The joys of being married to a doctor

What is it like being married to a medical resident? For all those who wonder walk a day in the shoes of PC Man....

1. You wake up often to a person who recites string of diseases and yells out various body parts in her sleep

2. Scrubs and white coats make up the majority of your laundry every week.

3. You know you have a spouse in theory but at times you can't place when you last saw them

4. Your spouse seriously thinks coffee should be made available in I.V form

5. You cannot watch a medical show without hearing complaints about what they are doing wrong and guffaw about upside down x rays.

6. You cannot walk into malls without your spouse commenting on the BMI and heart risks of completely strange obese men.

7. A weekend of fun needs to be planned a year in advance

8. You have at least 7-8 stationary items with names of prescription drugs on them at home

9. You've spent more money on the various "scopes" than on a car payment.

10. You are a ready made guinea pig whenever she wants to practice her physical examination skills.

11. You cannot complain of a sore throat or ear pain without being ready to have things with light shoved into them to take a closer look.

12. Your spouse is capable of making the person seated next to you at a restaurant throw up just by discussing her day to day adventures.

13.Your 3 year old touches your forehead and declares you have a infection and takes out a paper to scribble a prescription.

14. Your doc wife marvels you with her ability to snore in a busy crowded restaurant while waiting for food.

15. Sight of blood doesn't unfaze her unless it's her own whereas anything in red makes you squirm.

16. You can't walk out of the bathroom having scrubbing your hands for less than a minute without hearing a voice reminding you of all the names of deadly germs that are now going to go down your alimentary tract.

17. You found your birthday presents wrapped in a crepe bandage and fastened with micro pore tape.

18. Your 3 year old walks around with a "pager" and knows words like antibiotics, pneumonia and diarrhoea.

19. She thinks catheterizing the child on those long road trips is a good idea

20. You tell her that she is getting on your nerve and she proceeds to draw a accurate picture of nerve and asks which anatomical area should she place the stick person representing her?

21. You complain you are developing stomach ulcers due to stress of waiting on her and she cheerfully asks whether she can be present for your endoscopy as ulcers would be cool to see.

What can I say?Isn't he lucky to have me?