Anchors away!!

Last night was Larry's official last day as an intern.

I breathe a heavy sigh of relief because.. hands down, it has been the.most.challenging. year in our married lives. Newborns twins screaming all night long pales in comparison to an overworked grouchy husband with grouchy kids in a new land.

Yesterday morning they had a graduation ceremony. We went- meaning Larry was there and had been there since the day before since he was on call the previous day- and I dragged the kids.
Poor kids couldn't figure out which back of shaved head in hat was their father's..

Anyway.. it was about an hour of speeches and boring talk- to both the kids and the adult trying to keep them quiet.. I have a picture of Larry walking back from shaking the CO's hand after getting his internship completion piece of paper.

1/2 of the interns are staying for residency, the other 1/2 of us are going "to the fleet" Navy talk for being a doctor to Marines/Sailors with 1 year of internship under their belts.. they'll have to finish residency at some point. Or just continue being a GMO (general medical officer) the rest of their working-as-a-doctor lives. If Larry keeps up his career change in 10 years or less trend, we don't have that much longer to go on this one...

Last night was the "hail and farewell" again - (translation- the semi-formal dinner marking the entry of the new people and the departure of the old. Each residency class and the faculty did a movie or skit, for the most part pretty entertaining. Larry's class video took the 3 them (Larry being one of the 3) 3 sleepless nights of editing to get it done.

I wish they edited out all the talk of circumcision, but apparently the number of circumcisions they've done has been mighty memorable to them. A good 10 minutes or more of their 20 minute video was about circumcision.

Probably one of the funniest things that happened this year that made at least 2 videos was a patient who presented to the ER with her husband who complained she had "bugs" in her "Va-j-j". And her husband attempted to vacuum them out with a regular old vacuum. Not that I think ANY vacuum would be appropriate for such a complaint, but.. there was an infomercial for a vacuum specially designed for Va-J-J's and something else. I remember the infomercial.

And as I've mentioned- sometimes things need to be "broken down barney style" (meaning as if it's Barney the big purple dinosaur that is explaining it) - and it can be fodder for the videos. Last year I remember a video that highlighted the "labor deck" (labor and delivery ward, but because it's the navy, they call it a deck- like it's a ship, but in reality it's a plain ole hospital) and some of the "tattoo to teeth ratio" jokes and the "burth" jokes. They also ring the "ship's bell" with every birth and announce it over the hospital speakers "baby girl XXX arrived? on board?" I forget. The first time I was at the hospital during the day for something, I was stunned at the frequency of that bell ringing.. but.. hey.. several hundred thousand guys, girls and their significant others under age 24.. what do you expect?

I didn't really take any pictures to show of the hail and farewell. I think we'll have a copy of the DVD if you really want to see it.