Farewell Spit

                                   Cape Farewell the northern most point of the North Island

                                       My son Jeffery jumping his way through New Zealand

GOD DEFEND NEW ZEALAND - Short version

FIRST TIME VOTING IN THE NATIONAL ELECTION

ALL BLACKS VS AUSTRALIA AT EDEN PARK

Had the opportunity to take my wife Bonny and my son Jeffery to the holy shrine of New Zealand rugby Eden Park in Auckland. We saw a rugby clinic put on by the All Blacks as they thrashed the Australian Wallabies 51-20 to win the Beldisloe Cup.

New Zealand Residency

Atrial Septal Aneurysm with Large PFO on Bubble Study

55 year old with no risk factors for stroke presents with right hemianopia, some right hand clumniness and expressive and receptive dysphasia. CT of the brain confirms left middle cerebral ischemic stroke. Transthoracic 2D Echo demonstrates a atrial septal aneurysm with a large patent foram oval.

                                   Bubble study shows large right to left shunt across the PFO.
Patient was started on warfarin and will undergo percutaneous closure of the PFO with Amplazer occluder device under TOE guidance in Wellington.

HOME FOR A WEDDING AND GRADUATION

                                    Yippee ci yo from daughter Kirsten's new home in Texas!!

                                             Jeffery youngest sons graduation CU Boulder

                                               The whole family out for graduation brunch.

                               Group of Kiwi's we met at my sons graduation in Boulder, Co.
                                With Amen my former consultant at Palmerston North Hospital.

                                               Niece Ashley and Ron at wedding in Conn.

                                                                    The happy couple

                                                                    Ron and Marilyn