Day Fourteen: Three Surgeries

 5/24/22

Blog Written: 12:20pm

Start: 6:50am

End: 10:50pm

Today’s Time: 4h00m

Total Time: 79h15m


Today was my last day of senior project and also my birthday. I got such a great birthday present from Chris, being able to watch three surgeries; he bought me some Dunkin's, too. I had to wake up at 5:30am in order to get ready for the surgery which started at 7am. Chris and I were shadowing Dr. Milano at Concord Orthopedic Surgical Center.


The first surgery, my favorite surgery, that we went to was a surgery in the elbow to release some tension in the ulnar nerve(or the funny bone). The tension was released by moving the nerve from the Medial Epicondyle to the back inside. So it moved from inside the bump on your inside elbow to the side of the elbow. The surgeon first sutured up the fat and fascia, then the skin, then to fasten the skin together, he used a surgical stapler. After the surgery was done, the attending nurse gave me a clean staple to keep as a souvenir, which is pictured above.


The second surgery was to reduce a fractured radius and hold it stable with two crossing pins. This surgery was a closed surgery, so I couldn’t see what was happening, which was kind of frustrating.


The third surgery was to reduce another radius, put in a plate and screws. They had many different screws and plates to put on different sized bones and different fractures. There were no complications in any of the surgeries, and they all went well. The only thing that bothered me enough that made me sit down was when the surgeon was putting a huge needle in/near the bone, I do not do well with needles. The other two things that bothered me was when he was shaving part of the bone off, but the only part that bothered me was the noise and the cauterizer because there was smoke.

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  1. grandmaMay 25, 2022 at 12:55 PM

    what an amazing way to spend your 18th birthday! How lucky you were to be able to see first hand
    how these problems are treated.

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