Personal Narrative: Anaesthesia

“You are in a hospital. You were found in a meadow near the stream off the fire road. If you have any information on why you were there and what happened that would be extremely useful, but if you are feeling at all dizzy or unwell you can wait till later. ”

Day four of clinicals was really long. The first patient was scheduled from 8 until 1, he was getting fitted for 4 crowns and an implant crown. When the patient came in he had a horrible odor and looked like he hasn’t taken care of himself in months. I seated him down and the dental assistant just glanced at his teeth and looked at me strangely and whispered come here and look. I look in this old man’s mouth and saw nothing but a brown layer of plaque and calculus build up and it disgusted me. How could someone not take care of their selves? Anyways, we ended up sending him to the hygienist's room next to us and they cleaned his teeth extra good. He came back into the room and Dr. Williams came in and quickly did a check up on his teeth and

“Hello. I will need you to fill out these papers and turn them in and the doctor will be ready in a minute.” The receptionist said. My mom, dad, and I sat down in the quiet waiting room as my mom filled out the papers I began to fell more

“I don't know anything about where I’m at, who you are, where you’re taking me, where my family is, or if they’re okay,” I said shyly.

“Medics here, who needs help?” he questioned. It’s almost like Sasha never heard me tell him I was fine.

“It’s not that bad. And you’re not that good with creepy and scary stuff are you?” Farren pushed a door open to see a old patient's room.

“No need to get all ‘cop to the rescue’ here. I just got lost. Isn’t that right Miss…” he said looking at Dr. Flanagan in reminder of what they talked about.

Since the beginning of September I have been an Anesthesia Technologist in the OR at Stony Brook Medical Center. I am currently in my first rotation at the ambulatory surgical center, but I will soon return to the main OR for my spine, cardiac, ortho, Peds, ob/GYN rotations. My job as an intern is to assist the anesthesia team with setting up the anesthesia machines, checking and/or troubleshooting the machines prior to each case, setting up IVs, and helping with inbutation and extubation among other things. I am in the OR from around 6 AM until 2:30 PM. When I am not in the OR I work as a home health aide for my great grandmother. My goal is to help restore so motility in her hips since she is recovering from hip surgery after falling while

My first week went really well! I was definately both nervous and excited on the first day. I was nervous because I wasn't sure how the clinic would run and I quickly learned that it is a very fast paced clinic. My CI sees patients every 15 minutes and he is both the only PT there and the owner of the clinic. I have been learning a lot about PT treatments as well as the buisness side of the PT clinic. He has a lot of PT aides that help with exercises and setting patients up with ice and stim ect. The fast paced clinic was definately something I had to get used to. I was a little overwhelmed when we would just start with a patient and a new patient would walk in the door. However, there is a very good flow in the clinic and everyone is always

"Oh I was worried sick, where on earth were you?" Vince asks rushing into the room a frightened Gia in his arm. Benny soon came in after that and pulled me into a bone crushing hug asking me a million questions.

I just went in for a cleaning, all I wanted was for my dentist to check for any cavities and tell me everything was in perfect condition. I don’t understand how I managed to wake up in the middle of a siege. The last thing I remember was Dr. Goldstein saying to me “Well Andre, it looks like you have a few cavities, I’m going to use some anaesthesia, just in case you don't respond to the pain medication again. Is that alright?” I did feel unsure about his decision, I couldn't understand why I would need anaesthesia during a cleaning, but I let him do his job. Dizziness soon followed, before I woke up in a gloomy room with the door barricaded. The only light in the room was coming from a TV showing the news. As I got off the dental chair, I asked Mr Goldstein “What happened here? Why is the door barricaded with furniture?”

"I’d have been here sooner, but I was waiting for a guy to get back to me," Jay said taking a seat next to Rhonda. "Miss me?"

Today in clinical, I offered a male patient to perform a full bed bath. It was my first time performing a full bed bath on a male and the thought of this made me feel a little nervous because I had only practiced this task in the simulation lab and the thought of performing peri-care on the male gender was intimidating. I began to gather my items and throughly think about how I would normally perform a bed bath on a female and the difference of genital areas. As I brought the items into the room, my patient was friendly and helpful in directing his preferences of which areas he wanted to be washed first. His friendly personality made me calm down in a situation where I would normally be on my toes, as I was not thinking about my

"Miss, you cannot go in there." The receptionist stops me. Her hand flies up, freshly manicured, and pushes against my chest. My heart sinks. I can see him trembling as the stretcher disappears from my view, Tommy had another episode.

“Okay. So, can I go talk to her?” Mitch asked with confusion on his face. Finally, after a long and disturbed conversation with the two. A CDC worker took Mitch to a disclosed location in the hospital for quarantine. Puzzling over the events that just happened, Dr. Erin Mears comes in the air tight room to ask a few questions about the case of his wife and son.