I'm enjoying what I'm doing right now - working one day a week. It would be great if I could just keep doing this for another year until the kids are done with high school. However the financial realities of my H taking this job at a lower pay, while my D is looking at a private college which costs beaucoup bucks, means I really need to ratchet up my earnings sooner than that.
Since the doc I'm working with now only has room for one person to work at a time, and he works 4 out of the five days, I really need to find another venue. Working with this girlfriend of mine from residency would be nearly ideal, but she is still looking at another offer that has come her way. If that doesn't work out, though, I will find a space or sublet to open my own practice.
I am enjoying what I am doing, which is not general family practice but involves seeing mostly hypothyroid patients and bioidentical hormone replacement patients. Since proper treatment of hypothyroidism is a passion of mine (after the struggles I and many family members have had with this) I am really enjoying this.
I hope within the year to have a practice up and running, working about 3/4 time, and making enough that if H goes off the deep end again, I will be able to support myself comfortably. I had always worked until I got sick, and I don't want to ever be in this position of financial dependence again. I still struggle with fatigue but am so much better than I was a year ago before I started this new regimen for my own thyroid.
