my first surgery

I am sorry if you all have been waiting for daily updates over the past days, but there is just not much time... I need a day stretcher!!!!
On Monday I was on call again and we had surgeries till 12.30 at night. Some of them were really interesting, but it was definetely a long day... But the most exciting thing on Monday was that I got to do what I gave up on Saturday to have some social time. I got to do my first surgery - cut skin open and all that. I didn't expect that to happen, I just went to the OR to assist, but then the attending handed me the scapel and said "you have to cut from here to there, go" So I did. It was pretty amazing!!! I loved it! I really enjoy participating in the surgeries, but not having time to read things, revise anatomy and then not being able to answer questions is just so frustrating... Once the attendings have told me what they wanted to hear it is coming back, but that is a little bit too late... Today I tried to read a few chapters and look up some anatomy, but that didn't go very well, because the doctor's lounge is not necessarily the most quiet place in the hospital - discussions, tv, phone calls.... I will keep looking for the perfect place to read and look things up. Maybe I can find it. Now at least kind of know what they will be asking and I know what to look up before the surgery, which might just mean that I can't go into all surgeries, but have to pick a few that I can then prepare for.
Yesterday I left the hospital after conference in the morning and I slept most of the day to get rid of a cold that I cought in the hospital... (what a suprise, considering that I am in a children's hospital....) I did feel a lot better today, even though it is kind of bad when you feel your nose tickle and can't do anything about it because you're scrubbed up....
Tuesday is Tim and Deb's Meemaw and Pawpaw night and I did make dinner yesterday, because I was home most of the day. Everybody really liked my pasta and fruitsalad, even though I was a little worried, because the ingredients were a little different and the consistence of the sauce didn't turn out to be quite as usual... But it did taste the same! And I was told that the best compliment was that Meemaw ate all of it!
Today was not a particular exciting day. I went to the hospital, got to the floor by 5 and had to look for patients that hadn't been seen yet by any resident... Which is kind of annoying when I get in in the morning and have to spend the first 15-20minutes looking for patients that noone had seen yet. It hadn't even helped that I did talk to the residents the day before telling them who I wanted to see the next morning.... But today I was finally told where I can start each morning without anyone having been there yet. That will make the start each morning a little less stressful!
Overall it is a great experience, I just wish I had more time to be prepared better and more storage in my brain to keep all the English terms in there as well as the German ones.... I'd love to see all the surgeries because I do learn so much watching, but I unfortunately can't, because then I will not be well enough prepared....