Dianna photographing the morel on the cliffs above the beach
FINALLY--the sun for a few hours after work--Zoe's point--just a small breeze by Aleutian standards...
my camera just doesn't capture the plethora of wildflowers in this grassy tundra above the beach
Laura and Dianna along the flats heading for Zoe's pointThe time has come to change locations for this Alaskan adventure, and I will be sad to leave all my new friends and go off to Juneau tomorrow. I have had the privilege of working with some of the best folks in the world here! There are patients that I want to know the rest of the story on, and all those developments in the lives of the community here. There is no doubt in my mind that I'm meant to do primary care, not specialist work in some hospital.
So tonight I'm going to dinner at Dianna's--she's the Australian health aid who has been working in the Aleutians for 20+ years, was married to an Aleut and has a daughter with him, has helped write the CHAM (the bible of health aids in Alaska) and has been my delightful office mate for the last week or so here in the clinic. She's working as an itinerant right now, but also works and lives in Australia in the ICU as an RN (I don't think she actually LIVES in the ICU), and is a diabetic educator. Laura will join us and I'll hand off my food leftovers and pack and hopefully get on the plane around noon tomorrow.
My friend Molly has given me a list of things to do and see in Juneau that will take me at least 2 weeks to accomplish properly, so if I get time I'll post from there.
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