We're Okay
12 September 2001
I thought I would send a short e-mail in case anyone was wondering about how we were after the events of Tuesday morning here in New York and Washington. I heard about the first plane hitting the World Trade Center as I was getting dressed about 6am. Once I got to work and found my first case for the day was coincidentally cancelled, I watched the coverage on CNN for much of the morning. Strangely it was a year to the day since we were on top of the World Trade Center:
The few people we know in New York are all okay; it was easier to contact people by e-mail or ICQ than try to phone them as there were no available phone lines to New York for much of the day. The only disruption we suffered here in San Francisco was the closure of the airport, which was only an inconvenience as we were planning to rent a car this weekend to go to play "Laser tag" in Mountain View and the car rental places at the airport are also closed.
Robert's office was evacuated on Tuesday morning since the most prominent building in San Francisco, the TransAmerica Pyramid, is directly outside his window. Everything is okay at Digitas, but they're not sure about some of their clients who had head offices in or around the World Trade Center.
Last weekend we went to Sausalito on the ferry, which is a half hour ride across San Francisco Bay:
The ferry goes quite close to Alcatraz, which we visited a few weeks ago:
It was a surprisingly small prison (a capacity of about 300) and the island is now a bird sanctuary and national park.
Work has been increasingly busy as I am being rostered to two operating rooms with a trainee in each instead of just one room. The one thing at work I had to take a picture of was the bucket in the corner of the recovery room:
which is filled with pulse oximetry sensors. Rather than having reusable ones which last for years like we do at home, they discard the sensor at the end of each case. Some patients get two or three: if it doesn't work well on one finger, they put a new one on another. There were another two buckets of them on the floor, but I figured one picture would do.
We have made a few new friends here, so the social calendar is starting to fill up. This weekend we have the laser tag game on Saturday with some guys from the gym (it's a game where you run around in a dark building shooting each other with lasers while wearing a sensor vest which counts how many times you get shot). On Sunday we're going to a party at Waterworld, a waterslide park outside San Francisco.
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The few people we know in New York are all okay; it was easier to contact people by e-mail or ICQ than try to phone them as there were no available phone lines to New York for much of the day. The only disruption we suffered here in San Francisco was the closure of the airport, which was only an inconvenience as we were planning to rent a car this weekend to go to play "Laser tag" in Mountain View and the car rental places at the airport are also closed.
Robert's office was evacuated on Tuesday morning since the most prominent building in San Francisco, the TransAmerica Pyramid, is directly outside his window. Everything is okay at Digitas, but they're not sure about some of their clients who had head offices in or around the World Trade Center.
Last weekend we went to Sausalito on the ferry, which is a half hour ride across San Francisco Bay:
The ferry goes quite close to Alcatraz, which we visited a few weeks ago:
It was a surprisingly small prison (a capacity of about 300) and the island is now a bird sanctuary and national park.
Work has been increasingly busy as I am being rostered to two operating rooms with a trainee in each instead of just one room. The one thing at work I had to take a picture of was the bucket in the corner of the recovery room:
which is filled with pulse oximetry sensors. Rather than having reusable ones which last for years like we do at home, they discard the sensor at the end of each case. Some patients get two or three: if it doesn't work well on one finger, they put a new one on another. There were another two buckets of them on the floor, but I figured one picture would do.
We have made a few new friends here, so the social calendar is starting to fill up. This weekend we have the laser tag game on Saturday with some guys from the gym (it's a game where you run around in a dark building shooting each other with lasers while wearing a sensor vest which counts how many times you get shot). On Sunday we're going to a party at Waterworld, a waterslide park outside San Francisco.
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