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My days are variable in that I'm tired, or depressed or excited at various points. I have the privilege of doing things now. I have sutured incisions and stabled a big abdominal wound and the surgeon let me drive the camera for the guy that got his kidney out. Here is how that goes. They make an incision and then put in a port with a plastic bag and the resident put her arm in up to the elbow, then I had the camera and there was another small hole so she could use an instrument with her other hand to disconnect the kidney from everything else. I was allowed to make an incision (skin is tough you guys) Punch the port for the camera through (skin is pretty much the toughest part, weird.) Then I had to figure out how to look at what she was up to in the abdomen. This took a bit of figuring out on my part because a camera is a stick which means looking at things is like a teeter totter, push up to look down, left to look right and so on. You can also push in a pull out for zooming function. I think I caught on ok.
And in the end, they took out a kidney, which contained cancer so hopefully he will live a long time. Fairly in-shape not terribly old guy. He was going for walks in the hallways that night.
And in the end, they took out a kidney, which contained cancer so hopefully he will live a long time. Fairly in-shape not terribly old guy. He was going for walks in the hallways that night.