Rev Mibi

I took the Meyers Briggs Personality Test some 20 years ago. Seeing my buddy Cheesehead had just done it, I was tempted: would it be the sam...

Today, instead of our regular CPE duties (our supervisor is out of town for three days), I got to sit in on open heart surgery. For those in...

I'm on call through tomorrow morning, so my day consisted of various short errands close to home so I could dash to the hospital if need...

The car is fixed, so if I get called in while I'm on call, I can use my own vehicle. It turned out that I didn't spear the oil pan w...

Herewith, grandbaby #4, who arrived yesterday, all 9 lbs 2 oz of him! To GrandM's eyes, he looks brilliant, alert, and ready to play lin...

...not that I'm counting. Much. I'm on call this week. This was complicated by the fact that my car died in a dramatic way on Saturd...

...attending the death of the little one I mentioned in yesterday's blog. It was my midday's work. It was heartbreakingly sad, and I...

...to share something OTHER than just peeing and moaning. I spent time today doing a commendation for a little one from whom care is being w...

I'm having a major-league problem with another group member in CPE. Can't talk about it - that would be a violation of the group cov...

You scored as Hermione Granger , You're one intelligent witch, but you have a hard time believing it and require constant reassurance. Y...

23 more days of CPE. Not that I'm counting down the days or anything... lovely in-laws are coming for the weekend next weekend. Although...

The little one I baptized a few days ago died last night. It shouldn't have been a surprise - she had many physical problems - but she h...

One of our sickest babies died last night. She was born with many congenital defects, and in her ten months of life underwent a number of su...

So Friday the CICU was rockin' - lots of sick babies plus a couple of sick adults with congenital heart defects. I had spent some time w...

If you love to cook, or love to eat, or love general good-hearted silliness, may I recommend you go see the new animated picture "Ratat...

Today was a short day - I had a funeral of an elderly friend this afternoon. I spent the morning doing clinical visitation. I've got tom...

Sometimes the smallest babies are so fierce - they fight the nurses who are trying to give them various kinds of treatments. Food, however, ...

Yes, summer has arrived here in your nation's Capitol. One of my trauma pages at two in the morning was for a child whose injury was ide...

I now know more about congenital heart defects and the surgical procedures used to try to repair them than I ever would have thought possibl...

So PH and I went to a military retirement party for a friend who will start seminary this August with me. I don't know him really well, ...