One year ago today!

Well, I can't believe it has been a year since I broke my leg. All kinds of thoughts and feelings are coming back to me today. I will find my surgery pictures and post them. This will be an interesting day for me. Wouldn't it be fun though if I could go to work and be assigned a case with a broken leg just like mine?

Last night was pretty interesting at work. We had a trauma come in that was a self-inflicted stab wound. The knife (it was 12 inches long with a 6 inch blade)was still in the patient's upper abdomen and was extended into the heart. The knife would pulse with every heartbeat. With the expertise of our cardothoracic and general surgeons, they were able to remove the knife and repair the damage it made. The point was brought up by one of the people involved about our right to refuse treatment and then when something like this happens, we are doing all we can to save a person's life. It can be a very good ethical debate for some people. It's maybe just irony. I feel kind of bad though because one person's tragedy was really exciting to me. It was fun to have a serious trauma come in. I am talking they are coming straight up from ER had a chest X-ray then to the OR. I think they were talking that it was 5 minutes.