EnaMan and the Cooch Delivery!

It's amazing how much can happen within twenty-four hours...

My dad and his volleyball team were celebrating their state victory by getting my dad a tattoo (he told them he would get one if they place at state) and going to a River Otters (minor league hockey) game. It ends up that it was colon cancer awareness night at the game and there was a guy dressed up as a six foot enema, and they passed out a stuff character named "EnaMan", as shown in picture above. I came home from working the night shift and was like "what the crap (tee-hee-hee) is this?" How horrible... EnaMan; protecting the world from his colon-congesting nemesis, the Constipator. Honestly, who thought this would be a good idea?

And for the next part, I will be talking about something really gross, so if you can't stomach blood and guts, I don't recommend reading the rest-seriously. I got to see both a vaginal and a c-section delivery last night. It was amazing. First I saw the vaginal birth. It was a young girl, and she did such an amazing job. They need me to hold one of her leg up while she pushed, so I was right there. It was gross, it was amazing, it was freakin' awesome. But after she had the baby boy, I almost passed out, not from the grossness of it but because it was so hot in there and I think I locked my knees and kinda stopped breathing while she was pushing. So I had to sit down and then have someone walk me outta the room, which was kinda embarrassing. My guy buddy came rushing out of the room, picked me up and asked me if I was going to die and if I was okay. Once he realized I was fine, he teased me mercilessly the rest of the night. I'm never going to live it down. Then we got to see a c-section, which was even more awesome. Here's the gross stuff; they cut a slit in her stomach and then rip it open. And when I say rip I mean they grab the sides, put their back into it and pull. It was unreal; surgery stuff is crazy to watch. Then one nurse had a glove on that came up to her shoulder and went through the woman's vagina while two doctors pulled on the baby from the cut they made. It was so cool! They let me help out with some stuff; I got to do the arterial blood gas of the ambilical cord and help unhook stuff. I was on cloud nine! As of today, I think I want to be a Labor and Delivery Nurse Practitioner. But that could change by next week when I see something else real cool. And of course, I had another dream about having a baby; it seems to happen everytime I have L&D clinical. Oh, yeah, as for the "cooch delivery"; I was talking to one of the women I work with (who is kinda ghetto, and freakin' hilarious cuz she doesn't have the greatest vocab.) about what I got to see. She said, "yeah, I got to see my niece's delivery by cooch last week..." I died laughing! Cooch delivery; is that the technical term?