He's 30!

Nathan turned 30 on Wednesday. We celebrated Monday by having friends over for a BBQ. We had about 30 people here. Nathan loved grilling all day! On Wednesday we had a family celebration. Nathan received Star Wars for his gift. It was a great birthday. E asked all the kids in her class to make Nathan a card. So he had 14 cards from E's first grade class. It was really cute.

Update

We are almost done with one whole side. It's hard to work around Nathan's schedule and the rain and heat we've been having. Hopefully we will get the rest done quickly!

And Thus it begins...

We are painting our house. I really should say Nathan is painting our house with some great help from our friend Jaci. Her son loaned us the scaffolding and they have been working away. One problem is all the rain we've been having lately. It has slowed us down a little. I get to help with the parts I can reach from the ground (when I don't have to be watching the kids). Wish us luck!

Nathan climbing up on the scaffolding so he can reach the top of our house!

We chose a chocolate milk color for our house with a white trim. I am VERY excited!

Music Class

For the past several months I have been teaching a music and movement class for toddlers at our little library. It has been a lot of fun. Today was my last day. School is almost out, and with the baby coming at the end of the summer I probably won't do it next year. I have really enjoyed teaching it and meeting people from the community. It was a good experience. Here is a picture of me with all the cute kids that attended.

Our Garden

We have a small area in our yard that we are using for a Garden. Within this little area we planted squash, zucchini, cucumbers, green peppers, tomatoes, and herbs. Hopefully they
will all work out!

Recovering.

I'm now one week out from my most miserable week I've had through all my medical training. It was my first week of night float in radiology. When I was a medicine intern night float was painful, but I had upper level residents in house that I could call and chat with about sick patients, and they could come and look at anyone I was uncomfortable with. I also always had the option of asking the ICU to check out a patient that I thought was sick (yes, I know that everyone in the hospital is sick, but these people were really knocking-on-death's-door-sick).

Radiology night float is different. The shift starts at 9 pm. After 10 pm our staff radiologist on long call goes home and I am the only radiologist (and just in training) in the hospital. I have attendings who are at home, sleeping that I can call upon if I'm really not comfortable with a study, but for the most part it's me with a whopping 10 months of training under my belt.

Fortunately my week was rainy and the young kids were not out on their ATVs, so there weren't a lot of traumas (which are some of the more stress provoking situations because of the short time we have to find all the pertinent findings for the trauma surgeons who are breathing down your neck deciding if the patient needs emergent surgery), but it was still a busy enough week. There were several cases that I was contemplating calling in an attending, but I didn't. I spent the remainder of the night stewing over whether I had made the right call and finally in the morning (around 7:30 or 8 am) I would get smart people (my attendings) to either confirm or reject my preliminary report. For the most part I was right. Nobody who was sent home because of my preliminary report had to be called back into the hospital because of a major miss. Nobody went to the operating room because of an incorrect finding. No one had surgery held because of a major miss. So, for my first week of night float, success, kind of.

Spring in PA

Here is a picture of our beautiful river from our back patio. It is fun to live so close to water.