The Slopes of Sunday River

4/14/2007
So on Tuesday I was sitting in the office doing some paper work and strike up a conversation with the PT supervisor about running and skiing. I tell her that I was thinking about going snowboarding this weekend. She tells me that the slopes at Sunday River are great and that it's too bad I can't go during the week because she has a coupon for a free mid-week pass. Jokingly, I say something about my CI having a conference or something Wednesday. She gets really excited and says that I should seriously ask her if it would be ok. I'm thinking "Yeah right! That would go over well- asking for a day off to go snowboarding after I had a day off last week because of snow". So I kind of just forget about and say I have the day filled with observing at the pool and cardiac therapy.

Later on when my CI is also in the office, the PT supervisor actually asks her for me! Pretty much saying it would be a great opportunity for me to get out there and snowboard before the snow is gone (which doesn't seem to be happening any time soon). Well, my CI turns out to be all about it. I even tried to say that maybe I should do this other things and she was insistant on it.

So needless to say, I spent Wednesday snowboarding for about 5 1/2 hours at Sunday River. There was hardly anyone there. The snow was a little wet as it was quite warm, but it still was awesome. It was great to board in the mountains again rather than the great hills of Minnesota. However, I did forget to wear sunscreen and managed to get some pretty nasty burn lines. One patient looked at my on thursday with sincere concern and asked "What happened?" It wasn't good. The lights in the clinic make it look even worse, but I'm peeling now so I should be back to baseline soon.





Nothing else too exciting happened this week. I'm starting to get more and more patients on my case load which is nice. I had to do a TMJ eval, which reinforced how much I don't like working with TMJ problems. Teeth Apart Tounge Up!





The weather today was the warmest and sunniest it has been the whole time I've been here; Which is encouraging since, we had yet another snow storm on Thursday. I had to park down at the horse farm about 1/4 mile from my house to make sure I could get out and actually make it to work. I should have borrowed a horse. But today was beautiful. I went for about a 5 mile run. I then took a drive down to Bailey's Island with juts out into the ocean. It was a cool shoreline and will be even cooler once things turn green. It might also be a nice place to catch a sweet sunset some night. Thankfully I was able to catch a little time out in the nice weather today as there is another storm of some sort planned for tomorrow. Weather here is as messed up here as in Minnesota.





Well, I'm going to try and start working on getting a job. Wish me luck!