So much has happened since the last post!!! All good!I am now in Webequie and loving it. I was delayed a day because of the weather and had another little melt down and then once I did get out I was the only passenger in a 6 seater plane with 2 young pilots -1 from Newmarket and the other from Shanty Bay just north of Barrie. It was pretty funny. I figured this must be a good omen for the future!!The other nurse here has worked in this village for the past 9 years and knows everyone.There is a big Whitehead family here as well with the cleaning lady at the nursing station being a Whitehead. She is quite young so I call her my long lost daughter.The other nurse Marie is very helpful and has just finished her nurse practitioner course so she knows alot too. I aspire to be like that one day!!! Again we have had alot of Medivacs but no overdoses here yet. Last night we had a 23 yr old guy try to hang himself -wasn't very successful at all thank goodness-so we had to medivac him out this morning. One of the pilots was the same guy who was up here on saturday night so I'm guessing you get to know everyone eventually! I took a walk around the community and there was not one rusted out car or truck on anyones front lawn which was a lovely difference - and alot of lawns were cut. The first night here I heard a lawn mower which has been unusual for anywhere other than the nursing station.
There is an overgrown garden in our backyard with a wooden picket fence around it that is not high enough to keep out a husky who jumps over it everyday and has a snooze on our back porch.Don't worry - I haven't started feeding him-yet! I definitely have plans for the garden starting with some tulip and daffodil bulbs to plant in October when I come back. I will have to do some research on Zone 1 gardening.
There is a really nice big school and an outdoor arena with boards and penalty boxes that I am looking forward to teaching some synchro skating on!! I am going to be in charge of school programs which will be fun to teach the kids healthy eating, handwashing , and probably doing the school immunizations as well.I'll have to ask Sarah for some ideas!!
I have a lovely 1 bedroom apartment with satellite Tv and the internet. It is attached to the clinic which is nice when you are "on call" and you have to see someone in the clinic in the middle of the night. There is a security guard who works nights and is an amazing artist.He has been painting on a couple of hand drums since I have been here and they are quite amazing. The whole native support staff at the clinic are very good and helpful. I am really very happy here.
I am home in 2 days which makes me really , really happy!Looking forward to seeing my family and friends.It has been a very long time to be away and it is nice to know that I won't ever be away for this long again!
Looking forward to seeing everyone soon.
Norma