notes from the OR
I would just like to say that I am extremely thankful to have a functioning liver, pancreas, lungs, kidneys, immune system, glands, heart, vascular system, nervous system, brain, and GI tract. As someone who works around malfunctioning bodies all the time, I am very pleased to have one in which all the bits are presently working. I'm grateful that I seem to have good genes.
Tomorrow: ERCP for a 25 year old girl with pancreatic cancer. How do you end up with that at 25?! Diet and lifestyle? Maybe. More likely she just drew the short end of the genetic straw. A few months ago, I did a crani for a 32 year old female (exactly my age, basically my build) with new diagnosis of aggressive brain tumor. She hardly looked sick, and in less than two years, she will almost certainly be dead.
On the sillier side (well, not really): 23 year old girl and her boyfriend came in because they'd managed to tear her vagina so badly that she was _bleeding out_. No joke. She was bleeding to death. I thought she'd been raped. The report sounded like "forced intercourse," but it was actually "first intercourse." How often do virgins manage fatal hemorrhage their first night? She was a little tiny thing, and he was a big guy, but still.... I was impressed that he came into the hospital with her instead of sending a friend or parent. Everyone who came into the room looked upon him with suspicion, but it didn't seem to be an abuse situation. I'm thinking a lot of alcohol was involved.
Tomorrow: ERCP for a 25 year old girl with pancreatic cancer. How do you end up with that at 25?! Diet and lifestyle? Maybe. More likely she just drew the short end of the genetic straw. A few months ago, I did a crani for a 32 year old female (exactly my age, basically my build) with new diagnosis of aggressive brain tumor. She hardly looked sick, and in less than two years, she will almost certainly be dead.
On the sillier side (well, not really): 23 year old girl and her boyfriend came in because they'd managed to tear her vagina so badly that she was _bleeding out_. No joke. She was bleeding to death. I thought she'd been raped. The report sounded like "forced intercourse," but it was actually "first intercourse." How often do virgins manage fatal hemorrhage their first night? She was a little tiny thing, and he was a big guy, but still.... I was impressed that he came into the hospital with her instead of sending a friend or parent. Everyone who came into the room looked upon him with suspicion, but it didn't seem to be an abuse situation. I'm thinking a lot of alcohol was involved.