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So much to report. So little desire to pull myself away from this perfect face.

[Originally written last week. You know, before I had any idea this would be my last week of pregnancy.] I officially installed the baby car seat and puppy pet partition in the 4Runner last weekend. Does this mean we are one more step closer to being ready READY for the little man’s arrival? Probably not. [...]

I wish I could think of a title for this post that didn’t have to do with the impending baby-ness. I wish I could think of anything in my life right now that isn’t affected by the impending baby-ness. It’s like a huge, dark cloud that casts shadows of bright and beautiful sunshine-y rainbows over [...]

I glanced in the rearview mirror of the 4Runner and saw Maddy’s nose sticking out at me through the bars of the freshly-installed pet partition. She and Suh were safely segregated away from the (also freshly-installed) baby car seat. Suh was more than happy to hang her head out of the back window, but Maddy [...]

I waddled into work on Monday morning and had two different women that I see on a daily basis tell me that my belly looks like the baby “dropped” over the weekend. I still feel feet in my right ribcage, so who knows if they’re right or not. But it’s inevitable! The day is coming [...]

Yes, we are still working on the US residency thing. Our next step should be the interview, which I kinda wish would happen while I’m 8 months pregnant… : ) The 60-day timeline they quote is nice because I would really love to have this all sorted out before interviews finish this fall/winter and rank [...]

Since I shared my Step 1 report, I figured I could post these as well. The top part correlates to my performance on the Clinical Skills (CS) exam in Houston. The bottom displays how well I did in each section of the Clinical Knowledge exam. You can see my Renal/Urinary score improved a lot from [...]

Me: “It was a good night last night. I only got up three times to pee.” Brandon: “You’re going to be so good at this middle-of-the-night baby thing.” Maybe because Brandon is currently on his OB/GYN rotation and has labour & delivery stories every day when we get home… but I think this is the [...]

It’s been awhile since I’ve posted a random daily update blah-blah post. But this was a little too long for twitter, so here I am. Finishing up week two of my Neurology rotation today. Just about anyone that has followed this blog for any length of time knows how much I love the brain. I’m [...]

Well, it’s the middle of August. Which means you have probably already received your token and registered with ERAS. Now it’s time to register with NRMP. ERAS stands for Electronic Residency Application System and is the online software responsible for taking care of your personal statement, photo, CV details, MSPE (Dean’s letter), official transcript and [...]