Unintended Consequences

If you had asked me two months ago, I never would have told you that one of the best parts of bedrest is catching up with pals. I am notoriously bad for keeping in touch... Facebook helps, but it's not a substitute for the real conversations I've been able to have with friends that I haven't caught up with in a while. I appreciate that they are taking time when their lives haven't been turned on their heads and need to figure out how I can do the same on an ongoing basis so that it isn't years in between conversations... yes, I realize many of you parents are laughing at me since I will be coming home with twins. But, I would like to try.

One of my favorite stories was catching up with one of my closest friends from college. He is a neurosurgery resident, which means that he's fallen off the map for about 6 years. I get to see him each year when Bill and I head to Pittsburgh for a Steelers game, but long chats on the phone are simply non-existent in his world... when we talked I told him that I finally really understood why since the residents I'm working with in OB are here A LOT!

We were talking about naming our kids and he told me a story where he saved a pregnant woman's life two nights in a row because she had an aneurism that burst (or something involving an aneurism that needed immediate attention and was a life/death situation) and he went into her head and fixed it both times. However, she named her child after someone else in the hospital. I started to giggle and asked him if he knew that he was telling me the plot line of a Grey's Anatomy episode, except that McDreamy doesn't save the woman and baby and so he hides in the woods afterward wondering if he should give up medicine. Not shocking, but as an actual doctor and actual resident, he didn't love that his life had any parallels to the show.

I will keep his naming slight in mind as Bill and I wade through the various options... though it would be hard to name a baby after a doctor v. a nurse since they are all "Dr. Last Name" and all the nurses are "First Name"... but that can be the subject of a future post.