Luckily, both Farley and I had Thanksgiving off. We decided since we couldn't go home to our families, we would have our own full fledged Thanksgiving dinner. We had one friend over to enjoy the meal with us. We made turkey, stuffing, mashed potatoes, yams, green beans, baking-soda biscuits, cranberries and pumpkin pie. Here are some pictures:
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| Farley expertly carving the turkey. |
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| Farley and I finishing up last minute things to get dinner on the table. |
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| Our Thanksgiving feast! We did a good job! |
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| My yummy plate! |
Farley was extra lucky and he didn't have to go to the hospital on Friday, but our friend and I had to. I was in the Operating Room on Friday and observed three surgeries and got to scrub into one of them. A little before 11:30, one of the attending physicians dismissed us for the day. I was so excited to get home early, but on the board was a baby surgery. One of my friends and I decided to stay and watch the surgery. The chief resident said that one of us could probably scrub in, but I was afraid to ask the pediatric surgeon. Besides, during pediatric surgeries the OR is kept at about 85 degrees, and on top of that you have the surgical lights and the baby's incubator. It must have been well over 90 degrees where they were performing surgery and on top of all of that, they have to wear the gowns, masks and gloves (which are very warm). I think I might have passed out with all that heat (which is rather funny since I am always cold in the OR). This baby was pretty little, but thankfully, the surgery wasn't for anything life threatening. It was interesting to see the differences in the surgical technique for the baby and for adults with the same problem. The basics were the same, but there were some differences. It was really amazing to be able to see this surgery. It wasn't just my friend and I who wanted to see this surgery. At one point, there were 7 people from anesthesiology (2 attendings, 4 residents, and one technician) 3 people from neonatology (1 neonatologist, 2 nurses), one attending pediatric surgeon, one chief surgical resident, four surgery students, and two surgical nurses. Yup, that is 18 people for one little baby! She was in good hands! I am happy to report, the surgery went well. I am so excited to start my pediatric rotation--one more week!
Saturday, Farley needed to go into Manhattan. I took a couple pictures of the Macy's Flagship store in Herald Square. I suspect it was a madhouse in there, but we just looked at the windows, which were amazing, but the pictures did not turn out well so I decided not to post them. The theme was Miracle on 34th Street and the windows had moving people from the scenes as well as a window of the Macy's Day Parade.
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| One of the main entrances with with "Believe" sign above a big Christmas Tree. |
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| The Empire State Building with the "Believe" sign and the big tree from Macy's in the foreground. |
After finishing up at Macy's we went to Union Square. We have heard for a while that there is a Barnes and Nobles with an entire floor of medical text books. I was under the impression that it was somewhere in Brooklyn, but I found out this week that is is just two blocks form Union Square! We have go to through (underground) Union Square to get to the hospital daily and we often go there on the weekend because there is so much to do and it is only about 25 minutes from home. Needless to say, Farley and I were like kids in a candy store with thousands of medical textbooks to peruse! We both bought books for our pediatrics rotations, which we start December 6th!
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