Archive for November, 2006
It’s not brain surgery. Wait…
Yes it is! I got to see a craniotomy. It was so cool.
The patient had a tumor pressing on their pituitary gland (hypofysen in Danish), but apparently it was sitting a little bit weird. So instead of going through the nose, which they usually do for pituitary tumors, they went through the temple and opened [...]
Circadian crisis
I have jet lag. But I did get to mix up IV medicine. And try to put an IV catheter into Laura’s hand (it was a half success on the first try–I got it into the vein and about halfway in *yea!* but then I perforated it *damn!*).
Now I’ve slept all day and my eyeballs [...]
Yesterday we had our mutual birthday party #2. We always do this. We have two birthday parties–one for Nicolai’s family and one for our friends. But for both our birthdays at the same time, since they are only 2 weeks apart.
On my birthday we went to Næstved and had dinner at Nicolai’s grandmother’s house. She [...]
