isn’t he cuuuuuuuuute i held him for a bit. he made my finger kinda itchy a little bit but he was cute
also i dilated a patient for the first time today, the conversation went like this:
me: hey this patient needs a dilated fundus exam, as requested by her general practitioner
doctor: cool. get her started for me will ya? (hands me the tropicamide)
me: uh. uh well uhm, the uh- the- the uhm- hmm, well uh—
doctor: one drop in each eye.
me: OKCOOLGOTITWILLDO
i felt so bad doing it LMFAO tropicamide is the solution used for dilation (of the eyes, not of the cervix. i had a lengthy conversation with my mother once on if you could use it to dilate your cervix for childbirth. her answer was a resounding No). it’s a topical nerve blocker, it blocks the nerves that cause the pupil to dilate and constrict. it has a high Ph, so it kinda stings a little bit (if you’ve never gotten your eyes dilated before, you wore glasses so i’m assuming you have at least once or twice), and i felt SO bad administering it LMFAO. i would be an awful medical nurse, i would be crying giving people shots
i also asked my doctor to anesthesize my eye and stick a foreign object into it for fun (goldmann applanation tonometry, it’s the like. manual way to take your ocular pressures. you know when you would get air shot into your eye at the eye doctor? it’s that but the Better way to do it). i think i’m gonna have him do it tomorrow before lunch, i’ll update you then
anyways that’s it, today wasn’t real, i’m gonna go take a shower and go to sleep now BYE
~emma-elayne