MAT DIDN'T GET INTO MEDICAL SCHOOL! 
I may have lost my mind the day it finally set in that Mat was not going to be getting any offers for medical school.

We should have realized it wasn't going to happen when it was March and we still hadn't heard back but I had high hopes still in the fact that my amazingly smart and talented husband would get into medical school. But finally we came to terms with it and he didn't get in and then the anxiety came and I started to freak out and had to plan what we would do for the next year and six months after his masters program was over. I freaked out because that's just what I do, then I picked up my hopes shattered on the ground and knew that he was still going to medical school, just not this year.  So we had to bite the bullet and reapply, shouldn't be too hard right. While it's not too difficult its just time consuming and expensive.


WE DID IT though! We reapplied to medical school, early this time, all while living apart. I got a job where we can live rent "free" for the year. Mat also received a position at an Urgent Care Clinic which he LOVES. We are only about 3 miles away from Mats new job, he gets to pedal his bike right on down to work almost daily, unless he's running late, which RARELY happens. And we get to spend lots of time with my brother, Daniel, well I get to spend time with him at least, Mat works late and fills out secondaries every chance he gets. See picture below of us getting to ride our SWEET Schwinn bikes together.

Us on one of our many bike rides together.

We reapplied to medical school and are finishing up our final secondaries and are now just awaiting for interview invitations to start coming in through email.

If they say its hard to apply to medical school, try applying twice. It was hard, the one thing I hated was people asking in April if we would be going to medical school, no we aren't. They would then ask a whole slew of questions like oh why not, that's terrible what are you going to do now? all sorts of terrible things followed up by no advice because they didn't know what it was like. But we answered their silly questions and smiled when they tried to empathize. The moment came though when we had to choose ourselves to not let one failure make us change our lives course.

Be on the lookout for my next blog post The Do's of Applying to Medical School.