Today is Saturday, my sixth day in the OR. They said weekends are not toxic primarily because the boss is not there. Well, not for us VN's (volunteer nurses). The lower-level staff are the ones bossing us around. So true. Feels like a neophyte undergoing hazing. Had no choice but to follow them para hindi mapag-initan (para maabsorb? not an exciting idea).
After 2 years of not doing it, I was tasked to be the second scrub. Ok lang sana kase it was "just" a cesarean-section (CS) case. CS is the most basic operation. Konti lang instruments. Sisiw. Or so I thought.
Before the procedure, I was preoccupied by the OB's reputation. Terror daw. Super bilis daw mag-opera kaya dapat daw listo ka din. Nagtatanong tungkol sa case during the operation. Etc. Kaya ayon, I screwed up in gloving her. Haha. Actually, I served all the doctors with the gowns and gloves. Gowning was okay, kahit na minsan nalilito ako which is the front and back. Gloving was all disaster, from doctor 1 to doctor 3. Buti na lang all out support ang mentor ko na si Kuya M and hindi nya ko pinahiya. Sabi ni Kuya M, okay lang daw magkamali basta hindi madalas. The operation was done in just 20 minutes. May sewing machine ata sa kamay yung OB sa bilis mag-suture layer by layer (from the uterus to peritoneum up to the skin!)
I'll just take it as a learning experience. In another operation (total abdominal hysterectomy bilateral salpingo-oophorectomy or TAHBSO) I had the chance to do skin test. Imagine, I was able to do it in just one shot and without shivering hands (the drug was Tramadol). Not bad. Na-overcome ko na fear ko sa mga tusok-tusok na yan. Siguro kase naubos na ang nerbyos ko sa previous operation with the terror (but religious) OB.
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