I'm working at our small town clinic today, way out on the Kitsap Peninsula. It's so nice and quiet here.

[Aristus]

It's my second time working here. It's slow, pleasant, unhurried, and I can more or less spend as much time as I need to with a patient, without constantly worrying about having to move on to the next exam room and the next patient.

The manager at this clinic used to be a Medical Assistant with whom I worked nearly twenty years ago before I left for PA School. So it's been nice catching up.

I could get used to this.

Yeah, it's a long drive out from Puyallup, but it's worth it.

[mitch96]

1. I've never heard of the Kitsap Peninsula. I looked it up and it looks like a nice place..nt

[Aristus]

2. Yeah, on the map, it's the arrowhead pointing up the middle of Puget Sound.

It's a bit more republican out here than in Tacoma. Some yard signs for the GOP nominee for Governor. But nothing really awful.

[EYESORE 9001]

3. I visited Poulsbo years ago

It is just a peaceful as you say.

[Harker]

4. Having read many of your posts regarding your previous situation...

I'm happy for you.

I can read the difference in your post here.

[3catwoman3]

5. What a luxury not to feel rushed.

On the 31st, it will be 3 years since I happily retired.

My husband recently asked me if I had any interest in going back to work. Shortly before he asked me this, I'd had 2 nightmares about being back at work. In each one, I was not in my familiar setting of a pediatric office, but back being a bedside nurse, in an unfamiliar hospital, with no orientation and no one willing to show me around, and taking care of adult patients.

In one of the dreams, I was handed a sheet of paper torn out of a spiral notebook, with the names and phone numbers of 30 patients I was supposed to call during my lunch break. No other information about patient age, history, or why they needed to be called. Aauuugggghhhhh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

So, my answer to my husband's questions was an emphatic, "NO!"