Month: August 2012

Both my kids are asleep at the same time

Both my kids are asleep at the same time

When I was a medicine resident, if we were ever able to discharge every single patient on our list, we would high-five our colleagues and declare, “I’ve won the game!” It was so incredibly rare to have zero inpatients, and also, so short-lived. But it 

Is it a full moon?: When your clinic is crazy busy, for no reason at all

Is it a full moon?: When your clinic is crazy busy, for no reason at all

This week has been nuts. Not at home: our home life is at stable-chaos level. Not for anyone else in my office: my colleagues have been either envious or pitying of me and all the emergent/ acute cases I’ve managed this week. Monday I saw a 

It’s hard to write a post with a baby in a bjorn

It’s hard to write a post with a baby in a bjorn

And I think that’s iambic pentameter…. Anyways, it’s 8 pm, and hubby is getting our 2 y/o Babyboy to sleep, which I’m sure means they’re on the seventh reading of “Tough Trucks”. I’m trying to simultaneously entertain our 7-month-old Babygirl while reflecting on the latest