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Left: Alex, Clif, Lindsay
(Hanging out in our green scrubs before the C-section) |
The last day at the BSES hospital we had the opportunity to watch a C-section. The mother looked extremely nervous, which triggered me thinking about how I would feel if I knew I was about to have a spinal tap and then a baby. I came to the conclusion I couldn’t really imagine how nerve racking it would be to be sitting on the hospital bed, as the hospital staff prepare to stick a 4-inch needle in my spinal cord, then pull a baby out of my stomach. The anesthesiologist messed up the spinal tap, so the mother was put completely under using gas. As the nurses swabbed the mother’s skin with iodine, a fly landed on her belly. It wasn’t very reassuring. While the preparations seemed pretty sketchy, the C-section was performed perfectly without any complications resulting in a healthy baby.
The C-section was a highlight to the hospital rotation. This weekend I am off to Goa (the Cancun of India) where we’ll be relaxing for a long 3-day weekend. We are taking an overnight 13hr sleeper bus, which should prove to be an adventure in itself.
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