Monday, April 04, 2005
Hey, I guess the wrinkles between Blogger and my msu web account just got ironed out and I can post! (Really, my life has continued this past month and a half... I just couldn't write about it!) So what's up with me lately??...
I changed my mind literally at the last minute to sign for an apartment on the upper floor of a house in Old Town. It's a great location (walking distance to work, library, co-op grocery, the beach, restaurants, bars) and just enough space for me. I felt so unsettled until I realized that I had to adjust from the nomadic lifestyle to the life of a city-dweller. I'm finally almost settled in and decorated... I've got a french breakfast nook (with an almost life-size van Gogh of the street cafe), a sophisticate bathroom (bold colors and dance theme), a sewing area. Only thing I need is a couch for the hanging out and guest-sleeping-on.
Last month I had a general surgery rotation, made tougher by the fact I was trying to adjust to the hospital (and not get lost!). I saw quite a few procedures that weren't done in Cheboygan (lap hernia, gastric bypass roux en y, Nissen fundoplication), some that were (colonoscopies ad nauseum), and some unusual ones (s/p ileal conduit urostomy, roux en y hepatico-jejunostomy ... a bile duct bypass). I watched more than did, but I did get to retract a lot, wield a scalpel once, and close some incisions.
Now I'm on anesthesia. I do miss surgery already-- it's strange to go into a room and not scrub in, or to actually (gasp) walk in and out of rooms before the procedure is finished-- but today was interesting. I watched the entirety of a heart bypass (CABG x3), some of a lung decortication, a uroscopy with removal of kidney stone, as well as two central line placements. And tomorrow I get to try one. I also attempted intubations.... I succeeded in bag-mask ventilating, but had trouble with both intubations. Don't worry-- it's safe, the doctor/CRNA is right there. But the start time is killer-- if I arrive after 6:15am I've missed the central lines. ugh!
Lots of thoughts. Rest in peace for Terri Schiavo, comfort to those saddened by the Pope's death (what about the hundreds across the world, who died this weekend in the same way without the international press taking note?). I still don't buy the "impending social security crisis" (my mom says we should put Congress and the President on social security and they'll fix it in a weekend). And the Cubs are winning 16 to 5 on Opening Day. yahoo.
I changed my mind literally at the last minute to sign for an apartment on the upper floor of a house in Old Town. It's a great location (walking distance to work, library, co-op grocery, the beach, restaurants, bars) and just enough space for me. I felt so unsettled until I realized that I had to adjust from the nomadic lifestyle to the life of a city-dweller. I'm finally almost settled in and decorated... I've got a french breakfast nook (with an almost life-size van Gogh of the street cafe), a sophisticate bathroom (bold colors and dance theme), a sewing area. Only thing I need is a couch for the hanging out and guest-sleeping-on.
Last month I had a general surgery rotation, made tougher by the fact I was trying to adjust to the hospital (and not get lost!). I saw quite a few procedures that weren't done in Cheboygan (lap hernia, gastric bypass roux en y, Nissen fundoplication), some that were (colonoscopies ad nauseum), and some unusual ones (s/p ileal conduit urostomy, roux en y hepatico-jejunostomy ... a bile duct bypass). I watched more than did, but I did get to retract a lot, wield a scalpel once, and close some incisions.
Now I'm on anesthesia. I do miss surgery already-- it's strange to go into a room and not scrub in, or to actually (gasp) walk in and out of rooms before the procedure is finished-- but today was interesting. I watched the entirety of a heart bypass (CABG x3), some of a lung decortication, a uroscopy with removal of kidney stone, as well as two central line placements. And tomorrow I get to try one. I also attempted intubations.... I succeeded in bag-mask ventilating, but had trouble with both intubations. Don't worry-- it's safe, the doctor/CRNA is right there. But the start time is killer-- if I arrive after 6:15am I've missed the central lines. ugh!
Lots of thoughts. Rest in peace for Terri Schiavo, comfort to those saddened by the Pope's death (what about the hundreds across the world, who died this weekend in the same way without the international press taking note?). I still don't buy the "impending social security crisis" (my mom says we should put Congress and the President on social security and they'll fix it in a weekend). And the Cubs are winning 16 to 5 on Opening Day. yahoo.
# posted by Joanna @ 7:46 PM
