Another AWESOME day

As usual, I woke up in the morning and got on the shuttle to go to internship, one of things I'm really looking forward during weekdays. Nowadays, I don't even ask a nurse what to wear and where scrubs are because I'm used to doing this and I know what to do when I get there first. After dressing up as an observer, I went up to the nurse who tells me what options are and guides me into that operating room. Today, I saw two surgeries. Even though I couldn't get to see all the process of the second surgery due to time, both of them were awesome. 

1. removing gallbladder with 3 gallstones(mulberries) in

2. foot joint implant surgery

During the first surgery, doctors used something like endoscopes to put them in four holes on the patient's belly. And there were two screens which show the inside the body. The doctor used the laser to burn the tissues of gallbladder to take it out. After taking it out, he asked me to put gloves on and let me cut the gallbladder, which was SO awesome and amazing. I couldn't understand what he was talking to me because I was in awe for a while. I was hesitating and he told me that I would not kill anyone because the gallbladder was already out of her body. I did what he told me to and started seeing three stones coming out!!!

It was just terrific!!!

I screamed when I saw them because, of course, It was my first time to see gallstones. Later, he told me that I was allowed to touch them. They were three total and too hard to smash. He told me that people called them mulberries because they looked like mulberries, which was true.

I asked him two questions.

- How long does it take to form one gallstone?

--> doctors don't know exactly but since one gallstone is made of a lot of layers of cholesterol, he thinks a few years.

- Why didn't you take clips out after you clipped them on organs near liver?

--> they were made of titanium and they are not harmful for human's body. Therefore, they are left in the body.

P.S. 

A Gallbladder is a small organ where bile is stored, before it is released into the small intestine. In humans, the loss of the gallbladder, in most cases, is easily tolerated by the body. The surgical removal of the gallbladder is called a cholecystectomy.

The gallbladder is a hollow system that sits just beneath the liver.

The Gall Bladder is a storage vessel for liver bile. It acts as a reservoir for holding bile on its way from the liver to the intestines.

What are gallstones?

When the chemicals in the gallbladder, cholesterol, calcium bilirubinate, and calcium carbonate are out of balance gallstones may form. There are two main types of gallstones:

• Cholesterol gallstones - these may form if there is too much cholesterol in the bile? They are the main type of gallstones in the UK and the USA.


• Pigment gallstones - these form when the bile has too much bilirubin. They are more common among patients who have liver disease, infected bile tubes or blood disorders, such as sickle-cell anemia.