TheBanyanTree: A happy coincidence

[Sally Larwood]

What a day Janice.  Our daughter used to be a theatre nurse and caesars were
her favourite because it almost always ended with a lovely result - a baby
she could cuddle for a few minutes.  Sounds as though your surgeon and your
theatre staff are top notch.  Are you at Darwin Hospital?  A cousin's
daughter is due to have her baby there.

Sal 

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"When you live your life with an appreciation of coincidences and their 
meanings, you connect with the underlying field of infinite possibilities."
Deepak Chopra

As I was reading your story I thought of the high level of dedication 
you all have for the life-altering jobs you each perform so 
professionally, Janice. Because of that, when a person enters your 
theatre, a host of possibilities automatically arise. Quality of life, 
extension of life and saving of life - all fall under the umbrella of 
your care. A tangible miracle took place, is how I think of what 
happened for you. Does life get any better than that?

Wow.

What a wonderfully affirming experience for you.

PJMoney wrote:
> After leaving home at the usual time on Thursday morning I somehow managed
> to get to work ten minutes early.  Considering that work is only a ten to
> fifteen minute drive away, and I don't speed, that's some accomplishment.
> 
> I imagined I would have some waiting to do but when I walked into the
> theatre the first patient was already on the table being prepped for her
> spinal anaesthetic.    
> 
> "You're early," I remarked to the anaesthetist.  As he worked he explained
> that another caesar had been put on the list, an emergency case, and we
had
> to get this one done and out of the way because there was no spare
theatre.
> So off I went to do the first part of my job; scrub, glove, catheterise
and
> paint the site.
> 
> The surgeon arrived while I was re-scrubbing for the actual operating
> assistant part of my job.  I could see he was undecided as to whether to
> proceed with the first case or to bump it down the list and do the
emergency
> one first.  What swayed him was the fact that the woman on the table was
> already anaesthetised and ready to go.  
> 
> A caesarian section usually takes an hour.  That's from the time the
patient
> arrives in theatre to the time the theatre is mopped and ready for the
next
> case.  We got that first case done in about 45 minutes.  Never before have
I
> seen such a fast clean up and set up done.
> 
> Then the emergency case was rolled in; a woman with pre-eclampsia at 36
> weeks gestation and with the foetal heart monitor showing signs of severe
> foetal distress.  She'd been catheterised in the ward and, rather than
> mucking about with a spinal, the anaesthetist gave her a general
> anaesthetic, so we saved time on both those counts.  
> 
> The mother's uterus turned out to be full of blood.  She'd had an
abruption
> - separation of the placenta from the uterine wall.  The baby came out
blue
> and floppy but under the ministrations of the paediatrician he pinked up
> nicely.  It was a save.  Ten more minutes, said the surgeon, and the baby
> would have died.
> 
> I helped to save a life.  That feels good.  But thinking about those ten
> minutes makes me wonder if someone was praying for that mother and baby.
Or
> maybe it was just a happy coincidence.
> 
> Janice
>  
> 
>