Saturday, June 28
Hey guys, just hanging out in the apartment, very bored. I did my first open heart case on Friday and all went well (no amazing). We have a locum surgeon for a couple of weeks until our permanent surgeon arrives. The surgeon is from England, and is just a delightful man to work with. He starts cardiovascular surgery programs in 3rd world countries as a ministry. He has a website for his charity called "cardiostart.com". He only works in the states between ministry trips to earn money for his trips. He is so accommodating and asked the whole team to call him by his first name as is common here. Our first patient was a healthy 65 year old man that runs marathons, but has bad genes. He had a double bypass and was off the ventilator and talking to us about 1 hour after surgery. WOW!! I was very impressed. It is really neat to be able to see your patent's as they progress trough the recovery process since we are all in the same unit. I am really happy with my job and all the people I work with are great. We all went out after work Friday to have some Mexican food and a margarita. We had a great time, and the boss paid for dinner.
I got to talk to Meagan and the boy's on the web cam today and it was great to see them all. Martin went to Dallas for the weekend and took the laptop so we could talk to each other. Easton thought it was really cool, and Bowen just looked at the computer really funny. It was good to see Meagan, and yet a little difficult also since I haven's seen her in a while and won't see her for another month. I hope they will get a computer soon so I can talk to them more often. I talk to Martin just about every evening on the web cam so it makes it nice to talk to him and see him. I really miss you guy's alot.
I had my first session with my "trainer" at the gym on Friday evening and boy was it fun. Ha ha ha ha! It really was not all that bad but I am a little sore. I have been going to water aerobics on Monday and Wednesday evenings and I will work out with my trainer two evenings a week. I hope to get in better shape by the time we go on our cruise in late August.
I will attend a new church tomorrow and see how I like it. Maybe by next weekend I will have decided on a church home.
I really miss everyone and hope and pray you are all doing well. Take care and stay out of trouble.
Love ya,
Traci