Trip home and anesthesia!

We were able to go to Portland, Spokane, and back to Portland for the 4th of July! We tried to see everyone we possibly could in 8 days! So good to be home...so good to see friends and family! Had some fantastic non fryed food and got plenty of hugs! I loved walking into Deaconess to suprise the night shift. It felt like I should sit down and just start charting as if I was never gone! Home sweet home! 

I came home to start anesthesia. Why did I not go to CRNA school?? Anesthesia was amazing and best rotation yet! Those doctors are the most calm people you will ever meet. My LMA skills rocked, my oral airway skills rocked, but my intubation skills could not have been any more terrible. By Wednesday I finally started to get it. I watched every you tube video, read every how to, and even tried to get Mat to let me practice an awake intubation (something about his terrible gag reflux)! But finally I got it! And loved it! It reminds me of placing a foley! The anathesiologist didn't have the same reminder... But he had never placed a foley. Sometimes it just accidentally slips in the wrong hole! Anesthesia was great on teaching me  the tools of the trade. I absolutely love the bougie! That thing DR. Evans keeps in his book bag. And pre oxygenation is a girls best friend. Studies show if you pre-oxygenate patients for 2 minutes and keep a nasal cannula on them while you intubate you can extend your time to about 6 minutes before hypoxia. If you can't get it by then well...no comment! No worries everyone still had there teeth! Oral airways are also a girls best friend when bagging the butter balls aka Roanokes well fed people.