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Dave5Baseball
As many of you know, I've been working as an EMT for the pat three years. In October I was accepted into Paramedic school and therefore is the reason I haven't really been around lately. I go to school five days a week and have clinicals thrown in there as well. We have to do 17 ER clinicals, 2 OB, 3 pediatric ER's, and 2 OR's. Well I'm just finished all of those and now I have my three months of ride time. My last clinical (today) was in the OR. Our main objective in the OR is to get intubations, we need 10 total. Beilieve it or not I got my 10 in between the two days. Of course, I had plenty of people in pre-op say "No way is that student coming near me." I don't blame them, they want everything perfect, but everyone has to start somewhere. Anyway, to the interesting part of the story. Wouldn't you know it, on the schedule for the day was an AVR. I went straight to the surgeon and asked if I could stand in and observe and he had no problem with it. There I was, at the head of the patient, 2 feet from the procedure. What an awesome thing to see. I just kept thinking that 1 year prior, I was on the other side. It is something else to see the heart beating up close and personal. I'm not sure if that would freak some people but I found it fascinating. The surgeon was awesome, explaining every little detail to me about the procedure. It was definitely something I'll never forget. I always wondered what my operation was like and in some way now I know. I give all the credit in the world to those surgeons because everyday they have someone else's life literally in their hands and they make it seem so easy like they are changing a tire or something. Amazing.
