So I suck. I know you must all hate me. I don’t even know
where to begin. I’ve just been so busy and therefore exhausted, that I haven’t
had the time or the energy to blog. I really do apologize. I’m going to
separate this into two updates. One for a social life update. One for a
work/medical update. This is the latter.
That Monday (the 16th) was my first day in the
operating room observing Dr. H. It was the MOST AMAZING THING EVER. I was born
to be a surgeon. I just can’t even explain it. It’s so amazing. I was so
blessed. I got to see 8 surgeries. The first was a Left femoral exposure with
superficial femoral artery atherectomy/PTA/Stent, but I wasn’t very confident,
so I rally didn’t get to see much. The second was a minor procedure that they
had to do in the hospital because of insurance, but it was just a L greater
saphenous vein ablasion. The third one was the one that really got me. It was
just a left femoral popliteal bypass revision. But Dr. H called me over and let
me really look at the femoral artery. And I could see it beating, and it is so
much bigger than you would expect. And I think that’s the moment I fell in
love. I just can’t even explain it. Then we saw a Right Carotid endarterectomy,
which was crazy. Dr. H cut open a guys carotid artery, and cleaned it out, and
patched it up. Like AMAZING. You think of a carotid artery getting cut open and
you think death, but there was any blood, AT ALL. The next case was an
emergency case on an old lady with blood clots in her leg ( L femoral
thrombectomy), again really cool. Then was the longest and coolest of the day.
An Abdominal Aortal bifemoral bypass. Literally pulled this ladies guts out,
cut out a piece of her aorta, and attached it to a tube, and then attached the
tube to both of her femoral arteries. So cool. We then saw two femoral
endarterectomies, one of them with an iliac stent. Just amazing. Last Dr. H had
to clean up some dude’s nasty toe. It was gross. Infected and stuff. We didn’t
leave the operating room until like 830, and we had been there since 7:30 that
morning. I don’t think I’ve ever stood still for so long in my life. It was so
fascinating. Dr. H told me I could go home around 6 pm (after the bypass), but
I didn’t want to leave until he did, I felt like that wasn’t cool. So I waited,
and went to go visit all the patients after his last surgery with him. It was
amazing. I seriously seriously loved it all.
I didn’t go back to the hospital until Wednesday, which is
when I learned about our research I was going to be doing. Data collection.
Super boring, and a LOT TO DO, but I will get my name in two papers, so I
definitely cant complain. And that’s what I did wed-fri. All day. Everyday.
That Monday (the 23rd) I got to meet one of Dr.
H’s new partners, Dr. M. Dr.M is straight out of her fellowship and is a FEMALE
surgeon. Dr. H said he hired her just so I would have someone to look up to J I love talking to
female surgeons! And she’s only like 32 so she’s a lot easier to relate to then
the 50 some odd year old surgeons in Dr. H’s practice!
This Monday I
go to see two Abdominal Aorta Aneurism endovascular repairs. Which are legit
like playing video games. So cool. And then another carotid endarterectomy,
another abdominal aortal bifermoral bypass, and a new one in a femoral-anterial
tibeal bypass. Which was super cool too. But the big news this Monday was that
I met another one of Dr. H’s partners, Dr. K, and he asked me to write an
abstract and present it on his new method to a procedure, of which he is the
only surgeon in the country to do! I’m super excited! I then got to see him
perform that surgery (Cryovein for DRIL), and then an above the knee
amputation. Super cool. Its always interesting to see the differences between
surgeons. I’ve now gotten to see Dr. H, Dr. M, and Dr. K perform surgeries,
although I haven’t seen Dr. M do one by herself yet, since she’s new. It was a
LONG day though, I didn’t get home until like 11 pm. But it was an amazing day.
That’s for sure.
Tuesday I went back in to do some research, par norm. And
got to see a basilic AV fistula and a below the knee amputation with Dr. K, all
before I ran to dinner with my mom at a fancy restaurant. And I forgot to take
off my scrub cap. Embarassing.
And then there was work. I had all of two tables, made like
50 bucks, ate some dinner, and got SUPER sick. Of which I am still sick.
Thankfully I got a computer from the doctors, so I can do my
research from home, since I am still sick. They said somethings been going
around the office, and it takes 3-6 days to clear up. Kill me now! It’s
miserable. So hopefully y’all realize how busy I am. On top of all this I’m
still waitressing, taking classes, etc. Its tough! Comment with any questions!
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