A Few Things

The last few days...

Aunt Nancy and Uncle Vlad were passing through Rochester, so we spent a few hours a couple of times eating lunch and visiting:)

My friend, Bev, and I took a drive to the Lanesboro area and the places where she was born and raised. You know those roads that beckon to be explored? Those are the types of little back roads that we traveled. She hadn't been back to see that area for years, and I think it made her month!

I interviewed for a job on the ICU (intensive care unit) float staff and got it! I won't start until February 6th, but I think it's worth the wait. I'll get 5-6 months of classroom and on the job training for eight ICU's here at Mayo. The only ones I cannot work in will be the pediatric and neonatal ICU's. Once trained, my job will be to work in whichever ICU needs me that day. Some days I will cover the resource nurse pager for the hospital. All of this sounds so exciting to me, but once my training is over, I will have a one year committment. That means that I will probably be here at least until July or August of 2009.

Right now, I am sitting in a patient's room listening to him snore...