Day 1 at the Tohatchi clinic. Exciting times :) my first patient was a 16 year old boy with an ingrown toenail. hehe my preceptor was so excited at my first procedure. So i prepped the poor boy's toe, injected it full of lidocaine, used scissors to cut the toenail in half, grabbed and lifted the nail up with a clamp and YANKED it out! lol, i took off the medial half of this poor boy's big toe and boy did it smell! stinky toe. I told him so, and as you might expect, he thought it was funny that his toe stunk and that wanted to keep the nail i had yanked out as a souveneir. Boys....what can i say.
My second patient was a woman with medial epicondylitis and neurofibromatosis. she had this big ol' fibroma on her scalp that was bugging her, so I got to get more lidocaine, numb it up and use scissors to cut bluntly dissect it. it was like cutting a wart off someone's head. then we cauterized the site and sent her home. whoohoo. the rest of the day was much the same, lots of toes, lots of diabetes, and a gal with positional vertigo that we did an eppley manuever on. next week i get to go to a traditional navajo blessing ceremony for puberty. :D ¶ 22:07