an update on Lee

Let me take some time to brag on my husband if you will.

My Lee is the most dedicated, hardworking, reliable man I've ever met.
He keeps me grounded, sane, and nice.
Without him I would be never be rational.... and I like to think that in turn I keep him from being too serious and too rational...  sometimes you've got to do something crazy and sometimes you need to keep your head on straight and look at the future.  We've totally got that balance. 

Lee is in his 5th term of medical school now.  5th term is no easier than any of the other terms if you've heard the rumors like we did that it is.  There are about a billion drug names that he needs to know what they are used for, side effects, and lots of other information that I can't even begin to think about without feeling overwhelmed.  And he has other classes that I don't even know about....And he has the USMLE in the back of his mind constantly and squeezes in practice questions to prepare for the biggest exam of his life whenever he can.

Once a week he goes to the local hospital or clinic and see's patients to get experience.
Monday he was in a walk in clinic so he got to see and diagnose a wide variety of patients and he loved it!  I'm so proud when he comes home with all these stories about how he diagnosed these people's problems and new exactly what treatment method they should use.  He's becoming a real doctor, can you believe it?

On top of medical school he is still the President of the Christian Student Association.  Our church is growing and flourishing!! We've had close to 200 people in services recently.  Lee stays really busy with meetings and planning things for CSA and he is also a worship leader and leads the music about once a month and does amazing if I do say so myself :)
Along with that he is also leading a men's small group Bible study once a week.  They had 20 guys the other night! not that small of a group huh?  Lee is so excited about encouraging the men in our church to step up into leadership roles and continuing on after we leave.  It's going to be so hard to leave our church behind...

As if that wasn't enough Lee is also on the advisory committee for the charity UHP (Urban Humanitarian Project) which was started by IEA (the honor society at SGU which Lee is ALSO a part of)
This term he is helping plan the Wii Olympics, a huge Wii tournament on campus, to raise money for the famine in Somalia, Mt. Gay Psychiatric hospital here in Grenada, and for UHP's initiatives with children in inner city New York.  Last term they raised something like $80,000EC!  The tournament is October 8th so they are busy planning and seeking donations from local businesses.  Should be a good time, I can't wait!

AND Lee is on an intramural basketball team.
AND he volunteers with me whenever he gets the chance. 
AND he has a wife waiting at home for him expecting meaningful conversation and quality time.  Praise ye the Lord I'm not the needy type or am miserable in Grenada or we'd have a situation on our hands.

eesh.  Are you tired just thinking about his life?? He wakes up early early, is off to school by 7:15 and usually arrives home around 10.   He studies allllllllllllllllllllll day.  I don't think anyone who hasn't gone through medical school or has been living with someone in medical school could  ever, ever understand. 
I'm sick of trying to explain to people how busy he is or how necessary it is for him to be studying constantly. 

We've come to the horrible, awful, terrible decision that Lee should go to his parents house from January - March to study for the USMLE.  No one outside of our SGU community is going to understand the need for him to have like 14 hours a day of uninterrupted studying time... and he just isn't going to have that at my parent's house with me.  Our house is small, my sister and nieces are also living there right now, and my parents have satellite internet which kinda sucks.
And when I try to tell people that no he can't just go to the local library to study they think I'm nuts.  My parents live in the middle of  NO where. 30 minutes to the closest library. It's going to be January. January in Ohio isn't optimal driving weather and Lee won't have a car or car insurance. The Library isn't even open from 7-9 which is what he'd like to be studying.
I can't go with him because I need to be working (Mamas don't let your babies grow up to marry foreigners)  So we'll be back to long distance. again.

k I'm done ranting.
funny how this started out all sweet and positive and turned so quickly.
this medical school stuff better be worth it.