PED Pt. 2

Remember a few months ago how I was all excited about the EV3/Chestnut Peripheral Endovascular Device? Well this morning I went to see my boss and the nurse manager she shares her office with remembered I had a vested interest in the stent. She happened to have one in her bag and showed me the comparison of the stent to a regular stent and how much more coverage it had, which I presume is what the $12000 price tag is for. If you don't remember, they're using it for wide necked fusiforms, giant aneurysms, partially occluded ones and aneurysms that tend to collapse. Anyways, the big kicker is that she mentioned that she'd try to get me into the next PED installation that's happening next month. Apparently they're flying down a bigwig from New York to perform the procedure because it's so avant garde. The access through the arm is occluded so they need to wheel the pt. down to surgery, access the internal carotid and keep it open, trolley them over to radiology to install the PED and then whip them back up to get closed up. AND I WILL POSSIBLY GET THE CHANCE TO WATCH THIS. OMG MY LIFE WIN.

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When I get down I often listen to Dido's Lament from the Purcell opera Dido & Aeneas. The story is that Dido and Aeneas are in love, but the wicked spirits convince Aeneas to leave Dido. Even though he eventually returns, Dido forces him to leave for ever once considering that he could run away from her. She dies of grief; death from a broken heart.

I was perusing YouTube today and came across some interesting renditions of the always famous aria. First, the classic, which is performed with incredible vibrato - just phenomenal technique:



Thy hand, Belinda, darkness shades me,
On thy bosom let me rest,
More I would, but Death invades me;
Death is now a welcome guest.

When I am laid, am laid in earth, May my wrongs create
No trouble, no trouble in thy breast;
Remember me, remember me, but ah! forget my fate.
Remember me, but ah! forget my fate.

And Hayley Westerna, the angelic voice of Celtic Woman fame and glory:



And finally Alison Moyet, a soulful/jazzy rendition: