Surprise Party

I actually have some real information to share because I talked to the birthmother today for about an hour and have a lot to share, but this is something that I want to share as well so the phone call will have to wait until the next post.

Some back information to make this make some sense. I am in residency (most of you know that already) and up until October I saw a lot of patients and did a ton of surgery, but it was always under an attending doctor. In October my program decided to start a resident clinic where the other 3rd year resident and I would have our own schedule every other Wednesday in the afternoon and see patients as if we were out in practice. The attending is still around and at the end of the day we talk through everything to make sure we didn't miss anything, but we are basically on our own. Ok...well yesterday my director paged me telling me that they wanted to have a meeting today at 12pm to discuss what things I would want for surgery if I book one through this clinic. I thought it was odd, but whatever. I then remembered that I had a medical education meeting at 12 today and told him it would need to be rescheduled. He said that this new meeting took priority. Ok. I have no problems with that. I got a page from the lady in the operating room asking if I could come at 11 instead so I said sure.

I went over to the outpatient surgery center and she met me in the hall outside of the lounge where we were going to meet. I said hello and sorry that I didn't know we were supposed ot go over this information. She then said it was no big deal and asked how the baby planning was coming and then said that you can't possibly be only 2 weeks away and not have had a baby shower yet and opened the door and there was the ENTIRE operating room staff with presents, a cake and lunch!!!! :)

I was sooo surprised and overwhelmed that I was in tears and sooooo happy. I never expected anything like this at all. The gifts were amazing and they didn't need to do that. It was my first baby shower and it was great!!!!!!!! What an amazing way to spend an afternoon at work :)


We leave for California 2 weeks from today :)