I’m sitting here at 5 pm on the last day of my first vacation in 6 months thinking about going back to work tomorrow. Of course, I’m on 24 hour call. Of course, my in basket will be over flowing with URGENT requests. Of course, I’ve been sleeping late this past week and have to get up 3 hours earlier than I have been. Of course, today is a great day to start a blog!
So, here I am world. Or rather the 4 people I expect will read this – my mom and dad (because they love me and support me in everything), my best friend (because I’ll text her and she’ll guilt read it so she can answer my question) and my husband (who will want to make sure there’s no personally identifiable information). 4 people is a start! C. S. Lewis was only writing The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe for his granddaughter and that turned out pretty well.
I’ve looked back on a lot of things in my life and said, “Well, it seemed like a good idea at the time.”
- Moved away from family and friends to go to college,
- left a steady, decent paying job to go to medical school
- somehow acquired 2 dogs and 3 cats
- chose a residency in family medicine
- decided to do rural family medicine with OB
- moved halfway across the country to pursue #5
And here I am starting a blog. My probably ill-conceived plan is to use this as a medium to start writing again and as a bit of decompression therapy for me. I’ll tell you of my challenges and successes both today and in retrospect. I’ll tell you about being a female family physician who finished residency, moved halfway across the country to the middle of nowhere to practice medicine and find peace in a small town.
And we’ll see how long it takes me to say, “Well, it seemed like a good idea at the time.”