YOU KNOW YOU ARE A MEDICAL SPOUSE

You know when you're a medical spouse when:
You just stop caring how much money you owe in loans.

Life revolves around his call schedule.

You know you are a medical spouse when you are excited at tax time for the amount of student loan interest that you can deduct on your taxes!

Treasure that deduction Matt. As an attending, you will probably make too much to be able to claim the student loan interest. Another good reason to start paying back your loans during residency.

You know you are a medical spouse when you look forward to going to conferences to collect pens.

You know you are a medical spouse when you go to the movies you think it is strange to have your spouse with you because you usually go by yourself.

You know you are a medical spouse when people don't like you because you are a medical spouse!

You know you are a medical spouse when you make plans and you are shocked everything goes as planned!

You know you are a medical spouse when the first thing people ask you is how you two met.

[Rapunzel]

You know you are a medical spouse when:

You put the kids to bed at 8pm, turn around and get them out of bed and into their coats (over jammies) and into a cold car at 10:30pm to pick their daddy up from work at the hospital, only to turn around and put them back to bed at 11:30pm (hopefully without their coats and shoes still on) when you return home, collapsing at the end of it all.....

[PrincessFiona]

bedtime

ugh, Jennifer...I can sooo relate to that!!!

Kris

[Meenah]

You make plans and everything goes as planned? What am I doing wrong?
Luanne

[SueC]

For us it is more like we don't bother making plans...for vacations, nights out, what time dinner is, where we will be living in 3 years, etc. etc.

[DCJenn]

You know you are a medical spouse when the doctor falls asleep in the corner while looking at the house you ulitmately buy, falls asleep in the waiting room of the realtors office while waiting to sign the contract, drives 3 hours to sign the contract to have to turn around and be back at work by 7am the next morning, and has to call his spouse for directions to get to the house he purchased after completing a rotation at a different hospital two weeks later.

Yup, 'tis true!

"hey honey, what street do we live on? Ok, how do I get there?"

Jenn

[Michele]

You know it's a medical marriage when the MD (him) comes home after diagnosing Scabies, and the VET (me) freaks out when he pets the dog!

Michele

I can't imagine how I'll be with kids and all the zoonoses I know about now!