HUMP DAY

Nope, can’t have sex yet, just looking for a way to describe my first Wednesday back at work. Raining and gloomy. Traffic snarls. Another fund drive on public radio interrupting my commuting pleasure. A distant colleague, well-known in the hospital where I did a colonoscopy today lost his wife to lung cancer on Saturday. She had worked in his office the past couple of years, since his recent cardiac problems required stents and then bypasses, and a careful eye on his schedule. The endo nurses had gotten to know her as she would walk over to the hospital from his office with cases to book. They say at the wake he looked really crushed. They speculated that he probably thought he would be the first to go. Two adult children at home and a grandchild that they would mind while their children attended college nearby. Now he’s a widower. Sometimes there are just no words.

The office has been busy, but quiet, especially with my compadres out of town at the ASCRS annual meeting. One of my patients got into a rainy day fender-bender when some chuckle-head backed into her car in a parking lot. The weather channel is predicting five more days of rain.

Home now, and Blogger has the hiccups, and is down for maintenance. The Yankees-Red Sox game got rained out. It has not been rescheduled as yet. Guess I’ll catch up on some reading. Safe home everybody. Be careful in the rain.