The End, The Beginning

And just like that, both my chief year and my time in North Carolina have come to an end. 🥲 My time as a chief resident officially ended a little over a week ago, and I no longer have any obligations to fulfill in that role. The new chiefs have successfully taken over our jobs […]

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Bittersweet Finale

This is it y’all. My chief year is officially coming to an end. Cleaning out my desk last week to make space for the new chief residents of the program made this fact feel all the more real. They officially took over chief duties this past Tuesday, leaving my co-chiefs and I in this ambiguous […]

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The Delights Of Spring

Hey bighead 🙃 It’s been a minute since my last post in early February…so many things in my life have happened since then. I really don’t even know where to start. As much as I want to update you on every little thing that has happened since Super Bowl weekend (that Chiefs-Eagles game was the […]

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Twelve Months of Dubs

Okay, this year has got to be in the top five list of the quickest years I’ve ever lived through. Like, how is 2022 a.k.a. the self-proclaimed “Year of the Dub” already coming to an end?? I remember the beginning of this year so clearly…it all flew by so fast. It feels I was just […]

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Catching My Breath

I’ve just come to accept that things aren’t going to be slowing down any time soon, so I’m now focused on learning how to live in the semi-controlled chaos that my life has become. (Maybe I’m being dramatic. Or maybe I’m not. Perspective is reality, my friend.) Between all of my clinical responsibilities, my seemingly […]

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Life After Residency

Well, it may come as no surprise to you that in between my last post and now, I’ve continued to move through chief year at full throttle. There’s never a shortage of things to do and situations to take care of. There is always something that we can work to improve upon. There is always […]

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Graduating Into Chief Year

Chief year got very real, very fast. Soon after my last blog post, I started the first week of my second Chief rotation, which also served as my last rotation of residency. Like I said in a previous post, this rotation was designed to allow my co-chiefs and I to smoothly transition into the chief […]

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Embracing The Moment

And just like that, my fourth and final ED rotation of residency has come to an end…if you read my last post, you know what that means 👀 I am officially in vacation mode!! 😆😜🙃 Well, kind of. While I’ll be in full-on vacation mode next week when I go on my honeymoon, this week […]

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