Matt Paveglio has been living a kind of split life. Each week, he works three long days as an Anchorage ER nurse, often treating COVID patients. Then he drives to Caswell to train for the Iditarod. He says the dogs have helped him cope with the pandemic.
This Eagle River nurse has seen a lot of trauma this year. His Iditarod quest has helped him cope.Matt Paveglio is an ER nurse at Alaska Regional Hospital in Anchorage. He starts work at 7 a.m. and tries to group his shifts three days at a time so that he can spend the other four days training his dogs in Caswell for the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race.
It was a traumatic time for health care workers across the state as they watched their hospitals move into crisis mode and COVID-19 deaths pile up. Some formed support groups, some channeled their frustration into policy activism and some just brought in cookies for their colleagues to try to keep morale up.
“I get into comfy clothes, I eat and I basically pass out watching “Project Runway” or whatever crap is on the television because I don’t care,” he said. On a recent weekday afternoon, just days before the Iditarod, he walked around the kennel, with a non-alcoholic beer in hand and a goofy demeanor, far from the solemn nurse you might expect.
Soon after moving, he met veteran musher Jim Lanier and started training with Lanier’s dogs. Before Paveglio knew it, he was competing in mid-distance sled dog races. He didn’t think of it at the time, but they served as Iditarod qualifiers. “It was pretty neat to be able to sign up, and then to just show her, ‘Hey, I’m going to do this,’” he said. “She was proud right up into the end.”He returned to Alaska and started training, and is calling his squad Team DEEtermined after his mother, DeLynn.
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