I have been quiet. Silent. Stum.
I was loathe to write one of those posts “my life is too busy right now, I’ll get back to you later”. So I didn’t. And many months later, I continued to not write that post.
I chose to be silent. Firstly, I was working on my PhD and realized (slooowly) that my thesis was more important than my blog community. In the midst of that focus shift, I had my third child, which made quiet time more scarce. My son is seven months old now, and my thesis is submitted. I have time to spend on my own pursuits.
The final reason I paused blogging was I was frustrated. I choose to write a medical blog, but my last clinical appointment was six years ago. I am passionate about medicine, and I keep thinking about it, but I felt like a clean-handed activist – willing to be cranky, but only from a distance.
However, things are about to change. After a very long break from my surgical training for my PhD and maternity leave, I am returning to the frontline. This was trickier to arrange than I expected. Due to the combination of medical research and maternity leave, I have had to agree to some concessions. I will have to return to being a first year (I had already completed one year of four), and I have promised to take no further unscheduled leave.
So this blog may become a bit more personal, as I deal with the heart lift, heart wrenching duality of returning to surgery, and leaving my kids. Or maybe it will just deteriorate into a train wreck as I lose perspective studying for my fellowship exam.
Life changes. Maybe my blogging habits can, too.
Welcome back! Looking forward to more
Welcome back.
life often turns out differently from what we plan and what we hope it would be. my blog started out as something and then went another way entirely. now, it’s a mishmash of whatever i feel like for the moment – which is, really, quite me since I often have no sense of direction.
That said, now that I do have a sense of direction, I am trying so hard to not let my blog show it. weird huh.
good luck to you, at least i know i can find you on twitterspace 🙂