My 1st call as a Surgery MO...

Thank God for His grace...coz I survived my 1st surgery call yesterday...phew!!! I still need to be babysit when i'm doing appendicectomy...well, at least i think i still need to be coz i don't think i'm confident enough to do it on my own yet...I managed to sleep about 3 hours...there were no unstable patients in the wards...so it was actually a very good 1st call...a far cry from my 1st GA call...as far as i can remember lah...perhaps surgery life can still be kind to me...hehe...

But of course, no more post call day offs...i had to get up and start my round at 7am plus before boss came to ward...and then boss said i need to go to OT today coz we're having combined OT with ENT...we were doing a total thyroidectomy KIV laryngectomy and tracheostomy for a man with advanced locally invasive papillary throid carcinoma...of course in the end i didn't get to scrub in for the 4 1/2 hours surgery...coz boss and big boss scrubbed with the 2 other ENT surgeons...so the HO, the ENT MO and i were basically redundant...but it was ok...coz i got to see the op anyway...though part of me wished i was sleeping happily in dreamland...hehe...and i was dozing off standing that i almost fell onto the surgical field not less than once...

After the op, went for lunch with the bosses...and while they were talking, i was trying really hard not to nod off...of course i failed miserably...hehe...then we went for the HO teaching...and again i was struggling to stay awake...by the time we finished our pm round, it was about 630pm...and i drove zombie-like back home...

I should be sleeping now...but i think i'm just so tired that i can't sleep...but i felt that i can get used to this...it's really not too bad...at least i'm doing what i've always wanted now...well, at least i'm heading towards that direction...right...tomorrow on call again...