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It has been a busy first week on pediatric emergency medicine for me as I’ve just finished a stretch of 7 overnight shifts in the pediatric ER at Children’s hospital.  Thankfully I get a couple of days off before I do my last overnight shift for this block on Friday (Halloween…should be an interesting night) [...]

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We’re all packed up to leave for Michigan this morning to visit Christo’s sister, Chrisly, who works for Kellogg in Battle Creek, Michigan.  We’re so glad that I’ve got a week off during my labor & delivery month so that we can have time together as a family and to enjoy time with Chrisly in [...]

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No, Melissa is not going to have a baby next week…but I am starting labor & delivery on Monday.  What a beautiful week it has been in Texas.  We have been so blessed this last week with temperatures in the 70s and low 80s and so we have tried to spend as much time outside [...]

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Greetings from the home of hurricane Ike in about two days. We’ve been following this hurricane closely in the news over the last couple of weeks and it looks like it will be coming ashore right by Galveston and then on to Houston before coming to the North Texas area as a tropical storm. [...]

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Happy Labor Day weekend to our faithful blog readers.  We are excited about getting to spend a couple of days at home all together with the family since my schedule has become much more palatable since starting my new rotation in toxicology.  We have been so blessed to have a lighter schedule this month so [...]

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Sorry about the lack of updates over the last couple of weeks.  Even though trauma surgery is done and the schedule in emergency medicine for the last three weeks has been better it has still been a lot of hours away from home.  Melissa and the kids returned safely from their trip to Nebraska along [...]

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Only twelve more blocks to go in intern year! What a relief it has been to finish my month of trauma and to start back in the emergency room as of tomorrow. The last two weeks have been very difficult emotionally and have caused me to think again about the type of physician [...]

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Christo is just about half way done with his first rotation of his intern year, trauma surgery.  It has been a long couple of weeks for our family as Christo has spent so much time at the hospital because of how busy the trauma service is at Parkland.  It has felt like more than a [...]

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Good Saturday evening to all of you reading our blog.  We just finished a day with lots of friends and family as we got together to celebrate Karuna’s 4th birthday.  Karuna had a Princess themed birthday party and she got to enjoy some great chocolate/peanut butter cupcakes that Melissa had made for her.  By the time the [...]

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Just wanted to put up a brief update of our weekend before the week of orientation begins for Christo at Parkland. We had another busy weekend with lots of activities and plenty of home improvement including finishing painting the downstairs portion of our house. We will try to tackle the upstairs rooms this [...]

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