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Saturday, October 30, 2010 ( 3:31 PM ) shut up christine you can do anything surgeon: this isn't hard. anyone can do brain surgery nowadays me: i doubt that surgeon: can you cut between lines? me: yeah... surgeon: then you can do it # Thursday, October 28, 2010 ( 4:21 PM ) shut up christine today i scrubbed in on a brain surgery for the first few hours i stood between the two surgeons at the head of the bed, literally 12 inches away from a person's open, pulsing brain i'm glad i had a face mask on so no one could see that my jaw kept dropping partly from shock but mostly in awe it's beautiful beautiful doesn't seem like the right word, at first i've seen lots of beautiful things, but this was beautiful in a way i've never experienced until today they say most students faint not from what they see, its the smells that get you-- the smell of bones being sawed or tissue getting cauterized (i didn't faint don't worry) i totally lucked out because the surg tech went to mount st mary's (fist pump) so she pulled me up to the instrument table and i got to pass scissors and syringes and drop pieces of dura into a bucket i feel really fortunate i know nursing students at most other schools aren't even afforded the opportunity to be in the OR if i don't become an OR nurse, this will likely be the only time in my life that i get to experience this i am eternally grateful and i'll never forget it # Wednesday, October 27, 2010 ( 3:50 PM ) shut up christine  egads i want to kiss your little face
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Tuesday, October 26, 2010 ( 5:39 PM ) shut up christine if you can, please say a prayer or sit a few minutes in silence for us i'm scrubbing in tomorrow and thursday i don't know who you are yet you won't see me, and i won't get to talk to you, at least not when you're conscious but i'm wishing you the best on your surgery thank you for letting me be here. i really hope you get better # Thursday, October 21, 2010 ( 9:05 AM ) shut up christine today is baby leah's 2 week birthday! look, she has my sister's big cutie pie  Wednesday, October 20, 2010 ( 10:59 PM ) shut up christine We are friends; we must assist each other to bear our burdens. - Osage tribe in a nutshell
Sunday, October 10, 2010 ( 11:49 PM ) shut up christine you are a strange, strange boy i'm taking a shower (i have a claw-footed bathtub) and i drop my bar of soap i'm all shampooed up so it takes me a minute to open my eyes when i look down, a hand is peeking from underneath the shower curtain holding up the soap. scares the crap out of me! gah weirdo # ( 8:34 PM ) shut up christine it's finals week. big test tomorrow and what am i doing? stacking rocks of course! my new favorite hobby! no, i don't have a tv, thanks for asking! i spent the last hour carefully balancing a pointy stone on its tip and i did it!! it was glorious, obviously! the thrill of atoms aligning perfectly so as to support the weight of the universe on a tiny fulcrum! the experience is quite magical! alas, it toppled as i was getting my camera look at these! just look at them       Friday, October 01, 2010 ( 5:00 PM ) shut up christine last night m came over and i was so tired that i knocked out on my bed, didn't say goodnight or goodbye to him, don't even remember him leaving. crap! i wake up at 5am rush to shower & get ready for clinicals just before i bounce i run to the kitchen to grab the bagels that he! bought for my unit open the fridge, ahh where's the cream cheese? and then i see... a lunchbox where m has packed breakfast, lunch, a snack, a snack for my teacher (she loves our tuno [vegan tuna] & we made some yesterday) and, of course, the cream cheese. * you know how you ask, "how do you know?" and they say "you just know." oh shit, now i know you know what i mean? i'm done looking i've found him via amy chan # |
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