As we all know we had an incredible snowstorm this past week. We got hit with about 18 inches in less than 12 hours. Because RHS sees patients 7 days a week (every day but Christmas day and New Years Day) patients were scheduled for Saturday morning. What a nightmare! Dr. Kubik, who was on call over the weekend, got a call at 5:30 from Bernadette our embryologist, the one person who is in fact more critical than the physician, because she is the one that has to prepare the embryos for transfer. Trees were down, roads were blocked and there was no way for her to get to RHS. Electricity was out for the other embryologist so there was no way to get in contact with her. Back up plans were immediately made. Our weekend receptionist is none other than Dr. Kubik’s soon to be 80-year-old mom, Norma. Dr. Kubik called her at 6 am (no answer) - because she was on her way to the office!! Her roads were snowy but plowed. Everything was plowed EXCEPT the road leading to our office and our parking lot. Undaunted, Norma drives her car (a Jeep) up the unplowed road, parks about 50 feet from the door, uses (according to her) a handbag on either side for balance, trudges through the 18 inches of snow, hauls the back door open, makes a pot of coffee and gets to work. Of the 8 people scheduled to work, 5 people made it so a big thanks to each of them.
By the time everyone was ready to leave (and after some calls to our landlord about plowing the parking lot), the snowplows had arrived. Thank goodness, because in the meantime, we got 3 more inches of snow and the plows had to dig each of the staff out one by one.
We had one patient that actually made it into the office, what a trooper! The embryologist did end up making it in to tend to the embryos and RHS was back to a normal routine by Sunday morning.
Everyone made it home safe and sound.
