Guest Post by Maria Eniss After posting Surviving Residency: The 10 Things I Learned While My Husband was a General Surgery Resident, I received an email from a friend of mine and fellow surgeon’s wife. Maria Ennis is the wife of a Critical Care/Trauma Surgeon and is the mother of five. She was already a couple…
Today makes the five-year anniversary of this tragic experience in our family. Over the last five years, I have thought often about this woman and this letter I wrote at the time. I still feel deeply grateful. To the Wife of the Neurosurgeon at Primary Children’s Hospital, I have spent the last several days…
Finding out that your spouse has a porn addiction is often devastating and overwhelming. In recent studies of wives whose husbands are addicted to porn, researchers have found that woman describe their experience in the same way women describe finding out about an affair. The deceit, betrayal, secrecy, shame, and feelings of inadequacy are the…
Three years ago last month some of our dear friends, Andrea and Tyler Gasser, lost their four month old little boy, Beckett. She went upstairs to her bedroom to wake him up from a nap only to find him unconscious. Days in the pediatric ICU did not revive him. I remember when I received the…
*This is part of our Stories of Strength series. I want to thank the generous contributor who so courageously shared her story. ~ Kim Food and sleep…food and sleep…food and sleep. From age 17 to age 19, those were the only 2 things over which I had control in my life and the only two…