crowning glory

this is it. i can now leave happy from my surgical rotation. today was the crowning glory of achievement, the holy grail of any rotation.

no, i did not perform any great feat of surgical brilliance...although this week i did get to drain a seroma and clean out gobs of pus and blood from a decent sized wound and pull all sorts of tubes out of people, and follow up with 2 patients who i've seen start to finish in their surgical process...which was sort of exciting....as well as watch someone's heart beating...and then stop beating...then start beating again inside their open chest. that was truly stunning. the logistics that go into open heart surgery are beyond amazing. and another reason why i would not want to be in anesthesia. but it is a sight to behold. and if you get really bored, it's a fun game to count all the tubes and wires. not that i would know.

84.

kidding! boredom and open heart surgery just don't go hand in hand. it's simply not possible.

no, no, no....with complete and total disregard to any sort of legal stipulations, i will continue the story started above. the reason why i can leave totally fulfilled from this rotation is that a certain patient named betty crocker came into the clinic today to discuss gastric bypass surgery.

i mean....does it get any better than that?