Happy Thanksgiving

Happy Thanksgiving!!! I hope everyone's day will be filled with family, great food, and some entertaining football. Here is a picture from this past weekend, Lopez and Fuentes wanted to have a little bon fire and make some s'mores. We also enjoyed some great NA Becks beer.  It is starting to get colder here so the fire felt real nice...

The Guys Who Make My Life Easier

This week has been extremely busy with trauma. Lots of late nights and early morning operations. My assistant Fuentes and the ENT assistant Lopez are the guys who really make anything I do possible. They too have no back up and like me on call 24/7 for facial trauma. Not once have these guys not been on their game and ready to operate at any time any day. This is us finishing up one of our recent traumas after 4.5 hours of surgery this day it was time for Lopez and Fuentes to close things up!!!!

We are hoping for some down time this weekend, maybe do some grilling. This week lived up to the saying when it rains it pours....

Next week is Thanksgiving I only hope the Cowboys can win their football game.

Happy Veterans Day

Thank you so much to Julie, Spencer, Dylan, and Woodridge Elementary for supporting all of Alamo Heights Veterans. Yesterday, Spencer's school had a very nice program like many schools did all across America. Thank you to all the Veterans that I know (way to many for me to name) thanks for all of your sacrifices, and more importantly I would like to thank your families for all of their sacrifices which allowed you to help the U.S. achieve its current level of success around the world.

Thanks for the well wishes, the support many troops receive from friends, family, and even strangers at home makes a huge difference to our daily lives.

Farewell Dr. Coppit

For the first 3 months of my deployment I have had the wonderful opportunity to be matched up with Dr. Coppit (ENT) . We had an excellent working relationship but an even better "after hours" friendship. Lots of thought provoking discussions over cigars and non-alcoholic beer. He should be on his way back to D.C. tonight, to be united with his family after six months. Thank you George for a memorable time in Balad. 

The t-barrier that we are standing in front of is a classic Air Force Theater Hospital landmark. People are still trying to come up with a catchy acronym for the Surgical Society established here.

It is nice to be starting the month of November, finally it is starting to seem like July was a long time ago. The temperature change is becoming quite evident. Very cool in the am and evening with highs of about 80 during mid day.