Mechen and I just had a great weekend.  We’ve been going to the beach more often.  Yesterday, we played paddle ball and watched the sunset.  We also had […]

July and early August has been a lot of fun.  It’s been an adjustment to be on call so frequently.  Not that I’m in the hospital all that […]

 I came home on the 4th of July and Mechen picked me up from the airport.  We went home only to leave the very next day for the […]

After the Samar working port, we headed to Subic Bay for one evening of fun before heading to Manilla and home.  Melissa and I had organized a DSS […]

Whoa, time flies.  The Philippines mission port is complete and it was pretty intense.  I participated in two SURGCAPS, one SMEECAP and lots of surgeries.  Overall, the surgeries […]

That Friday, we travelled back to the ship and I got to scrub in on a superficial parotidectomy.   The rest of the surgical schedule looked like this- […]

SMEE time!  The name makes me think of the hapless first mate of Captain Hook in Peter Pan and the adjective “hapless” is not entirely inappropriate.  The situation […]

Before I went to the Mercy, it was a busy last week.  I ordered invites to the Hail and Farewell (way too few as it turned out).  Packing […]

After JazzFest, Mechen and I had a morning in NOLA.  We went to the WWII museum which was pretty awesome.  I had been once several years ago and […]