It’s all in the way you look at things…
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….the next challenge involved relocating to the other side of the world to complete my anaesthesia training. But first a few hurdles had to be jumped over. Firstly I had to get a job overseas so that we could combine travel and work, something that I’d always dreamed of doing and will continue to do in the future.
I decided to try my luck in the USA because I had a few contacts to write to and we have family that live there. Anyway after many letters and faxes I flew over to interview at the Boston Children’s Hospital and the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. I wanted to continue my training in paediatric anaesthesia.
My first choice was to work and live in Boston but as luck would have it CHOP offered me a job first. Unsure what to do I called the Boston Children’s Hospital and fortunately they too offered me a position as a fellow in paediatric anaesthesia. I was due to start 1st June 1996.
Back home to finish my Australian training, pass a couple more examinations so that I was able to get a medical licence in the state of Massachusetts and have another baby.
My second child was born on the 25th March 1996 and on the 13th May 1996 all 4 of us left for the USA. The house in Melbourne got packed up and rented out and after a very long flight we arrived in Boston to our apartment in Longwood Towers. We had arranged furniture rental prior to our arrival so we were able to go straight from the airport to our new home. We had 2 weeks to settle in and buy the basics before work started for me.
Now this might sound like an extremely daunting task, leaving family, friends and an established life to take our chances in an unknown place but the truth is that people do this kind of thing all of the time and many of them in much worse circumstances than us.
We looked at this relocation as a great adventure and a challenge there was no negativity for us whatsoever. Compare this to those people who have no choice but to leave their homes because of wars, persecution or natural disasters.
Remembering this time in my life makes me realise that our attitudes and emotions have a huge impact on our perceptions of the events that occur in our lives.
Are you a glass half-full or a glass half-empty kind of person?
Do you spend your life looking for positives or negatives?
What have you brought into your life?
…interesting questions to ponder!
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