One of my lifetimes I was a surgical technician. That meant that I was the first person in the room, I would scrub my hands thoroughly (10 minutes) and gown and glove myself and then start setting up the instruments for whatever surgery we were going to perform. It was a cool job as I got to see what few people could ever imagine. I actually got to put my hand on a beating heart one time. Wow, that was something that you’d never think you’d get to do on a job. It was a pretty cool job as far as jobs go but in the end the hours started interfering with being a single full time dad. I gave it up for an 8 to 5 Monday through Friday job. I’ve never regretted my decision as I felt I could always have a job but the opportunity to raise a son only came be once. When I lived in South Lake Tahoe I worked at Barton Memorial Hospital. It was much smaller than Sutter General whence I came from. As part of my job I had to put hours on the Code C team. When a Code C was announced w