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Name: Kerri
Country: United States
State: Pennsylvania
Metro: Hershey
Birthday: 1/11/1980
Gender: Female
Interests: running, reading, being outdoors, baking cookies, savoring the Savior, telling stories, catching up with long-lost friends, watching thoughtful movies, traveling...
Expertise: Delivering Babies
Occupation: Resident
Industry: Medical
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Member Since:
1/9/2003
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| Hello all! Can't believe it's been ages and ages since I've blogged. I used to be so faithful when I was a medical student; and then residency hit... not to mention wedding plans, being a newlywed, etc. Can you believe, I now cook real dinners? I'm more of a baker than a cook, so this whole dinner thing was kinda intimidating at first. I mostly lived off Lean Cuisine, mac & cheese, sandwiches, cereal and oatmeal before getting married. Thank goodness my mom bought me a subscription to Light Cooking just before our wedding! It's been a wealth of good recipes which are also healthy. Definitely a great wedding gift if you're out of ideas for a friend. David and I are doing great. Just got back from a week of vacation -- spent a few days at the cabin, a couple days doing stuff at home, and the rest with family and friends in our home area. It was great to be back in the mountains. We even awoke to snow last Wednesday morning! Just a light coating, and we were thankful that it melted before we left for home that afternoon. The fall leaves were beautiful too. We visited State College one night -- but no ice cream at the Creamery; it was way too cold for that! It got me thinking... perhaps we should have a cabin reunion for the UCF crew next fall. Maybe October sometime? Of course, some of our crew is or will be out in the "real world" by that time! Hard to believe that we might actually finish school and training at some point in our lives. Well, we bought a new sofa last week. It should be delivered in the next week or so. I will try to post some pictures once we have it in place and the room rearranged! Can't wait to finally have both of us relaxing on the sofa at the same time (we got an L-shaped one). Hope you're all doing well! | | |
| It was a busy day today in Labor & Delivery. I had three patients in the L&D rooms. One was 8 cm dilated, one was 5 cm dilated and the other was being treated for preterm labor. Things were going smoothly until I began getting one phone call after another from patients who had various complaints. It seemed that there were a few too many for whom my response was, "Well, why don't you come in to labor & delivery for evaluation." The next thing I knew there were six patients trickling into in the L&D assessment centers awaiting evaluation. Two for rule-out labor, one for decreased fetal movement, two for pelvic pain complaints, one for possible preterm labor...
So I saw one of the pelvic pain patients while my student saw the preterm labor lady. Just as we wrapped up our info and called the attending to present those two patients, I noticed a tell-tale fetal heart rate strip from the lady who had been 8 cm dilated. I told my student that I'd be right back, but I needed to go see what was going on with that baby. So I checked her cervix, and sure enough, she was completely dilated and ready to push out a baby. So we gowned and gloved, paged the attending and got set up for a delivery. She delivered a beautiful baby boy without incident. We wrapped up all of the paperwork and headed back to the assessment centers.
I sent my student to see another one of the patients while I presented the first two to my attending and wrote their discharge instructions. Just after I finished, I heard a desperate yell across the hall, "We need HELP in here!!" I sprinted across the hall to the other assessment center, where two of my patients were awaiting evaluation.
Apparently one of my patients decided she needed to use the restroom, so she walked into the bathroom, locked the door and sat on the toilet. A minute or two later she realized that there was a HEAD down there. She started yelling for help, and as the nurse got to the door, she realized that the door was locked. The patient was sitting on the toilet, unable to reach the lock! So the nurse found a nickel (from the patient's sister) and managed to jimmy the door open. She looked down, and sure enough, a small bit of a baby's head was headed toward the toilet bowl! That's when the yelling ensued and I came running.
I pulled on some gloves as fast as I possibly could, got ahold of the baby's head and then delivered the shoulders and body, barely missing the water in the toilet! I told the patient to sit back down and looked back as the nurses were frantically racing around getting towels, clamps, and a bulb suction. There were four of us crammed into the tiny bathroom stall: the attending, the nurse, myself, and the patient. Well, five if you count the baby.  We warmed the baby, clamped the cord, cut it, and handed him off to some of the other nurses. Once we confirmed that the poor patient was still OK after her crazy ordeal, we walked her over to a wheelchair and took her to a delivery room so that we could deliver the placenta and repair her tear.
She named him Isaiah. I still think John would be more appropriate.  We told her sister to keep the nickel to put in the baby book!
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| I actually had the new experience of delivering a baby for an old friend. Becca and I grew up together... and now I'm her surgeon! Baby Dustin was born via cesarean section on Thursday, May 24th at 11 minutes after midnight. He weighed 7 lbs 4 oz and was 19 1/2 inches long. Congrats to her! He is the sweetest baby ever.
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