~vascular week~

Started off this term with surgery as well. Last week was my orthopaedic week - best gileeee!!! The fact the I adore ortho just made my week! And the fact that dear people were with me also made my week! I didn't have to worry about food at all the entire week!!! haha...

Then I went back to KL for the weekend due to some emergency back home. Had to see my niece...I saw a permcath/chemoport [i'm not sure which was the one i saw..] on the right side of her chest and had no clue what it was called at that time. I knew it was for longterm chemo thou [my maximal knowledge!]

Lucky me! My first day during my vascular rotation...Mr.Kingston [nama thumbdrive] brought us in the OT to see a chemoport insertion!!!

the chemoport insertion being done! Mr.Kingston was teaching the 2 MOs!

Luckily one of the HO called me over to stand right next to him right after I took the pix...so I was the only one in the group with a first class view of the procedure. The patient was a 10 year old kid...
Somehow during the whole time I was observing, I kept thinking
"Ooh...this must be how they inserted it in Dina..."
It's cool to be a medical student and to just observe how they do these things. But when it happened in your own family, there is a whole different feeling to everything.

Isla:Shammy:Me
Thrown out of the OT during the radiation...hehe