Our Match

We'll be doing residency here in Tucson!!! I won't lie--there's a part of me that really wanted to go somewhere new. But all day I've felt calm and I know that the right thing did happen. The best part is Birch got "transitional year" for the first year, which means that he'll be doing rotations again instead of a year of surgery or internal medicine, which is a lot more hours. A little less stress is always good!

The theme of match day was Disney so we had fun dressing up as Peter Pan characters. Trevor loved it--he's been calling us Peter Pan and Wendy all day.

Not the best picture but it shows what happens at Match Day. Everyone meets in an auditorium to watch a skit by all the different specialties. Then one by one, the students are called up on stage to get their envelope with the residency assignment and open it in front of the crowd.

Luckily, everyone also got an email a few minutes before they started the envelopes so we saw where we matched before Birch went on stage.


After the big ceremony we had a party in the park. Birch was in charge of entertaining the kids so a jumping castle took care of that. Now that we know where everyone is going, it's sad to see friends who will be moving away. Trevor will especially miss one one of his best buds, Nash.

I can't believe four years has gone by. Finishing this process has seemed so far off but we're almost to the end. Just one more big hump to get over.