Sarah Cooper’s Blog

Surgery

Today was a little slower.  After rounding this morning, I scrubbed into a surgery of an ovarian torsion.  The patient had a benign growth of her ovary and the mass that we took out was nearly the size of a football.  This mass had caused the ovary and fallopian tube to twist on itself.  These cases are known to be associated with a significant amount of pain.  I also watched a skin grafting for the first time.  This was pretty fun to watch too.  After that there was a young woman with osteosarcoma (bone cancer) in her femur.  Dr. Faille did an amputation pretty high up on her thigh.  We had a slow afternoon so we watched Horton Hears a Who at Dr. Dicken’s house with his wife and kids.  They used a laptop and projector.  It had been nice to have a slow afternoon.  Tomorrow we will go to a different church and maybe hit the market up depending on how busy things are at the hospital.