Fixing Meat Slabs
:: Sunday, August 1st, 2004 @ 3:53:30 am
:: Tags: General
Not long ago, one of my doctor friends invited me to sit in on an open-heart bypass and aortic valve replacement surgery, and on a brain tumor removal surgery. It was my first time seeing any sort of surgery first hand, and it was PRETTY DAMN COOL. I now know that I would have aspired to be a surgeon had I gone into medicine.
The heart surgery was straightforward, and looked like it required a lot of coordination to pull off. The heart had to have some threads woven into it, an incision made, and a tube thrust into it while it was beating all over the place. I also saw blood squirt out of arteries — I had heard that it was pretty high pressure, but I was surprised at how far it could squirt!
I had no idea what was going on in the brain surgery. There was a hole in a head, and the surgeon was cutting stuff out of it. It all looked like mush. I’m told that it’s easier to tell what’s what before everything gets smeared with blood.
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I would likely yacc up a lung in the middle of the operation and they’d have to perform another one to reinsert the lung into my body.
I do not do well with that stuff AT ALL - shiver
You and Kristin should get together some time. She has some weird twisted fascination with that crap too :)
You should try sitting in on an orthopedic surgery — compound fracture or total knee/hip replacement. The tools used are just like what you’d find in a mechanic shop or something.
i’m just glad you didn’t take pictures (or at least you didn’t put them online)!
unlike the last poster I’m disappointed you didn’t post any pictures.
I went through surgery for hydrocephalus four years ago, and always was disappointed I couldn’t get a video/dvd of the surgery or pics….
Twisted, I know…..
mike - i was a guest in the OR, and wasn’t able to bring my camera in!
I figured as much Eric. Too bad though.