Late night

There is an adventure at every turn.
We had a difficult thyroid, neck dissection, 6 hours that we started at 6 pm and needed a tracheotomy at the end. I had good help with Dr. Salas and Dr. Morin. It's really interesting to operate w/ another surgeon, especially from another country. We ended up putting in a tracheotomy and Dean rigged up an oxygen system in the ICU. The nurses there looked worried that we weren't all staying the night. By 2 am we were out by the ER entrance looking for a taxi to get home and the ER nurse saw us, so called the Ambulancia to take us home for free. It's only a few minutes away. Dr. Morin has been doing all kinds of interesting ditzels, scar revisions, etc. and we are both working with the med students who are enthusiastic and very interested in everything.
We have more to do today once again than we can possibly do, so I'm going to offer some to Dr. Salas. Dr. Morin offered to open, take a look and decide it's inoperable, then close and give the bad news to the family.
The cleft child from last year showed up hoping to get her palate done and looked as good as I could ever have dreamed (considering I spent the last year worrying that her lip got infected, fell apart or healed badly).
Dean is the best anestetist you could want and Connie and Sue are the best scrubs I could have. Lionell is teaching me instrument names in Spanish. We are all healthy, but tired.
Everyone is working their heads off. NN