Its 12:30 at night and both Melissa and I have decided to be late night owls tonight and risk our sleep by staying up way too late since the kids will be up in 6-7 hours like clockwork. I’m officially now a 3rd year resident at Parkland and Karuna is now officially a 6 year old. Karuna had a great party about a week ago celebrating her 6th birthday with many of our friends and family. Per Karuna’s choice we had pizza from a local pizza place called Oak Cliff Pizza and it was an instant hit.
Archive for the ‘Family’ Category
Welcome to 2010…6 Months Late…
20
Jun
As you might have figured out from the lack of posts, the 2nd year of EM residency at UTSW is the hardest year and thus the multiple months away from the writing desk. But do not worry…I’ve been collecting up plenty of interesting stories over the past 7 months from my great patients and will have some good ones to share soon.
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Finally an Update
09
Nov
No we have not disappeared to the ends of the earth or gone missing. It has been many months since we updated the blog mainly because of the demands of residency and taking care of three very active children but don’t worry we’re doing well…maybe I should rephrase that…surviving my second month of all night shifts in the ED.
A quick overview of the last few months:
- Vivek is now 9 months old, we cannot believe how interactive he has become
- Karuna and Luke started their second year of homeschooling and are loving every minute of it
- I finished one month of night shifts in the ER, a month of day shifts in the ER, a month in the ER at Baylor Dallas and am now on a second month of nights at Parkland/Childrens
- Melissa helped to start up a Side by Side chapter in Dallas three weeks ago and they are going through the book Sacred Marriage
- We harvested our crops from the past year incluiding 4 honey dew melons, lots of raspberries (they are still bearing for us) and strawberries, and ate our first pomegranate from our tree
- I traveled to Boston for a week to attend the annual American College of Emergency Medicine conference
- We traveled to Nebraska for a week to visit Melissa’s family
Christine & Stan Mathew Wedding Pictures
24
Jul
Just wanted to post some pictures from my sister Christine’s wedding at the end of June. I’m just finishing my two weeks on the neonatal resuscitation team after I finished two weeks in the burn ICU. Both have been good rotations but definitely some long hours in the ICU. I’m starting a month of nights back in the ER starting on Monday. Melissa is still sleep deprived as Vivek still wakes up 2-3 times a night to eat but we’ll start solid food with him in a couple more weeks and so I’m hoping he will sleep a little more soundly. Read the rest of this entry »
David & Lacy’s Wedding Picture
08
Jul
Just a quick post to put up some of the pictures from Melissa’s brother David’s wedding at the end of May. I’ll try to post a longer post soon after I finish my rotation in the burn ICU. Read the rest of this entry »
Christine’s Wedding
21
Jun
Well it appears that I’ve gone blog crazy over the last few days since I’ve posted now three times this week…thankfully this excessive blogging will end soon for our blog readers as soon as I start a brutal week of multiple call days at the cardiac ICU at the VA. Today was a very special day for us as we got to rejoice with my sister, Christine, as she married her new husband, Stan Mathew.
An Update Long Time Coming
13
May
Clearly we have not done the greatest job keeping the blog updated over the last two months or so. Hopefully I’ll be able to remedy part of that this evening. Since our last update, I’ve finished two more rotations of intern year, Vivek has gotten to 3 months, we made a 4500 mile road trip to North Carolina, Florida & Alabama, made another road trip to San Antonio and have spent lots of time in our garden. Read the rest of this entry »
Just a Quick Update and Pictures
31
Mar
I think it has been over a month since we last updated the blog…we wanted to make sure people didn’t think we fell off the face of the earth! We are doing well although I’m right now in the midst of two weeks of nights and so that has my schedule pretty messed up and disconnected from the rest of the world. Vivek will be two months tomorrow! He has been growing well although his sleep habits still leave much to be desired for Melissa with plenty of nights when he is up three to four times in an evening. Read the rest of this entry »
Vivek at Three Weeks!
21
Feb
We have not done a great job of keeping the blog updated but I’m going to claim it’s all because of three children under 4 in our home. We are actually doing extremely well and Vivek is growing like a weed. We had written earlier about how Vivek’s bilirubin was elevated when we left the hospital but after two more checks at the doctor his levels came back down quickly. He has been sleeping and eating a lot. Just this past week he started being awake a little more often but still sleeps or eats away most of his hours in a day. Of our three kids, it seems that Vivek has slept more than the other two…perhaps he is trying to catchup on lost sleep since he came about three weeks early!
We’re Home
04
Feb
We finally got home this afternoon three days after going into the hospital for Melissa’s early c-section. Both Melissa and Vivek are doing well. Vivek is a little jaundiced and his bilirubin levels are a little higher than normal and so we’ll need to go in for a repeat bilirubin check with his pediatrician tomorrow but other than that Vivek seems like he is doing extremely well and is adjusting to life at home. Thank you for all your prayers for us during this time. Melissa tells me that this was by far the best recovery she has had after her c-sections. We have both been extremely impressed by the excellent care we received in the L&D department at Parkland and Melissa even says that if she could do it again she would have chosen to have Karuna at Parkland when we were in Dallas before rather than the private hospital we went to before.
