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Chris says that it is extremely important to their marriage to make
sure that they take time for each other and for themselves. “Just try
to balance,” he said. “It’s not all about work and surgery numbers.
You’ve been that way for six or seven years and you can finally pull
back a little bit and realize that this was what I was working for all
this time. I don’t have to work 80 hours a week to be happy.”
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excited to see them, making it so much sweeter to come home every
day. “When you get home from work, they both come running to
you, or they hide and I’m supposed to find them, which is fun,” he
said. “They’re at a very loving age; they haven’t started brooding yet.”
So, did any of their medical training help prepare them for lives
as parents? Yes and no. “For medical issues, we have done very well.
But actual parenting, I didn’t have any preparation,” Sonia said. “Now
crisis—we are both very good at crisis. Bleeding, we can handle. But
emotional parenting, I don’t think we had any preparation for that.”
After all this time and effort, both agreed that it is helpful to be
married to another physician. “Even though we have very different
stories, it is nice that we can relate to each other on a professional
level,” Chris said, noting that he “can understand in a different way
what it’s like to have seen 30+ patients in the ICU in a day.”
Sonia agreed, but “I think it’s best that we are in different fields
- I think it’s good. If we were in the exact same specialty, we might
have comments on each other and it’s better that we don’t. I think
what we have is perfect.”
Kathryn Vance is the communication specialist for the Greater Louisville Medical
Society.
Now that they are married with children and fully qualified,
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