Marian Medical Center

You know those annoying websites that are down because they are "under construction"? Well, this is a type of construction that blew my mind. I have never seen anything so big, so high tech, and so complex. On Saturday Charley, my father in-law took the family to the Marian Medical Center. This is where he is currently working as a superintendent. I know he works very hard to keep food on the table, roof over the head, and the most difficult, keeping his family of all girls happy. 

  

 We're heading off to the hospital...

This is the NICU. There will be about 21 rooms here curtained off for privacy.

 This is inside one of the ICU rooms where patients will receive closer and more intense treatment.

Charley took us to the top of the roof, showed all the piping for the water and also the main Marian Medical Center sign. 

Coming out of the elevators you'll be surrounded by three similar tile artwork. This flows well with the spanish mission style the hospital gives.

For those patients who cannot lift their own weight, these bars which Danielle so lovingly is demonstrating can lift them. I believe this can lift up to 500 lbs.

 Charley had all the keys to the secret entrances haha. This was an electrical room which puts any business management college student to awe.

I believe this one of the large electrical rooms. Much bigger than the picture shows.

 These walls and glasses have been protected by a bulletproof glass window and bulletproof walls. Many pharmacies and other parts of the hospital are high risk for violence because of desperate measures.

One of the few men and geniuses who make a building like this possible.

Kitchell is the contracting company who is responsible for most of this beautiful building. 

May I take this moment to clarify that these pictures above do not give justice for the magnificent work behind those closed doors. Sure the yellow cranes lift heavy steel, Black & Decker power tools create quicker work and lighting makes graveyard shift possible but to grasp the vast creative brain power shatters the simplistic scene of my jagged backyard treehouse. Just to plan this modern monument to Santa Maria in oceanside California took a full decade. Never in my construction life have I ever been introduced to the wide scope of building while magnifying the details to every nail, of every day, in every corner. 

As the Marian Medical Center construction workers look back on the fruit of their labours, I hope that I too can be proud to look back on my life and see the constructive work of my labours and may it be constructive, and not destructive. And perhaps as we jump into a new year of 2012, we can resolve to build a sure foundation of good morals, ethics, and values. For our lives are built upon the foundation of our standards. And when our family and friends take a tour of our lives, may we stand proud with an erect back and shoulders back firm to say confidently, "This is my life, I built it." And just like any major construction work has subcontractors as help, so we hire on our friends and family as our subcontractors to help finish and complete this work, our final finished product, our mortal journey we call life.