The OT really isn't as cool as it looks. Sure its freezing cold *haha*, but having spent an afternoon observing a hernia repair - it gets pretty boring and it really kills your legs. the highlight however was somewhat worth it, i got to touch someones bowels which had the consistency of kuay chap. a little gross, but it speaks to the little boy inside. mhm mhm.
anyway, imagine standing still for a period of 4 to 5 hours, teasing layer after layer of fascia in a slow methodical fashion, making the incisions around the operative site, then slowing closing the incision.
this all happens while blood is still spurting from the wound! *yuck*
surgery, quite patently isn't me.
Saturday, July 01, 2006
Howen and Me after our hernia repair MOT. :)
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hey!! haha. wait till u see a stapler hemarrhoidectomy. blood. did i mention blood.
lovenat
lol. apparently it gets even better at ortho posting where the blood *spurts*
anyway... free horror movie tickets. though *grin*
i was reading this interview with some film director and apparently, in horror movies, the fake blood is usually darker and more viscous then real blood to make it look like "real blood" on screen. so we've been brought up on a steady diet of "pseudoblood" television and most people don't know what real traumatic bleeding looks like. in practice? the real world really doesn't look that freaky - but painful yeah?
as an example: zombies? heh. they look more freaky but no one stops to think they're in pain eh?
*ponders*
i think BKAs are the worst! wait for orthopaedics! puddles and pools on the floor. eeee.
whats a TURP??
i figure BKA is below knee amputation.
-nat
TURPs is: *drumroooollls* transurethral resection of prostate...
ouch!
hehehe
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