It's been too long!

OK, it's been a really long time. Sorry everybody!

In the meanwhile, though, I have finished my fellowship thesis and a couple of papers. For the last 3 months that's taken every ounce of spare energy and time left after work and sleep. Combine that with having caught giardia from the dog (and the colitis flare triggered by the giardia), potty training the dog, walking the dog, etc.

First, the pup-date! Zoe the puppy is doing mostly well. She is now ~60lbs (compared to 14 oz at birth) and is probably 1/2 of her adult size. She's had giardia, gave me giardia, and now has reacquired giardia from me (drinking out of the toilet IS hazardous!). She got spayed a week ago, and she's mostly healed but did manage to separate her incision in 2 places (~1 cm each). She's going to see the vet to see if we need to do anything about it. And she has dysplasia in her heel and may require little doggy arthroscopic surgery for it (or dogoscopy as my friend calls it!). That sounds like a lot of problems, and it has been frustrating because I really just want to play with her and teach her to do tricks and be a good dog and stuff, and she's been benched for most of the past month, but I think we're close to getting stuff resolved and by the end of January, everything should be fine.

Work's been good. Our office has moved into sweet new digs. I finally got all of my stuff framed for my wall so my office will look like a real doctors' office. I'm finally in a place where I can do my work and then actually leave it to go home or to martial arts class or doggy obediance class or whatever. I have to say, life after training IS so much better than fellowship or even residency (although I liked my residency). I think part of this is because I chose to become a private practice doctor. (more on the private practice/academic practice division later).

And, by the way, XE: you should invite me to read your blog! I can't access it right now. :(