So today I got to assist in a Flex-Sig. This is a procedure that involves a long, snake-like camera that goes up the rectum and "snakes" along the colon with a little camera so you can see the sigmoid colon. It's pretty fascinating. The patient has to "prepare" his colon by doing some serious cleansing. When we get in there with the camera, the colon is all pink and in a perfect state for the doctor to see any polyps on the colon wall. This patient today had a polyp. The medical student was shoving the scope up the patient's rectum. The doctor was steering the camera lens. The doctor had me take the wire that goes through the camera that has teeth on it. He had me open the little clamps and snap them shut and grab tissue from the polyp. I did it. I stood there silently jumping up and down inside myself at how successful I was. So that probably answers the question of the day...What made today unusual? I think that snatching a tiny biopsy of a polyp would make my day unusual.
The bummer about performing a Flex-Sig is the clean up afterward. Last time I cleaned up from a Flex-Sig, I accidentally let the snake-like camera swing across the back of my scrub pants. Since I know EXACTLY where that camera has been, I changed my scrub pants. Thank goodness we have extra scrubs at my clinic or I would be wearing my slimed scrub pants all day. Nasty.
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