member # 744) on September 27, 2014, 02:31 AM:

That's just horrible, Brian. I hope you'll have a full recovery. You're in my prayers. Let us know how it is going.

Posted by Lance Alspaugh (Member # 27) on September 27, 2014, 02:32 AM:

Brian,

Godspeed in your recovery sir and New York City has some of the finest doctors and surgeons on the planet. You'll be threading again soon!

Posted by Lee Panton (Member # 4443) on September 27, 2014, 02:55 AM:

Healing energy sent to you Brian.

Posted by Mark Mander (Member # 340) on September 27, 2014, 03:05 AM:

Brian, sounds awful what you've had done, but you'll be up and about soon,happy viewings when you get home! Mark

Posted by Brian Hendel (Member # 61) on September 27, 2014, 03:49 AM:

Thanks to all the support from the super 8 "family." I really appreciate it. Brian

Posted by Barry Attwood (Member # 100) on September 27, 2014, 04:19 AM:

Brian,

When you get out you'll have to be careful how you pick up your GS's (or the like), get someone to help you with your 8mm screenings, I think in your case this will be the best therapy money can buy.

Get well soon!

Posted by Maurizio Di Cintio (Member # 144) on September 27, 2014, 04:21 AM:

Best of recovery. Take care!

Posted by Kevin Hassall (Member # 2352) on September 27, 2014, 06:28 AM:

get well soon mate i know how you feel had a op on my spine am now fully recoverd and back on my feet take care buddy

Posted by Joe Caruso (Member # 11) on September 27, 2014, 06:40 AM:

Stay well, CINSEA is coming on the 17th, please try and join us - Shorty

Posted by Kevin Hassall (Member # 2352) on September 27, 2014, 06:50 AM:

being with great friends at cinesea will take your mind off the discomfort of your pain and any way brian the will carry you around how great that would be ha ha [Razz]

Posted by Douglas Meltzer (Member # 28) on September 27, 2014, 08:04 AM:

Brian,

Have a speedy recovery. We'll have to bring CineSea to you. I'll haul the GS, Shorty & Lou can carry the screen, John will bring a few espressos, Steve's got the speakers, Joe will scatter some sand around and Claus & Gary have made great progress on their repertoire of seagull calls......

Doug

Posted by Mark Williams (Member # 794) on September 27, 2014, 08:05 AM:

All the best Brian [Smile]

Posted by Jerome Sutter (Member # 2346) on September 27, 2014, 09:24 AM:

Hope your feeling better.

Posted by Thomas Smith (Member # 1889) on September 27, 2014, 09:25 AM:

Hello Brian sorry to hear that you had surgery all the best
And wishing you a speedy recovery---tom

Posted by Vidar Olavesen (Member # 3354) on September 27, 2014, 09:28 AM:

Here's hoping for full recovery and soon back to your films. Get well quick

Posted by Paul Adsett (Member # 25) on September 27, 2014, 09:46 AM:

Best wishes for a fast recovery Brian. My doctor had the same operation as you and he is now doing fine. Take the time out to enjoy some great movies on TCM.

Posted by Janice Glesser (Member # 2758) on September 27, 2014, 10:13 AM:

Brian...if I lived in NY I would sneak a projector into your hospital room [Smile]

I hope you are back on your feet soon. Hang in there and I will watch a couple films in your honor tonight.

Get well soon!

Posted by Clay Smith (Member # 4122) on September 27, 2014, 10:23 AM:

Yes Brian, all our best from California. Get well soon.

Posted by Terry Lagler (Member # 1110) on September 27, 2014, 10:27 AM:

Take it easy Brian and get well soon.

Terry

Posted by Osi Osgood (Member # 424) on September 27, 2014, 12:00 PM:

Brian ...

You have the Osgood houses best wishes being sent to you via this post and our prayers for your welcome recovery to full health!

The Osgood's ... and our purring projectors! [Smile]

Posted by David Ollerearnshaw (Member # 3296) on September 27, 2014, 12:54 PM:

Take care and get well soon Brian. Let's hope your doctor prescribes some films to watch.

Posted by Steve Klare (Member # 12) on September 27, 2014, 01:21 PM:

Seriously!

My wife had two stainless steel rods put in her back last winter. She came to CineSea and now she's doing great!

(Must be all the film in the room!)

Join us as soon as you can, Brian!

Posted by Brian Hendel (Member # 61) on September 27, 2014, 04:35 PM:

Thanks for all the well wishes, I really appreciate them. If the surgeon approves my progress tomorrow I can continue the recovery at home! Yay!

Posted by Timothy Price (Member # 1832) on September 27, 2014, 08:33 PM:

Hope you're feeling better soon!

Posted by Joe Taffis (Member # 4) on September 27, 2014, 09:06 PM:

Brian,
Best wishes for a speedy recovery from one horror collector to another [Wink]

I had a ruptured disc a few years ago, and I know your pain is much, much worse, but hang in there, and take it easy on the painkillers as best you can [Smile]

Posted by Brad Kimball (Member # 5) on September 27, 2014, 10:46 PM:

Good to hear the surgery went well. Hope you're back up and threading the ole projector real soon. All my best wishes!

Posted by Graham Ritchie (Member # 559) on September 27, 2014, 11:33 PM:

All the best Brian for a speedy recovery.

Posted by Kevin Hassall (Member # 2352) on September 28, 2014, 09:46 AM:

thats great news brian [Razz]

Posted by Francisco Javier Herrera (Member # 3532) on September 28, 2014, 10:28 AM:

Hi Brian, I wish you a good recovery. Patience is needed to be hospitalized so many days. I know the situation.

Regards
Francisco

Alert with Dr. House [Smile]

Posted by Steve Klare (Member # 12) on September 28, 2014, 03:29 PM:

I'll never forget our experience last winter. My wife was hospitalized three weeks post surgery, did a month in-patient rehab and then another 8 weeks out-patient rehab on disability from work.

Those were bastardly days: some days the morphine just didn't cut it and there was nothing anybody could do. There was a long period of time when she was inarguably worse off than before the procedure (just as her surgeon predicted). For myself I was keeping a house, a job and a son going at the same time I visited at the hospital as often as I could. I literally started to wake up tired and sometimes I was a little afraid to drive my car because I knew I wasn't as alert as I'd like to be.

I learned about 80 ways to cook pasta so there would always be something on the table! I am ready to forget about 65 of them...

This is not whining, by the way, just prologue...

What kept all of us, and our friends and family going through all of this is the idea we were working towards better days to come. Those days are here: slow in coming, but still here.

I joked about coming to CineSea before, but that's a good example. My wife wanted me to go, but was afraid to spend a weekend alone, so we agreed we'd all come down. By the time the weekend came she decided she was OK at the house, but we all needed a break so she still came with us.

This weekend we took the camper out East and overnighted for the first time since her operation: another step back to normal.

You, Brian are at the start of this journey. I can tell you it will not be an easy one, but you need to have faith it will get better. Whatever support systems you have you will need now, they will get you through a lot more than you can alone.

Godspeed!

Posted by Dominique De Bast (Member # 3798) on September 28, 2014, 04:17 PM:

Best wishes, Brian ! There is nothing nice about being in a hospital.

Posted by Mike Peckham (Member # 16) on September 29, 2014, 06:08 AM:

Hello Brian

I’m sorry to hear you’ve had to go through such a painful procedure, it looks as though things are heading in the right direction for your recovery though, so well done!

Hopefully see you again at the BFCC some day.

Mike [Cool]

Posted by Jean-Marc Toussaint (Member # 270) on September 29, 2014, 07:21 AM:

Get well soon, Brian.

Posted by Steve Klare (Member # 12) on September 29, 2014, 10:10 AM:

If you tell the hospital you miss your movies someone's bound to chirp:

"It's OK, we have cable here!"

For those who understand, no explanation is necessary,
for those who don't, no explanation is possible.

Posted by Tommy Woods (Member # 2437) on September 29, 2014, 10:24 AM:

Hi Brian
our thoughts are with you

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9p2ogM7uaaU

Posted by Osi Osgood (Member # 424) on September 29, 2014, 12:02 PM:

" Let's hope your doctor prescribes some films to watch. "

Let's hope that it's not the George C Scott film from the mid 70's "The Hospital," (a classic!).

[Eek!]

Posted by Lee Mannering (Member # 728) on September 29, 2014, 01:04 PM:

Take care Brian and hope you soon feel a whole lot better. [Smile]

Posted by Andrew Woodcock (Member # 3260) on September 29, 2014, 03:11 PM:

Here here Brian

Posted by Gary Crawford (Member # 67) on September 29, 2014, 03:54 PM:

Get better soon....!!!! Hope to see you at some future film event.

Posted by Brian Hendel (Member # 61) on September 29, 2014, 06:54 PM:

Thanks again for all the well wishes. I am now home hobbling around on a cane with a lot of intense pain that is only partly helped by the painkillers. I'm just hoping the nerve in my leg will heal now the disc is not crushing it. The key they said is BLT. I was hoping the sandwich but it's no Bending, Lifting, or Twisting. So I'm mainly just staying in bed. Lifting the Gs1200 is way out of the question - I think I'll start with the Eumigs eventually. Right now the TV will have to do. My message is: Don't take mobility for granted. You don't know what you got until you lose it as they say.

Posted by Osi Osgood (Member # 424) on September 30, 2014, 11:56 AM:

Let us hope for a total mobility recovery!

Posted by Andrew Woodcock (Member # 3260) on September 30, 2014, 04:18 PM:

Well said Brian, I truly feel for you sir and cannot imagine what level of pain you are going through. A very good collector friend of mine had his wife recently suffering in similar pain levels apparently and my heart went out to her. Get well soon my friend and get Paul, Steve,Osi or Doug etc etc to personally collect your your GS, Then place it in pride place on your ward and simply amaze your bedside buddies with your wares, Ha ha!

Keep ur chin up matey and look forward to seeing you well again on here very soon!

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