Matt Paveglio, an emergency room nurse at Alaska Regional Hospital, had been on the front lines of the pandemic while his mother battled ovarian cancer. Before his mother died, Paveglio told her he signed up for the Iditarod.
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. Nurse Matt Paveglio has had some tough days over the last two years in the emergency room at Alaska Regional Hospital. This fall, during the height of the delta variant of the coronavirus, he said it was particularly bad.
Through the worst of the pandemic and personal tragedy, he said, he’s relied on the dogs for distraction, support and to get him out of his head and into the mountains around the kennel. He doesn’t know where he’d be without them.Since September, Paveglio has lived a sort of split life. “Immediately you would get away from all of the stress and all the grief,” he said. “The affection of the dogs takes all of that away.”Emergency Room Nurse Matt Paveglio with his dog Fergus at a kennel in Caswell. Paveglio said dogs have helped him through personal tragedy this year.
Paveglio is relatively new to mushing, but it’s helped him fill a void since he moved to Alaska 13 years ago. To him, the Iditarod took the place of the Big 10 basketball tournaments he’d loved in Michigan.
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