Wednesday, March 21, 2007

This won't hurt at all...

The morning after a big night of drinking, which included everything from beer-pong to car-bombs, Aza & I were feeling...how do you say....like shit. Theoretically, the majority of hangover symptoms are simply due to dehydration, so, as young "doctors", we knew the solution: fluid replacement therapy!

We'd taken a bunch of needles, IV bags, etc. from the last blood-draw workshop, and wasted no time in using them.

I set up one in Aza first. We had to use a latex glove as a tourniquet (the 1 thing we forgot to jack):



A minimal amount of bleeding, and the line was secure:



I cleaned up the extra blood and Aza was feeling less hungover in no time (go placebo effect!):



Next, it was my turn. Aza did it like a pro:



But for some reason, the IV wouldn't drip:



Hmm, must have gone all the way thru the vein:



Aza put it in 1 more time, and nectar of the Gods began flowing perfectly. I cleaned up the extra blood, and felt great knowing I finally learned something useful in my 1st 2 years of med school: