120 hour week...

I just finished my 120 hour week. I used to do this all the time; for 3 years in a row during residency and again for long periods of time after BUT not in a long time. It is exhausting and I feel tired and fat. I can't believe I used to do this on a regular basis!!! YUCK.
For now I will spend this weekend catching up, cleaning up and exercising. It was, however busy, a good week in that we have a PA student with us and we have had lots of interesting cases so shown her very good medicine. I have participated in some very good meetings and made some seriously good progress at work in making things more fair business-wise. I am still LOVING our new office space (it really is spectacular and everything I had hoped it would be). AND the weather is still good today so at least today I will get to enjoy some beautiful CO life.
No pictures for now but next blog for sure. I will be going to CA to camp on Big Sur for next weekend and it will be a MUCH needed break with no phone/computer/responsibility. So pix of camping in Big Sur coming your way next time. Hope all are well, happy and healthy! Love, peace and sleep... yahooooooo.

Animal Kingdom

Hi all... Winter is back with full force. It has snowed a lot in the last several days and I am VERY glad I have my studded tires on. I have started shoveling the roof, and the walkway. Also we have had some more animals visiting. We have had a wolf (or very large fox), lots of deer/elk and hawks galore. The bear are asleep we think. Clifford has had fun tracking and has managed to bring in a large bone from a large animal and eat it all over our house (thoroughly disgusting Brad).

I have been busy with work and have been on call this weekend but luckily off-season has finally hit so it hasn't been that bad. My friend Ken (who we are trying to recruit) was here last week and that was fun. Also had a medical student (who was brilliant) here for the last month and she left Friday. She did a good job of keeping us on our toes.

Hope you are all well.... Lots of love and good vibes...

Halloween at AMC

Halloween 2009

Just got home from a Halloween in Carbondale... Dressed as the Wolverene and Rogue. Gives Brad an idea of what I will look like with grey hair...

We listened to some friends play music. Tomorrow is a birthday party for my friends son and HIKING I hope. Then back for a busy week of work. Unfortunately, after a good week this week at work I tried to hot sync lots of my stuff onto my computer and lost everything on my calender. I imagine I will be missing a lot of events/meetings since if it isn't in my computer it doesn't happen. BUMMER...

Hope you are all well...

Summit For Life

I just signed up for the Chris Klug Foundation Summit For Life race up Aspen Mountain December 12th... He sponsers organ donation and getting people signed up. He is an organ recipiant and within a year of getting his new liver he won silver in snowboarding in the Olympics AND is an all around GREAT GUY with a GREAT CAUSE... if you want to sponser me Summit for Life. Go to summitforlife.org. Just pick me as a racer and it is self explanatory from there.

Shitkicker's Ball

Well, we had another week at work that is like any other week although the flu scare seems to be easing off. We now have a very smart medical student with us from the U. of CO which is keeping us on our toes. I also had to take PALS on Thursday and since I found out Wednesday night that they forgot to give me one of the study books I feel lucky I passed. We even finished the course and testing early so Dewayne, his wife, Clifford and I went on an awesome hike from Tyak to the Sugar Bowels and back along the Government trail. It was 2 hours of spectacular scenery. Then Friday night after work I met with Shinta and then went to have dinner at Brad's folks house and that was awesome. Marty's back is only slightly better but anything is better than nothing and Carolyn is doing ok after her week of radiation (although concerned about some scarring). Then Saturday Clifford and I had a good hike, met a friend in town and then Brad and I went to the Shitkicker's Ball with a bunch of old time Aspenites at the Jerome Hotel in western wear. The outfits were fantastic, food good, people fun and band great. In fact Brad went up and joined the band for a couple of songs. Also 2 patients of mine were at the event who I had actually made a difference in their lives and they told me so which was a nice feeling. Brad and I really enjoyed being part of the real locals of Aspen. Today, Clifford and I took 2 awesome hikes from the house and just enjoyed being outside in the last bastion of Fall before Winter hits. A good and relaxing weekend overall. Hope you all had similar!

the return of fall and the reminder that winter isn't so bad

So we just had another crazy week at work. H1N1 has made it so we have not had an off-season and we have been really busy. We are trying to recruit another doc to help us out and had an interview with a GREAT doc/friend of mine but I think it is a long shot that he will really move here. It would be AWESOME if it would happen but I am not keeping my fingers crossed. Then the weekend hit and it has been an astoundingly beautiful weekend. The weather has been spectacular and I hiked with Clifford yesterday and today. Then it is catching up with work that needs to be done ie re-applying for privileges at AVH and studying for PALS. In the meantime, in order to avoid work, I uploaded this to try to get myself psyched for winter (which I am not really ready for). Also had a good conversation with Greg (I am liking our weekly catch-up sessions). That is it for this week other than Brad and I went on a date last night and saw "where the wild things are" which was ok but not great... GREAT COSTUMES and the kid was cute but not much else you can do to make a movie out of that awesome book.