{"id":298,"date":"2014-03-05T12:36:13","date_gmt":"2014-03-05T12:36:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.cooperhealth.org\/ortho\/?p=298"},"modified":"2014-03-04T16:04:02","modified_gmt":"2014-03-04T16:04:02","slug":"nicaragua-2014-day-2-first-day-in-the-or","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.cooperhealth.org\/ortho\/2014\/03\/05\/nicaragua-2014-day-2-first-day-in-the-or\/","title":{"rendered":"Nicaragua 2014: First Day in the OR"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Our day began at 5:30 a.m. with Nicaraguan coffee and white pineapple for breakfast &#8211; delicioso. Our first case was a 12-year-old boy who had a severe congenital flatfoot deformity and walked pigeon-toed. Following four hours of multi-level surgery, a new foot was born AND two baby boys in the OR next to us. On a sad very and disturbing note, we were informed that a beautiful 9-year-old girl was sexually molested, requiring surgical intervention and admission to the hospital. When we finished our day, we were allowed to visit her, and gave her a handmade dress that one of my patients had donated for our trip. In the middle of this tragedy, she still had a smile on her face. What a lesson\u2026<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_299\" style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.cooperhealth.org\/ortho\/files\/2014\/03\/Nicaragua_5.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[298]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-299\" class=\"size-full wp-image-299\" title=\"SONY DSC\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.cooperhealth.org\/ortho\/files\/2014\/03\/Nicaragua_5.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-299\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A baby boy born in the OR next to ours.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our day began at 5:30 a.m. with Nicaraguan coffee and white pineapple for breakfast &#8211; delicioso. Our first case was a 12-year-old boy who had a severe congenital flatfoot deformity and walked pigeon-toed. Following four hours of multi-level surgery, a new foot was born AND two baby boys in the OR next to us. On &#8230; <span class=\"more\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.cooperhealth.org\/ortho\/2014\/03\/05\/nicaragua-2014-day-2-first-day-in-the-or\/\">[Read more&#8230;]<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"entry","1":"post","2":"publish","3":"author-mmanibo","4":"post-298","6":"format-standard"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cooperhealth.org\/ortho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cooperhealth.org\/ortho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cooperhealth.org\/ortho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cooperhealth.org\/ortho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cooperhealth.org\/ortho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=298"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cooperhealth.org\/ortho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":302,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cooperhealth.org\/ortho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298\/revisions\/302"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cooperhealth.org\/ortho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cooperhealth.org\/ortho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cooperhealth.org\/ortho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}