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At random: In World War II the Germans lost 782 submarines, the Japanese lost 130, Great Britan and Commonwealth countries lost 88 subs, Russia lost 110 submarines and the United States lost only 52 submarines. Twenty-three of the Japanese subs lost were victims of the American Submarine Service.
The "Magnificant TM" Tom Conlon Update
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Darrin
Posted 2017-06-09 3:50 PM (#84186)


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Location: Belleview, Fl
Subject: The "Magnificant TM" Tom Conlon Update

All,

His surgery was a complete success and he is currently resting in ICU and is waiting on a Post Operative Surgery bed right now. I was able to talk to him an hour or so ago and he is in great spirits and is looking forward to winning this up hill battle with learning how to walk once more with a new leg and becoming more active then he was before in the submarine community.

Please keep him in your thoughts and prayers as he goes through the long process of recovery and rehabilitation process. Next week he will be hopefully moving to the Rehab facility of his choice and start the process of healing once more.

This is a battle that he can win, he has the right motivation and attitude to make this happen, when you get a chance please post a note of support for him.

Thanks,

Darrin

Don Gentry
Posted 2017-06-09 4:51 PM (#84187 - in reply to #84186)


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Location: Renton, WA
Subject: RE: The "Magnificant TM" Tom Conlon Update

Magnificent!!!
JrKrup, Skimmer
Posted 2017-06-09 5:14 PM (#84188 - in reply to #84187)


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Posts: 1319

Location: Oxnard, CA
Subject: RE: The "Magnificant TM" Tom Conlon Update

The body is a strange and wonderful thing. If Tom could walk before his surgery, with a temporary prosthetic, he should be up and walking within a few days after.

They used to keep people in bed for many weeks following amputation, and the body forgot how to walk. They found out that kids who had amputations, and were fitted with temporary prosthetics, were up and running within a few days.

Hope they get Tom up and around quickly. If they do, then, "Nurses, BEWARE, Submariner on the loose!"
Sewer Pipe Snipe
Posted 2017-06-09 9:25 PM (#84194 - in reply to #84186)
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Location: Albany, GA.
Subject: RE: The "Magnificant TM" Tom Conlon Update

He'll do well. It is 90% attitude. One friend was up and walking within two weeks. Hasn't slowed down yet, as he has things he says he needs to do.
chiefjoe
Posted 2017-06-19 11:19 AM (#84255 - in reply to #84186)
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Location: Manassas, VA
Subject: RE: The "Magnificant TM" Tom Conlon Update

This week TV had a great show about WWII pilot Douglas Bader, the legless Brit who flew for the RAF. Wonderful story about the hero but the show missed a lot about his humor. The book "Reach for the Sky" covered it all. In the early 60's there was a copy one each of the orthopedic wards in US Naval Hospital Balboa. This was before all the coverage of amputees running miles, playing basket ball and the likes. This book was able to lift some of the young servicemen our of the depths of despair with loss of limbs.

The actions in the book of him sneaking out of the hospital without permission and driving a manual sports car using a cane to shift (the only use he had for a cane). When shot down and taken to a German hospital, a German medic broke it to him he had lost a leg. With no reaction by Bader he examined him closer and joked, "You lost both legs". Bader deadpanned told him, "If you think that is something, just keep looking." When he did, he told Bader they had heard about this WING LEADER without legs. There is many humors passage based on Bader's depth of spirit.

He tried to escape from the hospital. Imagine a POW trying to escape on TIN legs.

chiefjoe
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