Intriguing to me, nauseating to Matt

Today was a great day at work. It was one of those pick a room and observe. So I decided to go to the heart room, I have never seen any surgery on the heart. I was observing in amazement at the difference between the set up of this open-heart surgery and a plain gallbladder removal surgery. The best part happened when I got to go stand up by the anesthesiologist. The best part of “observing” is that I have no responsibilities and get to watch and ask questions. As I stood at the head of the bed and peered over the surgical draped, I saw the chest wide open and the heart in plain sight, beating. It was the craziest thing. When it was beating, it was more like jiggling. As the surgery progressed, they needed the beating to stop, so ice was placed on it to make it cold and it stopped beating. At this point, the heart and lungs were being run by some pump machine. I loved it. The anesthesiologist was great explaining all the anatomy and what the two surgeons were doing.

The body is just an amazing thing. The more I learn and see, the more I do not know. I am truly amazed at what we, in this day, are able to accomplish, and how science has improved our lives.

New Furniture

We FINALLY splurged and got new furniture. It was so much fun and stressful at the same time. Matt has wanted a dinning room table and I could no longer stand our old couch.

Here is a picture of the old couch and chairs. (Although I am grateful to Matt's grandpa for giving them to us, as we have gotten by for so long with out purchasing new ones, I am glad to let them go to their new life.)


And the new couch and chairs




Then the dinning room table




This table can be extended and seat 10 people. The only problem is that now Matt wants to invite 10 people over and have me cook for them. Having 10 people over is fun, cooking for them, not so much. If only we had this table at Thanksgiving.

Locked doors and Alarms

This funny thing happened to me at work the other day. As I was telling my sister, Sharon, about it she said that I needed to blog about it, so here it goes. I now work in the Operating Room at the hospital. Since their is so much to learn, I am in this class that goes for 9 weeks were we learn and study and take quizzes and such. There are 5 of us students, with our teacher, Jan. We were walking around one day trying to find something and went down a hallway that we hardly ever go by. When we got there I recognized it as a way I had gone before while following a nurse around. This nurse had showed me a trick to get through the door. I decided to show the rest of the students. This door was an entrance from the outside hallway into the OR and was locked. I showed them how if you pull up on this pole in the middle it would unlock. Next thing I know the alarm is going off and we red lights flashing, so what do we do, we ran away. We laughed pretty hard about that one. Then about two days later, we went through that door again, and on our way back, I informed everyone I had figured out why the alarm had gone off.I forgot to scan my badge. This time I scanned my badge and then pulled on the pole, but guess what the alarm went off again, and again we ran. I was so confused; I had been given access, why did it alarm for me and not that other nurse. Come to find out, my fellow classmates said I took too long and when I had scanned my badge the light turned green than red. I am curious to go back and try again, but I do not want to make the alarm go off for a third time. That would not be good.