Text 5 Mar 196 notes First Breath

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The patient was going to have a C-section.

“Let’s go see the patients together,” said the nurse. I followed, coming to the realization that it was a two-patient case; for now, we could only speak to one.

I had spent very little time in surgery beforehand. Initially, the trouble was not about knowing how to scrub - this was further down the list. Rather, the initially worry was finding my way to what I needed to do. I scurried down halls, asked directions, and walked through the same halls again.

This morning, barely past seven, I worried about keeping pace. The nursing station was gathering a crowd as nurses and doctors checked in with the morning schedule. We walked into the holding area and found an obvious match: the only patient there with a round belly, anxious but excited.

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Beautiful story and beautifully written. 

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    This is beautiful.
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    This makes me even more excited to become a nurse (‘:
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    Wow.
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    Beautiful.
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    -this is why my favorite cases to scrub are C-sections.
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    Beautiful anecdote.

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