Today as a family we passed a MAJOR milestone in our path to cruising: my wife finished her job.
For 20+ years we’ve been a slave to the beeper and the call schedules, for the last 16 in her private OB/Gyn practice we’ve had call every week and on occasional weekends. Admittedly it’s been less often as the practice has grown, but she’s not 29 and new in practice any more and rearing to work 48 hours straight, either.
Tomorrow is her first day back as a “civilian”, and we no longer have to listen to that thing going off.
It’s a huge step for her and one that I know will take a while to sink in. Definitely a bittersweet time after years of training, and years of being at the side of young women as they start families and you help them grow.
So tomorrow morning I can hand our new “Woman of Leisure” what remains of our work list (about 4 1/4 pages…) and we can decided how to full all this new found time! Or we can start emptying the house…
