Moving along

It has been a long time.

I did say that this would be sporadically updated... at best.

News on our front. We have both quit our jobs.

Done as of February 14th.

Never to return.

We have not yet found a practice. We have not yet found a location to open cold. We are simply fed up with our jobs and our lives here in Atlanta, GA. It is time to move on.

I feel that it will be much easier to find a practice or a practice location if we are actually living in/nearby the community we end up settling in.

To help ease our transition back to the Pacific Northwest we have taken a temporary position in Nome Alaska. We will be working in and around Nome for 3 weeks every 6 weeks or so until September.

Our first three weeks begin with our departure from Atlanta to Nome on February 14th. We will then have a week of Diabetic eye exams, a week of flying into small villages around Nome (sleeping at the clinic eating TV dinners) and then a week of general care in Nome.

We are very excited by this opportunity. Number one it will be a great adventure to add to our many previous adventures and number 2 it will challenge us professionally.

Having worked predominately commercial optometry for the past 5 years I really feel that my skills have eroded somewhat. It will be nice to be the only eye people in the community and be forced to deal with whatever presents. It will be a mini optometric boot camp.

Following our three weeks in Nome we'll be visiting some friends and family in the Northwest and then back to GA to put the finishing touches on our home to prepare it for (hopefully a quick) sale. We'll then head back to Nome for another three weeks.

During our off time from Nome we'll do fill-in work and scope out the Northwest for practices for sale and locations if we can't find a good practice to purchase.

Our proposed venture to Private practice had an initial deadline of Fall 2008. This may be extended as we've also applied for a position that may or may not be available come next January (position is in New Zealand).

As of February 14th, however, we are done working commercial unless it is supplementing a private practice.

We're excited!