Surgery time!

Monday- Still in gyno ward. We missed two deliveries by a half an hour. But I was kind of happy for that. still not sure I want to see one before having a child. Post delivery- so much blood, the doctor was scooping out handfuls of dark red bloody membrane from the woman as she winced every time. The babies were very cute though :) A woman came in who had been losing weight for a year( cachexia) trying to use all the terms Im learning the doctor suspected HIV but did not tell the woman that. she ordered x-ray, blood urine and hematocrit and ultrasound. In the ultra sound a mass in the gall bladder was found but I am not sure if that is all that is wrong. A woman in the emergency room had a heart rate of over 300 and a blood pressure so low it could not be read. Using verapamil a calcium channel blocker was given to her which slowed it down alot. It was just from anxiety.

SURGERY time! Cholecystectomy or the removal of the gall bladder. we take our shoes off at the door and put rubber slip on shoes on our toes are not even covered! We then dress into scrubs in the dressing room put on a mask and a hair net thing. Everything is one size fits all so it is huge on me! In the OT the woman was super skinny and laying on the table. They did they anesthesia and then did a intubation ( a breathing tube down the throat) they undressed her and put iodine (an antiseptic agent) all over her. They covered her completely with dressing except for just the small area they were going to be working with. The first cut, just the outer layer and after three of those it started bleeding. There was not much fat since she was so skinny and also muscle to go through. After that the hole was so deep I could not see inside. After about ten mins the surgeon put the gall bladder out on the table and started stitching her back up layer by layer. The last layer they used staples which was the grossest part for me to watch. haha
It was definitely awesome I get so nervous I am going to get dizzy that is mostly all I can think about but I never do so I should stop thinking about it. well I will write soon.
love and miss you all