I’m a really good manager of many things. I can adult the hell out of life. But really the hardest thing about my job right now is figuring out what to do first. It feels like everything is the most important. Okay, maybe that page from the postpartum unit about writing a work excuse note for a patient’s mother can clearly wait until after I admit this patient walking in off the street in active labor. That one I figured out.
I’ve been wearing a cheap old sports bra under my scrubs and I find I don’t think about my boobs at all for the whole day - from 5am to 7pm. Readers with breasts will appreciate what a feat this is. Clearly I need more Fred Meyer brand sports bras. Alas…AND I have given up on knee socks, they just fall down too much and it disappoints me. Sock It To Me, maybe I had unreasonable expectations all those years. But now I don’t have enough fun socks to satisfy me. I started replacing the knee socks with trouser socks with my recent SITM purchases, but having built up an impressive store of socks with ninjas, Van Gogh scenes, firebirds, koi fish and peacocks, my paltry few pairs with cats in rockets, bears on bicycles & hummingbirds has stopped stimulating my creativity. I’ve stooped to wearing my holiday socks just to change it up a little. Clearly I am having a clothes crisis.
I like sleeping next to the night table. It feels...stuck…not to take up the middle of my new queen sized only for me bed but really it isn’t about being stuck in a past where I shared a bed with someone nightly. It’s about the night stand. I wish my arms were longer.
There’s always 2 surgeons in a c-section, a lead and an assistant. Our program provides assists to several community physicians. I love working with them, they are good, they are fast, they like teaching and the vibe seems more relaxed to me. One of the best tips I’ve received on my OB rotation was from a private doc - advice on how to hold the suture scissors as a lefty and still be able to provide a cutting edge (screw up, palm up - never fails me!) Today I assisted one of the private physicians on a c-section. Another great experience where I got to operate instead of just straight up retracting & blotting. Walking back to the workroom, I asked her when residents were ready to close the hysterotomy (the incision in the uterus), not a step I’d done yet.. Rapid and effective closure of the hysterotomy is required for hemostasis and hemostasis is really important. She assured me that I was “just a step away” from being ready to take on that part of the surgery. I remained skeptical. About an hour later, I did a c-section where I ACTUALLY DID the c-section. Including sewing up the hysterotomy. I have a lot more to say about that but it will have to wait.
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