Wednesday, January 04, 2006
Not a great day for Aleathea
Today I woke up at 4am feeling very nautious, it was worse laying down, so I sat up and tried, emphisize TRIED, to sleep for 2 1/2 more hours. I attributed it to the greasy burger and fries the night before. When I finally got up I downed some Pepto, ate some cereal and headed off to the hospital still not feeling too great but figuring it would pass. I scrub into my first surgery of the day, a cholecystectomy (gall bladder removal). I was holding the camera for the surgeon, all was well... all of a sudden I get overwhelmingly hot and sweaty and feel like there is some iminant vomiting. I told them I was nautious and left the room. (That's what your supposed to do). As soon as I cooled off away from the big spotlights, I was fine. My head hurt though. Later, I scrubed in on a submandibular gland resection (the salivary gland in your chin area). Same thing, was doing well holding stuff for awhile... got hot and nautious, and had to leave the room. Agian I was fine when I cooled off. But my head hurt even more. Plus I was frustrated with myself becuase I wanted to see this stuff and didn't want to seem like a wuss, didn't want the people who would be grading me to think I can't handle surgery, didn't want to fail this rotation due to the fact that I couldn't stay in even one surgery... hopefully it gets better. Oddly enough, I have hope, becuase none of that may have been due to the surgeries. I still feel sick as a dog. Feel like my head may burst, my back is achy, still nautious, and my skin hurts when my clothes rub on it. Blah... I hate being sick. This sucks. Not my day.
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Hope you are over whatever bug attacked. (It's flying on airplanes... !)I bet the rest of the rotation goes fine.
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