02/26/2026
Summary of what I've been up to lately:
- finished my orthopedic PT residency (and very nearly ate s**t while ascending the stage in front of my colleagues, program directors, and freaking CEO 🤦♂️)
- took the OCS exam...I mean, it FELT like I passed but we'll find out by the end of June when results come out 🤷♂️
- still walking on my hands (not pictured) and flinging 200 #+ overhead cuz you can have my old man strength when you pry it from my cold dead fingers 🤸♂️🏋♂️
- still in Charlotte, still working for Ivy in a great clinic with great peeps
- still have the most amazing wife & daughter I could possibly ask for 🥰 (daughter not pictured cuz she looks like a tiny person now instead of a baby and I ain't trying to have AI steal her face)
MASSIVE props and shoutout to said wifey for toughing it out with me for the past 14 months and taking on the lion's share of keeping our gremlin/bobcat (now upgraded to raccoon dressed as Elsa, Anna, or Mirabel) alive with minimal tantrums as the overwhelming majority of my free time was syphoned off for projects and studying. This would not have been possible without her diving into the trenches alongside me to make it happen.
And now I finally get to take a breath and remember what it's like to "have a life." 🥳