Rick Kaskel, an internationally prominent pediatric nephrologist, has for many many years -- almost from the beginning -- been associated with our dialysis program. At all times during the summer the dialysis staff includes an MD nephrologist. Rick loves it here (both his daughters were campers and became counselors) and loves to visit. He's a member of the Board of Trustees and annually volunteers as a doc for at least a week. Well, this time he came for the first week of session 2 and found that the second nurse was unavailable, and so Doctor Rick became Nurse Rick, helping Maureen Eisele, our fabulous coordinator of the program. Rick's wife Phyllis joined us at the end of the week, just when Bill Abbott had come up for a long weekend. This photo shows, from right to left, Bill, Rick, Phyllis and Maureen. Today Eva Gottscho, now 94, came for a visit along with members of the Gottscho Foundation Board. More about Eva and her visit in another post, but I note here Eva's passionate praise for Maureen, who has committed herself to this project all summer for something like 8 summers. Everyone adores her, including and especially the kids. She stands in a long line of extraordinarily committed coordinators of this unusual program for kids with renal failure, among them Michele Palamidy, Stuart Kaufer, and Tamara Stephenson. If you don't know much about the program, be sure to read about it on the Frost Valley web site. I have to add that Rick and Phyllis have a third generation in camp this session: their granddaughter, Lauren--I think she is just 6, or maybe just 7--is in Pokey cabin 21. She won the cutest walk at Challenge Night, hands down.
Monday, July 23, 2007
Nurse Rick
Rick Kaskel, an internationally prominent pediatric nephrologist, has for many many years -- almost from the beginning -- been associated with our dialysis program. At all times during the summer the dialysis staff includes an MD nephrologist. Rick loves it here (both his daughters were campers and became counselors) and loves to visit. He's a member of the Board of Trustees and annually volunteers as a doc for at least a week. Well, this time he came for the first week of session 2 and found that the second nurse was unavailable, and so Doctor Rick became Nurse Rick, helping Maureen Eisele, our fabulous coordinator of the program. Rick's wife Phyllis joined us at the end of the week, just when Bill Abbott had come up for a long weekend. This photo shows, from right to left, Bill, Rick, Phyllis and Maureen. Today Eva Gottscho, now 94, came for a visit along with members of the Gottscho Foundation Board. More about Eva and her visit in another post, but I note here Eva's passionate praise for Maureen, who has committed herself to this project all summer for something like 8 summers. Everyone adores her, including and especially the kids. She stands in a long line of extraordinarily committed coordinators of this unusual program for kids with renal failure, among them Michele Palamidy, Stuart Kaufer, and Tamara Stephenson. If you don't know much about the program, be sure to read about it on the Frost Valley web site. I have to add that Rick and Phyllis have a third generation in camp this session: their granddaughter, Lauren--I think she is just 6, or maybe just 7--is in Pokey cabin 21. She won the cutest walk at Challenge Night, hands down.
