My first reaction to this was 'How does that even happen?!'. I am not entirely sure I want to know though. I hope your explicit slash phobia goes away soon. Talk about bad timing with the almost fainting thing. It had to happen once though.
Ha ha, every time I went into theatre to watch eye ops at first I ended up feeling really faint and having to leave. To be fair, partly it was the squeamishness factor of seeing someone's eye cut open. But then someone put me onto the trick of rocking on your heels to keep the blood flowing, and that pretty much sorted me out.
Other than the time this lady was having ectropion surgery (which is done under local rather than general) and needed someone to hold her hand, which I offered to do, which then forced me to stand still for ages. I was fine up until they were nearly finished and then I started to feel myself go, and they only had three stitches left so I figured I could hack it but in the end I had to say 'I think I'm going to faint, can somebody get me a chair?' and give it up.
Weirdly, the part that bothers most people - the adjustable sutures once the patient's woken up from strabismus surgery - has never bothered me. It's just the cutting part.
lol, it's actually not at all the squeamish factor for me. It happens on epic long ward rounds and long teaching sessions and actually any time for as long as I can remember where I have to stand for over an hour. And the rocking on the heels thing doesn't seem to help me >.< Mostly, it's just that this particular time was unfortunate and now all the surgeons will think I'm squeamish when I'm honestly not.
O.o wow, didn't know that! Interesting :D If you massage someone's carotid sinuses for a while, you can give them heart block which leads to cardiac arrest if untreated. It's where all the weird ideas that you can make someone faint by pressing something in the neck comes from...actually, it takes a good ten minutes of massaging to work, not like the kung-fu movies would have you believe!
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Mind you, she's got a job as a healthcare assistant this Summer so I'm betting she'll see some messy things being a dogsbody on the wards.
Hope your bum phobia goes away soon!
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What year is your sister in? I lose track of everyone's siblings xD
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Other than the time this lady was having ectropion surgery (which is done under local rather than general) and needed someone to hold her hand, which I offered to do, which then forced me to stand still for ages. I was fine up until they were nearly finished and then I started to feel myself go, and they only had three stitches left so I figured I could hack it but in the end I had to say 'I think I'm going to faint, can somebody get me a chair?' and give it up.
Weirdly, the part that bothers most people - the adjustable sutures once the patient's woken up from strabismus surgery - has never bothered me. It's just the cutting part.
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Mostly, it's just that this particular time was unfortunate and now all the surgeons will think I'm squeamish when I'm honestly not.
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If you massage someone's carotid sinuses for a while, you can give them heart block which leads to cardiac arrest if untreated. It's where all the weird ideas that you can make someone faint by pressing something in the neck comes from...actually, it takes a good ten minutes of massaging to work, not like the kung-fu movies would have you believe!
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