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Hip injection!
Apr. 8th, 2016 10:53 pmSo after a crazy busy lab day (and some true pissiness from a coworker known for it), me and another coworker set off to Chillicothe so I can have this injection (and I'm grateful he's willing to do this). The temp drops like 15 degrees. It begins to spit snow. 0_o
So here's a hip.
See the bits that say 'acetabular foss?' That's where the medicine needs to go.
I have already looked up things because a) doctor, b) curious, c) I'm stupid that way. Here's the size of the needles (if you care to call them that)
Yeah. So anyhow, I get there and get checked in. I go back and I look at the girl who came to get me to go to X-ray. I'm like OMG I trained this girl in A&P. Head desk (common problem here). I get taken back and the older more experience tech walks me through it 'and after we'll take you for a "hip circuit" where they walk me around the hospital make me sit and stand a few times to work the meds around the joint. Great. I get shoved back out in the waiting room...
and she's gone when I get back so it's just my ex-student and the male tech who get me on the table and draped and for fun, naked from the waist down. whee.
So in comes the young doctor and he's explaining everything he's going to do with you know the trochanters and acetabular fossas and I said 'see my students always tell me they don't need this stuff.' Where do you teach? I tell them and they look at ex-student who is just standing there. "Yes, she's one of mine, I tell them and hope that I don't get that needle somewhere unmentionable.
We talk as he works. It gets numbed on the surface first, then the whole thing is a mix of steroids, anesthesia and contrast dye so he can put it in where it belongs. Oh and to do that they duct tape my feet together so it's like medicine or kinky? (actually it's to internally rotate the hip to open that fossa up). His friend's wife is attending my old med school.
He couldn't get it in at first because of the funky hip issues but eventually it started looking like this.
(the black is the dye. Not my hip btw just a teaching pic)
And then it was over. Not bad at all, just some pressure and he numbed me up more when I mentioned it. the ex-student has to wipe all the betadine off me (joy) and the male tech takes me out but his idea of hip circuit is 'see the exit over there? bye see you.'
Okay then. My ride and I went back to Jackson to Arch and Eddie's. I wanted to buy him dinner he said now. He was thrilled with the tasting block I got of beer (he doesn't drink but he is a chemist and thought it was fun). It was worth it. I got nowhere in particular’s Blind Man’s Bluff old ale fantastic, smokey, almost coffee like, not bitter at all, and Jackie O’s razz wheat very mild and fruit. Also on my 4 beer taster was Mad Tree’s Axis Mundi Russian Imperial Stout just a touch bitter but not bad at all and Bell’s Oberon pale wheat very pale, almost no beer taste, quite mild.
But now the anesthesia is wearing off. OUCH.
Sort of not sure what to do. I've taken my new computer to be looked at three times. They insist a) there's no virus (and removed the MacAfee that came with it) b) can't reproduce my results. I'm not sure how that's even possible. It's getting worse. Today it said 27 popups happened just with Rio's home page and wouldn't let me check the finals' schedule. I can't get McGraw-Hill to work. Literally every blog, web page from Google etc I open brings up some warning or spam. I said my Xbox app keeps crashing and was told no it doesn't, hell it's not even THERE any more and what parts are there do not work.
Yes I know friends who do IT. But I HATE asking because I hate feeling like I only ask when I have problems. I was given a walk through to restore the computer to the factory settings but I'm sort of afraid to do that on my own (it's only 3 months old) but I CAN'T just leave it like this. It's useless as anything other than a word processor and a place to check my email provided no one has sent me a link I need to see. Suggestion?
And to have something fun here: really cool upcycling garden ideas
So here's a hip.
See the bits that say 'acetabular foss?' That's where the medicine needs to go. I have already looked up things because a) doctor, b) curious, c) I'm stupid that way. Here's the size of the needles (if you care to call them that)
Yeah. So anyhow, I get there and get checked in. I go back and I look at the girl who came to get me to go to X-ray. I'm like OMG I trained this girl in A&P. Head desk (common problem here). I get taken back and the older more experience tech walks me through it 'and after we'll take you for a "hip circuit" where they walk me around the hospital make me sit and stand a few times to work the meds around the joint. Great. I get shoved back out in the waiting room...
and she's gone when I get back so it's just my ex-student and the male tech who get me on the table and draped and for fun, naked from the waist down. whee.
So in comes the young doctor and he's explaining everything he's going to do with you know the trochanters and acetabular fossas and I said 'see my students always tell me they don't need this stuff.' Where do you teach? I tell them and they look at ex-student who is just standing there. "Yes, she's one of mine, I tell them and hope that I don't get that needle somewhere unmentionable.
We talk as he works. It gets numbed on the surface first, then the whole thing is a mix of steroids, anesthesia and contrast dye so he can put it in where it belongs. Oh and to do that they duct tape my feet together so it's like medicine or kinky? (actually it's to internally rotate the hip to open that fossa up). His friend's wife is attending my old med school.
He couldn't get it in at first because of the funky hip issues but eventually it started looking like this.
(the black is the dye. Not my hip btw just a teaching pic)And then it was over. Not bad at all, just some pressure and he numbed me up more when I mentioned it. the ex-student has to wipe all the betadine off me (joy) and the male tech takes me out but his idea of hip circuit is 'see the exit over there? bye see you.'
Okay then. My ride and I went back to Jackson to Arch and Eddie's. I wanted to buy him dinner he said now. He was thrilled with the tasting block I got of beer (he doesn't drink but he is a chemist and thought it was fun). It was worth it. I got nowhere in particular’s Blind Man’s Bluff old ale fantastic, smokey, almost coffee like, not bitter at all, and Jackie O’s razz wheat very mild and fruit. Also on my 4 beer taster was Mad Tree’s Axis Mundi Russian Imperial Stout just a touch bitter but not bad at all and Bell’s Oberon pale wheat very pale, almost no beer taste, quite mild.
But now the anesthesia is wearing off. OUCH.
Sort of not sure what to do. I've taken my new computer to be looked at three times. They insist a) there's no virus (and removed the MacAfee that came with it) b) can't reproduce my results. I'm not sure how that's even possible. It's getting worse. Today it said 27 popups happened just with Rio's home page and wouldn't let me check the finals' schedule. I can't get McGraw-Hill to work. Literally every blog, web page from Google etc I open brings up some warning or spam. I said my Xbox app keeps crashing and was told no it doesn't, hell it's not even THERE any more and what parts are there do not work.
Yes I know friends who do IT. But I HATE asking because I hate feeling like I only ask when I have problems. I was given a walk through to restore the computer to the factory settings but I'm sort of afraid to do that on my own (it's only 3 months old) but I CAN'T just leave it like this. It's useless as anything other than a word processor and a place to check my email provided no one has sent me a link I need to see. Suggestion?
And to have something fun here: really cool upcycling garden ideas
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