Quickie

I'm in Portland ME, site of my future residency. Mark my words. Doing an ER rotation here and living in a dorm room across from the hospital, which is nice and at the same time awful because I'm away from the kids and wife. Update on the chilluns: Max is a real little boy (not like, he was a puppet and now he's real, but more like, he fits the stereotype of a little boy), and Willa is an amazingly chill baby girl. Max can throw and catch, if you tell him to get ready and toss it perfectly, and he loves to run around and say he's playing football, baseball, and soccer. All at once. And he frequently mentions that ball players "fall down" as he's falling down, which is not that adaptive if you're talking about baseball or soccer. And football is moot because he's not allowed to play that one, no exceptions, just like he's not allowed to vote Republican. Anyway, he's a blast to hang out with- so active and coherent and intelligent. He loves to ask "why?" to everything you say, but I think that is a great question. Willa is adorable and spits up all the time, no matter how long it's been since she's last eaten. But really the only thing you need to know about her is that she sleeps through the night. Like, 8 hrs, pretty consistently. She's just starting to coo and smile, so she's growing on me, but I maintain that babies are basically horrible for dads until they are about 6 or 8 months old. Admittedly, that is based on an n of 1, so maybe Willa will buck the trend.

School's going well for me, I think, although I do feel stupid fairly regularly on these away rotations when I don't know what the hell I'm doing in the ER. I've got a bunch of interviews coming up this month and the next, and after that hopefully 4th year will get a little more relaxed. It's been intense this year, with 3 in a row ER rotations where I have to be constantly "on," Willa's birth (although I didn't do much and besides, she was born easily), and the Ironman. Ma just got her DCIS cut out, along with the rest of her breast. But, if you look at the results of all these things, the rotations have gone well, Willa's a gem, I finished the Ironman, and Ma's cancer was the good kind. So all's well. I'll try to keep you better updated.