"I'm still alive" post #2

Yes, yes, I know. I'm a negligent blogger. After the horrible cough came the MICU, where I work 14 hour shifts and feel stupid and bad about myself almost every single day. Because that's just the way the MICU works. Then the cough came back. And I still have another two and a half weeks of MICU ("medical ICU") left.

I've been keeping tabs on the Mississippi River flood and, apparently, Vicksburg made the national news today! I've had numerous people message or call me to ask if my family is okay (which, thank goodness, they are). Although this flood is a terrible thing for many families and I don't at all want to minimize that, it is at the same time historic and fascinating to me as someone who grew up on the river. I'm thinking of bribing people to take daily pictures of it for me. It's made me more homesick than ever and if I were on a rotation where I had any shot at getting a weekend off, I would fly home in a heartbeat just to see it. The pictures I've seen on the Vicksburg Post's website are already so strange.

I hope everyone back home is staying safe and dry!