Mike's First AirMed Shift

Editor's Note: I tried to get Mike to write this post, but he proclaimed, "Kathryn, you are the chronologicaler in our household." Me, "You mean, I'm the historian?" "Yep." And he got up from the armchair in which I had him sequestered to take a nap.

Mike just returned from his first AirMed shift. It was in Rock Springs, Wyoming. What? You might be saying. But yes, they fly the whole crew from the Salt Lake City Airport to Rock Springs for 24 hours. He says they have a nice little apartment there, computers in every room with a pillowtop mattress on every bed.

They mostly do inter facility transports on a fixed wing 8 passenger airplane. At least I think that is what it is called. (And because Mike refuses to write this, he is just going to have to live with all the inaccuracies! :) ) When someone is being treated at the Rock Springs hospital, but needs more care than they can provide, AirMed transports them via an ambulance to the airport, shuttles them on the fixed wing to our airport and then transports them to the University of Utah hospital via ambulance for treatment. Mike's crew will then take a cab back to the SLC airport and fly back to Rock Springs.

When I asked Mike how he slept, his response, "Well, I tried to sleep, but I was just too excited, so I didn't get much rest." That's a big thing for Michael Timothy Kessel because this man can sleep anywhere at anytime and through just about anything.

It's nice for a wife to see her husband loving his job. As I stated in an earlier post, this job has been something Mike has worked hard for and has been yearning to get more than just about anything I have ever seen him want. He is a pretty content person, so to see him want something so bad and not get it the first time and then finally get it the second time around is very satisfying. And I also should say, that him getting this job has allowed or rather forced me to quit working from home and it's been wonderful!

Isn't he just too sexy in this? Okay, maybe too much information,
but really...you can't deny how awesome he looks.

Michaela sure misses her daddy when he's gone.