There are so many things running through my mind. What I want this blog to be. What I should include. What I should leave out along the way. Where I should even begin!
My husband is nearing the end of his first year of residency. Hard to believe. The days seems so long and go by so slowly, yet, in retrospect, it seems like it passes so quickly. We are in Ocala, FL and are part of the brand new D.O. Family Medicine Residency program at Ocala Health. It was quite the journey we had in medical school but we both feel like we couldn't have landed in a more perfect residency for our family. We both have parents and siblings in Orlando and feel blessed to be less than 1 1/2 hours from our support group. Pretty perfect. Especially for this momma of four.
A little back story: we were in Highland, Utah for our 4th year of medical school. We were doing away rotations in hopes of being accepted into a program out there. Things didn't quite work out that way and we made our move back to Florida in April of 2015. I remember feeling funny at the time, kind of sick but nothing crazy. I made several comments about how it felt like my typical "pregnancy sickness." The thing is, we saw a fertility specialist to help bring our first 3 "miracle children" into our family. Life was hard and I was sure we were done having children. At least until after residency. One of the reasons being lack of funds to even return to see a specialist. Well, turns out I was pregnant. And now I really had a "miracle baby!" I was in tears that whole day I found out. Sometimes there was excitement involved but mostly I was just so overwhelmed. How could we add another child at this time? We were (still are!) struggling so much financially. How could I care for this little one the way I should? I am feeling spread so thin trying to care for each of the individual needs of my children. And emotionally/mentally I had been struggling to even take care of myself. There is much more to this and I'm still overwhelmed, but I'm also so grateful to have this baby in our family. I'm glad she's with us!
So here we are. Finishing up PGY1 (post grad year 1). We are coming up on our 12th anniversary next month. We have an almost 7 year old, an almost 5 year old, an almost 3 year old and our 4 month old. Welcome to our life. I want to document the ups and downs. The happy times and the struggles. And hopefully share some insight into what our residency journey looks like.
No comments:
Post a Comment