About the pics ("pictures")
         My Dad got a computer (digital) camera (Olympus C 2040 zoom)  a couple years ago or so and has gotten pretty good with it. 

       The pictures are very clear viewed at highest resolution (1600 x 1200).  The pics displayed on this site will be displayed at much lower resolutions so they will fit on the page, but are still pretty clear.


    
Mike and his dad getting some fresh air on Mike's last or second to last day in the hospital...
checking out a large crane set up on a near by building for a construction project.  Cool.

 
   I asked my Dad to take lots of pictures at Duke.  I knew it would be one of the big experiences of my life and I wanted to have pics to document it, just like any other major event.  I knew my memory of the time would be limited and so pics would show me things I didn't remember or help bring back memories.


      I was pleasantly surprised at how I was able to bring the MR images into the computer through my scanner. 

         An MRI looks like an X-ray image at first glance, only smaller and more detailed.  They are meant to be held against a light table or a window and let light shine through them like a slide.  So it posed some challenges to render them as .jpg or .gif files, but with a little tweaking with the scanner software I got something that you can get a pretty good impression of what the actual MRI slide looked like.

          Thanks for joining me on my journey and thanks for the pics Dad.
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