I assisted my first surgery today.
Elective Retropubic prostatectomy.

For as long as I can remember, I& #39;ve always wanted to be a surgeon, first started with neurosurgery but what a lol https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="😂" title="Gesicht mit Freudentränen" aria-label="Emoji: Gesicht mit Freudentränen">. I didn& #39;t have great experiences in surgery back in med school so I wasn& #39;t sure of surgery.

Today we waited for a while before the surgery started, out of the blues I was asked to scrub in. A rush of endorphins flooded my system and I was happy af https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🤣" title="Lachend auf dem Boden rollen" aria-label="Emoji: Lachend auf dem Boden rollen">. Before I knew it, I had the gear on.

I stood there a while not knowing what to do as there was already 1 assistant.
After a while, I started hearing "Chukwuemeka suction". My consultant is the only person that calls me Chukwuemeka.
I grabbed the suction machine and went at it, I had such a huge smile on my face https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="😂" title="Gesicht mit Freudentränen" aria-label="Emoji: Gesicht mit Freudentränen">

Surgery lasted about 3 hours, my legs were hurting a bit but my smile was everlasting. I& #39;ll look at my colleague and say snap me , snap me https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="😂" title="Gesicht mit Freudentränen" aria-label="Emoji: Gesicht mit Freudentränen">https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="😂" title="Gesicht mit Freudentränen" aria-label="Emoji: Gesicht mit Freudentränen">.
It was in that moment, I realised that this was it. Emeka, the surgeon https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="💪" title="Angespannter Bizeps" aria-label="Emoji: Angespannter Bizeps">https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="✊" title="Erhobene Faust" aria-label="Emoji: Erhobene Faust">

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