So, here we are at the end of week one...I have been on call one evening, called in at 2130 for a swallowed apricot stone, otherwise not too bad. Did a "ceesar" (c-section...hadn't done one in ten years...used 0.5% "heavy" bupivicaine versus 0.75%) on my first day, another later in the week...went amazingly well. Also did a full day of ortho on friday, hip, knee and a three level decompression lum lam on a very nice Kiwi 80 year old woman who didn't wake up for two and a half hours after a three hour desflurane sleep. I was worried. We are in our house at 47 B James Street, moved in on Thursday afternoon, my post call day off. Getting settled in, figuring out what we need, and how things work. Bought a George Foreman
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