What time is it?
What year is it?
It is nuts right now.
Tropical Storm Imelda is here.
Oh my God, that's a lot of people.
[sobbing] Crazy.
My husband is stuck in a gas station.
Or if he's going to need to
get rescued, I don't know.
[intense music]
Code Grey which means that all personnel
who are currently in the hospital
are prohibited from leaving.
Good morning, welcome to another
Day in the Life of an Anesthesiologist.
This time I've remembered to
start early in the morning.
It's currently 6:07,
and I am drinking some water
and I am going to fix my coffee.
What I usually do is I will
fix my coffee in my travel mug.
Clearly I forgot to charge this overnight
so that's going to be a problem,
so maybe I'll just take
my coffee in a normal mug
that doesn't require charging.
Or, I could take the coaster with me,
but I usually finish the
coffee on the way, so.
[coffee machine frothing]
Okay guys, I'm now at work
and I have just helped
one of my colleagues who
was working overnight place an epidural
and then I went and started a c-section
by place a spinal,
and now I am looking up the next patient
to check her labs to
make sure she's eligible
for a spinal for her c-section.
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Now, what I am going to do
is look up this patient, sign some orders,
and get going with
seeing the next patient.
When we have a c-section,
what we need to do
is we need to talk to the patient.
We need to make sure that
they feel comfortable.
A huge part of anesthesia
is relieving anxiety
via non-pharmacologic means.
So basically what that
means is you are helping,
oop, about to drop my phone.
That you are helping
expectant moms feels better
without the use of drugs.
They want to talk to you,
they want to know who you are,
how you're doing.
Oh my God that's a lot of people.
Basically we're full.
Basically we have four scheduled sections.
You never know what's going to happen
from a full labor and delivery deck.
Someone's going to get
called on a section.
Two of those c-sections are simultaneous,
so I need to CRNAs to supervise
so that I can place those spinals
around the same time, be
in two places at once,
and still cover a busy
labor and delivery deck
with epidurals while those
c-sections are going.
So we have one c-section going right now,
and this is looking really busy.
It's going to be a miracle
if I can even check in
from time to time to do this.
So currently it's 7:24.
Wow.
I don't think I've ever seen it this busy.
Wow.
Wow.
[laughs] Wow.
Pray for me.
It's now, what time is it?
8:49.
I've placed two more epidurals
and I've started another c-section.
It is crazy.
I'm going to go down, run
and get something to eat
because I have put an epidural
in everyone who wants one now
so I am going to take the opportunity
to go grab some breakfast.
You guys, I literally don't even remember
where I left off with you.
What time is it?
What year is it?
11:20.
Have not stopped since.
Scarfed down some food,
actually went to go get food,
was pushing the button for the elevator
and got a call for another epidural,
so aborted that plan,
aborted the mission for food,
put in another epidural.
Finally had time to get food.
It is nuts right now.
So Tropical Storm Imelda
is here in Houston
and has made landfall.
And so the labor and delivery
decks are muy full, muy full.
Like, there is not a single room available
and we have all these
scheduled c-sections.
It's crazy busy.
So I've put in countless epidurals since,
I think it's been like
four or five epidurals.
And there's still more to go
but they've said not yet Dr. Braly.
Number one, the nurses are
not available for the epidural
'cause a nurse has to help
out with the epidural.
A nurse for the room is not available.
She has to go catch a baby,
and then she said she'll call me.
She's giving the bolus and she'll call me
when she's ready.
'Cause I said, I'm
ready, I'm here, call me.
But she said, I'll call
you when I'm ready.
So for all those people who like to say
I'm just sitting around here
while people are waiting, that's not true.
I drop everything, I drop
everything to go to an epidural.
I'm tired, it feels like it's
five o'clock and it's 12.
Why'd I say it was 11:21,
it's not, it's 12:05.
See, 12:05.
Oh, we also did an emergency c-section.
That took up a bit of time.
Lord have mercy.
I'm texting with my nurse anesthetist
because we're talking
about who's going to do
the next c-section, which of
the two nurses that I have.
Who's going to be in on that one with me
and then who's going to
get lunch and get break.
So in some places, Tropical
Storm or Depression Imelda
is hitting parts of Houston and Northeast
and Southeast Beaumont and
Harris County are all getting hit
really, really hard with the flooding.
Some of it is worse than Harvey.
You know anybody who lives in Texas
or in the Houston area, give them a hug.
Give them a virtual hug.
Two feet of rainfall in 12 hours.
That's,
that's nuts, that is absolutely nuts.
All right, so the situation
has taken a turn for the worst.
We are currently in a
catastrophic flooding event
and an emergency declared in the hospital,
and for the state of Texas,
but for the hospital, it's a Code Grey,
which means that all
personnel who are currently
in the hospital are prohibited
from leaving their job,
their work, their post,
because of a situation where
it is too dangerous to leave
or too dangerous for the
next shift of workers
to relieve the current people.
They are not permitted to leave.
I don't know what my situation is, but I
got in contact with my chief,
head of my anesthesia group
about an hour-and-a-half ago,
and text messaging her a few minutes ago
she said that now she's realized
that her house is flooding
and she's stuck here with us.
It's been crazy busy,
we've done like six or seven c-sections.
I've lost count.
I've lost count on how
many epidurals I've done.
I think it's like approaching
the 10 or 12 mark.
Barometric pressure, when
it drops for some reason,
I don't know if it's true or not
or if it's an old wives
tale but it goes crazy
on pregnant women and makes
everyone go into labor.
So if you're hoping to go into labor,
hope for a thunderstorm, but unfortunately
this one is really bad because it is,
it's already approaching Harvey levels
and nobody prepared for it.
We didn't prepare for it.
I'm not sure what we would
have done differently
but we don't have sandbags or anything.
So my streets are flooded.
I don't know if I'll be able to get home.
And thankfully Harper's nanny is there
at the house with her and
they have not lost power.
My neighbors are parking in my driveway
because their cars are flooding.
Their garages are flooding.
Really bad, it looks really bad.
This has made for an interesting
Day in the Life of an
Anesthesiologist: Disaster Edition.
I hope anyone effected
by Tropical Storm Imelda
is doing okay, I hope that
you have not reflooded.
It's giving me PTSD from Harvey.
Harvey was so, so scary.
We bought our house two weeks
before Harvey came and hit
and we were so terrified, so terrified.
Just checking in.
I'm worried about my hus, oh, my husband.
My husband is stuck in a gas station.
He cannot leave.
Everything's flooded and
blocked, he can't make it.
He's stuck at a gas station right now.
He's been there for a couple of hours.
[rain pouring]
He sent me video.
It looks really bad, and he has a Tahoe,
as you probably know if you've
been following my channel
for any period of time.
It's pretty bad.
So I told him not to get
in the car, not to drive.
He's like, no I'm not,
I'm not going to do that.
I'm going to stay here, I said okay.
So thankfully at least
he's at a gas station.
He has gas and he has
supplies to eat and drink
and water and all that kind
of stuff if he needs it.
I don't know if or when he's
going to be able to get home,
or if he's going to need to
get rescued, I don't know.
[windshield wiper beating]
Main focus right now is remotely
checking in on my family
to make sure they're okay.
Harper's nanny is included in that,
she's like family to us.
I want to make sure her children are okay
because God knows it's just hard
to be away from your family,
as I well know, when there's
something like this going on.
And then also just making sure
that all of the patients
who I'm taking care of today
feel at ease and pain free.
And so we try to lighten
up the mood a little bit
with some humor, but it's 2:30.
I've not had anything
to eat since breakfast,
and for a healthcare worker
who gets here at six
o'clock in the morning,
that's a long time, that's a late lunch.
Anybody who works in healthcare
knows that's a late lunch.
Everyone's cranky because
they haven't eaten,
so I've made sure that
my nurses eat first.
They're going to eat lunch,
I'm covering everything 'til
they get back from lunch,
and I'm going to get
in touch with my chief
because I need to
probably leave early today
than my normal shift.
I usually get off at five,
but hopefully they will let me leave early
so I can be home with my family.
And if there's any break in the weather
I want Harper's nanny
to be able to go home,
but I don't even know if she can make it.
It just came up out of
the blue, out of nowhere.
If I would've known this
was going to happen,
I wouldn't have come in today,
'cause I wouldn't have wanted
Harper's nanny to come in today.
Makes me feel sick when you
can't be home with your child
and this is all going on.
I have a fork and a knife,
have not used it yet.
I'm going to see if I
can rustle up some grub.
Okay, I've just got word
that one of my colleagues
is going to come and relieve me.
He's actually the one
who's on-call tonight,
so he's going to come up
here earlier than five
so that I can go see what's
going on down in the main OR,
and then possibly go
home a little bit early.
But I don't think that my
nanny can leave safely,
so she might have to stay the night.
Poor thing.
We'll see, we'll see.
Miracle of miracles I am home.
I am back home.
I left at about 4:30.
I was supposed to leave by about three
but I volunteered to do one case
that needed to get done.
It was a transesophageal echo,
so I went upstairs to
the ICU and did that one
for my colleagues, and
so it's now 4:45, 4:50,
and our nanny was able to leave
and she got home safely,
which is really wonderful.
The biggest thing I was worried about.
My husband is no longer stranded
and in fact he was able to beat me home,
which is also great.
I'm trying to fix this.
And now I just got home,
snuggled Harper, and I'm
going to take a shower,
change, do all that good stuff.
[baby babbling]
Can you put the top on?
-No.
-Yeah, you did it.
But now push.
Push.
Yes, push like this.
Push.
Whoa, you did it!
Good job princess.
This is what I look forward to the most
which is the part where I get to come home
and hang out with Harper.
She is just the best.
Harper and I hope that you
really enjoyed this video.
If you did, it would
appreciate me greatly.
Nope, that's not English.
Today was one of the busiest most,
how do I put this?
One of the most challenging days
to stay sain in of my career
because I was being torn
in a million directions
and wanting to please everybody
and trying to give everybody epidurals,
and I'm pretty fast,
and I just don't like anyone to wait,
so nobody waited, thank God,
but there were moments when
the epidurals were lining up
and I'm just one person
and we were short in the entire hospital,
and we had c-sections
going on at the same time.
Yes.
It was a very stressful,
and this is the part of the
job that's not glamorous,
that's super stressful.
You come home and you just want
a large glass of wine, but she's better
than a glass of wine right here.
This little thing is
what really kind of keeps
everything in perspective
and reminds me that
at the end of the day, it is a job.
It's not, no, please don't do that.
That's for lash extensions.
You're not supposed to
use that, thank you.
[lid bouncing on ground]
You could practice if you want.
She's got a little chest cold now.
Please no.
I think I'm going to leave it here.
I hope you guys enjoyed this video
and if you did, give it a thumb's up.
This was a very hard day to vlog.
I normally would like you to see more
than you were able to see in this video,
but hopefully you enjoyed
seeing it regardless.
-[baby babbling]
-It's not for the hand.
It's bubbles though, yes.
Bubbles, bubstles, bubstles.
All right guys, Harper,
say bye to the camera.
Say bye.
Can you wave, say bye.
Bye!
Muah!
