It's In!

The talk today went fine. There were about 15 people there. The dean of the entire medical school was there. Oddly supportive. I'm so glad it's over.

AND! the more exciting news is that we submitted our paper! I'm keeping my fingers TIGHTLY crossed that it gets accepted because we've worked so hard on it. Seriously. Blood. Sweat. Tears.

Well, not so much tears, but it's been a 3-year project. Things move slowly when you're a resident, working lots of hours in a week. It was starting to become a joke... like I'd be at my computer and the Husband would ask "what are you doing?" and I'd say "I'm working on my paper..." this went on for months. We would have a day off and he'd ask "What should we do today?" and my answer would be "I have to work on my paper..."

He started joking that I've been "working on that paper for over a year," and it's almost true! We finished data collection in May. I'm so thankful that I had last month as a free elective to just really sit down and polish it up. and I'm very thankful to all the people who helped me. It would be so exciting if it got accepted in our first choice journal. Everyone, keep your fingers crossed!!