Carmella sadly had to be put to sleep last night. A strange euphemism but true in this case, with a large dose of anaesthetic, to remove her from what appeared to be suffering. I'm gutted. Meanwhile our remaining chicken, Margie, looks very lonely today. Maybe we will get some more, maybe not.
The secret is now out - we're moving to Birmingham. I'm leaving my job, my other half is leaving his job as a doctor, we're leaving our house and moving up there.
Blame MMC. Mutilating Medical Careers; Major Medical Cockup; whatever you want to call it. Thanks Patsy. Thanks Tony. Thanks BMA for sod all. Thanks all the other doctors who haven't stood up for their junior colleagues.
Needless to say, this upheaval pales into insignificance compared to our chicken loss. :(
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wow. best wishes for the future hannah. hard workers do well always. and i am sure you'll both be happy and successful in your new life. best wishes for good health too!
just to confirm, your other half will carry on as a doc in brum? he's not leaving medicine altogether?
friends tell me that bham is a great place to live. no more travelling for hours to get from one end of the city to the next.
:( Sorry to hear about Carmella.
Brum is a cool place though ;-)
He is leaving medicine, for now. He will be taking up a research post and doing a PhD with the aim to go into clinical academic fellowship stream after that ... if that indeed exists then. The options via MMC are too dismal, too unpredictable, too uncontrollable, and he has other skills up his sleeve - luckily for him. It's been an enormous decision to leave medicine though.
Awww, I'm so sorry to hear about Carmella! She's been such a staple...it won't be the same looking at the pic in the sidebar and knowing that one of them is gone :(
I'm also very sorry to hear your partner's leaving medicine. Academic work can be very rewarding, but you're right - with the government poking its fingers in the pie like this, anything can happen.
It scares me to no end that even an established doctor like your other half can leave the profession. Surely there's even less hope for a poor medstudent like me :P
All the best though!
out of interest, how many eggs would you get per week from the lovely ladies??
Two eggs a day usually - at the moment the remaining chicken is off lay (normal in winter). They are the most incredible eggs too - nothing like you buy - makes you realise that even free range organic etc etc are all quite old by the time they reach you. These eggs feel like a complete meal when you eat them.
Ah, poor carmella. Hope you have happy memories anyway.
As for the clinical academic career pathway, it's best to apply now and defer if the PhD is confirmed. Finding a way back in later will be very very difficult. But I'm sure he knows this already.
Anyhow... there are still 19 hours before the MTAS deadline ;)
Perhaps MTAS is addling my brain, but I've been thinking about your OH whilst washing the dishes.
If he's a junior leaving medicine but considering an academic medical career he should go along to the COMAR in March. They're dedicated academics and are bloody determined to get the academic career pathway on the road.
Yes it's BMA, but it's not really, it's an academic offshoot. He should be able to book in online, but if not I've got a pile of nomination forms here and would be happy to fill one in for anyone who's vaguely interested. Anyway, you can email through my blogger profile if you're interested. If not... sorry for spamming your comment section ;)
Thanks HP. He isn't registered yet for a PhD so the deferral option isn't open to him right now ... but I've passed on your message and thanks so much for thinking of us (while you're washing up!).
Oh no! I have been reading your blog, selfishly, to fulfil the gap left in my life when my chickens were cruelly taken from me (well, I had to give them up). But it was heart wrenching nonetheless. I know the pain you are feeling, beleive me I do. I hope that one day we will both have chickens again.
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