Bunga Melur

Today started with running lost in the apartment building. I was quite troubled because I know the meeting starts at 730am and I found my way out of the building at 720 am. I know the destination is just 5 minutes away and I also know that I can get lost again in the surgery department and I have to change. So I made a not so grand entrance into the meeting. The doctors were discussing in German and my German fluency is just guten tag, bitte, tschuss, danke schon. So I read the presentation that has many familiar words.

In the operation room is a 3 months old baby girl on the table for repair of VSD. Got the anesthesiologist explaining to me the drugs she gave to the baby. Saw the operation and the 1st assistant is kind enough to explained bit of this and that. Learnt nearly the hard way to keep my hand sticked onto my body. Saw the extracorporeal circulation. Saw the transesophageal echocardiography and guessed it right that there's tiny shunt. Helped push the baby into the recovery ICU. The ICU is maybe a bit over the top about locking. The lift and even the toilet is locked. In the OR there's this one of the many machine with a label on the wall behind it ~ this machine has no brain, use your own.

Met Jasmin, the bubbly 6th year. They have 4 exams, 2 of which they can choose the subject(applied only in Freiburg). She's going for Neurology and Anesthesiology but said she's thinking of specialising into neurology because anesthesiology means "Hi" and shortly after, "good night". Had lunch with my doctor and Jasmin. Talked about the weather, the Turkish supermarket in the city, the prospect of working as a doctor in Swiss, the animals especially the birds etc.

I was hanging around trying to get someone to give me job. It was quite sometime until Jasmin offered to supervise me in blood taking.
Things you need is
1. needles bin
2. tourniquet
3. sterilizer
4. swab
5. needle (butterfly for tricky vein)
6. syringe
7. tape
Prick faster and deeper because the part that hurt is when the needle is in the cutaneous layer.

Jasmin also translates the ECG with me and teaching me the tricks to it. I am ever so grateful.
Too bad I have to leave earlier else I can practise the blood taking on my guinea pig, Jasmin.
Through Jasmin, I remind my self about 2 types of edema, ptting edema in DVT and non pitting in lymphedema. Also how to be a good listener to the patient.

Done with hospital, I went through the campus and man, their Mensa. Oh their Mensa. It's like a restaurant in the zoo. With 80% see through glass, a big stream running next to it and shadowed by trees. Totally stole my heart.

Went to Old Town. Lotsa people there. Sport quite a number of foreigners and hijabis. Discover Migros and was going back and forth on the frozen seafood section. Was totally spoilt for choice (The effect of living in Hradec Kralove). Meet Jaime fo the first time. She's from the US and is on the research exchange. Think it's about colon cancer. Had Nordsee together and talk about things.

Took a super long way to get back to my place. Luckily I sported the hospital's stargate.