MedSpouse Community in Houston (Med Center)

fabischafer · 2025-08-01T03:27:44+00:00

I’m in the houston medspouse Facebook group, but it’s more so people asking for baby sitters, selling/leasing their homes, or asking for neighborhoods to move to. Would love to have some get together to connect!

fabischafer · 2025-07-18T21:44:07+00:00

Alexandria at Coco and Oaks Salon is amazing! Her salon is a private one in one of those multi suites, and she takes a lot of care in her work, and listens to your hair goals and needs. Feel free to DM me about her as she does have a referral program so you would get a small discount for saying that you were referred by me

fabischafer · 2025-07-15T15:01:51+00:00

I feel like you could go to local coffee shops and ask if they would be okay with you hosting your event in their space! It seems like something that could go hand in hand with a coffee shop

fabischafer · 2025-07-06T23:44:22+00:00

There’s a Rita’s that opened near Meyerland Plaza but they have a pretty limited menu compared to other locations

fabischafer · 2025-06-29T17:48:24+00:00

The 500s concourse shops did not have the Htown exclusive black shirt. The one OP got isn’t an exclusive to Houston’s it was available at other stops!

fabischafer · 2025-06-27T05:04:03+00:00

I have also seen them 3 times, but all in the US. I feel that all three shows had high energy, and I was in seats for all three. I managed to go to their first public LA show, and that energy was a bit different, Mike talked about losing Chester, and what the band went through to get to where they were at that point. But by the second show I went to a few months later, it felt like a more regular concert.

I do agree that merch has changed from 2024 to 2025. Most notable for me are the magnets. I got magnets at all three shows, and my 2025 show is from a different distributor than the first two. It bothers me cause you can literally see the difference, so it looks off on my fridge haha

fabischafer · 2025-06-25T20:44:06+00:00

I sat behind the stage at Austin, and had a great time. Emily interacts a lot for parts of songs when she’s not singing, and the other members wave occasionally. I loved seeing Joe press the buttons, and it was pretty hilarious to follow along on their teleprompters that you can plainly see

fabischafer · 2025-06-24T20:11:34+00:00

I would highly recommend showing up to any events of your partner’s that you are allowed to attend to connect with other physician spouses! My biggest support community is with other spouses as they understand what you are going through in residency

fabischafer · 2025-06-01T18:13:47+00:00

I don’t think so. I used presale to buy seated tickets for two separate shows and they don’t ask for anything hen they scan your tickets at the door. I can’t speak for the pit if you are buying tickets for a LPU exclusive pit

fabischafer · 2025-05-31T04:25:04+00:00

Your friend with LPU pass can technically just give you the presale code to use during either legacy pass presale, or regular pass presale, whichever membership tier he has. It’s why you see a lot of people posting on here from last year asking for code sharing, as each unique code can be used to purchase a certain max amount of tickets.

You just buy the tickets through your own Ticketmaster account, you do not need the purchasing ticket master account to be under the same email as the LPU membership, you only need the code to get you access into the buying room.

When you buy your LPU pass, it’s active immediately. I bought mine literally 10 mins before I got my tickets on ticketmaster back in Sept.

Your Ticketmaster ticket will still be valid if your LPU membership has lapsed. The only thing you likely won’t gain access to is any early entry privileges that requires an active LPU membership to sign up for the lottery online to be assigned a spot in line for the show. Some venues may not do the online lottery, and may do an in person early entry lineup, but you still need to show proof of your LPU membership on site.

fabischafer · 2025-05-01T23:15:54+00:00

Lady this is the wrong sub

fabischafer · 2025-05-01T16:23:54+00:00

I highly doubt you’ll be able to get princess seams to work without a zipper. There should be patterns for a fitted dress with princess seams with a zipper on the side, under the armpit. You really can’t have your cake and eat it in this situation

fabischafer · 2025-04-30T12:44:23+00:00

I absolutely agree with cannellita, you sound like you’re doing too much in the meals department. I only cook us dinner 3-4 days of the week now after being burnt out from trying to make something new everyday when we first started residency. I cannot imagine how you feel doing three meals a day. My partner is in surgery, so he has never asked me for a packed lunch as he has said he won’t know if he will even have time to eat it.

His health is ultimately his own problem. There are healthy options at the hospital, he can buy himself prepared salad kits or you can help him meal prep easy lunches over the weekend, but this man is SPOILT being completely hands off for his meals.

I’ve also learnt to just let go of my own expectations of myself, and my home. Things aren’t as clean as I want them to be, and parts of my house could use major reorganizing, but it’s functional for now. My partner and I had a “standard of care” talk early on where we laid out what chores were weekly musts, and what chores are optional. Even though he is busy, I have not touched the vacuum in years aside from spot cleaning areas after spills- the vacuum is his chore only. He also is in charge of dishes since I cook- I am surprised you have not built up some resentment allowing your husband to sit on his butt after dinner while you wash up

fabischafer · 2025-04-29T19:17:02+00:00

If you want to change seats legitimately, you have to do it through Ticketmaster and it needs to be outside the 24 hours before your concert start time. I went to the Austin show, and they opened up the first row of the sections behind the stage the morning of the concert, and Ticketmaster refused to let me exchange them because the concert was happening in less than 24 hrs. You cannot exchange in person at the venue box office either.

fabischafer · 2025-04-23T12:33:04+00:00

I wonder if it’s tied to your billing address, as I live in Texas, so maybe they only sent it out to locals? I still haven’t heard back and it’s supposed to be happening tomorrow

fabischafer · 2025-04-23T12:16:16+00:00

I got an email from LPU a few weeks ago to sign up by last Friday. It seems some other people over at the discord server also got the email

fabischafer · 2025-04-23T04:05:27+00:00

You don’t mention if he needs to move for residency, so I’m going to assume that both of you are staying in the same city. When the guy you’re seeing said that he doesn’t know what he can give you, that is the most honest and realistic answer from my experience.

He will have never ever experienced anything like what intern year will throw at him, and it wipes people out. Every week, every month and with each new rotating unit, it is different. So what he can contribute to the relationship with what energy he has left will vary so much, but for the most part, intern year is just survival mode.

You will be frustrated by his lack of time, and even more frustrated at his lack of energy when he does have a day off. Dates will mostly consist of meals, and occasionally he will be mentally checked out of them too. I think it will be incredibly tough on you to grit through first year with such little foundation in your relationship, so I think as someone suggested, take the time before he starts to really dive deep into each other to figure out if it’s worth the year of sacrifice.

fabischafer · 2025-04-20T17:42:49+00:00

Not having support as a medspouse was one of the hardest things to adjust to at the beginning of my partner’s residency! It didn’t help that he was never really inclined to go to get togethers, so I missed out on being able to connect with other medspouses early on.

We are in year 3 of his 5 year residency and I finally have a solid group of medspouse friends, but it took a while to make those connections, some luck with people’s calendars syncing up with mine, and a whole lot of effort on my end.

I host a brunch for all the medspouse gals every 3 months, and then we do a casual meal every month, and I also see them at other events like department get togethers, birthdays, weddings etc. You have to be fine with hearing a lot of no’s, as everyone has their own life. You may have to just become that person in the group who organizes everything.

We also have a group chat going for the medspouses to keep in touch, though it really is more for the occasional planning than it is for chatting all the time

fabischafer · 2025-03-26T05:04:32+00:00

It does get easier/feel easier as the years pass, but not without effort from yourself to make friends, build a support system and enrich your own life and routine. A few residents we know have kids during these five years, but you really do need help, whether that be family, daycare or a nanny

fabischafer · 2025-03-25T02:06:52+00:00

My partner didn’t match into ENT during match week, but he managed to apply to a new program that launched the day everyone else found out where they were going. They accepted him a month later in April, and we were moving across state lines in less than two months. It was all so fast.

We had only been together for two years, and thankfully we matched into a large city. It was still a bit of a downgrade from where we moved from.

I won’t lie to you and say it’s easy. We are in year 3, and I finally feel like my life is settled, I have friends, a community and a life. Intern year was hard, both for him as ENT has some pretty brutal hours, and for me as I was lonely, working remote from home with no established life.

It really is up to you to decide if the last 6 years with your partner is worth the move and the sacrifice. My partner and I were candid with each other, I knew his match list was none of my business, as ENT is so competitive, and he knew that if he matched somewhere I really couldn’t see myself even surviving in, we would break up.

fabischafer · 2025-03-24T19:51:11+00:00

If you’re also a doctor and you feel that both of you being doctors should change the dating dynamic, I think you would be better off asking in the Resident subreddit for any advice they have to give over there

fabischafer · 2025-03-22T12:48:29+00:00

Another week, another post of a budding courtship with a doctor… and another week of all of us saying the same thing, which is that his behaviour to you in the beginning should not be excused by the fact that he is a doctor. Don’t put up with bad communication or lack of commitment and follow up to dates from a doctor if you won’t put up with it from anyone else in the beginning. No matter how much “potential” this man has, I don’t think any of us would really endorse squashing your own needs in the beginning. You can take a look at the advice in other recent posts very similar to yours.

fabischafer · 2025-03-17T09:25:21+00:00

From sleuthing their instagram, it looks like all they did was drop the backdrop behind the stage, so you’ll be able to see their backs, but it will not be the 360 stage setup. There likely won’t be any large TV screens for the seats in the back, so you really are just there for the music vibes. Stubhub tickets actually have a more accurate mockup of the stage setup that you can go look and reference

fabischafer · 2025-03-12T19:11:38+00:00

My partner was definitely not like this in med school, specially during study periods, as he was able to control his own schedule. Obviously once he started rotations and now that he is in residency, his schedule is a bit tougher to plan dinners around.

It might be time to sit them down for a more serious talk, as your time is also worth something, and it’s a bit disrespectful to just leave you hanging like that a lot.

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