Hi all, Incredibly busy week last week, tryi...

June 06, 2006 by Meg in Lytton

Hi all,
Incredibly busy week last week, trying to squeeze 5 days of patients into 4 work days. We did get to go with friends to Al Gore's new movie, An Inconvenient Truth, Friday night. Very scarey and thought provoking. It made me rethink our office renovation proposals with energy efficiency more in mind. I called the architect this AM--I hope he can somehow arrange for a New England style foyer for heat/a.c. preservation when the doors open. We started to switch to more fluorescent bulbs this weekend. I'm turning off lights like crazy.

All my conservation efforts were washed away by 2 extra, long car trips 6/4 and 6/5. Callie's boyfriend Will left the Appalachian trail around Reading, PA this weekend to come to Philly for his birthday and to say goodbye to Callie before she goes to Zambia this week to spend time on a Habitat for Humanity project. However, when he went back to the Trail yesterday, he slipped on rocks in the rain and gashed his shin. He managed to stop the bleeding with duct tape and steristrips but didn't have any way to keep the wound clean (down to the bone) and was in alot of pain. So Callie picked him up this morning and I patched him up in the office. I'm still worried about infection and the wound was too deep, wide, old and dirty looking to suture today so hopefully the big steristrips will help it heal quicker and nicer. He'll stay in Philly 'til the wound's healing, clearly not infected and the pain decreases so he can walk.

Ah, life's little diversions....

On that note, I'm still sucked into Dad's sailing books from the Aubrey/Maturin series (Master and Commander is best known). I was disappointed to see the author looks about 75- I fear he may retire!

Kayla's graduation next weekend. Allie is coming and maybe Betsy. We're having another family (Kayl's friends, and ours) to dinner by pool Saturday.

Well, midnight, so will finish.