ACP in NOLA Day #4 “Bad News, Good News, and Great News”

This morning I planned on attending a 7 AM lecture for the 3rd day in a row.  I awoke at about 4 AM and decided rather than playing Duolingo, Wordle, and checking emails I would close my eyes for one more second.  When I next opened them it was 6:58 AM.   At that point it was unlikely that I would make it to the 7:00 AM lecture so I just closed my eyes again and smiled.  What a wonderful feeling it is to get a good night’s sleep.  I finally got my act together and made it to the 8:00 AM lecture and those that followed.  Today was a good day in which I learned all sorts of great tips that will help my patients and me. 

Mid day we met for a quick lunch at the nearby Mulate’s (201 Julia St, New Orleans, LA 70130) so I could get back to the conference.  The main courses were okay but the highlight was the dessert.  So here at the request of Eric is a photo of a dessert: beignets filled with Nutella. 

The highlight of the meeting occurred today when Patrice and I saw a UCLA Health VIP. Yes, Janet, one of the high level doctors at UCLA Health was at the conference. We chatted briefly then Janet told Patrice that I was a UCLA superstar.  How could I not love that? 

That’s all good news but I’m sure you are asking “What is the great news?”  Turns out that one of my sister’s high school classmates is in town and we will be seeing him tonight.  Many years ago I recall looking through my sister’s high school annual.  I was curious to see what she looked like when she was 18.  I wondered if she looked anything like what I remembered.  After finding her I looked at the other students.  Suddenly I stopped and yelled out, “ANNETTE, YOU WENT TO HIGH SCHOOL WITH SIMON AND GARFUNKEL?”.  As I recall she said, “Who?”.  So tonight we will be seeing Paul Simon perform. Much to my amazement we could buy excellent seats at a very affordable price.  We looked online and saw that balcony seats for his performance in Los Angeles cost far more than we paid for seats in the orchestra section for tonight’s performance. 

Home now.  Too tired to write more. I’ll tell you all about the concert tomorrow.