>> How many times can people say
they filmed a day in the life of an anesthesiologist
while pregnant in a pandemic during a hurricane?
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Pregnancy test was actually positive.
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Good morning everyone.
Today's hurricane day.
So I'm going to go to work during a hurricane, again,
I don't know if you guys remember this
but I filmed a day in the life video
during a hurricane as well.
What time is it? What year is it?
It is nuts right now,
tropical storm Imelda this here.
How many times can people say
they filmed a day in the life of an anesthesiologist,
while pregnant in a pandemic during a hurricane?
I think this is going to be a great video.
So thumbs up.
Ordinarily, I would be getting water from my pantry,
but I'm going to save that.
I had placed an Instacart order.
Yeah, yesterday.
Yesterday morning while I was at work,
a bunch of hurricane preparedness supplies.
So I already have a bunch of water,
but I don't want to use it in case the water goes bad
or a waterline gets contaminated.
And then they say, you can't drink your water.
That can happen during hurricane.
So I'm going to keep that.
And I'm just going to drink the water,
the bottled water that they provided at the hospital.
I'm like a real water snob.
There's only one water I like to.
So if you ever see me do a sponsored video
for a water bottle company, there's is only one.
So I'm just waiting for Harper's nanny to get here.
She's going to have a regular virtual school day today.
And then school is canceled tomorrow.
And work is canceled tomorrow,
which is Thursday because the hurricane
is going to make landfall tonight.
We're going to work a full day though.
My hospital is continuing cases until 5:00 PM.
I have four cases.
They're mostly bariatric.
I'm working with one of my favorite
bariatric surgeons today.
And so we're doing some gastric sleeves,
removing some lap bands,
and I think we're just simply removing a lap band.
Oh, a lap band and a gallbladder on someone as well.
We have four cases.
I don't know if we're going to be able to get to them all.
We might have to do something called flip,
which means I'm kind of shuttle one patient to another room.
So same surgeon.
But while we are, you know, cleaning up the patient,
getting them awake and excavated
and moving them to recovery and finishing the charting,
he can run over to another room
where they've already gotten the the next patient asleep,
and it just maximizes efficiency.
That's going to kind of be what I'm going to approach
the OR charge nurse about today.
Cause I can already see that being a problem.
And it might even get to the point where
if we can't flip him into another room,
then the last patient
may not even be able to have their surgery.
And I don't want that to happen if that's what they want.
Of course, anybody during a hurricane,
is going to be more likely to cancel their elective surgery
because how can you really recover
very well when your power is out and stuff?
So matter of fact, actually, some of them,
actually, most of them will be staying the night,
at least one or two nights.
So actually that's good for them
because they're going to be in a hospital with a generator
and supplies.
It's still stressful.
I don't know.
A lot of people wait a long time
to get their bariatric surgery, their weight loss surgery.
So, you know,
I can understand the desire not to want
to jeopardize any of that.
They've been waiting, you know,
years sometimes to get their bariatric surgery.
So I'm excited for them.
And I'm hopeful that we can get everybody done
that wants to get done today.
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All right, I'm in the OR, I'm by myself.
The patients pregnancy test was actually positive.
One of our cases, self canceled,
probably because of the hurricane.
This patient's pregnancy test is positive,
which is exciting news, if it's real for her,
but we have got to figure out what's going on.
So we're rerunning it to confirm.
And if she's positive for this type of elective case,
she's young, but she has a lot of medical problems,
it's not advisable to have the surgery.
So I've kept her posted on what we've discovered
and what we're doing about it.
And I'm going to go grab a bite.
Since I'm waiting for the rerun test to come back,
I've let the surgeon know what's going on.
And I'm going to check back in a little bit.
We'll see.
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♪ Give me a chance to make it right ♪
♪ Just let me touch you like the first time ♪
♪ We don't need answers to survive ♪
♪ Just let us keep on with the black lies ♪
♪ Hanging up to see if you will call me ♪
We've done two cases.
The first case canceled
because she ended up having
a definitely positive pregnancy test.
And so we talked with her,
I went to her with the surgeon
and the surgeon wanted to cancel
just out of an abundance of caution, obviously.
So we canceled that case.
We did the next case, which was a removal of a lap band.
And then we did another gastric sleeve.
And that patient actually had a very difficult airway
because of some distortion,
something was going on pathologically in the oral pharynx.
So it was distorting and deviating his folatic opening.
So I managed to do it just fine, but it was not easy.
So now I am just drawing up drugs for the next case.
Which is an add on case,
it's a diagnostic laparoscopy for abdominal pain
on a previous gastric bypass patient.
So she came from home.
She's been fasting appropriately.
Hasn't eaten since 4:00 AM.
It's about 1:05 right now.
So this is my add on case.
I technically work till five.
I do imagine because of the hurricane
that they're going to probably try and send people home.
So we can get prepared and stay at home
and not take up the streets and stuff.
Technically we can do cases until five o'clock tonight.
I'm out of breath.
I had lunch already.
And you saw a little clip of that, but it was not very good.
So I've had some pee breaks and hydrated myself
and I'm ready to do this case.
Let's do it.
♪ Give me a chance to make it right ♪
♪ Just let me touch you like the first time ♪
♪ We don't need answers to survive ♪
♪ Just let us keep on with the black lies ♪
♪ We are sweet on our secrets ♪
♪ Telling black lies to keep them ♪
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That was a blessing.
Because we've missed everything from the storm.
It completely made this strange curve off to the East.
And unfortunately,
most of Louisiana and the Texas Louisiana border were hit.
I'm foggy, awesome.
All right.
So I'm going to go pick up donuts for Harper
and as a rare treat to taquitos for myself.
Oh, hi Falcor.
This is what he looks like in the garage.
So he just looks like normal gray,
but as you've seen from my previous video,
anything but normal and his name is still Falcor.
Underneath, he's still that.
I had charged my car up to a hundred percent
because they tell you to.
Tesla actually sends out a message to Tesla cars
in an area that will be impacted by a major storm like that,
and reminds you to charge your car,
which is really sweet because it's like,
Oh, you care about us even after
we've already purchased your car.
So I'm here in the line for Shipley's donuts.
AKA the best donuts.
If you've never had them,
when you come to Houston, you need them.
We just, we used to get them all the time.
And then we started realizing we were gaining weight.
So now we just get them for Harper.
Usually on Saturdays, but today's Thursday,
but it feels like a Saturday.
So we're doing it.
It's our little tradition.
She loves it.
I need to order and pay here I guess.
That's interesting.
To get some taquitos for me from Whataburger.
Haven't had them in probably a year or two.
Do the Shipley's sign here.
Shipley's!
Strawberry and cherry iced with sprinkles
and then strawberry and cherry iced without sprinkles.
Thank you.
>> [Shipley's Worker] Thank you.
>> Take care.
Got my Shipley's here and I'm going to head to Whataburger.
I'm in the line of Whataburger.
It's all going very, very quickly.
I just ordered my taquitos with picantes sauce
and I'm just going to try a sip of this Dr.Pepper shake
because I haven't had it yet.
And I mean, you guys know my love for Dr.Pepper
knows no bounds.
So we're going to try it.
It's early for a shake, a milkshake,
but I'm just going to try it.
Cause I was like, eh, while I'm here.
When in the Rome.
Oh yeah, that's good.
It's a beautiful day.
Just wanted to show you.
So beautiful.
We're going to actually eat out at a restaurant
for the first time in like what, five, six months.
I don't think so, did we?
Where?
>> Man: Cara.
Yeah I don't think that counts.
Cara doesn't have anything.
First time eating out at a restaurant in Houston.
It's a big deal.
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Virgin mojito.
That's really refreshing, his is the real deal.
Iced tea.
Water.
Chips and salsa.
Our masks over here because we're eating.
Not too bad, nobody around.
Right Harper?
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