If surgeons don’t communicate with their team during surgery, things can go horribly wrong. Or the team will start to question what they’re doing & that can make the patient even more uncomfortable. & sometimes there’s someone in there notating the surgery.
My wife still talks about something she overheard in the delivery room when our first child was born, and honestly, it's a good reminder that doctors should maybe remember their patients are awake.
She had to have an emergency C-section. Everything was moving fast, but she was conscious the whole time. The anesthesia had her numb from the chest down, but her hearing was crystal clear.
At one point, she heard one of the surgeons say to the resident: "Alright, I'm gonna pull the bladder forward so we can get a clean view of the lower segment."
My wife's eyes went wide. She looked at me and whispered, "Did he just say he's moving my bladder?"
I had no idea what to say. I just squeezed her hand and said, "Let's just… not think about it."
To this day, she says she didn't need to know that. She's not squeamish, she's a tough woman, but there's a difference between "aware of the process" and "hearing your organs discussed like furniture being rearranged."
The surgery went perfectly, Our daughter was healthy, But my wife jokes that she could have lived her whole life without knowing her bladder was "relocated" like a couch during spring cleaning.
I get that doctors do this every day and it's completely routine to them. But maybe a little situational awareness wouldn't hurt. The patient is right there, wide awake, and probably doesn't need the play by play narration of their internal anatomy getting shuffled around.
Medical professionals are heroes. But a little bedside manner goes a long way when someone's lying on a table trying not to imagine what's happening below the curtain.
i’ll probably get jumped for this but i think the people who hop on a parents’ post about the loss of their child and scream that they need a trigger warning are so selfish. making someone else’s loss about you is ugly. learn to scroll.
@mosgx2 This is how I feel with Evelyn & Sawyer 🥹 Evie is such a good big sister to Sawyer. & Junior is honestly an incredible big brother, too. Ev fell asleep on the couch last night & Sawyer was mad she was alone so Junior went & slept in her room with her 🥹🫶
@squidkquid Honestly I don’t blame you. My mom didn’t date at all after she divorced my dad because she didn’t want temporary people in my life or put me at risk of being hurt by anyone
I was taking trazodone but it broke me out in to ✨hives✨ & I can’t discuss a new sleep med with my psych until my next appt July 17th!!!! & I can’t smoke weed because we’re doing adhd testing!!! Yay!!!
Absolutely NOT expecting anything, but if anyone wanted to help contribute to new things for our new HOUSE (upgrading out of a trailer 😭🙏🏼) it would be so kind 🤍
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