Assigned to scrub on scope cases with a rather particular surgeon. I don't mind him when I'm circulating since I know I'm pretty good at that side of my job. But I'm not the scrub I once was, can't focus my eyes properly, and my solid years of experience were in general surgery, orthopedics is more recently learned - and less ingrained - so fading more quickly. And the less I scrub, the less I can keep up with changes, and remembering preferences. It's better if I take over a case underway to relieve a scrub for lunch or if they leave at 3. Far less if I have to set it up.
Today, I checked my supplies and set up my room, but there was a cancellation and a game of musical ORs. I wound up with a far less helpful circulator, and forgot a few items. The scrub in the same surgeon's other room helped me as best she could, but I was on my own. First two went well, a simple knee scope and an open clavicle fracture - well within my range.
The last one I knew was going to cause trouble. I suggested other scrub take over, and I could do the hand case that was floating into her room. She left, saying I needed the practice, but came back in and did scrub me out. In the middle of the handover, Surgeon asking for stuff I only know from the other side of the table, making me very, very glad to be relieved. The scaphoid fracture repair went quite well, with a much nicer, and more helpful RN.
My room finished last, barely. This is the first time in longer than any of us can remember when all the rooms were done before 4. I asked P if she could remember when.
"1974!" She said, with great gusto and conviction. I had to agree it felt like that.
Better Boy tomatoes. That's the plan. Lettuce, peas, tomatoes. Cosmos, sunflowers, long grasses, marigolds and geraniums. At least one cayenne plant. Maybe herbs, depending on what is available.
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Flat leaf parsley doesn't mind salty soil too much. Don't know why that is, but it will grow there. Might be better to start with half-grown plants than with seeds, but it would be worth a try, I think. They also do well in pots.
House the Home will be ever so grateful that someone is trying to save its yard. Best wishes for a magnificent garden this year.
It is certainly a sign of experience when one knows when one is getting into a situation where getting out of it is likely best. This is a lesson I still need to learn.
You're way ahead of me in terms of the planned planting. The only thing I have in mind at the moment is parsnips. For the first time in three years, I failed to plant garlic in the fall, so I won't have any of that this year.
Crow,
The parsley I have struggled, until winter when it did so much better. It may come back in the spring.
Phil,
Experience, and the lack of shyness in surgeons to correct errors.
look forward to seeing next Summer's garden...a place to unwind after work as well, with Moby's good company.
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