Our Journey: Medical School

Medical School, gosh, seems so long ago! But not really. Everything is just so different now.

Chad had several options for medical school. He chose OU because it was in-state and MD. Both very good choices in retrospect.

I remember Chad saying I was a snob for not wanting to live in the cheap apartments in OKC. I wanted to live in "The Village." The lovely town homes on campus that were not cheap. I said fine and we drove to OKC a couple weeks before school started to look at his cheap apartments he found online.

Chad learned a lesson that day. Large cheap apartments downtown are not for young white doctors' families. I had set up a tour with the apartment manager. As we went on our tour, I swear people were coming out of their apartments, looking at us and slapping baseball bats against their palms. He couldn't wait to get out of there! But I made him stay for the complete tour. The apartment they showed us had marks from a crowbar up and down the sides of the door!

Fortunately, I had also made an appointment with the nice Town Homes on campus. I got my way that day.

It was really fun living on campus. I saw Chad far more that any other wives saw their husbands and since Cougar was only 2 I wanted him to see his dad as much as possible. We made good friends and had a lot of fun. Frequently, we would have husbands on our couches crashing because they didn't want to drive all the way home during test block week. I'm so glad we lived on campus.

When another little one, Juliet, came along she slept in the hall and we were out of space. Chad went to Tulsa for the last two years of school, which was also nice because that is where we have family. Third and Fourth year were like a big party. Chad had good friends that also came to Tulsa and lived close by. We enjoyed it very much.

We lived in Loan Utopia. Borrow, borrow, borrow. Our motto was, "What's another 10 grand?!"

Food Stamps, Wic and Medicaid got us by on what we couldn't borrow. We managed to come out of Med School without any credit card debt. HA! I was Soooo proud. Pride has a way of humbling us. Residency is a whole different ball game folks.