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Jeff,

I just flew from Brussels to San Francisco. If you can afford a first class

ticket for the way back, go for it! It will be worth it. I had plenty of

leg room but there was so much pressure on the back of my legs. i couldn't

get comfortable for the last four hour leg of the journey. By then I was

exhausted too and was bad about doing my walk every hour like I was supposed

to. I envied the people I saw in first class all stretched out in their

recliners, and the food looked good too.

I'll write more tomorrow. I am totally exhausted. I went and walked around

a warm 93 degree (F) pool for an hour this morning. This afternoon I went

to work teaching music classes to kids. I managed to get through four 45

minute classes. Unfortunately I can't afford to take off work now that

classes have started at my jobs. It's only been 2 weeks post op. I don't

have much pain at all, I'm just VERY tired.

Hi Sharry! I'll email you tomorrow. I've gotta go eat...and you know how

much I need to try to get down....

June

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Dear June

You must find time to rest..i felt compelled to keep getting up and going and

just could not believe the exhaustion..I live in Los Angeles...couldnt

believe the plane trip home..it was the worst .and I was petrified of fallling

asleep..so I forced myself to stay awake the entire flight...we had bulkhead

seats

...and could afford first class but at least they gave me an aisle bulkhead

seat ..I had these people behind me that got really angry when I reclined and

pushed on my seat thru the entire flight...they could not speak English and

needless to say they almost received crutch in mouth syndorme...the stews were

creative in diffusing the explosion..and we made it home ..but I luckily was

able

to stay home for two weeks and the third was driving myself to work...it wasnt

easy but I took the time to rest every chance I could...hope you can too it

is essential in that first month or two....good luck and glad to hear you are

keeping us posted

Sue in CA

3/11/03

RBHR De Smet.

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In a message dated 9/11/2003 7:59:12 PM Pacific Daylight Time,

junebugproductions@... writes:

> Jeff,

>

> I just flew from Brussels to San Francisco. If you can afford a first class

> ticket for the way back, go for it! It will be worth it. I had plenty of

> leg room but there was so much pressure on the back of my legs. i couldn't

> get comfortable for the last four hour leg of the journey.

I know it's really tempting to look at first class but business class is just

fine. You have all the space you need and the pampering is very welcome. In

May, I was able to get an upgradeable economy class ticket to London for $650

and then used 75,000 frequent flyer miles to upgrade. The upgradeable tickets

are more expensive but if you have the miles available, it's worth it.

If you don't have frequent flyer miles, and you don't mind asking, there are

some folks around who fly a lot and can give their miles away. If you're lucky

and brash enough to ask them to pitch in, and it won't damage the

friendship, it may be worthwhile.

Des Tuck

LBHR 10/01

RBHR 5/20/03

P.S. I'm sending this e-mail from South Africa, where I flew at just under

four months post-op. The newly resurfaced hip didn't bother me at all but the

economy class seats are soooooooo cramped. I'm 6 ft. and 210 lbs. and if anyone

had been sitting next to me on either side, I would have been a very unhappy

puppy. Luckily people were a bit spooked about flying on September 11, which is

one of the reasons I chose that day to fly from SFO to JFK and then JFK to

Johannesburg - about 23 hours of flying.

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