Protective style challenge: Cycle 1 results + anesthesia first 2 days

First of all, I should say that these two days of anesthesia have been good. Besides the fact that I'm always getting lost and sometimes just don't know what to do, I've found the experience thus far, much better than the first two years. The anesthesiology team is super nice. Actually, just about everyone I have come in contact with has been really nice, have helped me out, or had encouraging words. My first case was a robotic total robotic hysterectomy with bilateral salpingo-oophorectomy with a laparoscopic sacral colpopexy etc etc, some other stuff. When I saw that, I really felt like I was reading a foreign language. In simple english, the woman was having her ovaries, tubes, and cervix taken out and then having her falling vagina lifted back up. The robot part refers to this huge machine with several arms through which the doc operates without touching the patient. It's kind of like a video game. Cool stuff. What else.....ummm...oh yeah. I locked the keys to my lock in the locker. Just as I locked the locker, I realized the stupid thing I had just done. Yeah....not cool. Thank God (who has continually been looking out for me during these few days), the part upon which the lock sat just happened to be loose and the nurse was able to save me.....Got pimped about the lumbar plexus today. Very random question to which I had no answer for. It's very funny how you try to make up stuff to say when you're asked random questions on spot. smh......I've gotten off before 3pm both of these days. Today, I would have gotten off around 12 but I was too scared to leave because even though one doc said I could go home, I didn't want the other doc that I reported to in the morning, to yell at me. So, I always took the other option. They offered eat lunch or go shopping/go home...ate lunch and came back.....said take a walk, find some other cool procedure, or go home.....i walked around and came back. Then the nurse told me to seriously go home and not worry since there wasn't much going on that I had to stay for. After confirming 3 times, I finally left. lol. Two more days in anesthesia before starting the dreaded surgery. I just don't know how i'm going to do it. For this rotation, I'm required to be ready in the OR by 7am, so I get up at 5 and leave around 3. That has been hard enough. I was sooo sleepy today by 2pm, talkless of the 4am-6/7pm schedule looming in the future. Fingers crossed for continued favor.


Ok, so finally the hair updates. Recap: I'm on a protective style challenge for myself for the rest of the year which consists of twist/braiding my hair for 3 months (redoing individual twist/braid each month) followed by a brief break before repeating. During this first cycle, I followed this regimen and also trimmed my hair between 1in-2in after the 2nd redo. I kept the same size throughout and didn't transition styles, as I was too busy to do so. Shampooed and deep conditioned once a week for the most part, and cowashed whenever I felt like it. Third install had less deep conditioning due to boards but still tried to at least cowash. I wanted to do before and after shots and all that....I have tons of pics just not enough time to show them right now as I really have to go to bed. So for now I'll just show where I'm at and hopefully this weekend, I'll be able to do the collage and comparisons. I made arm pit length! Woo hoo! Next goal: bra strap length.