TGIF! ... oh wait ...
An update on life:
Baby stuff: Last night Tracy came over and we took some beautiful belly pictures. There were a few we looked at after that were just stunning, and I can't wait to see them all touched up. I'll post a few here later to show off - my goddess, I'm getting HUGE! I didn't really realize how far out my belly went until I saw it on camera, its different than looking in a mirror.
Everyone keeps saying that I look good, though. Not as big as people can be at 35, almost 36 weeks. I keep telling myself that there's only three weeks left of work and that's true - I'm working this weekend so I know next week will go by fast. Then I have all my weekends off and just two weeks to go. I work through my 38th week and then when I'm done work I have a week till the due date. Buffy-the-Midwife says only 5% of women go into labour before their due date and 95% after, though the vast majority of those have delivered before a week is out. So by the time I'm off work I should have a week and a half to go.
Was getting advice yesterday about what kinds of food to make extra of and freeze. Apparently you can get these little tin-fold bowls from the dollar store that stack really well in the freezer. Apparently they're great for pot pies. Not that I've ever in my life made a pot pie, but apparently its the easiest thing. And they say that CanadianLiving.ca has videos about how to make pastry crust and filling and whole bit. Things to check out soon, but not quite yet. I'm still full from dinner last night :)
Work Stuff: Work is going well - its definitely different being the sole doctor on a case. The first time I admitted someone from the emerg by myself it took me twice as long as it would have a month ago, I doubled and triple-checked everything I could think off. The first time I lost a patient unexpectedly was hard, too. But I'm lucky in that I have a team at the hospital to chat with about things when they get to be a bit much, and the support of other doctors in the community. That really helps. Its good to know I'm not the only one who goes through this.
I'm going to have to write about it soon, though, to go through it all in my mind. I keep thinking about storyarcs with doctor characters, and I think it'll have to be original fiction. I've got an idea buzzing around that I've been toying with for a while, not the big three-book arc Kyle and I have worked out, but another smaller story with a female protagonist and probably too much of me in it. Gonna have to work on that. Also have the vague idea of character development without an actual storyline yet. Lol. But I think writing will help it come out of my head and onto the page, which would be nice. I think this is the kind of introspection everyone has to go through in their first month, first year, first five years of practice, and then twenty years after you start you have to think of all over again and before you retire.
My puppy has now successfully worked the crazy out of her system and stopped destroying my living room. I think we'll need to put some kind of anti-slip cover under the living room carpet, because when she races back and forth from the hallway the carpet ends up bunched under the window-wall. Lol.
Oh! And my birthday is in a week and a half! I almost forgot that! Lol. Twenty-eight. Huh. Kyle'll be thirty next year. The big 3.0. We didn't do much in June for his twenty-ninth this year, but I'll have to think of something good by next summer. Something good that he'll enjoy, that is. *g* I don't know what we're doing for my birthday this year, probably just dinner with my parents, but it'll be nice. I love birthdays. They always make me feel special :)
Okay, going to make my lunch and head off to work. I'm getting the 'ugh' feeling thinking of the hospital again, which means working this weekend will be physically painful, but it always gets better when I'm there. I'm only doing the four-hour shift, and this weekend it might actually only take me four hours. I already know which floors I'm going to and I don't know the guy I'm working with, so that'll help. I'll still leave my pager in case I finish early and he needs some help, but it won't be like last weekend when I just felt bad because the 8 hour person had so much more to do than me.
Baby stuff: Last night Tracy came over and we took some beautiful belly pictures. There were a few we looked at after that were just stunning, and I can't wait to see them all touched up. I'll post a few here later to show off - my goddess, I'm getting HUGE! I didn't really realize how far out my belly went until I saw it on camera, its different than looking in a mirror.
Everyone keeps saying that I look good, though. Not as big as people can be at 35, almost 36 weeks. I keep telling myself that there's only three weeks left of work and that's true - I'm working this weekend so I know next week will go by fast. Then I have all my weekends off and just two weeks to go. I work through my 38th week and then when I'm done work I have a week till the due date. Buffy-the-Midwife says only 5% of women go into labour before their due date and 95% after, though the vast majority of those have delivered before a week is out. So by the time I'm off work I should have a week and a half to go.
Was getting advice yesterday about what kinds of food to make extra of and freeze. Apparently you can get these little tin-fold bowls from the dollar store that stack really well in the freezer. Apparently they're great for pot pies. Not that I've ever in my life made a pot pie, but apparently its the easiest thing. And they say that CanadianLiving.ca has videos about how to make pastry crust and filling and whole bit. Things to check out soon, but not quite yet. I'm still full from dinner last night :)
Work Stuff: Work is going well - its definitely different being the sole doctor on a case. The first time I admitted someone from the emerg by myself it took me twice as long as it would have a month ago, I doubled and triple-checked everything I could think off. The first time I lost a patient unexpectedly was hard, too. But I'm lucky in that I have a team at the hospital to chat with about things when they get to be a bit much, and the support of other doctors in the community. That really helps. Its good to know I'm not the only one who goes through this.
I'm going to have to write about it soon, though, to go through it all in my mind. I keep thinking about storyarcs with doctor characters, and I think it'll have to be original fiction. I've got an idea buzzing around that I've been toying with for a while, not the big three-book arc Kyle and I have worked out, but another smaller story with a female protagonist and probably too much of me in it. Gonna have to work on that. Also have the vague idea of character development without an actual storyline yet. Lol. But I think writing will help it come out of my head and onto the page, which would be nice. I think this is the kind of introspection everyone has to go through in their first month, first year, first five years of practice, and then twenty years after you start you have to think of all over again and before you retire.
My puppy has now successfully worked the crazy out of her system and stopped destroying my living room. I think we'll need to put some kind of anti-slip cover under the living room carpet, because when she races back and forth from the hallway the carpet ends up bunched under the window-wall. Lol.
Oh! And my birthday is in a week and a half! I almost forgot that! Lol. Twenty-eight. Huh. Kyle'll be thirty next year. The big 3.0. We didn't do much in June for his twenty-ninth this year, but I'll have to think of something good by next summer. Something good that he'll enjoy, that is. *g* I don't know what we're doing for my birthday this year, probably just dinner with my parents, but it'll be nice. I love birthdays. They always make me feel special :)
Okay, going to make my lunch and head off to work. I'm getting the 'ugh' feeling thinking of the hospital again, which means working this weekend will be physically painful, but it always gets better when I'm there. I'm only doing the four-hour shift, and this weekend it might actually only take me four hours. I already know which floors I'm going to and I don't know the guy I'm working with, so that'll help. I'll still leave my pager in case I finish early and he needs some help, but it won't be like last weekend when I just felt bad because the 8 hour person had so much more to do than me.