Month: February 2012

Fitness Plan Update: 5 Weeks In, 13 Pounds Down

Fitness Plan Update: 5 Weeks In, 13 Pounds Down

So at 4 weeks postpartum from my second baby, I woke up one morning and realized that my pre-pregnancy fit n’ trim runner’s body had somehow been transformed into a desperately deconditioned obese body. I was shlubbing about at BMI 30, and looking at purchasing 

We Remember Our Angels: But How To Reach Out To The Living?

We Remember Our Angels: But How To Reach Out To The Living?

On my desk at work, there are a few photographs. There’s me and hubby, and Babyboy, and even our cats. Soon there will be photos of Babygirl, too. But there are two special photos that stand apart:   One is of my fresh-faced, smiling cousin, 

After The Illness: Time To Breathe

After The Illness: Time To Breathe

A wonderful friend stopped by our house last week, just days after my husband came home from the hospital. She came bearing a loaf of warm homemade honey-wheat bread, get-well wishes, and good advice. I can’t remember her exact words, but they were something along 

Hubby in the Hospital: Survival Mode

Hubby in the Hospital: Survival Mode

Last Saturday evening, I came home from a day at my mother’s with my kids to find my husband on the couch, holding his lower abdomen with pain. He also had urinary symptoms, and a high fever, and shaking chills. I felt his belly: it 

Update on Fitness plan… 10 days in, 10 pounds lost!

Update on Fitness plan… 10 days in, 10 pounds lost!

(2 posts in the same day, thanks the baby sling I am trying to use more, now that Babygirl has a teensy bit of head control and less risk of suffocating in it. I can type with her in the sling, even as she is 

Five Consecutive Hours of  Sleep

Five Consecutive Hours of Sleep

I completed medical school, and half of a four-year residency, prior to the institution of work-hours regulations for trainees. What this meant was that students and residents were expected (required) to be in the hospital and caring for patients (and doing paperwork, and attending conferences,