Congo Week 4

This week started off with homeschooling Cherissa, Karis and Ezra.  I had a cold and didn't feel well enought to work in the hospital.  These three are great to homeschool, though.  The rest of the week, though, was filled with lots of exciting hospital work!  Yay!
I got to watch two surgeries!!! And one of them I actually got to assist with.  It was a somewhat minor surgery, draining a really big cyst on a little girl's leg.  It was so cool!  I was planning on just watching, but it ended up just being me and Dr. Noe, so I had to hold the girl's leg in place, and hand Dr. Noe tools and cloth.  I poured medicine on the wound and cleaned up pus and blood through the whole procedure.  Dr. Noe said he wants me to be there the next time he does surgery because I was a really big help.  I'm not sure about that but I would like to see another surgery.

Kate bought a pet.  IT IS SO CUTE!!!!  Baby monkey or baby sloth?  We're not sure what it is but we know it's nocturnal.  Two boys showed up on our doorstep and asked if we wanted it so we paid the equivalent of 25 cents for it.  We are going to give it a bath. It has the softest fur I have ever felt.

Bonanza

I got to see another baby delivery and I will probably never see another one like it!  It was supposed to be a C-section but when we got to the OR, Paige started to put in a catheter, and the baby just popped out, feet first.  Then we realized there was a second baby.  The second took a few minutes to deliver and also came out feet first, blue and with the cord around its neck.  It took a while to get the baby to start breathing and then the mother bled alot.  They are all fine now!

On Saturday evening, I was so tired and hoping to go to bed early and catch up on my sleep.  I wanted to be rested for my last week here. I had grand plans of getting in bed early, sleeping late and it almost worked.  ALMOST. BUT NO.  So guess what time I got in bed?  6 in the MORNING!

I was in bed by 8:30 but I wasn't very tired so I decided I would write in my journal for a while.  Then I read a letter from the Kennedy girls and finished my book from Grammy.  By that time, it was 10:30, not too late since I thought I would get to rest and sleep in.  HA!  I lay there awake, trying to fall asleep until about 11:15 when the radio starts going off.  It's someone from maternity, calling for Dr. Noe.  I stay in bed, but they keep calling him for about five minutes.  I hear the other girls get up so I come out of my bedroom in time to see Hannah and Kate half in pajamas and half in clothes trying to get out the door.  Hannah and I run to maternity and Hannah brings Dr. Noe, who decides the lady in labor needs an emergency C-section because of placenta previa.  Hannah and I run to the OR, grab a stretcher and the two of us carry her to the OR, get her on the operating table.  We run to change into scrubs and face masks and so forth.  And the I got to watch a C-section!  It was so cool! I am definetly interested in OR nursing.  Anyway, it all worked out well.

So then Hannah, Kate and I were about to change out of the OR scrubs, when the surgeon stops us and tells us there is another lady in labor and he may need to perform another C-section.  We changed back into our scrubs, brought the next lady up (she was overdue and not wanting to push at all) but Kate managed to convince her to walk around and push some.  She had a normal delivery   Then Hannah and I carried her on a stretcher to the maternity ward and we got her all settled in.  Then we changed clothes and came back home.  By that time it was 5:30am.  So the three of us drank a vitamin C dring and now I feel better.  I had an awesome night!!!!

Apparently, I'm the natural choice to kill the chicken.  The girls all want a real southern meal:  fried chicken, mashed potatoes and sweet tea.  I'm the cook tonight, too. :)

The meal turned out pretty well.  That was a muscular chicken, though.