Home Sweet Home

Why do I love living back at home? Let me count the ways.
As most of you know, I moved back home with Gail Ann. Brian also moved in with G, as he calls her. This past month has been great and I have forgotten the perks of living at home with your mom. She secretly really likes it too I am pretty sure.
Reasons living at home is awesome:

1) FOOD- that is of course number 1 because it is Gail's cooking. She is an awesome cook and loves to do it (or at least that I what I tell myself). Every night it is, "What would you like for dinner?" Oh mom don't worry about me I can make my own food...ok well if you insist, I will have steak, grilled asparagus, and garlic mashed potatoes...oh and can you make a dip as an appetizer. Thanks!

2) Living in a "home"- It is nice to have more rooms to go in than an apartment, where I hung out in my room most of the time. Now I have lots of space. I also have multiple bathrooms to choose from (that can be very important at times).

3) Free rent- enough said

4) Free utilities - enough said

5) Gail time- It is nice to spend some quality time with my mom. We went shopping for wedding ideas last weekend and did some shoe shopping on the side (sorry Brian).

6) Laundry- Yes, I do my own laundry, but I came home last from work the other day to find my laundry neatly folded in my basket. Gail....

7) Services- I had the worst knot in my back yesterday that I could barely move my neck. Gail massaged my shoulders for like 30 minutes and got it out. Also, she makes a pitcher of awesome ice tea twice a week (ice tea is my new drink of choice).

8) New things- after living around downtown for 3 years, I feel like I am trying new restaurants and other places out south all over again. I think Brian and I had gone to almost every restaurant downtown...now we have new ones to try together.

9) Stuff- my mom's house is equipped with almost anything I need like cooking stuff, spices, toiletries (or toilet trees, whatever), and such. Before, I felt like I was always going to the store to get something or other.

10) Gail- Being with G! She is the best and I love her very much.

I would like to extend the invite to come over or hang out here whenever you want. I can promise some good food and good company, plus we will feel like we are in high school again! But seriously...I am thinking Pi Phi night at G's! Let's do it.

Trauma-Rama

So I am getting ready to finish up my Surgery sub-internship in trauma this month. Let's just say it has been interesting, sad, exciting, and tiring.
My days go from about 5 am to 6-8 pm.
Here are some interesting observations:
1) My children are never riding a motorcycle...ok never driving a car...ok never leaving the house. After trauma after trauma of teenagers and young adults in MVCs (the is doctor lingo for Motor Vehicle Accident), I now understand why my parents always wanted us to call them with our plans and have a curfew. I cannot imagine the anxiety. After seeing a young mother say goodbye to her 16 yo son after a tragic car accident that killed 3 teenagers, I can only imagine the anxiety my parents felt when I failed to call them late at night.

2) I have lost my patience for gang violence. We had a GSW (that is short for gun shot wound) to the head today. Patient came in awake and talking...what? Pretty crazy, but this is like the 5th GSW I have seen in the last 2 weeks and it is getting kind of old. I am like, "what did you do to bring this on?" I have become less sympathetic.

3) I miss the happier times in medicine, i.e. delivering babies!

4) I am in the surgical ICU most of the day, so there are a lot of sad stories, but a few great ones. One of my patients came in near death after a horrible MVC and now she is slowly getting better each day. I am not going to lie, I have cried several times when I see a patient make huge progress.

I will update soon on my residency interview trail. So far I have 4 interviews. 1) KU. 2)Wichita KU, 3) University of San Antonio and 4) University of Louisville in Kentucky.
So we will see what happens...kinda nervous.

New Blog

Brian just created a blog for his Mom. She sends her sons random thoughts of the day and Brian decided they were to funny/wise/clever/weird to not share. Enjoy!

bseacat.blogspot.com

It is time

Now that I have time, aka Step II is over, my residency applications are in, etc, the Wedding website in the works. Here is a preview:
http://seacatkelly.mypalaceresortswedding.com/

I promise I will keep everyone updated soon with prices, reservations, and all those "fun" details.