Shiftless, smiling, initial summarizing

Yesterday morning, after a night of sleeping with my cell phone at bedside (on call), having worked from noon til 10:30 pm; I awoke with no more shifts to work. The contract completed. Medicine a bit different from my training, learned and experienced. This was goal one.

The adventure, the new territory to explore - been here, done that. Amazing. And awesome.

New peoples met - conversed with; friendships made. So many stories about unique characters - Kiwi uniqueness: (Example - An eleven year old boy, knocked off his bicycle (here called a "push bike") and run over by a car. When asked what is your biggest problem; responds in no panic, with no tears but with a true Kiwi/British accent, "I can't breathe quite proper." - Both lungs were punctured and bruised as well as a bruise to his brain. His phraseology, demeanor, uniqueness - just memorable. He did well, I'm told - was flown to another trauma center after stabilization.)

Having experienced the different, somewhat exotic now we return; anxious to resume the familiar.

From a book just read, "Everything You Need to Know About Retirement" (paraphrasing): "The adventure can be listening and hearing, finding the rhythm in each new day - the adventure that waits there; it can be more than enough." These are to be our next adventures.

And they begin.