Glad you are here Laura!!

Hi! I am Laura. I am a mother of three, tutor, and a doctor wife. My husband, Ben, is in his third year of an orthopedic surgery residency. We have been going through an extremely difficult time recently because his residency program did not get accredited for this next residency year. We found out a little over 7 months ago that we had to find a new residency program to take us for the last two years of his residency. It has been just one more thing to struggle with during an already hard time. We have a home to sell and more debt to accrue with moving costs. Luckily we found a residency program that we are thrilled about going to, but we wish more so that this had never happened in the first place. We will be moving to Pittsburgh in little over a month to complete his last two years at AGH. It is much harder moving in the middle of residency than at the end of medical school. We have a house to sell that isn't selling, we have had to find money to pay for the interviews that he had to do to get into a new residency, we have to move without any relocation loans, and we have to do all this without any time off. In fact my husband has been told by the new residency to be there or orientation by the second week of June, while our current residency told him he is not allowed to leave until the last day of June. Anyway, I have been feeling down on my luck and today I have boiled over into a depressed state. I have resisted posting a hello for some reason, but today I feel so alone in my struggles that I felt a need to reach out. Any of you in Pittsburgh? I am sure none of you have dealt with a closed down residency program -- it is so rare, but if you have -- do you have any advise? I do blog at benandlaura.blogspot.com and I am hoping to meet some friends through this doctor wives blog. Thanks for a listening ear.