Flagstaff

This morning I got a chance to go into the OR at the hospital and shaddow on 4 procedures. I have never been in an OR before and was pretty nervous about how I would handle it. Im not the best with blood or bodily fluids so I was kind of worried about puking or passing out. The rest of the pharmacy staff was joking with me about hearing a Code Blue (collapsed patient) call coming from the OR today. I got to sit in on an endoscopy, colonoscopy, lap coly (laproscopic gall bladder removal) and a wound debridement on a severe abscess. Except for a few bouts of light headedness and almost puking watching them irrigate the abscess and having blood and gunk fly everywhere I did ok.

Since I went in early I was able to get out early and head down to Flagstaff. The time shift from the Reservation(follows daylight savings time) and Arizona (doesnt follow daylight savings time, currently on the equivalent of Pacific time until next weekend) gave me an extra hour to spend along the way. I stopped at this Meteor Crater about an hour outside of Flagstaff. This is the place is huge (about 2.5 miles around and 500 feet deep) and was pretty cool to see. The Apollo astronauts used to train in the bottom because it was the closest place to the moon on earth. It was only fitting that there was a meteor crater in a place that looks like a scene from a si-fi move, this place was really out of this world.

Tonight I am spending the night in Flagstaff before heading to the Grand Canyon tomorrow morning. Flag seems like a pretty cool city, almost like a Burlington at 7000 feet above sea level. It is a pretty nice college town whit a lot of crunchy hippies and outdoors lovers. I went to a pub in the old town and it was just like being on church street in Burlington. There was a blend of college kids, visiting parents, and people who clearly had been out hiking all day. The one thing was that different was the climate. When I showed up around 5 (Arizona time) the weather was around 70 degrees under blue skies. Even around 9 the temperature is in the 50s but not too cold. Im really looking forward to tomorrow, and am planning to come back to Flag after I am done rather than heading to Lake Powell like I originally planned. I am suffering from some travel fatigue and am even considering cutting my trip home a little short.

Thats all for now
-O