 It was really a joy and a blessing to finally get to come to the Steadman Clinic to do the foot and ankle fellowship. I'm actually active duty Air Force and tried a few years ago when there was an open spot. It was just very blessed that Dr. Clanton was willing to accept me into a program like the Steadman Clinic. Dr. Clanton and Dr. Hayton Manick both are amazing examples of compassion and patience, which are sometimes skills that surgeons don't have. At a place like this where you're the top of the food chain and people are coming to you for some of the most challenging problems that they can present with to be able to sit down and concisely speak with them through it and explain to them what's going on, why it's going on, and what they can expect reasonably I think is really the art of medicine. It's been a great year sharing the foot and ankle service with Dr. Larkins. He and I actually trained at the same facility, although almost a decade apart. How much I appreciate him picking a little bit of slack up for me as I was running back and forth between here and Colorado Springs with my family. He and his family are amazing and he's so full of energy and wants to learn and do everything and all the fellows are like that. It's breathtaking. You can't even describe how beautiful a morning is waking up in Vail with fresh snow on the ground and the trees and to be able to learn and some days just look out the window and appreciate the beauty. It's been fantastic.