Organic Baby Milk
Does anyone else get the irony behind “organic” baby milk being sold on the grocery shelf?!
Anyway, here is my list of stuff learned from today:
1) How to perform a below the knee amputation (it was scheduled as an above the knee, but they managed to save more of the leg).
2) How awesome it is to have the surgeon tell you that you must be a gymnast, and should scrub into the surgery because you rocked at holding a leg up by yourself with one hand for 10 minutes and without letting your body contaminate the sterile field (it’s good to be strong and flexible!)
3) Surgery makes me hungry. No seriously, when I start watching a surgery, I suddenly become very hungry and fantasize endlessly about yummy food!
4) Never believe a nurse when she tells you that the patient can’t talk and for you to stop trying. She could talk just fine, just not in English!
5) It’s an amazing thing to have a foot one minute, and two hours later it’s being wrapped up, put into a biohazard bag and on it’s way to the path lab.
6) Always carry your phone with you in the hospital. You never know when you’re going to have to yell at the FedEx man (for losing a package) during a surgery!
My name is Kendra and I am a fourth-year medical student attending
Mom, your loading the word organic with undeserved good-vibes. Organic doesn’t mean something is good for you, was prepared lovingly, nor even that it hasn’t been processed to a point of nutritional inadequacy. Remember, you can have organic belladonna or even organic salmonella.
And don’t hold it against a woman who feeds her child formula. She may have an inadequate milk production, or a disease which could be transmitted through breast milk.
Just remember, making good choices can’t be done by rote.
ps: thinking about food during an amputation is gross. But I still love you.
pps: Do you think of savory foods, or sweets?
ppps: No, don’t tell me. I feel ill.