Surgery Day

Nate had hip surgery yesterday.  It was a very long day, starting with us waking up at 4:30 am to get to the hospital, then waiting around for a long time.  Then he went into surgery, and even though the surgeon said there were very few risks and those were not life or death types of risks, I was still scared.  But the doc came back out half an hour sooner than he thought and was very happy with how it had gone.  Nate was pretty loopy right after surgery, but recovered quickly from the anesthesia and didn't really sleep at all afterwards.  We finally left the hospital and headed home.  Today was a lot of running around getting Nate's equipment set up and then switched out and getting out pudding cups and ginger ale.  Thanks to Gary and Allie for staying with Nate while I went to get his prescriptions and for bringing us dinner today.  Appreciate it so much.  Hope that Nate can heal and be healthy again. 

Earthquake/GPS

Today our company was testing out the seismic shake table we built.  A company had asked to test out some GPS equipment on it, and we needed to test the software anyway, so I got to help out with that.  Well really I mostly observed, but I tried to ask good questions and at least hope I understand how to install the system.  Anyway, it was close to what I was doing in grad school and was really exciting for me to see everything working.  I wish I was working here longer and I could get more involved in this side of the engineering work. 

Also, Nate got another interview at a med school in Arizona.  Not sure why God sends along all these little complications in life.  Arizona is more west than Florida though.