Friday

Friday

Very early day. We skipped breakfast and rounded as quickly as we could. This morning at the general surgery grand rounds, Dr. Bellinger and I gave lectures. There were medical students and attending surgeons in attendance there. As before, there was a prayer at the start, but we needed to get back to the theatre before the Thank sand closing prayer. At this point, we have only had one no show and one cancellation. But we have also had a few add on surgeries to fill the places.

We lost power both Thursday and Friday. Not for very long. The anesthesia machines were on battery back up. We lost the electro cautery and no lights. The theater lights are not that powerful anyway, but all we had was ambient lighting for a while.

There is a man in our theatre who has been helping us. He is never said one word, but followed everything we do and anticipated what we needed. His name was Sunday and he tried to run a few goose neck lamps off of a backup outlet when he lost light. Those lights did not work but they thought was great. The power came back on but we lost a few lights.

In spite of wanting to be done early- we finished with rounds at 6:30.

~Stephanya Shear