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Break out the potted meat and Boone’s–it’s a celebration, and nothing but the good stuff! Actually, I knew this last week, but didn’t pay much attention because I was too busy and somehow it didn’t surprise me. Except today I found out that the new spawn is 5 months along. Damien Sean Preston is 7 months. TWO FRICKIN’ MONTHS AT BEST (assuming her cycle restarted regularly immediately after delivery, which is unlikely) and she gets knocked up again! Jesus, Mary and Joseph…this chick is born to reproduce. Too bad she chose the guy on the corner that washes windshields.

Weaving this back to med school, I can say without having done a day of ob/gyn rotation that I know I’d never want to be an ob/gyn (OBG). No, it’s not the hours, the 14251:1 female:male ratio these days, or even dealing with the, shall we say, “messier” parts and functions (not the least of which is childbirth itself). No, I’d never be an OBG because I’d probably lose my license in the first few years of practice. I come from an area of high welfare mother prevalence, where having another child is a financial advantage to a degree (in spite of no job) because then you get more as a household, and one more mouth to feed isn’t that much more. I’m not kidding.

At some point I’d just snap, fake/forge a consent form, and I’d tie their frickin’ tubes under the pretense of some other pelvic procedure. I’d be doing society a favor. I’d eventually get caught, then not pay off my $500k student loan debt, be forced to declare bankruptcy, lose my wife and kids, yatta yatta. It wouldn’t be a good scene. Why put myself through all that? Better to stick a “safe” residency, like medical transcription or clinical transportation. heh.

I know Brit/KFed’s new bundle of trailerpark joy is not being funded on a dole, but I can’t help but draw parallels here. I know it’s insensitive, unethical and all that to say that some people shouldn’t [further] reproduce, but damn!