Matters of the Heart

Jordan just finished his Cardiology month and he's moving on up.....to Radiology!

I think Jordan enjoyed some aspects of the month more than others

• Jordan did have weekends off and no call-Major perk of an elective!
• He learned a lot about basic cardiology
• Worked with a nice Doctor, big deal since you spend every minute with them
• "Played" in the Cath lab which I think is the main reason Jordan wanted to do Cardiology in the first place, he was able to feed the catheter from the Femoral Vein up to the Heart....very cool!
  

Of course, I think it also reminded Jordan of medical school and being a little bit of a shadow instead of getting to do more on his own....not a great feeling for someone with a Type A personality. All in all though, one more month down.....

Radiology should be lots of fun for him....especially since that's what he wants to do! Of course he's going to be more serious this month! He's already reading material and he hasn't even started yet! Yikes!

Are you ready for some football?

Jordan has been warning me for the last couple of weeks that football season is coming up and has even graciously given me the reign of the remote control.....knowing that he will demand football be shown at all hours around here very soon.

I have to say that I am lucky because I do not have one of those husbands that leaves the TV on ESPN for the sake of it being on ESPN. I do not have to watch bowling championships, poker tournaments, NASCAR (not a fan), or golf (sorry Evan, I don't know how Christy does it!); but when it comes to Football season, we are always watching someone play!

Well, we are quickly figuring out in Texas that we will not be the only ones obsessing about the pigskin sport this season! All the paper talks about is High School Football and the COWBOYS!

Lucky for us, Thursday night the Dallas Cowboys hosted an open practice and we drove over to Arlington with Hal (one of Jordan's residency friends)---we missed you Sarah!

It was so neat to see the new stadiumThe new $1.2 billion stadium-yes it looks like it is about to take off at any minute!

This is the view when you walk in from the end zone.....it's so open!

The field, check out the obnoxiously large screen, you can really see the scale of it in this picture

Let's face it...the whole reason I wanted to go....Tony! ; )

And just when I thought my evening was complete, guess who came out for a little performance....

Yes, the Dallas Cheerleaders!
We also saw Jerry Jones but he tucked away before I could take his picture, he came out to see the girls dance!

Going to the practice was free (just had to pay for parking), so I thought it was a great way for people who cannot normally pay to go to a game to check things out!

Now, are you ready for some football?

Lazy Day!

Happy Friday! Karma and I are just being lazy and hanging out. It's a gloomy day so we slept in! :)
Jordan says when he comes back in the next life, he wants to be Karma.....me too!

Love this song!

I love when  this commerical comes on,  the song is so happy! I am still searching for a job, and some days it gets very frustrating! But this song makes me smile and feel better!
FYI Dawn has been under fire for the cruelty of animals that are in the commercial when their goal is to help the animals in the first place, and animal rights activists claim that there is plenty of footage of oil spills that could have been used instead of "staging" these animals....they look fine to me....remember to turn off my music at the bottom! : )

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minding my own business....

Lately in the morning I have a routine. Jordan makes coffee and I enjoy it in the morning with Good Morning America and then Good Morning Texas! On Wednesday, I was minding my own business and enjoying my coffee when I heard a thud on my front window. I noticed a dark bug on my window and upon closer inspection.....It was two bugs....one a locust, and the other a really mean stinging bug (do not know technical name)! They were huge and connected?!?
I had to grab my camera to document the HUGE bugs....at first I thought they were doing the deed, but quickly realized that the big mean bug was killing the poor locust. Really? On my window? I guess everything is BIGGER in Texas. Completely grossed me out, and I didn't leave the house the rest of the day! ha....

In other news, Jordan's parents came to visit this past weekend and we ran around all over the DFW area showing them the town....I know, you are probably thinking YOU don't know the town....so, you're right, we discovered it together. More to come when someone (hint hint...Whitney) sends me some pictures from the weekend!

I am also very excited that we are welcoming a baby (our first niece) into the family. Evan and Christy are welcoming their first child in November and we are hosting a small family/friend shower in P town! I have been having fun with the invitations, and they turned out great! I even coordinated the stamps! Check them out!
Have a great weekend!

finally.....

So, when we were moving, we made sure that all of our furniture was protected and not damaged. With Jordan on a resident salary and not sure of what I would be doing, we didn't have a ton of money to buy all new things. We were very lucky that NOTHING was broken....well except Jordan's TV stand from Walmart. It was a cute TV stand but we had outgrown it. We do not have an impressive collection of DVDs but the storage was just too small even for us!

My parents drove to Jackson the day before we left and helped us pack and thank goodness my dad broke the TV stand. I was so happy (Jordan and I had already debated whether we should even move it to Texas) and when the piece broke, our decision was made! So my dad helped us , really, THANKS! It was left in Jackson. We have been living with our TV on the floor and FINALLY found a piece of furniture that Jordan and I both loved and it has arrived.
Below is a pic of our new piece of furniture!

It's perfect....everything fits tucked away and I love that it doesn't have to be a media piece, so we can keep it always and use it in different ways!

1 month down, 4 years, 11 months to go!

We celebrated the end of Jordan's first month of residency on Friday! Yipee! I think he had an interesting first month. He started on wards, which is just the regular adults floors of the hospital, but if his patients became very sick he followed them to the Intensive Care Unit. That's different from some hospitals, and different from UMC. At one point Jordan had 9 patients on his own! I think he did great....of course I do, but his resident complimented him as well!

Things we have learned this month:
1. When Jordan says, "I think I will be home early today...", Jordan will be home late.
2. Just because you work and sleep at the hospital for 36 hours straight, the nurses can still page you about your patients.
3. Jordan really knows more than we thought..ha...he had had a couple of conversations from home and I HAD NO IDEA WHAT HE WAS SAYING.....but it sounded good.
4. Jordan pronounced the death of a patient(s). :(
5. It's not that bad!

I will never forget Jordan's first day when he woke me up to say goodbye at 5:15AM and said, "Say a prayer for my patients." I have never prayed for more sick people I did not know ever in my life.

Another great quote from Jordan this month was,"My patients are all trying to die on me today!"

We celebrated on Friday with a Mexican dinner and margaritas hosted by a cardiology group at Baylor and it was great to visit with the other intern/radiology guys!

Great job Jordan, keep it up, 1 month down, 4 years 11 months to go!