Fridaaaaaaaaaaaaaay!

7am starts are bad.

So very bad.

Finally getting to scrub into an operation though? So good.

I"m sure I"ve mentioned before that I"ve been through 8 weeks of Surgery without having the chance to scrub in to assist with an operation, its a pet peeve of mine.

Today, I happily got to scrub up and assist the doctor on a caesarean section. It was all I imagined it to be. Well getting sprayed and being soaked from the waist down in amniotic fluid was a surprise, but otherwise, it was great!

This time it was a baby boy. He was so cute!

RGH day two

Another overall good day, which is surprising because I don"t usually have two good days in a row...
An interesting ward round with some nice patients, a good mix of simple and crazy super complicated. A nice fun chat afterwards over coffee and cake (a black forest style birthday cake, yum!) and then some paperwork.
Managed to survive another scrubbing tutorial session (just because the RGH seems to prefer one of their nurses teach how to scrub, despite everyone already having done it at FMC...) without too many mishaps, and ended it all with an uneventful afternoon. Of course, I"m not sure of that last bit, since the afternoon is still going, I"m just getting ahead of myself.

Oh, exciting news! I have a new housemate! From what I"ve determined from a phone message from the Associate Dean of the Village, she is a 22 year old German student. From what I"ve determined from items in the fridge, she like anticoagulation.

I really should probably clean up the place...