March 4, 2008 – Day 12
Another All-American (or in my case – Canadian) breakfast of eggs and toast. We spied the “Quick and Easy Cookbook” in the kitchen this morning – one quick glance told us this was the secret to the meals we had been receiving.
We started off the day with a couple of cystocele repairs with PV Slings with fascia lata. We were able to harvest plenty of fascia with 2 pretty small incisions over the lateral thigh in the first case. In the second case, the fascia was harvested in 1 incision for both the sling and the cystocele repair. The second case was performed by Dr. Sunday Lengmang, with Susan assisting. They both went well. Tom chipped in with the general surgeons as they perfomed a suprapubic prostatectomy and a cysto that revealed a large stone in the proximal bulbar urethra. We looked at our limited options and decided that an open urethretomy was his best option. I certainly haven’t seen one of those in my residencies!
*During the day, I had the unexpected pleasure of having my wife call to see how we were making out. It was very sweet of her. I can’t believe she was able to get a call through to be honest. She reached the VVF ward office and Pauletta was right there, she checked to make sure that it was my wife and ran the 500m to the OR to get me. When she arrived she could only say 2 words breathlessly: “Wife” and “Phone”. She then collapsed to the ground unconscious….disaster was averted when Simon the local anaesthetist began to perform CPR. A few cracked ribs later we had her back performing urodynamics.and I was on the phone with my wife.
We finished off the day with a couple of PV slings, and all the procedures went well. We had another long day with our arrival back to the guesthouse at 830PM. A quick burger and fries (although not sure if it was hamburger), although not exactly like home, prior to sitting down to do some
Tim’s Lesson of the Day:
“Check with your physician before starting an exercise program (or run to give someone a message)”
Tim “Blogman” Davies
*Portions of this paragraph may have been fabricated/exaggerated for effect (Don’t worry Paul, Pauletta is just fine)
~Catherine deVries
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