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Monday 30 August 2010

Surgery

Finished My two weeks of surgery here. And it was an experience. Quiet stressful I must say in terms of physical strength. At least It was my first on a lot of thing and was a great opportunity I got to assist in all those surgeries.

I was on call on Wednesday as you know from my previous post and this was the most demanding day in my whole time in surgery. I assisted in two surgeries and it was hell. both of them were open abdomen surgery, so I had to work with really large instrument and being small it was a very difficult task.
During the 1st surgery the surgeon was pretty much mad at me. Taught I was doing a rubbish Job retracting but I was doing my best, and as the surgery went on and he kept complaining I started to get frustrated. Here I am, operating table as high as my chest (duh, d surgeons were both taller than me), couldn't see a thing, arm paining me from retracting, its 3pm, been in the hospital since 7:30am and he just didn't appreciate my effort, oh psst. at least the other surgeon told me I did a good job. I needed to hear that.
At 6pm the phone in the call room rings telling me there is a surgery, come to the OR in about 30mins. I'm scrubbing in and the surgeon on call comes in, I ask what surgery is it, and he is like its a case of colon cancer. Oh no another open abdomen surgery. By the time we were all prepped and ready to start, my legs had began to fail me, they were tired from standing and walking around all day. Then we started the surgery I was retracting and then my sides were like it was on fire, and at this moment, I realized I can never be a surgeon, I'm not just cut out for the job, don't hv the inner core strength for it. well I did what I had to do, bared all the pain in my body and tired legs.Didn't leave the hospital till 10pm that day.
I checked with the porta (don't even know what it is called in English,lol) only to see I had been schedule for surgery the next day again.. This people are Kidding me. Something funny happened on my way out, The Porta followed me, so thinking I had dropped something I stopped to answer him, and he asked me If another student had come to take over from me. Meaning if no one had come I would hv had to stay, and my friend who took over from me, had a six hour straight surgery that day..lol. I would have been dead if I had to stay the night.
Thank God I'm done with them, Phew!!!!

A glimpse of the surgery department here


Whats next? two weeks of internal medicine.. watch this space!!!

Love

10 comments:

NakedSha said...

I'm sure you'll pull through.

Bless

StylishForever said...

Thanks for visiting my blog luv, urs is super cool and mehn all the best. I'm actually a nursing student and finishing off soon.
All the best hun :)

Unknown said...

I envy you not my dear..
Still I'm glad the stress is over..
You sure the have a life opportunity or really knowing what you'd what to specialise in.. Have a great week.

Nonso said...

I'm a 100 level medical student. We start the medical courses in year 2.

I aspire to be a surgeon and it was nice to read your experience.

I'm pained that your day was stressful. Standing for a long time isn't easy.

Great blog. you are officially my mentor. keep on writing!

all the best wishes.

Taciturn Turned Talkative
http://uononso.blogspot.com

NB Nobody ever becomes the best they can be (we improve everyday). do not limit yourself with 'i did my best'.

Chic Therapy said...

the good thing is that you earn big bucks further down the road-LOL :-)

Azuka said...

Keep it up. I used to live in a complex where pretty much everyone was a doctor.

Exams, surgeries, black eyes (under-sleeping)...

Hirra said...

thanks for all the comments lovelies.
@Nonso its a great pleasure, I'm honored to be a mentor.

jummy said...

was ur rotation in hungary?

jummy said...

was ur rotation in hungary?

olaoluwatomi said...

Nice blog! You should have asked for a stool to stand on, might have made the retracting easier! Good job and all the best!

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