The Singing Anesthetist
We (the Hopewell youth group) have commenced practice with the Porter Mennonite Church youth group. Practice on what? Our October 5th Sunday program. A couple new songs, nothing incredibly difficult. I was about 50 minutes late to practice on Saturday evening, partly due to the football traffic that impeded my progress away from the vet school after work. I'm still glad I went because I got to talk to my old friend RD -- an accomplished pianist and composer, who is into dairy goats and physics. She actually seemed to really want to know about my research projects! It'll be good to have her in Oregon this year.
Sunday I visited my friend RS, who may be leaving for Mexico tomorrow with her brother PS. Her departure will leave me the oldest in the youth girls' SS class.
Today I was anesthetist during surgery lab. When I first got the dog hooked up to the ECG (electrocardiogram), he had a cardiac arrhythmia and his heart beat dropped on frequent occasion to the 50's. The low rate worried me somewhat... but Dr. Riebold (the vet school's veteran anesthesiologist) talked me through the arrhythmia and left me feeling much better about it. The heart beats, though at irregular intervals, still originated in the SA node (the normal place for electrical conduction to start in the heart; based on that origin the arrhythmia is called a sinus arrhythmia). Sinus arrhythmias are actually normal in dogs, so while I still didn't like the heart rate dropping so low, my concern was eased somewhat. Eventually the dog snapped out of the arrhythmia, and my job was pretty much smooth sailing from there on.
Sunday I visited my friend RS, who may be leaving for Mexico tomorrow with her brother PS. Her departure will leave me the oldest in the youth girls' SS class.
Today I was anesthetist during surgery lab. When I first got the dog hooked up to the ECG (electrocardiogram), he had a cardiac arrhythmia and his heart beat dropped on frequent occasion to the 50's. The low rate worried me somewhat... but Dr. Riebold (the vet school's veteran anesthesiologist) talked me through the arrhythmia and left me feeling much better about it. The heart beats, though at irregular intervals, still originated in the SA node (the normal place for electrical conduction to start in the heart; based on that origin the arrhythmia is called a sinus arrhythmia). Sinus arrhythmias are actually normal in dogs, so while I still didn't like the heart rate dropping so low, my concern was eased somewhat. Eventually the dog snapped out of the arrhythmia, and my job was pretty much smooth sailing from there on.
posted by Claire at 20:18
2 Comments:
Does it feel strange to be the oldest in the youth class? I would imagine so.
It occurs to me that there are very few youth guys at Hopewell who are older than me. Let's see...there's RB and MW...is that it? NS is hardly there anymore, AW left, and I can't think of any more.
I assume that the other youth girls who are older than you are either gone or teaching another class. Are RS, ET, and LT the only ones left?
It's a strange thought, being the oldest in the youth class (well, come to think of it, we have a long-term Australian visitor who is older than I, so I guess I'm not really the oldest).
I think RS, ET, and LT are the only older member attendees left. RS may be departed by now, ET is teaching the primary class, and LT is on the other other side of the country.
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