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I'm introducing myself in this separate thread because diggitydot kept asking newbies to post in a new thread. :P
I'm a 32-year old mother of 2 young tots (3.5 & 1.5) and currently staying at home with them so that my hubs can pursue his career. I whole-heartedly support and encourage his professional path, but I often feel like I'm his nanny raising his adorable kids while he's expanding his world and earning a living. My mindset is definitely, momentarily coming from a bitter place, especially since he's only been home for dinner 2x in the past 2 months while on his tougher rotation. (He's a 4th year OB/GYN chief resident in So. Cal.) He's also been away at a conference this week, going on day 4, which really feels like he's Q1 call (on-call every night) for 4 nights straight, and again without the benefits of post-residency moonlighting pay. I'm typing this all while I should be getting rest in preparation for another active day with my 2 tots, but instead I find that getting this out of my system is more healthy, at least mentally. I'm just happy to have randomly typed in the words "resident spouse support" into my google search and landed upon this interesting network. I can't begin to tell you how much I giggled just reading the titles of the blogs, the cute yet apropo headings for the forums, and just glad that there's some outlet for us hard-working spouses of docs.
Luckily, with 8 months left in hubs' residency, we know that there's eventually an end to this chaos and dysfunctional mess that is Our Lives. We just found out for Fellow's Match Day that he'll be specializing in REI (reproductive/endocrinology/infertility...basically the people that do the in vitro stuff) at the same institution as his residency, and are excited to move to a *slightly* larger place now that he can officially moonlight. And although my hub's co-resident just finalized her divorce from her husband of 10 years earlier this year, we've also seen 2 co-residents get married and get engaged. We could be a lot worse off, I keep reminding myself. I have many mommy friends & playdates with military spouses in the So. Cal. area whose significant others are doing their "rotations" on naval ships for months on end or even deployed for duty. At least I know my husband will be home safely late, late at night. And it's thinking in the long-term that gets me through these penny-pinching, "When is dada coming home?" days. Sorry
for venting. I hope there was an introduction in there.
Thanks for your support!
-Julie in Southern CA
I'm introducing myself in this separate thread because diggitydot kept asking newbies to post in a new thread. :P
I'm a 32-year old mother of 2 young tots (3.5 & 1.5) and currently staying at home with them so that my hubs can pursue his career. I whole-heartedly support and encourage his professional path, but I often feel like I'm his nanny raising his adorable kids while he's expanding his world and earning a living. My mindset is definitely, momentarily coming from a bitter place, especially since he's only been home for dinner 2x in the past 2 months while on his tougher rotation. (He's a 4th year OB/GYN chief resident in So. Cal.) He's also been away at a conference this week, going on day 4, which really feels like he's Q1 call (on-call every night) for 4 nights straight, and again without the benefits of post-residency moonlighting pay. I'm typing this all while I should be getting rest in preparation for another active day with my 2 tots, but instead I find that getting this out of my system is more healthy, at least mentally. I'm just happy to have randomly typed in the words "resident spouse support" into my google search and landed upon this interesting network. I can't begin to tell you how much I giggled just reading the titles of the blogs, the cute yet apropo headings for the forums, and just glad that there's some outlet for us hard-working spouses of docs.
Luckily, with 8 months left in hubs' residency, we know that there's eventually an end to this chaos and dysfunctional mess that is Our Lives. We just found out for Fellow's Match Day that he'll be specializing in REI (reproductive/endocrinology/infertility...basically the people that do the in vitro stuff) at the same institution as his residency, and are excited to move to a *slightly* larger place now that he can officially moonlight. And although my hub's co-resident just finalized her divorce from her husband of 10 years earlier this year, we've also seen 2 co-residents get married and get engaged. We could be a lot worse off, I keep reminding myself. I have many mommy friends & playdates with military spouses in the So. Cal. area whose significant others are doing their "rotations" on naval ships for months on end or even deployed for duty. At least I know my husband will be home safely late, late at night. And it's thinking in the long-term that gets me through these penny-pinching, "When is dada coming home?" days. Sorry
for venting. I hope there was an introduction in there.
Thanks for your support!-Julie in Southern CA
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