On Sunday morning I dropped Carey off at the airport so she could fly to Honolulu. She just started a six-week rotation at a Kaiser hospital there as part of her residency. Neither of us were/are excited to be apart from each other like this. For whatever reason Kaiser Honolulu has this agreement with USC to get third-year residents to go out there and work. It doesn’t seem to be a very family-friendly agreement. Fortunately Carey will be able to take some time off and I’m going to fly out there for a week’s vacation in February. That way we’ll be able to split up the time, so we aren’t apart for six weeks straight.

The insult to injury is that USC used to send their third-year residents to either Kaiser Honolulu or Kaiser Bellflower. Married residents and residents with kids would usually take the Bellflower rotation and the single residents would take the Honolulu rotation. In the past couple of years, Kaiser Bellflower dropped out. If they had not, and had Carey gone to Kaiser Bellflower, her first day on the rotation would have seen her likely assist with the delivery of the octuplets on Monday.