a better day

This morning I had a hard time getting up, the cold just doesn't want to go away.... Once I was in the hospital and had things to do it did get a little better.
At some point last week they said things will slow down before Christmas... Well I guess that not really the case... I got to leave after having spend 11hours in the hospital today and when I left they were still not finishes with all the surgeries....
Being in surgery was a lot better today, I did finally manage to read about the most common things that they operate and certain things start to come back!!!! So I didn't feel quite as stupid today. That was definetely an improvement. I did enjoy staying in surgery a lot more! I also got the opportunity to sew again! We operated a little girl, who got admitted with appendizitis. During surgery it tourned out that it was not appendizitis, but that she had a little tumor right at the beginning of her Appendix. It was fortunately just normal lymphoid tissue, which just grew a little too much. I got to watch the pathologist do the quick work up while the girl was still asleep. That was pretty neat and once we had the good diagnosis Romeo let me sew up two of the three cuts necessary for a laparoscopic appendectomy. During surgery they also let me hold the camera, cut part of the appendix with the stapler-cutter-thing and I got to hold and move around the laparoskopic pick ups to get a feeling for them. It is really not that easy and I can understand why they say that who ever is good at playing computer games is good at doing laparoscopic procedures! So this was overall a pretty amazing surgery and very exciting for me!
At that moment I was glad that I am the only student there right now... because there was no body else I had to fight for going in there.... :)