Perseveration X

Alarm number one goes off. Bleary-eyed I take off the CPAP, put on my glasses, take my meds, make the shitty pod coffee and settle down to connect to my meeting via zoom- make sure the camera is off! Connected, I’m half-listening as I pull out the ironing board and iron my shirt that nobody… Read more

I closed my eyes a couple of times to sleep. Usually not a problem on the plane (but, then again, as much as I was drinking? Was it truly sleep?) and probably caught a spare Z or two but nothing in a row. Oh well, not like tomorrow is an important day or anything… Some… Read more

What a whirlwind of a day and a half. Okay, really a late night, day and another late night. 1000 miles there and back again. Check in and check out within 6 hours. Rental car for about 20 total miles. I packed so light that I thought I’d forgotten something when I left for home.… Read more

A lovely part of this journey of mine- surrendering a lucrative career mid-stream- is the large debt that has accumulated because of it. Over the course of the past several years and because of short-sighted (blind?) decisions I owe a large amount of money to several people and the federal government (parent loans). We’re talking… Read more

Some of the worst words you want to hear after 8 years of post-secondary education, 6 years of training and 22 years of practice are, “…we think you need to take a leave of absence.” I heard those words in mid-August of 2022 and haven’t worked as a general surgeon since. Over the past several… Read more