Internship news

So the last week has been an emotional, physical, and academic rollercoaster. On Monday I started my independent study in pediatrics. It made sense for me to study pediatrics since half of my internship would be with kids and I've only had a few courses on working with them. It was a glorious 2 days of sleeping in until 10 every morning and studying at my leisure. Well yesterday the director of clinical education calls me into her office so we could "discuss how to proceed with DPT805" (which is my internship). When I get to her office, she informs me that I will be unable to complete my internship in the origninal location, as I will not be physically able to do the required amount of lifting for the second half and that they had no other place to put me for those months. So she and I conclude that we need to find an internship site where I would be seeing exclusively outpatient musculoskeletal patients. With that in mind, I decide that it no longer makes sense for me to study pediatrics if I won't be seeing them anymore, so we get approval and switch me into the orthopaedics selective. Well, after tears, class manuevering, and reality hitting me that if she can't find me a spot I may not graduate, I leave only to find an email in my inbox from my original site saying that they have found me a slot in an outpatient, musculoskeletal setting for the second half! Praise God! Only now I'm not studying pediatrics and I will actually be seeing pediatric patients for the first half. Oh well. So there is school drama for you.

On the pregnancy scene, I will be 11 weeks tomorrow and I feel great! I am starting to tell that I have more energy and require slightly less sleep! I've been fortunate to not really have any nausea or vomiting, only indigestion and burping. And a bizarre ongoing craving for BBQ potato chips. :) Well, that's all I've got for now!

Exciting News

Well now that we've told our close friends and family, it's time to let everyone else know that.... I'm pregnant!!!! Today I am 9 weeks and 3 days. I have been very fortunate to have no morning sickness and minimal nausea. Mostly, I am just exhausted all the time. My due date is November 11th which should hopefully work out just in time for me to finish my internship, take 2-3 weeks off, go back to class for 1 week, and then graduate in December! Can you tell this was a planned pregnancy? ;)

On April 2nd I turned 27 and had a wonderful birthday dinner with several of our close friends. We announced that I was pregnant and everyone was super excited for us (or pretended to be!) Then on Saturday Lucas "kidnapped" me for a fun-filled day of "funtivities". We headed down to Charlotte to go shopping at Ikea and then Lucas got us a hotel room at the Grandover hotel in Greensboro. He also surprised me with a massage, but unfortunately b/c I am still in my first trimester they wouldn't do it. But he gets points for trying! I basically couldn't have asked for a better birthday!

In other news, we finally got the kitchen almost entirely put back together. We finally got our appliances in and installed, painted the cabinets black, and got the granite installed. So far we are very pleased with the results! We still plan on applying a tile backsplash, painting, and putting the hardware on the cabinets, but one thing at a time!

Today we had our yearly Roberts birthday gathering and this year we hosted it at our new house so everyone could come see. Dad & Joyce, Shannon, Michelle, & Lane, Heath, Melynn, Katie, & Abby, Aunt Pat & Uncle Howard, Aunt Teresa, Grand-daddy & Nancy, Ann, Sandy, and Harry all came... We had a house full! There was lots of good food and great company! We were also blessed with some very generous house-warming gifts!

All in all, life is going really well for the NC Dargis branch! We are happy, healthy, and extremely blessed... and excited!