They all stood in blue

Cold steel scattered cross table

Heart-beat is steady.

Art Prescription:  A little different haiku today, one I wrote while in the surgical suite this morning. Thought I’d share a bit about my left-brain job. I work part-time as a nurse in OMFS or Oral Maxillofacial Surgery. After the surgeons and surgical assistants scrub in, they all put on sterile blue gowns. These gowns are paper and discarded after each surgery. The patient is draped and bundled until all you see is the part that’s gonna get worked on – today being a mandible (lower jaw). So envision a huddle of blue figures standing along with a couple of trays filled with assorted surgical instruments, drills, clips, gauze, suture, wires, tubes, suction, etc….and the steady sound of the patient’s heart beating rhythmically.