Yesterday the kids & I went for a float on the French Broad river, which winds through Asheville. It is kind of a muddy river but other than that, it is perfect for floating - slow, smooth, lined with parks. Best part - you can’t have phones on the river! I got to have my kids’ undivided time for nearly 2 hours. We splashed, played, joked and all fell in the river at some point in the journey. It was great fun!
Tonight after dinner, we were all cleaning up together (it was just canned soup, bread & fresh veggies, so there wasn’t that much to do!) and Duncan noticed that there were lentils on the stovetop. He remarked, outraged, that he had just wiped down the stove a couple of days before. And then he made me pick up both lentils (TWO!) that I accidentally spilled while stirring the soup. I was pretty proud of him, having that perspective on things getting dirty that you just cleaned. I’m optimistic that some day he will remember regularly that everything has been cleaned by someone and leaving things neat after using them is just a good way to be a human.
The last 2 days I haven’t delivered a baby and I’ve only assisted on one cesarean. Granted, I was in my continuity clinic for half a day and didactic lectures another half day. Still, I’m not sure I delivered a baby the day before that either. Things have been insanely busy on the OB service - sick people coming in for sudden and often tragic care, worried people being evaluated and then sent home and So. Many. Labors. We’ve had a change in the weather this week - it is stormy & cloudy. I’m convinced that the changes in barometric pressure impact labor onset. I need a very multidisciplinary team to study this. I like the fact that Ob/Gyn is a mix of medicine & surgery, and the opportunity to take care of people I admitted as they progress to discharge is very satisfying. But my fingertips start itching if I don’t get to tend to births for a few days!
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