How do you cope with a rotten assignment?

Thanks for the words of support and commiseration

Thanks, y'all, for understanding what I'm facing and expressing your support. I'm a city girl, a career girl, and the thought of facing three years in a tiny little desert outpost makes me feel like I'm being sentenced for a crime that I didn't commit. The wife of the doctor that my husband is replacing is from Chicago, and she told me that she cried a lot when she was first there. She said she took as many opportunities to drive to Los Angeles and San Diego (about 2 or a little more, and 3 hours away, respectively) as possible. She said that I should also expect lots of people to be sort of nosey about our personal lives; she said that they run into her husband's patients and their families at the store or park, and they all want to know why she's not pregnant yet, etc. Sigh, sigh, sigh!

It's only temporary, right? I can leave after the three years, right? I might even be able to leave early, once we get orders to our next place, right? Some day, someone else will give me a job, right?

[mommax3]

Jen,

We are two hours from Dallas (to the southeast) and Oklahoma City (northeast) and it is amazing how I have gotten used to the trip! The drive seems like nothing to me at this point (although my spirits do droop a little as the landscape changes on the way home and it becomes clear that I am headed into the no-man's-land that is now my home!) It has become a great time to listen to cds or just enjoy some solitude. Yes, you can do this, and at the end of it all, there will be something you will gain from it, and who knows how your "life experience" may factor into a job in the future? We will be here for you as you make the transition, count on that! And at least it is only three years -- for us, it was four, but we are halfway through our "sentence" as of this June -- WOO-HOO!

Sally

[DCJenn]

Jenn-

I wondered what had happened to you guys. I truly can feel your pain. I'm so thankful that Rick was accepted in to the fellowship because I'd be at Ft. Irwin right next door!! (at lesat we could commiserate though)

Just keep us posted and remember that we are all here for you.

I'll be in So. Cal next week. PM me and I'll tell you my schedule.

Jenn

PS- Sally just got back from Indiana- a great facility in a really pretty town.