Sorry guys. I haven't written a post in months. In July I switched over to being a full time ENT resident, and life has been very busy. I have a lot of good stories to share, but due to time constraints I will have to keep them brief.
- My first page on my first night on call in July was regarding a man who tried to blow his head off with a .44 and only partially succeeded--he blew part of his face and neck off. Initially we gave him a surgical airway and cleaned up his wound. Over the ensuing weeks we reconstructed his face. I haven't seen him in a while, but I hear he is doing great.
- One Sunday I was home relaxing when I recieved a page to come in to see a lady who was skydiving and had a parachute malfunction. Apparently she free fell from thousands of feet and landed on her face. She had multiple facial fractures, but miraculously none of her injuries required surgery. She walked out of the hospital a week later.
- I was called at 3 AM to stop a nosebleed on a lady who the internal medicine doctors were taking care of in the hospital. After 30 minutes of hard work to get the bleeding to stop, I briefly left the room to make a phone call. The next thing I heard was her nurse yelling that she wasn't breathing anymore. I ran into the room, and sure enough, she was dead. No breathing, no pulse. For 20 minutes I did chest compressions while other doctors gave her medications and shocked her heart. Don't ask me how, but she came back to life and fully recovered. Apparently when I was called to fix her nose, she also had a dangerously high potassium level in her blood. The elevated potassium made her heart stop.
- Yesterday I spent a couple hours repairing a nasty laceration on the upper lip of a prisoner. I had fun asking him about life in prison while I meticulously put his face back together. I have to admit that it was a little strange having three armed guards looking over my shoulder as I did my work. Hopefully he has a good cosmetic result and doesn't come looking for me when he gets out of the slammer...
That's it for now. I will try to keep this thing updated on a more regular basis from now on.
8 comments:
glad to read your blog again.
yes! you're back! I love your stories...every single one of them I kept saying oh my gosh! oh my gosh! congrats on being a resident! you're totally a real doctor...so sweet. now I want to hear the steamy side--like what nurses you're pulling in to janitorial closets to make out with.
nice job on the prisoner. Glad to know that you're beneficiary of our hard earned tax dollars.
SO I was going through random blogs of names that sounded familiar. Some were not the people I thought they were and then I came upon another blog who I didn't know, but saw on her list a Dr. Daines?? I only know ONE Dr. Daines. Sure enough it was you! Small World indeed. I like this blogging thing, you can stay up on friends and family without having to call them all the time:) Sounds like your a busy Doc and you don't get a lot of sleep. Some day you will, there is a little light at the end of the tunnel eh? Hope your doing well and liking your program. We love it here in Southern Cal. Not much of a surprise. Hopefully we'll be able to see you in the near future. Take care.
Does that mean no more boob jobs? just noses?
I hadn't read your whole post before.
this is better than Gray's! when are you going to have an affair with a cute cardio?
I know that this is totally random, but I came across your blog and am entrigued with all your stories. I worked in the ER for a few years and have seem some pretty crazy stuff!! Maybe we should swap stories sometime.
Hey, isn't it about time to start blogging again? I love to read your blog. I think it is hilarious.
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