Just some thoughts…
Well, yet another week has begun and this one makes the end of July creep (rather quickly) upon us. By the time my birthday comes in September, it means that the year is winding down. I doh know ’bout you, but time seemed to fly much more slowly when I was a yute. And is it only me, or is the heat today scorching?
Anyway, with that preamble, again I been a a bit in absentia. Probably because I had a lot of social activities weekend gone and did not feel in the blog mood….and I can’t say I really am at the moment either. Perhaps the reason why I am here is that I had some calaloo soup for lunch and I went a bit overboard and need to assume the erect posture (no, not that type of erect posture) 
for a thirty minutes or so. Anyhow, lunch was good. Topped it off with a very cold glass of coconut water, which is refreshing in this heat we are having.
I found that I woke up with my mind drifting on some stuff this morning….not stuff that is major, but it had me a bit distracted and it slowed down my getting ready to go to work this morning. When I was driving through the hospital gate, one of my favourite mood songs….(which can make me very happy or sad and pensive depending on what may be happening to me on this road called life…..) “Time to say Goodbye”…….came on the radio. I’m not sure who sings it, but it starts with a female with a beautiful voice and then a man joins in in the second verse. For those of you who listened to Michael Anthony Cuffe’s show on KLAS FM, he used to play it at the end of his show. Now, don’t feel that I was a fan of that show. Actually, it was my dear Mother who was, and prior to her passing she used to drive a Toyota Camry…deportee with the basic radio. KLAS was the only FM station she could get on that radio and I had often offered to upgrade it for her. She refused everytime saying what she got on KLAS was more than adequate. When she departed this life, for about a year I couldn’t hear that song without my eyes tearing up. Now, it is different. Time heals…better than any medicine.
So, when I heard it starting this morning, I drove my car to the spot where I normally park under a tree and I just sat there until it was over some four minutes later….despite beaing already late…screw that. It helped to uplift my spirit and I felt a bit more positive. In addition, I smiled even a bit more when I arrived on the ward to see my boss. She is offically back from leave as of today, and a sight for my sore eyes, if no one else’s. So now I got backative when I have any doubts. Trust me, no matter how experienced you are in medicine, it always helps to have someone else around when there may be queries regarding patient management.
So, overall, where is all this leading? Not sure really, just here a type to rass. Does it make me feel ‘better’ having blogged about my mood? No, I wouldn’t say so. I am not one of those who write in cyberspace in order to get ‘catharsis’ shall I call it? Anyway, whatever it is I am here doing, I hope I haven’t bored you all to death. Belly not feeling as gravid as it did when I started writing…..so let me get outta here. Oh, BTW, I am not 100% sure about this planned blog link on Wednesday, I have another engagement that I am trying to not go to (not to facilitate the blogger link….I really just don’t feel like going to that other meeting), and I will be on call. But I will see. Time will tell. As the title indicated, just some thoughts….nutten special.
July 24th, 2006 at 6:22 pm Cho! Come ah di blogger mtg. man! Tell the other peeps this opportunity will come only once this year, so you haffe grab it! Hope you make it.
July 24th, 2006 at 7:10 pm No Doc, you haven’t bored me to death, I actually like this post, don’t often catch you in this mood. On another note, it’s refreshing to hear someone being happy to see his boss in office.
July 24th, 2006 at 7:34 pm Songs tend to bring up emotion. Sorry ’bout your Mom. I’m still vague on this blogger link? When is it?
July 24th, 2006 at 11:05 pm MB, I will see….depends on the happenings of Wednesday… Gela, my boss and I get along well. Leon…seems the decision is La Kabana on Wednesday night…time 9 PM…but from comments I read earlier, MB may be there before that…. Thanks for the sentiment about my Mother…she passed away in June 2000.
July 25th, 2006 at 1:59 am Hey nice blog, check out my and link me
July 25th, 2006 at 9:42 am Yes to all, the linkup will be at La Kabana on Wednesday. BTW, Doc, can you make the blogger linkup earlier than 9:00 PM? Say 7:00 or 8:00PM. See the details on the same post on my blog… Right click and select “Open in a new browser window” here.
July 25th, 2006 at 12:05 pm so ya mean th poor girl fly all the way from st vincent just to see you and you not going to the link up. cuhdear man ya too cruel
July 27th, 2006 at 5:17 pm Better that you greet your patients in a good mood, it really helps when a doctor is not grumpy. Time does heal but sometimes I still feel sad about my father, he died 9 years ago, July 25. I can’t believe how, one by one, you’re all getting out of the blogger meet. Well!!
July 29th, 2006 at 7:06 am Thanks Doc for sharing this, and it was not boring one bit. I also lost my mother a few years ago, and she drove a blue Toyota Camry. Each time I saw a Blue Camry on the road the tears quietly flowed. Time however does heal, and my tears are now abit less often, but show themselves on Mothers day & Christmas. Now to learn to live in JA. I am Francis’s other half but prefer to stay out of the bloggin seeen. I just read everything and edit, as I doh like being out in the forefront the way he does. I have to at times beg him not to put all our business out inna JA, he smiles and keeps writing Keep on Blogging D
July 29th, 2006 at 12:04 pm Nuh worry bout often yuh blog or if we get bored, is your blog yuh do what yuh want. Songs do tend to affect peoples emotions and moods, very powerfull isn’t it?
July 29th, 2006 at 9:40 pm Where you at Doc? Can’t see you online! What is gwaning awning?