Stress and Anger

I almost made a subject pass out today. His heart rate dropped down to 35 bpm.

I prepped all day for this subject, made my protocol super organized, bought food for all my helpers, and proceeded to ruin it by handing Steven the wrong piece of the infusion set. The few seconds caused some blood to come out of the catheter, the subject started to get agitated and we had to pull out the set. On the second try, we hit a valve, the catheter didn’t work properly, and the subject went vaso-vagal and nearly fainted. We had to give up and decided to try again next week. So, this is another week lost on my project which I need to finish (and write up and defend) before graduation.

And no news yet from any of my schools.

Y llueve a cántaros.