You know when you are married to a medical spouse when::

I made some homemade guacamole last night for our quesadilla's. Mmmm. Anyway, I asked my dh what he wanted for toppings on his quesadilla and he responded "can I have some 'guiac'amole" He started laughing so hard at himself..and then I just started laughing because he is such a goofball. Ok...just wanted to share that..lol

funny!!! my hubbie often cracks himself up over silly things, esp. when he's post call. the other night as he was falling asleep he started talking out loud about going to make coffee! it was 11 p.m.! he didn't remember a thing the next day when i asked him about it.

btw, does DH stand for doctor husband?

I guess DH could stand for doctor husband, but usually it is dear husband

Aisha

[DCJenn]

My husband does that hallucinatory talking, too. It's so funny. One night I woke him up to tell him that I was leaving to go to yoga class and he started telling all about how he was going to have "half of a peanut butter and jelly sandwich". Right.

Another way to know that you're married to a doctor is when you reach in to your purse and you pull out drug rep pens and sticky pads!

Jenn

In the movie, the Count of Monte Cristo, there's a scene where a guy cuts another guy across the forearm with his sword. During this scence, my bf says to me, "well, that's good that he cut him there rather than over here (showing me another part of the arm) because where he was cut won't do too much damage to the major nerves and (insert medical terms here since I can't remember them)." I paused, looked at him and we both started cracking up. He can be such a nerd (and I love him for it)!

i totally know what you mean!

Buzzgirl, dh does that same thing...it is so hilarious. The thing is that half the time they are totally serious about it. I think that is the funniest part of it.

[mommax3]

My husband worked as a phlebotomist between his junior and senior years of college, prior to applying to med school. He was totally into the whole blood-drawing thing to the point of checking out the veins on the people who would hand us food at the drive-thru window at Wendy's (fine dining for us at that point) and commenting on how easy/hard they would be to "get". I thought he was so weird. So nice to find a place where people understand what we live with, right?

Sally

[Auspicious]

We had one of these moments, too, this week, and it made me think of the posts in this thread. I was tickling my boyfriend and he was laughing so hard he could barely say "STOP . . . you're . . . compressing . . . my . . . radial . . . nerve!"

Very funny posts!

You know you're married to a medical spouse when he comes home "early" and you ask, "Were you fired?"

You know your married to a Dr. when LOL means little old lady not laugh out loud!

[DCJenn]

OK- warning for those of you who are parents-

There's an unwritten peds diagnosis: FLK

Funny Looking Kid

It's really usually legitimate for a child that doesn't look 'quite right' and they want to do some additional research without alarming the parents. but- they discuss FLK like it's a 'real' diagnosis!

So, you know you're married to a doctor when you're in the mall see at child and and look at your spouse and at the same time say "FLK".

Jenn

[mommax3]

My husband uses "FLK" too -- maybe it is because of the overlap between OB and peds. Anyway, we find ourselves doing the same thing at the mall or wherever.

Sally

How about, you know you are married to a medical student when you have spent more money per month on medical textbooks than on groceries...

And yeah, even I have heard of the FLK thing! Isn't there another one that basically means the same thing?

[houseelf]

You know that you're married to a resident/physician when they come home after their yearly review and you are disappointed when they DON'T get fired!

Kelly

[Auspicious]

You have conversations like the following:

Me: blah blah blah " . . . since we don't get to spend weekends together."
Dr-to-be: "That's not completely true--I have some weekends off."
Me: "You realize that most people have every weekend off."
Dr-to-be: "Oh . . . yeah."

We're both still learning to redefine "normal life."