this is copied from an email I sent lorraine today, we stay in close contact, she is very interested in my schooling, she was a nurse before she was a music teacher:
spent 8 hours in the OR, I watched 6 surgeries today, 3 were scopes, (abdominal hernia, appendix removal, and not sure about other one)
another surgery was cleaning out a woman's nasal cavities, and last was a total knee replacement, the knee was pretty gross, I had to keep looking away made me sick to watch it. They hammered, drilled, chisled and cut on that poor little ladies knee I felt like they were working on a car!
I am SO sore, my lower back hurts so bad from standing all day, I need better shoes
as far as the doctors.........2 were very young, good mannered, really ornery. All Surgeons but one were real polite with me. I had one female surgeon and she did not speak to me, totally ignored me, did not even look at me.
The others were very nice, asked me questions, my name, where I was from, where I used to work etc....most invited me to come close to get a better look, I was about 2 feet from the action.
Most nurses were nice, one older lady was kinda grumpy, all the scrub techs were real polite and answered all my questions.
spent 8 hours in the OR, I watched 6 surgeries today, 3 were scopes, (abdominal hernia, appendix removal, and not sure about other one)
another surgery was cleaning out a woman's nasal cavities, and last was a total knee replacement, the knee was pretty gross, I had to keep looking away made me sick to watch it. They hammered, drilled, chisled and cut on that poor little ladies knee I felt like they were working on a car!
I am SO sore, my lower back hurts so bad from standing all day, I need better shoes
as far as the doctors.........2 were very young, good mannered, really ornery. All Surgeons but one were real polite with me. I had one female surgeon and she did not speak to me, totally ignored me, did not even look at me.
The others were very nice, asked me questions, my name, where I was from, where I used to work etc....most invited me to come close to get a better look, I was about 2 feet from the action.
Most nurses were nice, one older lady was kinda grumpy, all the scrub techs were real polite and answered all my questions.
Betty
