My husband is a doctor. Similar to any other career, this is what he spends most of his time doing. It’s also our family’s livelihood — how we pay our mortgage, our bills and send our children to schoo l. He went to through seven years of training after college, often working all night or even 24-plus hour calls. He’s had to miss family dinners, birthday parties, nights of putting our children to bed and countless other personal events to be there for children and families who need him.
He is both a working superhero and a family superhero at the same time, carefully finding the balance of time between the two worlds. He also owns his own practice, pays more than I’d like to put in and loves what he does. He also loves coming home at the end of a long day, kicking off his shoes, turning on the news and sitting down to dinner with the family. The long hours, years of sacrifice and…
