I didn’t end up bringing my laptop on this trip, because we were trying to keep luggage reasonable (kind of impossible with car seats and a travel crib, but we did our best!). But…
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It’s August. (!) G will turn 8 months in 11 days. We will go on our first real family vacation since June of last year — our first as a family of 5! Annabel…
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When I take a week of call, I miss my weekly day off that comes with being an 80% employee. But I always make them up the next week! (Otherwise, that really would be…
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1) I’m not on call until September! I don’t always mind so much but it really is so draining when G doesn’t sleep through the night yet + I’m getting nighttime phone calls too.…
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What happens to me when I am forced to be available* for 168 hours? ✔︎ I feel like I am literally counting down the minutes** ✔︎ I treat my body like crap (stay up…
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My parents are back in Philadelphia (they stayed 6 days) and life has returned to normal in our house, which is quite bittersweet. It was one of those weekends where things just flowed from…
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I post my share of angst-ridden things and I think we can all agree that the news is full of upsetting and disheartening stories, so this post will perhaps balance some of that out. 1)…
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Last night I received 2 work pages* just as I was walking in the door at 6pm. I ended up having to deal with a somewhat complicated clinical situation while all 3 kids seemed…
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I haven’t done one of these in a little while. I actually did not plan ANYTHING for this weekend. We had residency orientation all week and it was very busy (but went well overall!).…
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2004: Second year medical student. 2005: Scientist in training (yeah, that one didn’t pan out so well). 2007: BRAND NEW intern 🙂 (first rotation = regional hospital NICU) 2008: call haikus. 2008, again: PICU…