So much of my work this week was on my paper since Dr. Chua was in the OR most of the week. I did work with him on Wednesday which was fun. He is now having me read the scans before him and tell him what I see. Thankfully we didn't have as many patients with herniated disks (it gets old after awhile), we had a woman with a tethered spinal cord. Your spinal cord should descend from your brain stem and nerve endings should filter down your spine, but it isn't connected to the bottom it just hangs. Hers because of a birth defect was fused, this can cause kidney and bladder problems, and although there is a surgery that can fix it it is so risky (because of the specific complication she had as a baby) that no doctor specialises in that surgery.
Wednesday we also got to have cake because Dr. Chua and I both had birthdays on Friday. April 30th is clearly a good day to be born =).
Next week should be very interesting (for me at least) because he is in the office every day except Tuesday. He says my suture knots are looking really good and my speed with them is picking up, although my suturing itself needs improvement. He looked over the parts of my PowerPoint that talk about my time with him to check my work and said he was very impressed. If any BASIS kids want to work with a a neurosurgeon in the coming years I highly recommend him, not only is he a great teacher but he really likes BASIS now.
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