Nervous on Monday

A little late but the surgery! It was awesome. There was only one protector for the X-ray machine and I happened to take that so Joanna and Lars had to go to another room to get protectors as well. While they were gone I introduced myself to one of the doctors and walking into the operating room she introduced me to the main doctor performing the surgery, the anaesthesiologist, and the other people that were present. We were only allowed to be on the side of the room that we walked into because the other half of the room was sterile. She also told us to keep our fronts to the x-ray machine and never turn our back to it. Before the surgery even started I was starting to get super nervous thinking the worst that I would get sick or something. As soon as the main doctor began the surgery and I saw the blood running down the town, all the nervousness suddenly disappeared. It was weird. The blood reminded me of those Halloween Scream masks where they just flow up to the face and run down. It was weird. It went on and we were allowed to watch from the anaesthesiologist's point of view but it was interesting listening to him as he explained what the machines did. They switched between two different anaesthesiologists and the 2nd one started comparing the patient to a fillet. Where they were operating on he began to say it was similar to the pork or beef fillet. The only thing was that fat was your friend in those pieces of meat but in this instance it wasn't your friend. This guy had an amusing sense of humor. By the time he told us he got a call saying that we had to go it didn't look like the doctors were anywhere close to being done. Over three hours and they were still picking out pieces of the spinal disk and nowhere close to done. Overall it was a super interesting surgery and this got me pretty interested in anaesthesiology.