Last night Deedra had set up a dinner at a local restaurant for me to meet up with any of my friends & family who wanted to see pictures of my travels and hear any stories I could think of, answer questions & just all-around enjoy their fellowship.

Counting Deedra & I, there ended up being eight of us there.  I had a few friends who had to cancel for important reasons. (Congrats Courtney on your first shift as a medic!!!)  But, I want to really say thank you to Michelle for being a good friend, looking at all my pictures and listening to all my babbling.  Michelle and her husband were the only people there that I do not consider family.  (Casey is friend-of-the-family status for long enough that she counts as family.)  I also want to give a special thank you to Deedra for being so great as to have the idea, inviting people, figuring out the when & where, and everything else.  Even when I was really not in the mood yet to socialize, she knew this was the thing to start planning for when the time was right.  Thank you honey.

I am actually a bit sad that more people haven't shown an interest.  I actually was prepared for just this situation.  My friends & even Deedra who are a lot more experienced in mission trips all said it is normal.  But, it's sad anyway.

Michelle & Deedra have both expressed a desire to go next year.  I plan on getting anyone who wants info all they can handle.  The contacts at New Life are the people to get a hold of.  I would love to see more people from Indiana go.  Even if I am not able to go myself ($, time off, whatever) than I'd love to know that someone would be there and people would say "I'm here because Christopher told me about the time he went..."

I'd love to see another employee or two from AMR go.  But, that is really really going to be a challenge with the current PTO policy.  As it is right now, only one medic and one emt can have any given day off.  So, with our schedule that means a max of two medics could go (if they works opposite rotations AND both could get all their PTO approved.)  This does not apply to part-time employees or those who do not work at AMR.  So, I am still giving out info to anyone in the area who does not have to deal with such a problematic policy.  I'd also love to see a doctor from Evansville go...that would be WAY cool.

Okay, I'm gonna go again.  Time to work on other things.

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