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This collection of memories is meant to be easy reading, hopefully humorous at times, devoid of the confusing and often depressing effects of “wokeness”, “cancel culture”, various “isms”, sex, violence, partisan politics, and other things that interfere with our God-given opportunity for living a good life.

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Publié par	AuthorHouse
Date de parution	12 janvier 2023
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9781665579575
Langue	English
Poids de l'ouvrage	3 Mo

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EXPECTATIONS, MEMORIES, AND A FEW THINGS LEARNED

Vignettes from a Good Life Lived To the Best of My Ability

Dr. Ed Stevenson

© 2023 Dr. Ed Stevenson. All rights reserved.

No part of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted by any means without the written permission of the author.

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ISBN: 978-1-6655-7958-2 (sc)
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Library of Congress Control Number: 2023900106

Published by AuthorHouse 01/12/2023

Contents
About the Author
About the Illustrator
List of Illustrations
About the Title
Dedication
Introduction
IN THE BEGINNING
Day Care
Mothers Know Everything
Economics
Big Sisters Are Important
Rowan Elementary School
Summer on the Block, or I Should Be Dead
LIFE IN THE STICKS
Switlik Elementary School
4-H
Walter Mitty
Pets
Snow Days
Sock Hops
Prom Night
Laney
CLEMSON
An Unceremonious Arrival
Churches
The Tiger Newspaper
The Relief Pitcher
James Bond Comes to the Bible Belt
With Highest Honors and More
Bug Dynamics
EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE
Tom
Naked Dead People
Amazing
Don’t Eat the Salad
The Color Red
Black Silk Panties
Please Don’t Tell My Mother
King Cotton
Doctor Joe
BIRMINGHAM
A Solid Gold Start
The Jerk
Dragon Slayer
“302, Cancel Your Call”
THE NAVY: IT’S NOT JUST A JOB; IT’S AN ADVENTURE
Lieutenant, Medical Corps, United States Naval Reserve
USS Sylvania (AFS-2)
Welcome Aboard
Permission Denied, or More Than One Way to Fight a War
Seeing Spots
Eye Color
The Streaker
The Great Wallenda?
No Means No?
Incredible
Just a Suggestion
Naval Aerospace Medical Institute, Pensacola, Florida
First in Jets
Rudder Shaker
WW1 German Ace Max Immelmann
Cleanup on Runway 7 Left
A Perfect Takeoff?
More Than Just Tailpipes
Air Wing One Aboard the USS John F. Kennedy (CV-67)
Small World
Horses of a Different Color
Bear Hunt
That’s Why They Call Them Crazy
Man Overboard, This Is Not a Drill
Ensign Jones
Told You So
“They Only Do That on TV, Harry”
Rabies
Catastrophic Engine Failure
Courage
Air Wing One Aboard the USS Dwight D. Eisenhower (CVN-69)
Shakedown
Naval Medical Center, Portsmouth, Virginia
Goodbye to Operational Medicine
Naval Medical Center, Camp Lejeune, North Carolina
I Chose Wisely
AFTER EVERYTHING NAVY
Carrollton, Georgia
A Pediatric Desert
Practicing Medicine for Fun and Profit
Bananas
Safer in an F-14A Tomcat
Single-Engine Land
Sherlock Holmes?
Amelia Island, Florida
The Florida House
A Six-Pack
I Always Wanted to Be a Cowboy
Population 93
Night Bear/Nightmare
On the Menu
Always Look Where You’re Going
I Ain’t “Lion”
The Dark Continent
On Shooting a Bush
OSE
From Sleeping in Trees
NO LIONS, TIGERS, OR BEARS, BUT …
Just About Everything Else
All Dogs, and Probably Cats …
THREE EXTRAORDINARY GENTLEMEN
No Stars for Captain Mitchell
John Henry Burson, III, PhD, MD, LTC US Army (Retired)
A $400 Friendship
MY VERY, VERY BEST MEMORY
Patricia Rose, or Seduced by a Frosty
ONE MORE THING

Cover: Although Alan Kuykendall of Carrollton, Georgia, admits that he has never seen the New Jersey or Leed’s Devil, this is what he imagines he looks like. Alan is also “responsible” for the rest of the book’s illustrations.
Amazing photographic and other help courtesy of Kash and Sherry Johnson of Classical Photography, Carrollton, Georgia.
About the Author
Dr. C. Edward “Ed” Stevenson, Jr., a retired pediatric and adolescent medical specialist, was nine when his family moved from Trenton, New Jersey, to a small town located in the Pine Barrens in Jackson, New Jersey, near Lakehurst Naval Air Station, Fort Dix, and McGuire Air Force Base. Where he grew up was, and some say still is, the home of the notoriously evil New Jersey or Leed’s Devil. He attended Clemson University in Clemson, South Carolina, graduating with highest honors, or summa cum laude in 1968. He was a member of the Clemson fencing team for four years. After a year of graduate work in environmental systems engineering at Clemson and after coauthoring his first professional paper, he attended Emory University School of Medicine in Atlanta, Georgia, receiving his MD degree in 1973.
Although he was in the Naval Reserve, he was allowed to do his first year of a pediatric and adolescent medicine residency at The Children’s Hospital of the University of Alabama in Birmingham, Alabama before going on active duty in the navy. In the navy, he served as the medical officer aboard an oiler (a refueling ship) and as the medical officer aboard a combat fast stores ship (a supply ship), making a major Mediterranean deployment aboard the latter. His commanding officer aboard the supply ship, a pilot, talked him into training as a flight surgeon, which he did.
After six months of training at Naval Aerospace Medical Institute (NAMI) in Pensacola, Florida, Dr. Stevenson was designated a naval flight surgeon in December of 1975 and was given orders to Air Wing One, which was homeported at Naval Air Station Oceana, Virginia Beach, Virginia. While attached to Air Wing One, he completed an intensive six-week training program in operational anesthesia and served as a medical officer observer at the United States Naval SERE (survival, evasion, resistance, and escape) School in Brunswick, Maine. He also made major deployments aboard the carriers John F. Kennedy (CV-67) and Dwight D. Eisenhower (CVN-69) to the Caribbean, North Atlantic, and the Mediterranean, and he accumulated many hours of flight time as “special crew” in various aircraft including the F-14A Tomcat, the KA-6D Intruder, the E-2C Hawkeye, the EA-6B Prowler, and various helicopters. He proudly reports that he had twenty-five “cat shots” (catapult launches) and, happily, twenty-five “traps” (arrested landings) while aboard the Kennedy . After serving as an air wing flight surgeon for two years, he received orders to serve as a flight surgeon at Naval Amphibious Base, Little Creek, Virginia, now known as Joint Expeditionary Base—Little Creek, home of several ashore and afloat commands including Naval Special Warfare Group 2 and its SEAL teams Two, Four, Eight, and Ten.
After six months at Little Creek, he finished his pediatric and adolescent medicine training and coauthored a second professional paper at Naval Medical Center, Portsmouth, Virginia, in 1978–1980. His last year in the navy was spent as a staff pediatrician at the naval hospital at Marine Corps Base, Camp Lejeune, Jacksonville, North Carolina, home of the Second Marine Division. While at Camp Lejeune, he also held an appointment with the teaching staff of East Carolina University School of Medicine. Though it was interesting work, Dr. Stevenson always looked forward to his Wednesday afternoon outings with Second Tank Battalion. He loved his marines. In 1981 then-commander Stevenson received an honorable discharge and moved to Carrollton, Georgia, where he joined the staff of the local hospital and eventually began and grew a private pediatric and adolescent medicine practice (Carousel Pediatrics, P.C.) to a highly respected five-pediatrician-and-one-nurse-practitioner organization. This he did while serving in several medical staff leadership and board positions, including chief of staff.
He says he can’t sing or dance, doesn’t cook, won’t play chess or backgammon as it takes too long to lose, or play anything else other than a CD. He does, however, do his own yard work as his health permits, tries to keep up with his wife’s honey-do list, watch Clemson football, and enjoy traveling. He has tried, unsuccessfully, to keep his wife in line. He and his wife have, over the years, cared for horses, goats, dogs, cats, guinea fowl, peafowl, tropical fish, a potbellied pig, honeybees, and a cow who knew how to jump field fences.
Dr. Stevenson is certified by the American Board of Pediatrics, previously held a medical license in Florida, and though retired (since 2009) he is still licensed to practice medicine and surgery in Georgia. Dr. Stevenson and his wife, Pat, a retired registered nurse and former medical practice administrator, own a small vacation home on Amelia Island, Florida, and previously owned a small home (the “Ranch”) in Bondurant, Wyoming, population ninety-three according to the 2010 census, where they enjoyed being a cowboy and a cowgirl.
Although taking care of infants, children, and young adults is what he did, that is not who he totally is. In short, he is a Christian; a husband, a father, a grandfather, and a great-grandfather; a patriotic naval veteran; a licensed private pilot; a previously licensed Coast Guard captain (twenty-five tons); a previously licensed private investigator in Georgia and Florida; a hunter and a fisherman; a conservationist; an animal lover; and more. He is a member of the Little River G