After my last midnight shift for the week tonight, it'll have been a 72 hour week. I've enjoyed just about every minute of it. I've been suturing a lot more without supervision, and have done excellent work. One was an elderly woman who had fallen in her group home ... her hair was filthy, and she had bad odor. She had fractured her hip in the fall, and lacerated her eyebrow. It looked worse before it was cleaned up, but it was still in need of stitches. I evaluated the cut and saw that 3 stitches would be adequate, for this almost 90 year old woman who probably had few visitors and little to no chance at romance in her remaining days.
So I put in 5. She will heal without a mark.
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