I really can't wait until I am on a plane and everything that needs to be done in the next three weeks is either done or I've at least moved past worrying about it. I am starting to feel like a little ball of stress, and its showing. My hair is falling out! And I'm falling over! Damn. Don't pity me though, I'm starting to feel a little bit more in control of my to-do list, and I'm not going to let any of it fall to pieces.
And speaking of falling, I watched my first surgeries the other day. For part two of my eye training, I watched my ophthalmologist perform 4 cataract surgeries. My two major impressions: 1) Oh wow it is so amazing that we can do this! Your lens got cloudy? No problem! We will just suction it out and insert a new one and by the way, you also won't need to wear glasses anymore because it fixes that problem too!; and, 2) There is no way to wrap your brain around the idea that suctioning out part of the eye can be a good thing, therefore, it conks out on ya.
I was watching (through a high-res microscope no less!) the first surgery, thinking about how absolutely amazing it was, when I started to feel funny. So I went to go sit down. And then when I started to get up, I realized that I wasn't on the chair like I thought I was... I was right out on the floor. Beside the surgery-in-progress. I had absolutely no recollection of not being on the chair, just of things being a bit woozy. Yikes. The other ones that I watched went a lot better (for me - for the patients all of the surgeries went extremely well). It really is incredible.
Also, I'm officially done at York. I still have more things to do there, and they'll get done, but at least for the next few weeks I can focus on studying and getting other stuff done that I've neglected for far too long! Tomorrow, I study, and see Paula, Maggie and Sharon all in one place, and see the opening of the new ROM crystal. Amazing!
PS the other faint was more of a close call - I had a funny reaction to a needle and went all woozy on the nurse. Buck up, body!
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Oh man, that is the most exciting thing ever... you actually got to watch surgeries... you're getting all Grey's Anatomy on us! (but hopefully without the melodrama)
congrats!
oh wow! That's a great story! Congrats on everything. :)
Jen!
I just about fainted reading about surgery on someone's eye...that stuff makes my knees weak!
Ah, sorry about that Roz!! I'll put a disclaimer up next time ;)
And Megan: no melodrama. Although, there was a cute doctor that I shadowed the week before... I kinda wish he'd been there to catch my fall. NO WAIT I LOVE MARK UH OH I WAS TOTALLY JUST KIDDING!!!
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