You know you're a procedure junkie when the best part of your afternoon appears in the form of a patient with a mass on the dorsal surface of her foot roughly the size and consistency of a miniature water balloon...it's a giant cyst! And after aspirating a small amount of clear fluid, you start breaking up the septations of the cyst with a #15 blade. It's so unbelievably satisfying to push down on the cyst and get a gush of fluid with the viscosity of egg whites oozing out. The patient got so excited, she started applying pressure to the area with a bit of sterile gauze, just to watch it ooze. Overall we coaxed about 10 cc of fluid out of the cyst, which is quite abundant.
On an entirely unrelated note: my Hipstamatic iPhone app churns out groovy pictures with oversaturated colors and dreamy ethereal lighting effects. It makes my first pair of fingerless gloves--which I just finished knitting
seconds ago!-- look less raggedy (I have such a hard time getting the thumb properly attached to the rest of the hand) and more artistic:
2 comments:
Those gloves are sweet!! Looks like lace on the wrist too...fancy!! It has taken me 4 yrs to learn to cable.
Keep up the great procedures...with scalpel or knitting needle...
i agree. very impressive crafting. although it seems like gloves with actual fingers might be more weather appropriate where you are, no?
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