Hi! I’m Alyssa.
To put myself into context: I am twenty-something. I have known Val since college at IU (go Hoosiers!). I got my MD, and now I am a pediatric resident. I have had type 1 diabetes for 17 years. I have been married (hi Kyle!) for almost 5 years. Our first child, Guinness the dog, has been part of our family since April of 2013.
My daughter (hi Molly!) was born in July of 2016.
I don’t cook, but I love eating. I miss traveling, and I someday hope to go on vacation again. You can win my heart with a good bottle of wine, a time-turner, or preferably both.
I am so excited to talk about all of my favorite things here: medicine, my family, breastfeeding, diabetes, puppies, parenting, food, and the crazy that is squishing alllll of that stuff into a day.
Two Docs and a Blog has been a several-year-in-the-making goal for us, and we are so glad it finally exists. I am so excited to share the blog posts I’ve been composing in my brain for years. I hope that this blog can be an inspiration for other fancy ladies who want to have it all. When I was in college and dreaming about med school and a family, I remember googling “can you have kids and be a doctor”, only to find mostly doom and gloom. Years later when I was an intern and newly pregnant, I went to google again (never a good idea, ladies!) only to find mostly the same. While having a big job and a kiddo (and maintaining your sanity) is not always easy, it is always interesting. I hope through reading what Val and I have to muse about, someone else out there googling will see that with determination and a friend to crazy-text in the middle of the night when your infant is screaming and you are on call the next day… anything is possible 🙂
Two Docs and a Blog 