It buss!
Well, as we all know, life is unpredictable and we know not what each day has in store for us. This evening, I jus thanking God that I reached home arite. Why? Well, the water hose pon the radiator of the Integra nuh buss pon me dis evening people! 
I had stopped to pay de light and telephone bill, when me come outta de place me see the heap o green coolant a drip and form pool unda mi cyar! Mek me haffi a cuss an gwaan bad cause I assumed that it was de radiator buss. Anyway, I was ’bout a third of the way home…hoping it can mek it. So, there I am inna de traffic tekking it slow watching the needle on the temperature gauge a climb slowly. Eventually I turned up Russell Heights to get on a less trafficated (any word go so) route. In addition, if me bruck down in those environs at least I may know somebody to check. Well, I there going on gingerly ’till eventually, the needle reach red and engine starting to sound like it pinkering (or is that tinkering?). Hmmm….can I reach to Jamdown Canadian’s yard at the bottom of Cherry Gardens? I tek out the cell (dem well useful when trouble tek man rass)….his wifey (I need to think up a blog name for her) answers. I tell her I’m ’bout a minute away. As I reach de gate so…..cyar shut off.
I lift the bonnet to try mek a proper diagnosis (hey, I am a Doc ) and am greeted by a hole ’bout four inches long in the water hose. Grrr.
Jamdown Canadian’s wife….let’s call her Healthy Femme….(she works in Women’s Health Issues…no she’s not a medic)……meets me at the gate with a big plastic bokkle o water to cool down the beast. Anyway, some duct tape and about two gallons of water later, the trusty engine starts, I make it home…tho it got hot still. I’ve contacted mi garage, so tomorrow morning, that’s where I’m headed with a five litre bottle of extra water in the car. I going mek dem change all de hoses, cause as one buss so, it mean de rubber in the oddas old as well.
BTW, I signed the new contract today. Can you imagine, the ‘new’ salary which reflects my yearly increment, has gone up by all of just over $3,000 Ja. per month!?
By the time that Tax out (Tax is really a four letter word) it amounts to a tank o gas. More private practice…..here I come. Have a good night.
January 25th, 2005 at 8:27 pm Doh worry Doc, for some people 3 is a special number, so 3,000 is probably special for some too. Every mickle mek a muckle, they say…
January 25th, 2005 at 9:17 pm Doc, mi husband says hopefully your car’s engine-head an’ head-gasket survived de leak. Him seh yu good ’cause him woulda stop as soon as de gauge touch red.
January 25th, 2005 at 10:28 pm Hi Dr. D. Glad to got home safely. Hope you get into private practice soon.
January 25th, 2005 at 11:29 pm J$3000???????????? You’re kidding, right! No, Doc, go tear out yu batty at them tomorrow! Dem facety! All di work wah yu do, and dem a gi’ yu Three gran a month??? Doc, you’re loafting with the branching out on your own into private practice!!! We can all see the kind of doctor you are - feeling and approachable (Hold on, let me be clear, as your annoying little ’sister’, 7, I’ve never had the fortune of your patients - usually, I get the hand and the tone and the “Calm yourself” comment
January 26th, 2005 at 7:15 am Mad Bull, this mickle really can’t help to make a muckle, trus me! Anyway, whatever. Seven, that’s the kind of increment that is offered to Docs who move up one grade. I was grade 3 Level 1 last year, now Grade 3 Level 2. 3G+ is the increment on the books I’m afraid!
January 26th, 2005 at 10:25 am so i’m guessing that $3000 JA aint that much right?
January 26th, 2005 at 11:05 am Jdid, thats about US$51.78 or thereabouts…
January 26th, 2005 at 12:53 pm With that kinda increase,private practice must be looking very attractive.
January 26th, 2005 at 6:09 pm JDid, Mad Bull first me with the exchange rate. Basically, mi salary raise by a rum money!
January 27th, 2005 at 12:42 pm …guess who *also* has car problems :^(…however I’m hoping to change jobs which will mean a pay increase of the same amount as you…except my 3000 will be in ingerlish pounds sterling… …fingers crossed I get the job :^)…
January 27th, 2005 at 12:52 pm Every time I get my car repaired, I feel like I’ve been hosed. Good luck to you! I can’t complain much about my salary. My boss keeps giving me raises without telling me. When I get my check I think I accidentally got someone else’s. A good problem to have, and a strange one in journalism.
January 27th, 2005 at 3:18 pm Doc, you are in the wrong country - dermatoligists make a killing up here it seems. (well they are damn busy, the waiting rooms full… I just read so, earlier this aft at Kims blog : http://baconandehs.blogspot.com/2005/01/im-in-wrong-business.html
January 27th, 2005 at 8:26 pm billy, hope you get the new job and wheels. T Bone, I’m happy for you. I’d like a surprise raise in a salary cheque but sadly, it won’t happen. Desiree, Derms in the First World rake in loads and the vast majority of them are no longer practising medical dermatology….they’ve gone full swing cosmetic which is where the money is. Botox, Liposuction, Dermabrasion, Peels, Hair Transplantation etc. I don’t do much cosmetic dermatolgy as I dislike the clientele intensely. I really did medicine to treat illness….not look at some pale spot on someones face that they just dont ‘like!’ Or the so called rash that someone tried to tell me only shows after she has washed her face!