I had 35 minutes of active labor. He came shooting out like a cannonball. Gilroy says she has no regrets about proceeding with her family during medical school. She has put to use a lesson she learned as a Navy wife when she was waiting around for her husband to return from a six-month deployment. You realize you wished your time away.
Life is to be lived.
This is four years of my life not four years out of my life. She knows her residency will mean long hard hours, but she's comforted that her husband will be taking a much-deserved break to be with the children for awhile. But she knows she'll get through it. It's given me a good perspective on how to manage time and prioritize. Some things are only important for the moment, and some are important for a lifetime.