Temporary Shower

Dear Caila bear, You are almost 9 month old now. In the last few months you have grown a lot. You are now 22lbs and 99 th percentile for weight. You know how to crawl though you drag one leg like your cousin Avery. You especially like to stand and will climb on anything you can. It seems like you are so eager to move sniff sniff. I love this age! I love that you can play by yourself and I especially love that I am your favorite person. When I walk into the room, you always just want me to hold you and I am ok with that. Someday you won’t want to snuggle anymore so I will take all the snuggles I can get. Going back to school has been hard but I know you are well taken care of. You light up when you see your cousins and you love being mischievous with them. At Auntie A’s, there is a walker that you sit in and I am amazing you can navigate everywhere in it. You truly are getting smarter and smarter every day. About 2 weeks ago, we moved you into your own bedroom. You ar

I am a fourth year medical student. It’s kind of nice because for the first time, patients and residents trust my judgment. Perhaps it is because I exude more confidence or perhaps it’s because the interns are not so far ahead of me.   Or (I suspect this is the main reason) I just don’t care. I don’t care what others think of me. I don’t worry about not passing and thankfully there are no exams at the end of my rotations for me to pass. I started fourth year with a rotation on Safe and Healthy Families. The doctors there diagnose and facilitate treatment for child abuse. It was very interesting and one of the pediatric subspecialties I could really see myself doing but I did have some trouble stomaching the extreme nature of certain cases. If I were a CAP (Child Abuse Pediatrician) I would worry about missing things and I am not sure I could live with the guilt of not catching something major. This last month. I worked as a Sub-I on general pediatrics. It was hard. I worked f