An Update

It is a rainy Sunday in Cincinnati.  Sounds a bit like the start to a dime novel.  Nevertheless, it seems like a good day to update the old blog and tell everyone about my plans for the next few years.

I finished general surgery residency in South Carolina this last June.  Now, I am in Cincinnati at the Colorectal Center for Children (see 'My Work' in the links to the right).  I will be here for the remainder of this academic year, then on to Columbus, OH for pediatric surgical critical care.  Right now, I am also applying to pediatric surgery.  I hope to start that fellowship the year after Columbus.  In the meantime, I can beat anyone in a contest of "potty talk."  (Not dirty talk, but the kind of potty talk that any parent knows all too well, the kind that happens from infancy to potty training.)

In case anyone is keeping count, that's 4 years med school, 5 years of general surgery residency, 1 year of pediatric colorectal fellowship, 1 year of pediatric surgical critical care fellowship, and 2 years of pediatric surgery fellowship.  I can add as well as you can, so there's no need to tell me how long this is taking.  Besides, I learned some time ago to enjoy the process because it's too long to try to look past.

It's hard to see much further down the road than all of that, but you know that I don't hesitate to tell anyone that asks about my plans.  There will still be some school debt left to pay, but I do plan to get back to Africa on a mission trip as soon as I can.  I actually have not been back to Africa since I began surgery residency.  It will be a lot of fun to actually be a surgeon the next time I go.

Angela is now doing PRN physical therapy.  Although, she plans to quit that when we move to Columbus.  Instead, she wants to focus on taking care of our new baby.  Yeah, we're pregnant.  It's still early, but we can't keep it quiet.  We still haven't told everyone, so I'm sorry if this is the first you are hearing of it.  We love to tell people in person.

Well, that's the bulk of the updating.  I periodically get my hopes up about having some consistency to this blog, but so many things get in the way of that vision.  We'll see what happens...