Last Days at UCLA

This is the final week at UCLA for me. After nearly 9 years there are things about this institution that feel familiar and comfortable. I guess that just comes with time spent somewhere. In these past years there have been friendships that I have developed that will be treasured but now a new page is being turned and a challenging opportunity that I must accept. USC here I come.

Good bye UCLA, you have been a friend and educator, challenger and comforter. So its good bye to you for now UCLA. I will never forget you. You have given me a graduate degree and friends and for this I will always love you. Tomorrow is always another day.

Greetings USC

The day that I have worked for has finally arrived. It has been such a long journey these past 15 years or so that I have dreamed of this day. From the very beginning of my career in nursing, the reason I became a nurse, the reason that I went back to school in the first place, was to become a Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist. Its a long story and one that I will tell some day but for now suffice it to say that all of the hard work and effort has finally paid off. Really I am at the beginning of a new day and another life. There have been several of those in my time and this one is certainly one of the most significant.

Starting school again next week at USC in the Nurse Anesthesia program in the Keck school of medicine will be certainly be challenging and I have an excitement about it that has just kept my focus keen. These past weeks I have arranged all of the finances and purchased most of the text books that I will be using. All of the incoming students have each others Email address and a few of us have been in contact with each other. Talk about getting excited, there are some of the students that will be relocating from across the country and one from Hawaii. In a couple of days a new story will begin that I am sure will long in the telling.

The CRNA program is 24 months long with only a few days off. There will be no breaks and the time constraints will increase as the program continues. I have it as a goal to keep this, what ever it is “Blog”, going during school. Hopefully, there will not be too patchy updates.

Tommy Trojan my new mascot, I salute you.