worth fighting for

recreational ultra-marathoner s/p IM residency & fellowship. I'm searching for God and myself, and trying to do something meaningful with my life along the way.

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1) We had to put P-dog down today because her cancer came back with a vengeance and I am super sad about it.

2) I learned something new about W today in that he’s actually really good at digging graves? Like I had never considered the technique behind it and apparently there is…

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Your religion is not a shield from accountability.

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Fuck cancer

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@nearlyheadlesspeeves I love my partner but he won’t let me add a 5th doggo to our pack.

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Lots of death in the family right now.

At least I’m used to it and can rationalize the shit out of it.

*finger gunz*

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Not me learning phrases in ASL because my dog is going deaf.

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Why did it take me until I was 34 years old to get into cottage cheese?

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I’m tired of not being taken seriously by some men.

Them: oh, we didn’t realize you actually wanted X done when you said you wanted X done.

Me: …did I stutter?

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It was a good weekend in the woods with friends.

Perhaps the funniest part was I ran a race on Saturday that W volunteered at. He took our most social dog, B with him. B is always a big hit and has attended this race for the past three years.

Saturday night we are at a party. We got invited by one of my running buddies. It was more a party for her kids/their friends, all of whom are in their 20s. But she had invited some of her friends from work and a few of us from run group so there was a solid group of folks in their 30-50s hanging out.

So we are standing there in the back with the 30-50 yo crowd and some young girl comes up to W and is like “I know you, where do I know you from?” And W is like “I don’t know, I don’t think I know you” and they continue this back and forth until the girl goes “oh! I know how I know you, you are B’s dad! I see him every year at The Race! He’s such a Good Boy.”

Anyway so that’s how we learned B has a local fan club.

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Now that I am older, my circle of friends has expanded to include people who are even older than myself (sometimes 20 years older).

I had this surreal moment at dinner tonight where I realized that Waka Flocka Flame was NOT a universal high school experience.

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Not sure when I made the mindset switch from “just a half” to “just a 50k” but somehow here we are.

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I was not prepared to be making medical decisions for W’s family at this point in my life.

I mean I’m happy to do it, but I feel exhausted.

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Maturing is realizing my Spotify wrapped will probably be half Slaughter to Prevail and half Sophie Powers and being okay with it.

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I would be lying if I told you I was a Kendrick Lamar fan because I’m not. Stylistically he’s just not what I’m into.

But holy moly, his Super Bowl performance was amazing. The symbolism? The layers? The political commentary? Just bravo. 🤌🏻 What an amazing artist. Mad respect.

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I’m afraid for my patients and for me.

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Last night

I thought we had a bear visit last night because something large was moving around on our porch. Turns out W put our Christmas tree on the back porch with plan to put it in the yard to mulch and it got blown way over by the wind.

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I’m glad they finally decided to cancel clinic for tomorrow in light of this impending foot of snow we are supposed to get