On vacation

I’m on vacation right now. Sitting in my dear friends’ home looking out the window at a sunny day getting ready to go to the beach with my kids. Except it is 8:30 and they are still sleeping! Maybe I’ll go for a bike ride first then wake them up at an hour decent for teenagers.

Yeah, I pulled my kids from school and lied about it. I don’t feel even a little bad. I was vague and the secretary at school filled in blanks to mean “something along the lines of an ailing grandparent” and I did not dissuade him. I said it was a “planned, medical, necessary absence.” Because mental health is you know, medical, and the stress of our lives and the difficulty we have forging connections with things like regular meals and family time is real. My kids and I need to bond, we need to relax. We are going to the beach. We will get ice cream, we will play mini-golf, we are going to do an Escape Room. We got assignments from teachers before we left and they know they are going to spend some time doing homework. But this week is going to be a little break from reality.

Since you heard from me last, I had my Gyn Oncology rotation and an OB rotation. Now I’m on a Benign Gyn rotation. This rotation has me in clinic about half the time and I really like it. I miss being in clinic. I like seeing patients. Onc and OB are tough rotations for different reasons and it was hard to have them back to back. Next year is going to be hard for lots of reasons but one of the nice things about the schedule is that it rotates reliably between OB and outpatient or benign gyn (no Onc for 2nd years, mercifully). We’re switching (back) to 6 week rotations (apparently the 4 week thing was an experiment that didn’t work out) so I’ll have 3 weeks of night, 3 weeks of OB days then 6 weeks of either OP or GYN.

I’m talking about next year’s schedule to avoid processing this year. First step is to see the hole. Maybe next time I write I’ll shine my light down in it. But for now, vacation time.