Happy Birthday Dylan: 5 years old!!!

Happy birthday Dylan James!!!!!!! Today is a big day at the Farrell house, besides celebrating the half way point of my deployment we are also celebrating Dylan's birthday. We are also celebrating the fabulous baseball games both boys had over the weekend. Congratulations to Spencer for his great hits he had and for getting one of the game balls!!! Dylan had a great game as well. Judging by the amount of dirt on their uniforms they had lots of fun!!! Nothing to new to report here. My ENT partner is about to complete his 6 months, I hope that his replacement is as compatible as George.

Facial Trauma Team

As you can imagine since George (ENT) and myself (Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeon) are the only guys in Iraq that do facial trauma, there are some weeks that we have one case and there are others that we have an uptick in tempo. This week we did 5 trauma cases and 1 Secondary Facial Reconstruction of a previously injured Iraqi Policeman. To reconstruct his face we harvested some bone from his anterior hip and plated it to his missing left cheek.  If you can't recognize me with all my PPE on, I am the one on the right with the light on my head.

I was still able to manage to get all but one of my workouts in!!!!!

Air Force Theater Hospital Surgeons

Here is a picture of the Surgeons taking care of the troops here in Iraq. This photo is taken at the entrance from the helicopter pad to the Emergency room. This passage way is known as Hero's Highway. As our troops are brought from the helicopter to the ER they know they are safe when they spot the U.S. flag!!

35th Birthday Party

Well, I guess you can say I had a memorable 35th birthday. My friends in my clinic bought me a cake and we had several friends from the hospital to include patients, nurses, guards, and other colleagues to share in the festivities. It was fun, my patient and his friends even sang happy birthday to me in Arabic. Thanks for all the birthday wishes!!