Favorite medical training Memory!

[PrincessFiona]

What is your favorite memory from medical school/residency etc

(This should be fun to read!)

[PrincessFiona]

Besides the births of our children, my favorite memories are of our interview trips for fellowship. We packed our two kiddos in the car and drove all around the country for almost 3 weeks. It was an absolute blast! We videotaped it and have looked at it so many times since then!

Oh wait...I have another one..it was when we drove through the UK to take the Ferry over to Northern Ireland when he was interviewing for residency in the UK. We had to drive through the night and sleep on the docks in our car when Andrew was just 6 months old. It was such an adventure.

kris

[Auspicious]

Of the memories that are actually related to med school I'd say going to Hawaii so he could interview at John A. Burns. I probably wouldn't have gone to Hawaii for a long long time if it weren't for that, and it was definitely a place worth visiting.


Since FH is on his surgery rotation he gets up at 3 a.m. now, which is funny because I go to bed at midnight. The other night something wakes me up just enough that I roll over and see FH putting on his tie in the mirror. I'm used to seeing him dressed like a grad student/bum so I groggily blurt out "You're so handsome in your shirt and tie." (He is!) He whips around and grins and then bolts over and rapidfire kiss-attacks me all over my temple the side of my face while I squeal in alarm and try to hide under the covers. That boy is dangerous when he's caffinated to the gills!

And then I went back to sleep and he went off to deal in blood and guts for twenty-eight hours. Such is life.

[DCJenn]

Hmm, I wasn't around for all of medical school so for medical school I would have to say graduation! USUHS graduates at Constitution Hall perpendicular to the White House. They all start out in their dress uniform pants and the shirts and they wear the robes on top- after they "graduate" and say the hippocratic oath, they get their diplomas and then go backstage and emerge wearing their uniforms with their new rank and then do the military part of the graduation. Wow- that's all I have to say.

From residency, we had so much fun doing things with one couple in particular that it's hard. I guess the funniest thing was at the roast of the graduating residents when they did a cheer (they always did the cheerleaders from SNL) and they made one up about my husband that I still do when he's pissy. (H-U-double-S-E- Y, you don't need no alibi, you angry, yeah, you angry) Oh, he gets so mad. (he spent three years being referred to, in the most loving way possible, as "the rage filled Hussey)

Jenn

and yes, that really is our last name. Now, come on people- give me some props for taking THAT as my last name. I gave up 2 other perfectly good and highly generic names to be a Hussey. At least officially- some would say it was merely destiny.

[PrincessFiona]

These are great!

Hello all!

During the spring of DH's last year in residency, he had a month rotation on the Navajo indian reservation in AZ. So, we took our 2 girls (3y & 15m at the time) and our dog (left our 2 cats with friends) and drove from Pittsburgh to AZ. A couple of days before we left, we called up a realtor and put our house up for sale. A day after we arrived in AZ, our realtor called us to let us know someone put an offer! After the month was over, we drove from the Navajo reservation to Omaha (to visit DH's family for a couple of days), drove to Rochester, MN to look for a house over 2 days, drove to Milwaukee to visit my mom, and then we were on our way for a week vacation in Barrie, Ontario. Instead of driving straight from Milwaukee to Ontario, we decided to drive to Ann Arbor to break up the drive. Well, overnight, there was an unexpected snow storm and we woke up to, I swear, 3 feet of snow!!!! (Does anyone remember this snow storm spring 2003?) Well, we were staying at a resort in Ontario and had made reservations for a nearby kennel for our dog and had to drop him off by 5p (the resort didn't allow dogs). We trudged through the snow to make the deadline. I think this was one of the worst snow storms we have ever driven through. The roads in Canada weren't being plowed. We drove for so long, but finally realized that we had to get off the road due to the bad weather and stayed at a hotel. Trucks were blown off the road. The next day, the snow had tapered off and we drove to Barrie, dropped off our dog at the kennel, and had a vacation. On the drive back home, we drove through Niagara Falls, stopped at a vineyard (in Canada) for lunch, and finally came back home. We were gone for 6 weeks. It was so much fun! Our girls travelled surprisingly well. I was so impressed! We brought our laptop and let them watch a DVD when it turned dark outside.


-Melanie

[Vishenka69]

Hope this doesn't sound too materialistic, but so far the best moment has been when we finally became a two income family. It was such a relief not to feel guilty about spending $20 for a movie or going out to eat.

[HeartRN]

One of my favorite memories occurred at a time that was rather difficult for the two of us. I was attending nursing school in St Louis, and he was an intern in Chicago. We lived apart for the first and fourth years of my nursing school ( and we were married!) The greatest thing was when I graduated, my amazing husband flew to St Louis for my graduation and left the same day. He attended my ceremony in scrubs because he was post call. :--- He literally walked out of the hospital the morning of my graduation and drove to the airport. I didn't see him before the ceremony started, but I spotted him in the audience when I received my pin.

[BonBon]

My favorite memory is that I don't have one, thank goodness! I met DH when he was a newly minted attending.