The last stretch....

Holy Catfish!!!!

I just sent out the cash and affidavit for my temporary Texas license. I also have been in contact with someone about doing some per diem work as an ER doc in some remote areas of Texas for some *very* lucrative pay. Texas has a problem with underserved, rural areas, and there is often a lot of money thrown at docs to come to those areas. Unfortunately for rural areas, docs who likely have trained in major urban centers tend to acquire a taste for big-city benefits, and rarely want to stay in small towns. I am one of those. I like having stuff around like good restaurants, NHL games to go to, a major airport as a gateway to exotic locations, and other things like that. Anyway, I am looking at working a bit in order to get some cash because of some domestic medical expenses (D-6 and I are trying to conceive). I am still going John Galt, jr, but it is really cool being able to make a lot of money in a short amount of time almost at will. This is a very fortunate position to be in, especially given the current economy. 

Anyway, getting back to the point of the post....

I will be working the next 16 out of 17 days, so I will be very busy. A little less than two weeks after that is my graduation dinner. Ten days after that is my last shift. I really am almost done. I think, in fact that I can see the light at the end of the tunnel. 

Yes, I am sure of it.

I am wrestling with what to do with this blog at that time. Should I go public? Should I fade away? Should I just carry on as anonymously as ever?

You know, despite the issues that I am facing (and yes, there are issues that I have been struggling with that I have deliberately kept off the blog because they are family matters, and nunya bidness), I really do have a great life. I have been getting into great shape recently by doing crossift , and feel healthier than I have in a long time.  I have this absolutely knockout of a wife who loves me dearly, and who I am absolutely madly in Love with. I mean, after almost eight years of marriage, my-heart-still-does-backflips-when-she-smiles-at-me in love with her. I have a really cool job lined up doing what I absolutely love, and I am in a position where I do not need to worry about money because I can make more should the need arise.

I see my end date approaching, and it's like the last breathless yards of a long run. That time in the Marine Corps when the platoon would have been taken on a smoker of a run, and you are turning the corner into the barracks parking lot. That ladst little bit where you know that no matter how much it hurt, no matter how long you wanted to give up and fall out, you *know* that you are going to make it, and how it diminishes all the pain.

Alright, I have to go and get ready. I ain't done yet, and I have a shift ahead.

Respectfully Submitted,
-doc Russia