Freeeeeeeeaaaaky...

Very weird things are happening at the Obi-Gyne Department. Although I am a Surgery clerk as of now, because the Obi-Gyne Department is just one wall away from ours in the Emergency Room, I had the opportunity to witness the most strangest things yesterday.

A woman, gravida 3 ( meaning she has been pregnant three imes already) gave birth right then and there on the floor of the Emergency Room. Under ordinary circumstances, women immediately about to give birth are initially seen at the ER-ObiGyne Department and rushed immediately to the Delivery Room at the next building via stretcher. This woman came to the ER-ObiGyne, talked for a few minutes to the ObiGyne clerk and in the few minutes that the clerk turned her back to the woman, she kneeled on the floor, and right then and there, she was already trying to push her baby out. Just as the clerk began yelling "Hermano, ang stretcher!", amniotic fluid and fecal material was coming out of the woman. The worried father put his hand out between the woman's thighs and tried to catch their baby. The next thing we heard was the sound of the newborn baby crying, "Ungaaaaaa... ungaaaaa.... ungaaaa...."

The whole thing was damn over in less than three minutes.

The next thing I knew, the baby was wrapped in clean rags (the same rags, we Surgery clerks use to clean our bloodied patients, hehehe...) and brought to the Pedia Department for incubation. Because the baby was delivered in the ER instead of the Delivery Room, it is considered unsterile and therefore, not qualified to be put together with the other neonates at the nursery. The mother was put into a stretcher, her umbilical cord hanging with a straight clamp on its end between her thighs, and brought into the Inspection Room for the manual removal of the placenta.

Cool. But at the same time, gross...

A few hours after, as I was trying to review for the endorsements tomorrow, Ice, the Obi-Gyne clerk on night duty called me and showed me the freakiest thing I have ever seen in my entire life. As she pulled me into the Obi-Gyne Inspection room, I thought she was going to show me a cute newborn baby.

Well, it was a baby all right.

Lying in the middle of the disposable gloves wrapper was an 11-day old newly aborted fetus, taken fresh from the uterus. Its mother was still lying right there in lithotomy position... It was, like I said, incredibly freaky. You can actually see its eyes (or something that resembled it) and limbs. It reminded me of those grade school days when I used to go to the Adoration Chapel at ICES and lining the hallway to the chapel were various posters on abortion, including graphic photos of aborted fetuses in various months of gestation.

Hmmm... at this rate, I'm kinda looking forward on to what other freaky things will be in store for me during my own rotation as medical clerk at Obi-Gyne Department on February next year. Hehehe... So, NOT!