Emily Dryer

Wife and Mother. Former Academic Hospitalist turned Nephrologist. Tweets are my own. Humor is my dad’s.

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My husband thinks our 9 month old needs a haircut, but I think he just needs a skateboard and a pair of Vans.

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Is it really a party if there isn’t any mod podge?

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“Bones can break, muscles can atrophy, glands can loaf, even the brain can go to sleep without immediate danger to survival. But should the kidneys fail, neither bones, muscles, glands nor brain can carry on.” -Dr. Homer W. Smith

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The dialysis crew welcomed me back from maternity leave with this sweet gift for the baby. I will not be accepting any arguments on this matter.

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Color change spotted in @DT_Petoskey today, a crisp breeze off Lake Michigan, @frontierruckus as the soundtrack. Fall is in the air, and I am in my happy place. 🍁

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@RandallVanHalen Definitely not

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My daughter looked visibly distraught to discover that “nephrologist” was not in her children’s dictionary.

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Today’s unbeatable to-do list:
—Bible reading
—Snuggle my kids
—Nothing else

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One of my greatest financial strengths, acquired by my father, is my tolerability to Folgers coffee.

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I don’t know many things for sure, but I do know with certainty that I will discover adhesive googly eyes around the house until I die.

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@DanBalkovetz Apparently depending on what type of baking you are doing, granulated sugar may be listed among the wet ingredients, though I believe it to be generally accepted as a dry ingredient.

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Household debate: is granulated sugar a wet ingredient or a dry ingredient?

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Board review indicates that my knowledge of black licorice must be up to date.

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Do oncologists hate when their chemotherapy gets blamed as much as we hate when our dialysis gets blamed?

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@Nephronpower @DanaRizk1 @UAB_NRTC @ogutierrez136 @anupamuab Congratulations @DanaRizk1 !!

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My 3 year old son seems to think “a flower girl” is a Halloween costume…so he wants to go to the wedding as “a dino boy.”

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I prefer days I don’t hear the word “machete” when passing through the ER to see a consult.

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My inpatient week has been like a highly intense, fully immersive board review course.

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I haven’t said ethacrynic acid in a very long time…until today.

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If I gauge the quality of my shift by the amount of water I consumed, I had a very bad day.