MeiMei講話中...嘟～

2010年9月1日星期三

新工作

換來新的崗位上也有一陣子了。

我從七月自己慢慢摸索，
試誤學習，
終於在看診上現在已經順暢許多，
接下來要往開刀房裡面進攻。

一切都是篳路藍縷沒錯。

沒有開刀的科別一下子要開始開刀，
一定是缺這個缺那個，
一點都沒錯。

撇開一切不流暢的龜速行政程序不講，
今日進開刀看機器，
順到預告有CASE要來開刀了，
希望OR也要好好準備。

當然...
我自己也要好好準備...

2010年6月30日星期三

I ran my check-in procedures and met my lab boss today. As a new comer, I needed security exam before entering NIH, similar to that at the airport. NIH has a big campus, 27 institutes, and many many buildings and trees, similar to a big American university.

My lab is Neurobiology, Neuroregeneration & Retinal Repair Lab (NNRL) at the National Eye Institute. My boss is an Indian with a kind smile. He lead me to go through the lab and introduced me to everyone one by one. I'm amazed that this lab has 55 people, consisting of official NIH employees, post-doc, MD PHD, and students. They came from various countries, including China, Korea, Japan (a male Tokyo ophthalmologist), Thailand, India, Poland, Netherland, Russia, a female neurosurgeon, and so on. However, perhaps I'm the first of the lab from Taiwan. This lab is much bigger, compared to any NCKU lab, and can be divided into three or four branches or groups. Every bench is clean and is not crowded. Every worker, including I, has a seat and table in the lab, a desk computer, and a bench.

It seems that my first job is to do subretinal transplantation of gene-modified stem cells. Two researchers will discuss with me tomorrow.

I currently lives a temporary room at a house in Rockville City, neighboring to Bethesda City, which is the location of NIH. I need to walk 20 mins to the station, take the subway for 20 mins, and walk 20 mins to the lab. My wife and 2 younger children are now at my friend in Deleware State, 2 hours away from here. My first son is now at my brother in law in New Jersey State, 4 hours away. I'm finding a suitable house rental for my whole family and hope to settle down before semester. We saw a beautiful house (USD 620,000), but the rent is USD 2,400 per month (= NTD 75,000/month). Everything is expensive here: bread and other food are twice than in Taiwan, health & car insurances are 4 times higher. Only oil, coke and car may be cheaper.

It's a totally new life, new job, new thinking and new style. I can not totally understand English that people say, can not totally figure out the money card of subway, and do not know most of the lab work. I'll stay here for 100 weeks and hope to achieve some wonderful experiences and results before coming back.

I already opened an account in Skype, and created a Facebook with my Chinese name and probably will post my photos some day after. You can not imagine that the sunset here is 20:30 and the weather is as hot as in Tainan. But there are trees, wood, small animals and birds everywhere. I saw a racoon 浣熊 at night, a wild rabbit and many squirrels. I was told that deer and fox would appear at the back wood if I would decide that beautiful house.

See you soon.

Sincerely,

Yi-Sheng Chang

2010年6月29日星期二

小桔子受傷咧

今天抱起小桔子玩耍的時候，
赫然發現他的左後腳的腳底好像受傷了？！

仔細一看，果真沒錯!!!
依我小小的醫理判斷，
可能已經一兩個禮拜，
而且可能有東西卡在裡頭，
因為旁邊的組織都發紅發腫，
給他壓壓，
桔子痛得哇哇叫。

當機立斷我CALL了狐狸，
一起帶他又去獸醫院。

今天又換個獸醫師，
但依舊是溫柔的女醫師。

他先看看腳底，
也是懷疑，
見他就拿起 Kelly Forceps把結痂的地方抓掉，
然後繼續用針頭把foreign body挑出來。

接著細心的噴噴消毒劑，上優碘，
包紮起來。

然後小桔子就要這樣忍受個一兩天，
看他跳阿跳甩阿甩真不忍心，
但是...
為了你好，你還是乖乖忍耐兩天喔！寶貝~~~

歷史性的一刻

雖然我已經不迷網球好一陣子了，
但是大滿貫賽事還是會關心。

想說今年我的愛Andy Roddick已經順利闖關，
沒想到遇到台灣代表盧彥勳~~~
那......
只好破例為LU加油囉~~~抱歉啦~小安安!

真是場精采比賽。

這樣的開心之情真是久久不能平復。

當台灣終於有人可以在政治以外的場合，
尤其是運動場上發光發熱的時候，
是不是除了祝福以外，
也要想到如何永續經營呢？

相關連結請看

美國雅虎
美國人跌破眼鏡

2010年6月28日星期一

2010少見的網誌文

礙於近來沒有去吃喜酒，
也沒有快樂出遊，
照片數量就這樣狂下降，
只有天天在家裡拍小桔子，
跟小桔子玩耍等等"宅"遊戲了。

所以最多的是小桔的相片。
瞧他多會擺POSE....

不過大多數時間他在家是這樣的......

然後奇怪的是，
五月份我都沒甚麼印象，
六月就這樣也快過去了?!

只記得六月是倒數時間，
我請假了...準備考試，
但是之前還是有到新門診看一次唷!!!

新的二診~~~

新的眼科門面~

新的初診區~~

阿媚~大家的好朋友~~~

對！這就是我們主任~~令人敬愛的主任喔~~~

大家合照是一定不能少的：

之後我就宅在家裡了。

也不全然，生活中還是很多小小雜事需要處理。

例如，
新醫院的工作面試、體檢，
環境介紹之類的....都在這期間慢慢的進行。

昨天很悶就跑出去走走。
不過也沒走遠，
就在民權路上的"公會堂"也就是所謂的"吳園"晃晃~

才發現裡面好多小朋友情侶們，
原來那是個約會好地點？！

古色古香，雖然會一直有華威影城爆米花的味道飄來......