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  • I am new and happy to find this website!

    Hi. I am a little worry still of who can read this so I would like to be call Mrs. M. I am from Mexico and I will be celebrating 8 years living in the US. My husband is a general surgeon, with a burn surgery fellowship and working towards 3 years of plastic surgery. We have 2 and a half more years in this last residency to go. We met when he was in his 2nd year in medical school. I was finishing college in Mexico so it worked out to be together but separated. After I graduated I moved to the US to learn how to live here. After he graduated from MS we got married.

    It was very hard to go from being someone that has a very close family to a GS resident husband. I did Ok pretty much all thru general surgery until we had our first daugther. Then I started feeling like a single parent. I had in my mind I wanted to have another baby 2 years later and we did. But now, I am sick of the fact that I am still feeling like a single parent and I still have no chance of getting him involved the next 2 and half years.

    I was so desperate thinking that I was the only one hating to be the doctor's wife. And thanks to google I realized that I am not alone and just reading some of the blogs make me feel very good. I have not read yet a message where the husband is a PGY7, maybe it is because it is a long time for some one to stay in residency. One thing I am very sure of I AM TIRED OF BEING IN RESIDENCY!!!!! I am starting to hate the health system in general, anyway maybe one day this will change.

    Thank you guys for starting this website and I can't wait to start making friends!

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    Welcome!
    Married to a newly minted Pediatric Rad, momma to a sweet girl and a bunch of (mostly) cute boy monsters.



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    • #3
      Welcome!!!! I'm sorry you are having a hard time, but you will find a lot of support here. Our group has members at every stage of training, from just getting started applying to med school to attendings many years out. Which means we also have a large age span!!!! My husband has been in practice for 20 years, and I have been a member of this site for over 10 years. That should either make you feel better or scare you. Unfortunately, life after training doesn't always mean better hours. Each specialty is different, but from what I have witnessed here, surgery is one of the most difficult for the training years. After you have been here for awhile, you will have access to additional forums with more privacy. Welcome to the group, we all know and understand what you are going through and we are here for support.
      Luanne
      wife, mother, nurse practitioner

      "You have not converted a man because you have silenced him." (John, Viscount Morely, On Compromise, 1874)

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      • #4
        Welcome, you have come to the right place!
        Tara
        Married 20 years to MD/PhD in year 3 of MFM fellowship. SAHM to five wonderful children (#6 due in August), a sweet GSD named Bella, a black lab named Toby, and 1 guinea pig.

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        • #5
          Welcome! You will fit right in!
          Wife to PGY4 & Mother of 3.

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          • #6
            Welcome!

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            • #7
              Welcome!
              Veronica
              Mother of two ballerinas and one wild boy

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              • #8
                Welcome! What a lot of changes you've had! We had our first baby last year, and it is hard to be a parent while your spouse is a resident. You'll find some great support and advice here!
                Laurie
                My team: DH (anesthesiologist), DS (9), DD (8)

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                • #9
                  Welcome to the board!!

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                  • #10
                    I'm glad you found us!
                    Charlene~Married to an attending Ophtho Mudphud and Mom to 2 daughters

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                    • #11
                      Welcome!
                      -L.Jane

                      Wife to a wonderful General Surgeon
                      Mom to a sweet but stubborn boy born April 2014
                      Rock Chalk Jayhawk GO KU!!!

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                      • #12
                        Welcome, we are also in PGY7, five months until we're done here and then we're moving for a 1 year fellowship.
                        Wife to NSG out of training, mom to 2, 10 & 8, and a beagle with wings.

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                        • #13
                          Welcome!

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                          • #14
                            !Bienvenido a nuestro grupo!

                            I couldn't agree more that once you get up in years in residency that it just becomes extraordinary painful. I'm so sorry that are having a rough time.
                            In my dreams I run with the Kenyans.

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                              and nice to meet you!
                              Loving wife of neurosurgeon

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