It's unofficially official

Hey Christopher Robin, "How do you feel about your dad having to work on the 4th of July?"

Yeah, I thought so.

Ryan heard the best news today.  Because of the new federal regulations regarding how many hours a medical resident can work each week, his department is conforming, and he will no longer be required to sleep at the hospital when he is on call-which can be about 10 days per month.

Do you know what this means?  It means that by law he can no longer work more than 80 eighty hours per week.  For example, this week he is working 7 days in a row.  He worked this Sunday, and is scheduled all week long in the clinic and OR until this coming Sunday morning 8:00am, July 3rd.  Its Brutal on both of us.  I will be honest.  But come this Saturday when he has to take call again,  he will have already worked 80 hours, so he can come home and take call here. 

He got the short end of the stick again and is on call Monday, July 4th, but now there is a slight chance that we will get to see him on the 4th of July!  So pleeeease,  no one be stupid and break your jaw in a bar fight, and please drive carefully so you don't smash your face in a car crash, or falling off your bike, and for crying out loud stay off the ATV's, I would really love for my kids to have some face time with their father on the 4th of July.  He's already worked Christmas Day, Thanksgiving Day, Mother's Day, and New Years Day this year.  Enough is enough already!!

*Photos courtesy of Christopher Robin