Greg Lund:  

Condensed from years of comments. Life After Millikan---- Courtesy of the Lottery (Draft as opposed to Mega Millions), I spent the next 10 years in the Military. Air Force and Army. Helo Mechanic to Flight Engineer to Pilot. (Pilot in the Army.) The Army time was 90 percent reserve time. GI bill and reserve money to get thru school. Since 1979 have been a practicing RN. Unclear of how I managed to go from aviation to medical, but it happened. Well yea, I do remember, since I was a lousy student, pretty much hated school, the lone saving grace was that I read a lot. I found out in the military I was smarter than I thought I was. Out of the Air Force into the Army reserve, flying out of Los Alamitos and going to school. Reserve pay and GI bill was a good thing. Decided on biology as major considering med school. Met the wife in an anthropology class. Married, kid on the way, fortune presented itself an went thru RN school at LBCC. Of the 40 plus years of practice the first 25 years was the emergency department.(Also did a short stint with LA Fire as a paramedic and instructor). Yes gunshots, trauma, heart attacks,asthma attacks, sundrie bumps bruises, and people with no place else to go. Managed disaster teams through a couple of fires, one race riot and an earthquake. In 2004 moved to radiology to try and slow down, (not working out to well there). placing lines, catheters, drains, the odd chest tube. Assisting in procedures that used to be done in surgery when we all were still going to Millikan. Now being done via CT Scan, Ultrasound, Fluroscopy minimal invasion of the body. Still doing a bit of teaching in the area of emergency medicine/nursing. My wife of 44 plus years is a Lakewood Grad. She too is an RN/retired. Two children, girls. Both in their 40s/s now. One is a lawyer now practicing law in the USMC. The other one failure to launch. Content to work here and there, pay bills, visit friends. DELETED A BUNCH OF STUFF THRU THE YEARS------all now irrelevant. January 2021--- Pandemic is the word of the day--months---Years? While the virus is real the numbers are crap. Bloated by the feds reimbursing cash, for attaching the Dx of COVID to the medical record. All patients are screened for COVID, if positive and the patient expires, from the fact that they are 80 years old, diabetic, cardiac disease and morbidly obese, and are covid positive...Expand for more