May 21st- Day 14

Sadly today was very short in the OR back at LRGH. Most of Dr. Hennig's patients were at the hospital today instead of Hillside Surgical Center so I was only able to watch one procedure. I watched another ACL surgery of a young male athlete. The patient chose to have an autograft since he is still young and active and Autografts in athletes have smaller chance of tearing a second time versus allografts. The patient chose to have his hamstrings harvested from the graft, so the procedure was very similar to the one I watched on Tuesday but it was just as interesting to watch the second time as it was the first! Since I was only able to see one surgery today Dr. Hennig has me coming back to the OR next Tuesday so I can see a few more before I wrap up my senior project! I can't believe how fast senior project has gone by, I don't want it to end!