BLEPH surgery (Blepharoplasty)

The surgery I saw today was about eyelids called Blepharoplasty. It was really interesting because I've heard of this surgery a lot of times when I was in Korea. I knew that people with saggy eyelids need to get this surgery to get better eye vision. The sad news in korea is that there are a lot of young people even students who love to get this surgery as to get double eyelids. I always wanted to see how this surgery goes and eventually I saw it! It was such a remarkable day for me! 

People who are old usually need to take this surgery to get better vision but not perfect one.

The patient kept moving because of body remain reaction towards pain such as injection on his eyes to make that part num. Even though anesthetist injected medicine to make him anesthetized, it was interesting to see him keeping moving. However, doctors didn't seem surprised. They were saying that he was better than the other patient who was moving extremely violently.

Doctors who I worked with today were really nice and humorous. They welcomed me really warmly and explained thoroughly. The surgeon even asked me to come out of the operating room and showed me while he was scrubbing his hands. It was awesome to see scrubbing right in front of me which I only saw from TV shows or pictures. He explained step by step only for me. He even told me to come anytime! I was really happy and felt thankful! 

P.S. I also had a chance to talk about lasik surgery because I said that I would like to get that surgery to be away from glasses. The doctor explained so well that I now know what exactly that surgery is about. Basically, the doctor adjust the thickness of the lense to make sure that the reflection of the light will hit right on the choroid which is located in the back of the eye.

Watch this video for the further information

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VCszUm0Pu_c

Knee Arthroscopy

Knee Arthroscopy

Due to a lot of assignment and SAT, it took a while to post this one. The surgery that I saw on January 21 was about knee. This little girl had knee muscle problem which made her uncomfortable walk or run. In other words, her knee muscle was too loose that it was moving easily. The doctor was trying to pull two strands of muscle to tightly hold the muscle which was loose. Since the nurse told me before going into the O.R. that this surgery was with arthroscopy, I was expecting to see the machine. However, there was no any machine but passionate doctor. I asked him why this happened to this little girl and he said he didn't know. He said, "I don't know why this happened but I know what I'm doing and How to fix it." His line was so impressing. I will never forget what he said about being a surgeon. I learned that you don't have to know the reason for injuries but you just need to know how to fix it and make that person's life better. Thanks to doctors' thorough explanations about the surgery, I again enjoyed the day and learned a lot of things.

This is how the surgery goes with the use of arthroscopy.

Resection Colon (the second time)

After winter break, today was the first day to go back to this internship!
I felt so excited in the morning to get up and go to hospital.
The surgery I saw today was also about resection colon with tumor inside as I saw before leaving for winter break. Even though it was the same surgery, it was more awesome than before because I actually understood what was going on and what the surgeon was doing thanks to another doctor who were standing next to the surgeon to help out. He explained so deeply and with a lot of details that I felt extremely thankful.

They use a really special stapler which has two sides to staple and the blade is connected to this in the middle so that it can cut the bowel, fat or so on.

THE PROCESS TO REMOVE THE SECTION OF THE COLON (TUMOR INSIDE) AND TO CONNECT THEM AGAIN

The doctor told me that back then, they used to just connect two apart sections of the colon like the picture above. However, nowadays, they overlapped two separated parts and connect them so that the large intestine will be fine with other pressure, which was difficult back then.

The most awesome thing that happened to me today was that I got to cut the removed colon with gloves on and with scissors to see the tumor inside. The tumor looked like little pimples. Fortunately, his cancer stage was the beginning. I was so thankful for the surgeon who let me do that with another doctor's help beside me. It was so awesome and terrific to see the tumor right infront of my face and to cut the colon (large intenstine) with my hands!!!!!!!! The best day ever!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!