» ON CALL BLUES Medea's Memoirs: half-Corean dad, doc, artist who is not afraid of going to Hell

Published in March 28th, 2008

My little boy is almost 6-years old and he still won’t go to sleep by himself. I don’t really mind laying down with him. It’s bonding time. When the time comes that he doesn’t need me to go to sleep with him, what’s next? Preferring to play Halo 3 alone because I might slow him down? Et tu, Master Chief?

Tonight while I was laying in bed with him, I got paged. I returned the call in the dark, then Sun Su whispered something and left to go to sleep with Amy. This is starting to happen whenever I’m on call. Even worse, it has happened a couple of times I didn’t even have my pager with me. After laying for a while, he’s asked if he could lay with umma instead … just out of habit. Ouch. Talk about friendly fire.

Like I need another reason to hate being on call or this “glamorous physician lifestyle” in general.

Here’s some of the good stuff from this past week at least. Pajamas, Easter eggs, and snow forts.

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Jackie Danicki said, in March 28th, 2008 at 10:04 pm

I like that Sun Su is secure enough in his masculinity to wear Hello Kitty on his hat!

Jeanetta said, in March 28th, 2008 at 10:09 pm

This entry illustrates why I always tell coworkers that just because a doc is on call doesnt mean he WANTS to be called and that it had better be something important after 11pm or so or I won’t bother him.

Patients insisting at 2am that they need a chapstick or a laxative can nearly always be distracted enough and made happy enough by something else to wait til 7am for it if we just try..

Melanie said, in March 29th, 2008 at 1:01 am

Man. I’m sorry that you have to deal with this, Scott — being a physician is a vital and important job, but so is being a parent, and you are obviously working hard at being good in both positions.

The kids look absolutely adorable in their snow fort, though — what did they use to make the snow cylinders?

Bonnie said, in March 29th, 2008 at 8:43 am

So nice to see someone dying eggs as we used to. Now egg hunts consist of plastic eggs. But the snow fort, how on earth did they make that?

scott said, in March 29th, 2008 at 2:57 pm

Jackie, that’s actually Amy’s hat but Sun Su is okay with it.

Jeanetta, even better is when you get paged at 2 a.m. for normal lab results.

Hi Melanie, thanks for chiming in! Amy used a plastic bucket to make the snow bricks. That wall took her a half hour to make, and the kids destroyed it within five minutes.

Bonnie, Amy sets up the plastic egg hunts every month per the kids’ requests. For Ooseung’s birthday, she did a plastic egg hunt for the kids. Sun Su had a majority of the eggs within a minute because he already knew where the high-yield egg-hiding spots were.

dawn said, in March 29th, 2008 at 11:47 pm

We’re all sick of the snow and cold. But whatcha gonna do? It’s Michigan. Next week it

Great idea on the snow fort — using the plastic bucket to mold the cubes. Wish I’d thought of something like this when I was a kid, as I made many of them to pass away the time.

Here’s to warmer and sunnier skies in the very near future in the land of Michigan. It can’t happen soon enough to my liking.

dongseng said, in March 30th, 2008 at 2:32 am

i can never get over how big the kids are getting. cherish every moment you have with unnie…i’m just being uncomfortably familiar. =)

scott said, in April 2nd, 2008 at 7:33 am

Dawn, fellow Michigander, I’ll toast you to that!

Dongseng, thank you.

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