Back in the Day is a blog about my life in Medicine; memories turned into words and stories, presented in no particular order. These are personally relevant events in my professional journey of forty years; from a pivotal experience at age 16 to the present moments in the autumn of my career.
The idea for this blog popped into my head like a flash of light, a rocket of inspiration. I was driving through downtown Seattle on an August morning to meet my 94 year old Dad in the Emergency Room at the hospital where I work. Dad awakened with fever and generalized weakness, and was en route to the hospital by ambulance. Thoughts swirled about in my brain, racing from the complexities of being a doctor-daughter to an elderly parent to how the practice of Medicine in the 21st century has changed over the decades, to memories of times "back in the day", and finally to a revelation that my stories stand as a patchwork of experiences; unique and hopefully of interest. Synchronicity, happenstance, a healthy dose of being in the right place at the right time, raw grit, talent, persistence, impatience and other phenomena brought me to this place of now. I'm a person changed by the experiences but still much the same.
Back in the Day is about the great times juxtaposed against the miserable, the challenges, the wins, the losses, the right turns, the wrong turns, and more specifically how and why the pieces of our past are important I remain absolutely convinced that everyone has a story to tell. We are all fascinating beings; what we think and do with our lives captivates the attention and interest of others. My look back fulfills a personal need to get these snippets of memory down on virtual paper. Not so secretly, I would love to have an audience although I'll insist otherwise. Reader are the sweet icing on the cake.
