It would be really easy to take all of my frustration out on Jeremy, and be mad at him for being gone all the time, but it's really not his fault. After the first month of residency I came to the conclusion that the hospital owns our life right now. And you just kind of have to sit back and take it. Every time I start to get frustrated because he doesn't make it home for dinner or he's gone on Saturday and it ruins the weekend, I have to tell myself it's OK, it's not his fault. It's just what residency is.
Does anybody else feel like that?
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A girl in my ward could definitely relate...here's a post she had on that topic. http://bullardclan.blogspot.com/2008/01/daddy-lives-at-hospital.html
I have two words for those of you who are massively worried about how much time your spouse will have to work after medical school: Radiology Residency.
The hardest for me to handle is not when my husband is actually away, working, but when he's at home, and so tired that he falls asleep under the shower, and there's not much you can do to involve him in family life...
It gets a LITTLE better every year. Last night (Sunday) my husband's team was on call but he slept here for 5 hours. When he saw Miriam he said, "oh, I like your hair cut." I responded, "She got it cut on Thursday."
another thing that really helped me lately is i have a friend here who is single and she told me the next time Jeremy was on-call she would come over and hang out and help with the kids. so she came over last night and it was great. i think just having her in the room helped the kids be more mellow. my oldest son was so excited to have someone new to show his toys to and talk with. it was such a nice change to the last time he was on-call on a sunday.
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