Not good news this week. Just found out that the second reading on the MRI of my foot did, indeed, reveal a stress fracture. Bummer. All because of those Vibram Five Finger shoes! Not a fan of them anymore! Called Ben and Kelli and found out my nephew Cameron has a stress fracture as well from them! Called Benjamin immediately and told him to stop running on them. Went online and I guess a LOT of people are having stress fractures with them! Oh well, they will make nice water shoes. Called my friend Pete Mitchell (a foot/ankle ortho specialist) and discussed my situation. Final decision is that I can continue to try to do eliptical, spin, swim, and P90X as tolerated! Whew. I did not just want to try to swim for 2-3 hours a day for my last month!
Starting to get ready to come back home. Sold my car this week to one of the new docs. We had our Hail and Farewell party to welcome the new officers and say farewell to the ones leaving. The picture shows four of our five new docs and our ER department head. Our DH as well as the head of all medical specialites had very kind words to say about me when they said farewell. It made me feel that my time here was truly important, worthwhile, and appreciated!
We started collecting weird car names when the kids were here this summer. I am not sure why the cars here and in Japan in general don't have "traditional" Japanese names (like my Suzuki "Kei" car) but they just don't. In fact, they have quite unusual names so I figured I would share some of the more interesting with all of you back in the US.
I found that some names are religious (the Toyota "Noah" for example), some describe what the owners like to drink (the Daihatsu "Cocoa"), some describe what the owners like to do (the Toyota HiLux "Surf"), and others what the owner might be carrying in the vehicle (the Toyota "FunCargo"). Others have directions for tailgaters behind them [Daihatsu "Move," the Daihatsu "Mira" (spanish for "look"), and the Suzuki "Alto" ("stop" in spanish)]. Still others are either overtly (the Daihatsu "Naked") or covertly sexual in nature (the Mitsubishi "Pajero"- I will let you look up that one in Spanish as it is not really appropriate to publish). They also like to secretly curse in spanish as well (the Mazda "La Puta"). Finally, they just have some bizarre ones such as the Mazda "Scrum," the Suzuki "Every" and the Honda "That's". I think the "That's" has got to be my favorite!
Only 8 shifts and less than a month to go! Football season is coming up. GO CATS!
LCDR Butler
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