It sounds awful to say but it’s a good thing my husband has been out-of-town this week – after all, considering my week in the operating room, he wouldn’t have seen much of me anyway!  But it always drives him a little crazy to see me racing from interviews to operating rooms – stumbling home late, with aching legs and a rumbling tummy, only to climb out of bed and the crack of dawn just to do it again.. then worry that I somehow won’t have time to write it all down – and round and round..  (That being said – he is phenomenal about understanding this driving motivation I have to interview, and to write – even when I’m not quite sure I understand myself.)

So he wouldn’t have complained about my whirlwind tours of the operating rooms this week – or the long days of back-to-back surgery but I would have felt bad about not seeing him all the same..

Instead with my husband thousands of miles away, I hear him smiling in the phone, laughing at my exploits, though I sometimes picture the wrinkle he gets in his brow when he thinks I’m not eating right, or getting enough sleep.. He currently serves as my remote editor for my articles at Examiner.com – calling to give feedback before submission.  He’ll be home soon – and he’ll be patient with me, as always.

Dr. Victor Ramirez, plastic surgeon

Had some great interviews and operating visits this week – including Dr. Victor Ramirez, and most of the plastic surgery community here in Mexicali – but to be fair, I will break it all up into a couple of posts.

Demonstration of techniques for breast reconstruction at Mexicali General

Back in my ‘home’ OR in thoracic surgery – which felt good.  I love meeting and seeing all the different specialties like bariatrics, urology and plastics, but it sure does feel good to come back home again..

back in thoracics (and trying to hang from the rafters)

I could wax some eloquent nonsense about the beauty of a muscle-sparing thoracotomy but then again – the good doc does almost everything minimally invasive, so I never see any.. (and you’ve heard me crow about dual port thoracoscopy.)

with more to come..