Again, I must point fingers at another ship nurse, Andree it's your turn! So, in conversation I talked about what got me onto the ship in the first place. I mentioned going on an expedition to Antarctica on the ship National Geographic Explorer. The guest speaker for my expedition was Peter Hillary, the son of Sir Edmund Hillary, the first man to summit Mount Everest. With him were his friends, and now mine, Merv and Susan. When I returned I could no longer do land based nursing and I was off to sea.
Somehow Andree interpreted that I was the adventurous type and about a year after meeting her, she emails and says that one of her ER docs from NH was organizing a trek to the Base Camp of Mount Everest and would I like to join. My initial thoughts were you have got to be crazy. You see, that involves exertion, like exercising! Those words were definitely NOT in my vocabulary. Being the cordial person that I am I told her to send me the information. Upon receipt I'm looking at the docs name and said to myself, you have got to be kidding....there can't be 2 ER docs in this world with that name and I asked her to find out if he trained in Chicago. The world is an amazingly small place, and wouldn't you know, I worked with him during his residency and have not seen or talked to him in 17 years! Needless to say....guess where I'm going?
Keep 'em coming!
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