interlude

I think that I didn't get to describe Thursday... interesting case of a sternal wound closure problem. Basically it was a surgery that kept getting pushed back [supposed to start at noon... and didn't start until 14:30] because the room was tied up. The operation was performed in a room with pump access... the CT surgeon performed the sternal debridement which basically meant removing the irradiated crummy manubrium and a few rib heads. Then after this, a pectoral flap with a skin island was used to close the wound. The poor guy wound up going into V tach after the surgery and got some amiodarone and lidocaine. He is doing much better now and hopefully he will stay the course.

Then, on Friday work was not too bad and that night I just wound up passing out as I had to round on Saturday morning... freakin sweet!

I feel that all I have done is talk about work this week, but that feels like all I have done sometimes as this week was busy and hectic in many of its own rights.

On a lighter side, I found out that I got my first Plastics interview!!! Yeah! I hope that everything there will go smoothly as the interview is set for Nov 17th, 18th at Georgetown. So, it is time to start looking for plane tickets up towards that direction. Luckily, as it turns out that is a switch weekend of sorts between the fourth year rotations, so it should be free for that, which is convenient. Gotta start somewhere, right?

BTW... Congrats to Shawn Carter... ladies and gentleman... on making the wall at the Flying Saucer with his plate of glory. #164 I do believe. For those of you who are unaware, this plate represents that he has had at least one pint of all the various beer that are on tap/available. 210? Correct me if I am wrong, Shawn... but it is impressive [or sad] nonetheless. Attached are a few pics of the 'man' being 'the man'

-G