Matt and Katie Update

Matt is doing his clinical rotation part of school. He is in his surgery rotation right now. He has done: pediatrics, psychiatry, internal med, family med, and now surgery. He has pathology and anesthesia coming up soon. Those are the two specialties that he thinks the most about. He isn't really sure what he wants to specialize in right now. He is open to a lot of things. He has always thought about pathology and anesthesia, so after his rotations through those I think he will have a better idea of what he likes. He has had a lot of good reports throughout his rotations and has for the most part enjoyed them.
He has been awesome on balancing school and family! He makes us a priority! He has even been able to help me when my work load grew and needed to put in some extra hours. He is also a big help with my running!
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My work is really busy, but I enjoy it. I have some really exciting studies! Here is a presentation I was able to do at the Go Red for Women luncheon for the American Heart Association. The AWARE study is a gene therapy to treat women who have chronic chest pain and have no other treatment options. FYI: Heart disease is the number 1 killer in women, the other top 5 combined are still less than heart disease! Be AWARE of your heart disease risks!

At church or small group is growing--- three little girls have been born since Mattie Anne and one little boy is on the way! It is wonderful to have such a close group of friends that are all entering the same stage of life together! I am helping with the nursery coordination at church and Matt is starting a discipleship program with the deacons.
We are going to be doing the pre-K and K children Wednesday night program at church this summer- that will be fun! I assist now, but Matt and I will be over it for the summer.
We had our 2 year anniversary at the end of March. Matt took me to Sky. Sky is a restaurant at the top of one of the hotels in KC that rotates and you get a 360 view of the city. It was a lot of fun!

This month has been crazy for both of us- Matt has to be at the hospital at 4:00 am and doesn't get home to 6:00 pm and goes to bed at 8:00 pm. I have been overloaded at work and working a lot at home late, so it has been hit or miss with us during the week! The weekends are great just being able to see each other, even though I am still working---should be working now, but thought this would be more fun! Matt went to bed a while ago-he has to round in the morning, so another 4:00 am morning for him.