The Life of a Physical Therapy Students' Wife

When I first met Travis over 5 years ago at Snow he told me he was going to become a Physical Therapist. Right after he proposed he went into great detail of how the next few years of our life would pan out culminating with him getting into the Physical Therapy Program at the U (I didn't hear a word of that because I was so excited he had just proposed but he felt like he needed to explain himself. He took my silence to his plan as a "no", so he kept explaining until I finally shut him up). After we were married we transferred to SUU because Travis knew that doing his undergrad in Athletic Training would better prepare him for PT graduate school and felt like it would give him a better chance of getting accepted into the U. He spent the first 4 years of our marriage preparing for graduate school, and I was preparing myself too.

I knew that PT school would be very time consuming. I have heard from other wives that while their husband was in grad school they never saw them. I was bracing myself for how busy Travis would be, especially in the last few months before he started. I knew that I would not be seeing him very much, and I was ok with that. 15 credits in grad school + clinical hours + lots of studying = not much time for anything else. I knew I could handle 3 years of this. Or so I thought.

I made him pose in front of his building

So far, Physical Therapy school has been a breeze! (Travis would kill me if he heard me say that because it hasn't been a breeze at all for him and has been really hard and stressful, but time wise for me, it has been a piece of cake!) Travis usually leaves about an hour before I leave for work, goes to class, stays to study, and  we usually catch the same bus home (occasionally he comes home after me, but not too often).  Sure, he has to do homework at night but while he does we can still be in the same room while I read, or make dinner, or watch something girly, or blog (which while I am doing this now he is sitting next to me studying). He has time to hang out for a least an hour every night, and we almost always can do something fun on the weekends. Once I start school I know this will be even better too because then we can do homework at the same time. All the 2nd and 3rd years tell them that the 1st year in the program is the hardest, and he is almost done with his first year!

I would like to give a big shout out to SUU's athletic training program. I give it full credit for making PT school so much easier on a wife than I thought it would be. Travis was so busy in the evenings by having to go to every practice and game for most sports on top of his heavy school load (he double majored!) and work that it makes all his studying now not seem not so bad (it helps that I am at work 40 hours a week while he is in class and studying. I'm sure if I was a stay at home mom it would seem a lot worse!).  Thanks Athletic Training!

Travis being the cutest Athletic Trainer the SUU football team has ever seen

Don't get me wrong. PT school is hard, time consuming, a lot of work, a lot of hours,and sometimes my husband is so stressed out I need to steer clear of him so he can get everything done, but I am happy to report that I had prepared myself for the worst only to be pleasantly surprised that I still get to see my husband on a daily basis:)