Yuck, I'm uber corny.

Anyway, I still have a lot of things to do (demm teachers!), but because I have been excited about this for days on end, I'm forcing myself to divert my attention to healthy blogging instead of reading my particularly dislikable Kom III notebook (piece of crap!).

It all started when... Para namang fairy tale. Basta.

Three students (one is super-eager) arrived at the OR floor at around 8:20++. Eager ba masyado? Deh. Punctual lang. Basta. Nung andon na kami sa OR, wala yung head nurse (Ma'am Julie, nasaan ka?) so we had to wait in the conference room. For 1 hour. Medyo nainip na rin kami so we decided to follow up. Tapos may guy dun na alam naman pala kung anong ipagagawa sa amin! Duh! ! hour of OR time, wasted!!! Grr.

So we dressed in pretty [old and stained and basically ugly] white scrubs and discovered that they are made to fit Nanette Inventor and they don't close up around your crotch area. Peek-a-boo! And super lamig kasi yun lang suot ko (+unmentionables at sapatos, of course). But anyway, underway na rin yung OR experience namin.

Unfortunately, gender discrimination is at work here, so hanggang cherry-ball-making lang si Anne habang kami ni Ivan ay hang-out sa OR talaga. Ewan ko lang kung saan na-assign si Ivan, pero andun ako sa may Ortho. At wow. Pagdating ko, may hip replacement na nagaganap, may traction kasi may batang nabali-an, at may procedure that involves rod sticking out of your skin, and a lot of radiation. Pero wala pa yung cool part.

I got to watch a whole open biopsy procedure sa isang OR. Okay, biopsy lang siya, pero sobrang namangha ako. OR din naman yun, diba?

So pini-prep pa lang yung patient, tapos dumating yung surgeon. Dr. Huang, o Wang. Basta. Dialogue, please.

Doctor (to moi): Ikaw ba yung intern?
Pat: Hindi po (tapos umalis ako, kasi natakot ako).
Dr: You don't need to go. I just need to know who you are. Kasi sa OR you don't want a lot of extra people.
Pat: (explain ako kung sino ako at kung anong pakay ko)
Dr: Well in that case, you are more than welcome to be an extra people here. (Plural ba ako?)

Siyempre natuwa naman ako. Tapos nung nagsimula na talaga yung procedure...

Dr: Patrick, you can come close and watch. Just don't touch anything blue.
Pat: (syempre lapit ako)
Dr: Nasan na yung intern? Sige lapit ka rin.

Wow naman. At feeling special naman itong si lolo niyo. Haha. And I stayed for the whole thing. Yes, iniwan na ako ng OR buddy ko (nagtutulak siya ng post-op patients papuntang recovery room) kasi feeling ko gets niya na super na-engganyo ako. Nakakahiya naman.

Tapos ang hirap magtulak ng gurney! Ambibigat ng mga pasyente! Ang hirap pang mag-maneuver. Grr. Yung isang pasyente, binangga ko ng ilang beses. Sa pader at sa ibang pasyente na post-op din. Gawd, I'm so clumsy.

Ang galing. Gusto ko nang tumira sa OR...