Away Rotations- How much do you see each other

So, my husband thinks that it is odd that I expect to see him on weekends even when he's six hours away. (I am the one doing the driving to him.) His roommate at his current rotation hasn't went home and seen his wife/kids this entire month. My husband thinks that is the norm, and our seeing each other most weekends is the exception. What did you all do?

[diggitydot]

My dude did a couple away rotations and one was close enough to visit on his days off, but he only had one full weekend to come home and visit. The others were on the other side of the country for his audition rotations and he was gone for 3 months straight. That sucked balls.

[spotty_dog]

For his one away rotation my husband went to California and I stayed in Ohio. Seeing each other wasn't an option. Especially as he was doing a sub-internship in emergency medicine, so there was no such thing as a weekend. It wasn't a very big deal, because although it was the longest we'd slept apart since college, it was only a few weeks of separation. We spoke often by phone. I think if it's simple and feasible for you to go visit, that's sweet! I think I'd be pretty concerned about the gas money though.

[MrsK]

I visited my DH (then fiance) for a weekend during one out-of-state rotation because he was applying for a residency there. His other away rotations were at the State Prison 8 hours away. There was nothing to do there and he wasn't about to spend his weekends in a trailer on the prison grounds. Since it was in the prison, I couldn't visit him. So he drove home every weekend.

[MrsK]

Actually, I think I met him half-way a coupe times too.

Oh wow. Not looking forward to these!

[GreyhoundsRUs]

I visited DH once on one away...there was a period of 6 weeks where I saw him a total of 3 hours. A lot of times, they don't have weekends off and want to put their best foot forward (work long and hard).

[HeyMeganZ]

He did one a few states away with another med student who was married with kids. Neither one of them came home during it, but it went quickly! The other one was in his hometown and he lived at his mom's....I came to visit (once or twice). He came home every chance he got (which wasn't all that often)! I don't think there's much of a norm with half this stuff. Everything is so situational, whatever works best for you and whatever you're dealing with.

[corn poffi]

I saw him pretty regularly, but he was only about 2 or 3 miles away. Any further and I wouldn't have seen him that often.

[Thirteen]

We didn't see each other. We did call and check in, however.
In fact, that's how DH found out about DS - on the phone.

[TulipsAndSunscreen]

I was 13-17 weeks pregnant during the away rotation. We did not visit. He worked 6 and often 7 days/week. It's basically an audition and a way to get great recommendations so it's worth it to put in the time. If it had my 3 months, we likely would have made a visit but for 4 weeks, it wasn't worth it. I went there with him to set him up (grocery shopping, etc.) but I left 2 days before the rotation started. Also, he spent most nights reading on the next day's cases (surgical away rotation) so even if I had been around, we wouldn't have hung out. It was by far his most intense month of 4th year.

[MarissaNicole]

I think this would depend on the specialty. I only planned to see DH inbetween rotations because I wanted him to offer to work every waking minute and if they insisted he take a day off he needed the sleep. DH worked really really hard on aways but that was key to his matching in a competitive specialty. (He went to a no-name med school that didn't have his specialty so he had to create his reputation on aways.)

[diggitydot]

I saw him pretty regularly, but he was only about 2 or 3 miles away. Any further and I wouldn't have seen him that often.

I'm not sure that qualifies as an "away rotation".

[corn poffi]

Hahaha oops!!! I meant hours! Geez I'm slow today!

[diggitydot]