Sadly, Dr. Preston whom I have worked for at his Family
Practice office for 9 years got diagnosed with ALS/Lou Gehrig’s Disease this
year. It’s been so hard to watch his
health deteriorate. Because of his
declining health, he sold his practice this year to another Family Practice
group in town. They took over Cherry
Tree Family Practice on October 1st of this year. And without much warning they left me know on
my last day of work when it was over that it would be my last day. I understood why they wouldn’t want to keep a
silly girl like me working just one half day a week, but I was still sad to say
goodbye to office staff and patients that I had worked with for almost a
decade. Dr. Preston arranged and paid
for all the Cherry tree staff and providers to have one last farewell dinner
together at Brick Oven Pizza.
It was
nice to have a proper night to visit and say goodbye to everyone.
I miss working in family practice and all the
people. And now, with the boys in
kindergarten and me not working in family practice, I found myself with
Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday AMs home without the kids. People keep asking me if I am going to pick
up more surgery shifts with the extra free days I have, but I think I will wait
until the boys are in 1st grade and gone the whole day rather than
just half the day. It was daunting at
first to have 3 mornings alone in the house without the kids, but I have
managed to fill and even over fill the time.
Tuesday mornings I usually go on a hike with Annie and other
neighborhood ladies, Wednesday morning I often hit the temple, and Thursday
mornings I volunteer in the boys classroom.
And, I am more free and available to go on school field trips and help
with classroom parties which has been fun.
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