I’ve mentioned before I am bailing out July 1st at 63 and a half years of age. Too tired of doing a classical practice of office, hospital and taking call. Keep me up all night long on the phone and takes 2.5 days to recover. Got the opportunity for health care coverage so I’m gone. Too many changes in primary care medicine and burnout in younger docs is becoming a problem. I’m glad I was able to hang on this long. I’m in a county where there have only been 3 cases of Covid and even though testing is rationed, the local hospital is not jammed with people in respiratory failure and elective surgeries are back on. Covid testing can be had but request has to go through the pathologist. Except for pre-op testing which is becoming standard of care.
I also posted I lost my spouse January 25th, 2019 and am responsible for a 25 year old autistic spectrum son who, BTW, is doing great now. Won’t be employable and will always need help but no more violent meltdowns. Once he got through hormones and adolescence, the violent meltdowns went away. At least Sally got to see that.
So I have a lot on my plate and consider it a blessing to be able to hang it up completely. No part time medical work as I will consider myself a civilian after July 1st.
Will deep clean the house and two small workshops so I can get back to rockets. My son, Christopher, is doing so great he’ll be able to travel with me and go to launches without any problem whatsoever. Looking forward to it though I still will carry a little grief in my heart and will likely do so till I’m laid to rest. (Not that I want to “rush” my ending.)
Kurt