Walk with me…again.

I wrote this last September not knowing it would get so much worse.  I thought about this piece again as finally got COVID for the first time and as numbers for BA5 are rising.  So far, ICU admissions and deaths have not risen as they have in the past....

Reboot

April 24th, 2020. That is the date of the last blog I posted. I started ideas for a new post countless times. Even finished one or two. But most remain loosely formed, trapped in my head. Questions about myself unanswered. Thoughts about life events left unprocessed...
There Are No Words

There Are No Words

Picture Credit (John Moore/Getty Images) “…if we forget, we are guilty, we are accomplices. “we must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented. Sometimes we must...
Decisions

Decisions

I knew the moment when my career in pediatrics was over.  I was in the fourth year of my med-peds residency,  taking overnight call in the pediatric ICU.  Nights were busy, stressful and I was alone.  A young boy came in as a pediatric  motor vehicle trauma,...
Reset

Reset

One month. Actually one month three days to be exact since I did Ironman WI.  The physical stress on my body has passed and along with it most of the intensity behind the wave of emotions and excitement that followed.  Having finished the race on such a personal high,...