‘How many?’, ‘Yes, four children’. I usually feel a bit like a freak of nature at this point in the conversation. Cue jokes about anaesthetists hating odd numbers or the efficiency of having children in pairs.
So I’m a medic turned anaesthetist turned dual ICM trainee with two sets of twins; I toddled off to medical school more than 20 years ago and have been ‘in training’ ever since. It is hard, but life is hard and this isn’t about how I’ve overcome immense odds and struggled through, but about how children and the scenic career route have made everything better.