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August 18th, 20208/18/2020 Today's been an ebb and flow day: despite the seemingly full schedule, it's bounced between busy and dead-slow. Our first case in the OR this morning was delayed due to a faulty valve in the anesthesia equipment. Eventually the ball got rolling, but this threw a little wrench into the system and backed up the rest of the morning.
Regardless, I got to scrub for a case this morning with a couple of top notch co-residents, confirming my belief that the people make the party. I was then assigned to one of our clinic locations for the afternoon where I conducted a sedation for multiple extractions and a procedure called alveoloplasty - our fancy term for smoothening of jaw bone to promote a sound foundation for a denture or some other prosthesis. I also had a nice little struggle against a set of wisdom teeth, one with especially nasty, curved roots. In the end, we won and the teeth came out. I'm just now taking a short break on call tonight to jot down some thoughts. This evening, I sutured up some intraoral lacerations for a kiddo at the children's hospital who suffered a gunshot wound to the neck and face which our team will repair tomorrow. Although he sustained a severely comminuted fracture of his mandible (think shatter, not a simple break), amazingly he suffered no large vessel or cervical spine injuries. If there's some kind of luck involved in life, this kid got lucky. We'll see how the rest of the evening goes...only 12 hours left for my shift. On an exciting, completely unrelated note: I've rediscovered my childhood love and obsession with the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. A few weeks ago I purchased an animated Batman vs TMNT movie and thought it very entertaining. Last night on my cycling trainer, I decided to search for something to watch while I busted out some miles and found a more recent animated series from 2014 on Hulu. Very entertaining so far!! I'd plan to see some TMNT sketches and swooning over the comics in the near future!
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