cath lab

on friday the 25th - 17 days from now - i'm going to do a job shadow in tacoma general's cardiac catheterization laboratory. it's only going to be for 4 hours, but i hope to get to watch at least 1 procedure. i'll be highly anxious about it - needles, blood - as the day draws nearer, but right now i'm quite excited. what a thrill!

if this goes well, i might investigate the possibility of watching other surgical procedures, from knee or shoulder arthroscopies to laparascopic cholecystectomies or appendectomies to carpal tunnel releases to open cholecystectomies or appendectomies to lumbar or cervical disk fusions to craniotomies to hip replacements to cesarean sections! my head's spinning.

is being a curious transcriptionist an adequate reason to spend this kind of quality time in an operating theater? it wouldn't surprise me if it isn't, but i shall attempt to find out, unless the cath experience makes me hurl.

oh - and i'm up this early because yellow was scratching at the back door and being annoying. then i couldn't get back to sleep. eh, i got up only 2 hours earlier than i needed to. not so bad, in the scheme of things. yawn.