(Janae right here first, yet one more reminder that I’m on Ali’s Podcast HERE)
Hey everybody, it’s been a minute or two. I simply needed to chime in and write a fast visitor submit, sharing a life replace by way of the lens of Andrew. Listed below are a couple of snippets of life, not so as of significance, however slightly how they got here up in my digital camera roll.
Certainly one of my favourite footage proper now. We’re on our method to Hawaii, and the little man couldn’t assist however put on his new snorkel and fins all through the home. I’ve by no means tried this sort of masks earlier than, however I heard it’s all the craze for youthful youngsters!!
I’m nonetheless working within the Organ Donation world. I’m coming into my third yr on this position, and it has been a HUGE studying expertise. I really feel like I may do a whole submit on my job, however I’ll spare you this time; subsequent time, you received’t be so fortunate. I work on the donation facet of organ donation; it’s a very traumatic and difficult. I work with households who’re going by way of nightmares of shedding a beloved one.
People are wonderful, and even of their darkest moments, I discover individuals pondering of others and donating to present life and heal by way of organ donation. My precise job title is an Organ Donation Coordinator. My job is precisely that: I coordinate organ donation from begin to end, and I’m answerable for all the main points to make sure viable organs attain the correct particular person on the proper time. I work all through the state of Utah, in addition to elements of Idaho, Wyoming, and Nevada. Janae has talked about a couple of instances that I work on this discipline now, and I’ve had a couple of readers attain out to share their experiences, which suggests the world to me. Only recently, I had a reader inform us about her son’s expertise of receiving a coronary heart transplant. Tales like this assist me. Whereas I get to see the identify, location, and age of the recipient of an organ donation, I don’t get to listen to the life-changing tales, except the recipient writes to us or the donation household. I do love my job, even by way of all of the unhappiness, and stress. Every day is rarely the identical, and it may be very wild.
One other work image. Typically that is my transportation to work and I LOVE IT! In one other life, I might have beloved to have been a pilot. I like being within the air. Most days I drive to the hospital I shall be working at, however when it’s farther, I’ll fly on Life Flight’s fixed-wing (airplanes). Beck at all times asks me to ship footage after I fly!
That is how I survive the stress and decompress. My colleagues assume I’m loopy, however after an extended shift or within the OR, I would like one thing to decompress, so I discover myself most days or nights grinding on the coach to launch the emotions I’ve skilled that day.
That is how I do know that I’m having a very good summer season. My tan line from my watch is off the charts this yr.
It’s at all times a very good time when it’s New Bike Day! This was truly a couple of months in the past. I bought the Santa Cruz Hightower that I received again in 2020, and made some extra room for this man. For these biking nerds on the market, I’ve a Specialised Epic Evo, which options 120 mm of journey within the entrance and 110 mm of journey within the again. Once I’m married to a distance runner, I really feel like I have to do laborious issues too, so I began cross-country racing on mountain bikes.
I did my first bike race this final March, and I did it with Brooke’s dad. We love speaking bikes, and we truly deliberate to do that race when Brooke was within the hospital final yr. Once I first married Janae, I by no means would have thought that we might do one thing like that, however it’s humorous how life is! I’ve some massive objectives in biking over the subsequent few years. My final aim is to finish the Leadville Mountain Bike Race in beneath 9 hours. In case you full it in lower than 9 hours, you obtain a big belt buckle. It’s fairly the feat. I believe that is going to be a 5-year mission; perhaps it’s not doable. We are going to see. To narrate a bit higher to the runners on the market, it’s my “qualify for Boston”. Till then, it’s quite a lot of races throughout, plenty of driving within the mountains, and many coaching on my bike coach at dwelling.
Our present favourite date! She runs, and I bike together with her. I like Utah and the mountains. There are such a lot of locations to discover. I’ve given up making an attempt to maintain up operating with Janae. I can solely do it on two wheels now.
My present meals habit! There may be nothing higher than chocolate and cornflakes proper now. Dealer Joe’s has this, so get it whereas they’ve it.
Skye is loving ice hockey and I get to go skate and do stick time together with her each week! My biking pastime is fairly costly and takes up most of my little free time that I do have. However, if I had been to begin a brand new pastime, I believe would do rec ice hockey. Possibly it’s all that nostalgia from watching all of the Mighty Geese films.
I’m teaching Brooke’s soccer membership once more this yr. Final yr, I began a model new group, and it was actually enjoyable, though VERY time-consuming as properly. This yr, we mixed with one other group, and we moved right into a extra aggressive league. We simply received our first match, and we’re two video games into our season, undefeated to date.
We went to BYU’s Soccer season opener and the entire fam beloved it! Fortunately, this was an earlier recreation, so Beck and Janae stayed up the complete time, haha! We’re stoked for an additional season of soccer at our dwelling!
Thanks for letting me take over the weblog for the day. I hope you’re all having a improbable day!!!
Questions:
Those that experience, what’s your present bike? What’s subsequent?
Do you’ve gotten a particular aim that you’re working in direction of that scares you? What’s it? What are you doing to finish it?
What’s your go-to favourite deal with proper now?
