End of S-Block

This was the last week of surgery at King Edwards. The hospital is so different from American hospitals. Every window is covered in bars, and hallways are filled with patients on gurneys. To be in theater I didn't even need to scrub in! All I had to do was wear booties on my feet and wear sterile clothing, no hand washing.. The first surgery I was able to see was an acetabulum repair (hip joint.) The woman had been in a car accident and had posterior dislocated the femur. They just sliced open her hip and went right to work. It was absolutely incredible to see how they drilled in the plates and repaired the fragmented bone.
Next I saw a hysterectomy. This woman's uterus was about the size of my head or larger and it was filled with huge fibroids. When they first opened her up, I didn't even know it was the uterus. We were all trying to guess what it was when the doctor finally told us. I should have taken a picture. They just plopped the uterus right out and cut off all the vessels and sewed her back up. Simple. No one in the states would ever let a uterus like that go untreated for so long. From the outside the woman looked like she was 6 months pregnant. CRAZY!
I also got to see a boy who had fallen down the stairs and had split his humerus into a "y" shaped fracture. I saw them put plates in and screw it all back together. I can't believe the things I get to see here, I can't wait to come back in two weeks and see some more.