Travel Is Great

I saw on the TV set that Rosie is back in play.  She looks good for being overweight in a previous life.  John looks good also. 

There is some great news on the diabetic research.  Some person will win the Nobel Prize if it works.  A skin patch made from brown sea algae that can be programmed to release insulin when needed.  We need this.  Here is a link.  Happy New Year all!


http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-4988718/Type-2-diabetes-breakthrough.html

Bandon Oregon

Last Blog post of this year.  I am in the Pacific NW.  Wonderful, cold, rainy.  Oregon is full of great people, and different, but great food.  The picture is from 8 years ago from another trip to Montana.

It is winter here now, and I am working as a traveler at a small hospital with great imaging equipment, and great people.  I am on week three.  I am still trying to find a good Mexican food place.  I love my hot sauce.

I have admitted three patients in 2 weeks.  One who had tachycardia, another with an active stroke as an outpatient, and one lady who was going to lunch on Christmas Day at a diner I walked to for lunch.  She fell on her face.  OUCH.  I called 911, and she was taken care of.  I saw a liver transplant patient today and she is doing well after 8 years post transplant.  I have much more to post.  Happy New Year!  More to come.  TJW

Traveler Part 2

Merry Christmas.

I am in Bandon, Oregon.  I am enjoying a Sonography travelling job here.  This is part of my waning years as a Sonographer.  My wife and son are looking around for places to practice medical arts in our waning years.  We all do not last forever.  I would like to say I will practice until I die.  I think I will.  There is no solace in retirement.  There is no such word in my lexicon now.  I have been asked by a fellow Sonographer for Christmas Dinner.  I accepted.  I will break Christian bread with them.  I am honored.  More to come.  Merry Christmas.  TJW

Traveler

I am on the road again.  I am in Bandon, Oregon doing a locums tour.  I am here over the holidays, and my family is back in Texas.  I have chosen to get back on the plane because I miss travel.  I am now going to be Seasoned Citizen in a month or so.  I will work till I drop.  I am at a small hospital with kind co-workers, and interesting patients.  I will post more over the holidays.  The place I work has brand new GE medical imaging equipment, and I am very pleased.  My heart is heavy because I have had to leave my family in Texas while I am a thousand miles away.  Medical things have changed, and as I age it is hard to find a stable employer willing to treat you well.  I think I have found one, but I must travel.  So be it. Medical benefits are hard to come by.  I need to protect my family and myself.

Merry Christmas all.

TJW