The Story of Me!

Been to surgery, finally!

Yesterday was a long and interesting day. I woke up in the morning, and I was so not in the mood for yet another day of 'studying', nevertheless I still got up, and went to royal. I stayed there and studied until about 12, I had to go to squh to check a patients file, then had a session at 2, which if you're interested, was a total waste of time.

Finished at around 3, thought I'd go get some coffee from starbucks to freshen up, went home to get a book that I needed and I was on my way again to royal. As always I have to pass by the OT to check if there's anything going on before going to the library, and this time, they told me they had 4 cases! The first was almost over, and the second one was an everday thing, but I never got to scrub in, and I've always watched it from far away. lol I was standing outside, debating on whether I should go in or just force myself to go to that bloody library and sit and study, but then I thought, I've been dying to go to surgery for 2 months, and I've lost a few chances before because I didn't want to feel guilty for going into surgery instead of studying or sticking to my rotation, and I thought to myself: I won't do it this time, I don't want to regret this late, and for once I'll do something that I really want to do, rather than something I have to do, there's a huge difference.

The doc was surprised to see me, lol, I haven't seen him ever since I went to SQUH, which was over a month ago, so it was good to see him again, we sat and chat, then went to the OT, and I got to assist him, lol, he kept showing me around, asking me questions, and explaining what he was doing. I had a good time. He even let me do a couple of stitches even though he was tired and was eager to finish and get some rest.

It felt good to be back in surgery. I missed that place so much, and I'm glad that finally, I just stopped worrying and just went ahead and did something I wanted. My studies are fine, a couple of hours won't do much different, and I did not regret going in, and even if I don't do so great on Tuesday, it definitly won't be because I decided to spend the afternoon in surgery.

I guess it was exactly what I needed to freshen up! I'm still smiling so go figure! lol

Posted by Noors at 4:13 PM