Hi everyone,
Just finished my on call shift!
Got called to theatre twice so finished there late last night and fortunately had no early morning calls.Just went on the ward round there....and my patient is alive and well; thank god!!
So was rather jealous yesterday as everyone else went to this wine tasting festival thing in stellenbosch with food and everything else amazing or so it seems.So I have been told a hundred times this morning that i have missed the best night ever!!!Great!
So whilst they were tasting wines and living the high life...i got called to assist in theatre with a guy who had been shot in the abdomen. So made my dash to theatre, scrubbed in ...and then off you go;you and the surgeon. He tells you what to do,hold,press etc...and you do it!So he said to be at the start...this could be very boring or very exciting...depends what we see when we open him up.Turns out it was the latter and certainly induced some sweating and swearing as there was blood spurting from somewhere and unfortunately...the bullet was lying around the danger zone of some major blood vessels. So you could press on one bit....and it would spurt from the other bit......and I stood there holding stuff..thinking...crap...this is not cool.It is me and him...and i know nothing. So I ended up doing a bit of cutting which was fun...and then some more pressing...and then he managed to eventually source and stop the bleeding. Proper ER stuff!!!So that was a fun night overall. However, wine tasting still sounds better.
So today...i am about to go shower...and i have been in these scrubs for 30hrs....and i did to de-scrub myself to normality.
Need to start packing my stuff up also.Cannot believe I am leaving on Sunday already!!!!
WHERE does time go???
Anyhow, MAM I do not have TB !Well unlikely..and if I do...it wont do anything to me.I may have swine flu...but that wont do anything either.Or more likely...we all have a cold.
So that is the banter for the day!
Going to head now and shower...as I have teaching soon.
love to all,
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Hey LB,
ReplyDeleteSounds like ur having a fab, adventurous time! We're missing ya round here. Had OMAC barbeque at Jack Meade's last night having spent the last two weeks cleaning the inside and outside of Bath Street.
The U21s lost to Clare last night. It was the first time EVER that Clare won that title but what can ya do? Fr T was their first aider.
Time is really flying for ya. Glad ur making the most of it. Chat soon,
Paul xxx