Last Round of Apologies...

A whole 3 weeks have elapsed since my last post. There has been good reason. Dr. Couz became Mrs. Dr. Couz two weeks ago, and then spent a hard-earned week in Mexico celebrating the fact that someone was brave enough to marry me.

Now I'm in the midst of CaRMS... the sequel. I am interviewing at four different schools for spots in their emergency medicine fellowship programs, an extra year of specialized training tacked on to the end of my residency (fast approaching in just 8 months). More forgiving than my first CaRMS tour, I am hitting 4 cities in a week. Totally doable.

After this week, life will settle again. I hope that I'll soon be back to my weekly posting pattern. Don't give up on me yet!

In the meantime, I'll share some photos.



A photo of the Mayan ruins at Tulum in the Yucatan Peninsula











The beach at Tulum.












Not a screen saver... a real place. Can I live here?












An iguana piggyback.












Flying Mexicans! Apparently, this is some kind of tradition.









A friendly gator... right by the beach where were snorkled the reef. Nice.









Storm rolling in...












This is what happens when you go to Mexico during hurricane season.









Sigh. Is it too late to transfer my residency training to the University of Hawaii? I could get used to this kind of view.





Real medically-related posts to follow. Once I'm ready to face reality again.

The Best Intentions...

I had them. Really. And I have a whole bunch of topics that I've wanted to write about here over the past two weeks. But there was Easter, a trip to visit old friends, a trip to visit family, and this...

The latest addition to our family. Needless to say, now that furkid #1 is pretty self-sufficient (at a whopping 18 months old), furkid #2 was a quick reminder of how damn much work puppies can be.

So that's where I've been.

In addition to this, I'm still planning a wedding. Most recent things accomplished were ordering of bridesmaids dresses, purchasing of wedding rings and confirmation of floristy stuff.

I've also been trying to clean up my last 5 years of taxes, which were all inexplicably re-assessed in the past few months. This involved many meetings with accountants.

I am also trying to nail down the details of my schedule for next year. Life as a PGY-2. Sweet.

I am also trying to tie up the ends of my ill-fated involvement with my provincial union. It taught me a lot about administration and politics, but I can't WAIT to not be involved in this stuff anymore.

I have started running again, as I have come to accept the fact that as long as I am working one hour away from where I am living, I am lucky to make it to the gym twice a week. And that just isn't enough. Then I got plantar faciitis. So I stopped running. Then I felt better. So I started running. Then I got that stabbing pain in my heel for two days again. So I stopped. Well, you see where this is going.

And in the midst of all this, I am still a medical resident.

No wonder I'm so tired.

More from me soon. I promise.