Life in the OR
Family & fun
Golf & Haig Point
Sports & Spirit
Travel Tales
100

The sound Kara has heard more than her own alarm clock?


What is the monitor beeping? 



100

Kara’s boys lovingly call her when she’s in full take-charge mode.


Who is Claire (from Modern Family)?

100

What is Kara’s new favorite “operating room.”?


What is Haig Point Golf Course?

100

 The team responsible for Kara’s elevated heart rate and enthusiastic yelling.


Who are the Kansas City Chiefs? 

100

The one method of transportation to Haig Point that always requires patience.


What is the Haig Point Ferry

200

Even after 44 years, this part of University Health Truman STILL makes Kara tense.


What is a trauma page?

200

 Kara and Jeff have been married this many years.


What is 28?

200

The already-strong part of Kara’s golf game that will get even better in retirement.


What is her swing?

200

Kara’s favorite college team that brings equal joy and heartbreak.


Who are the Missouri Tigers?

200

How many golf courses Kara has played around the world.


What is “More than Jeff ever planned on”?

300

This is what a patient says right before anesthesia when asked about drugs, despite their pupils looking like dinner plates


 “What is ‘No, doc, I don’t use anything’?”

300

The food group Kara refuses to eat, even disguised.


What are baked fruit and tubers?

300

The number of member-guest golf tournaments Kara will now be invited to.


What is all of them!

300

As a long time Kansas City Chiefs season ticket holder, Kara reacts to touchdowns with THIS.


What is shouting loud enough for Mahomes to hear her?

300

Kara’s travel motto: “I’ll go anywhere as long as it’s not ______.”


What is on a yacht in Italy on rough water?

400

Kara’s favorite words after a long day in the OR.


What is you are relieved. 

400

Kara’s favorite ritual after being on call for 24 hours


What is a tennis match and then 18 holes of golf?

400

Kara’s birdie count is about to explode—pretty soon her scorecard might need a designated driver.




What is “too many birdies to walk straight”?

400

True or false: Kara’s cheering once matched Arrowhead’s decibel level.


True

400

The two things Kara always packs on every trip.


What are golf shoes and her own personal pharmacy?

500

 When things get chaotic, Kara doesn’t curse—she says one of THESE instead.


What are “Fiddle,” “Shiitake Mushroom,” “Shucks,” “Sugar,” and “Sugar Foot”?

500

What is Kara’s favorite picture of Jeff? 

500

During a hurricane at Haig Point, this becomes the most advanced piece of technology on the entire island



What is a lantern? 

500

Kara's alter ego that is openly unafraid to get right in the face of a Georgia Bulldog or any other Mizzou competitor.


Who is Tiger Kara?

500

Kara’s favorite annual tradition with her boys, three daughters-in-law, and grandkids.


What is the Haig Point 4th of July Family Week?