Daily Archives: March 19, 2004

This morning I got to the office pretty much expecting the day to go as planned.  So surprise – nothing stays the same for long!  We seem to have a flu bug that is working it’s way through the office.  So yesterday Annette went home, today Penny and Amy were sick and I have been feeling fairly lousy myself throughout the day.  With 3/4 of our office staff sick, we had to contend with a rash of cancellations due to the big storm – which seems to still be going on.  And two of the four assistants were stranded. 

I headed up to the hospital with my one assistant that made it to work.  Our patients ended up having trouble making it to the hospital – but called.  While we were waiting for them one of the anesthetists (the one for our cases) decided to go and help another anesthetist who was stuck at the end of his driveway.  He didn’t come back for an hour.  Needless to say we ran a bit behind schedule.  We were fortunate that no other cases were scheduled after ours, so we just kept on working till we were done.  And that made us get behind a bit for the afternoon.  – but a lot of cancellations – so by 4:00 PM we had caught up to ourselves and I was done for the day.

Tonight is very quiet at my house.  Christian and friends did take off with my vehicle for Regina – after thoroughly considering the risks brought on by the weather.  Sometimes it is hard to just let them go!  Grace and the youth from church also set off this morning for Strathmore.  They go with lots of prayers.  And Leo is working a relief shift over in Melfort and also made it there safely.  Sara is away at a concert for Peace put on by her school – and probably the Catholic diocese. 

I picked up Bruce Almighty.  I have been wanting to see it for a long time but movies aren’t real high on my list of things that I absolutely must make time for – so I haven’t had time to see it yet.  I am so glad I did.  It was fun and since I am still feeling a bit under the weather, I needed to watch a fun  movie.  I loved the way this movie portrays God – with an excellent sense of humor – someone who likes us.