Unanswered Prayers!

So as Amy said, yesterday sucked...had a patient miserable with neck and arm pain.  Planned to do neck surgery, but only problem was no x-ray capability in operating room, so I had to do my best clinical guess at which one was the right level.  Prayed and prayed to be at the right level...post-op x-rays showed that I was not at the right level.  Felt very bad..worried and fretted about it all day/night.  Thought of 20 different ways to try to remedy the situation overnight, as did the local orthopaedic surgeon.  But, alas apparently my prayers for operating on the right level were heard, as she has no pain and her arm feels better. I guess what thought needed to be the right level was not the level that needed to be done to take her pain away, I hope.

Fixed a 7 year old child with a broken pelvis this morning and went good, hadn't done one of those since residency.  The variety of surgery is amazing.  You do see things that you've only ever seen in books here.  It is not just a cliche', crazy stuff. 

Getting better at my Pigeon English, which is the local tongue. Here are a couple that caught my attention.

He be a choke.  (he needs a shot)
You use da sticks to dohn be go house.  ( get up on crutches and go home)
Wok fa strait nah pa.  (stand up and walk straight old man you are better)

Just a few, but interesting as you start to follow along. Da hot  (where is the pain) is a big one.  Where is da hot??

A few pics to follow.  Big scoliosis tomorrow, hope it goes well.

How I found Toby sleeping this morning.

Took a cyst off of a wrist yesterday, found a rooster talon as I was removing it.
Story goes, local witch Dr tried to "heal it" with traditional medicine.
Stuck it with a rooster talon and it got lost..

Later,  BI