Dr. Joel Aronowitz - Doctor Vlog: When the Doctor Becomes the Patient! Facial Laceration Recovery Story
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Bridgett: “So, you want to know how it happened or not? Go
ahead, start your story.”
Dr. Joel Aronowitz: “So, I had the hot tub all heated up and
I had like that much whiskey and one piece of ice to bring out the taste.”
Bridgette: “How much?”
Dr. Joel Aronowitz: “Like less than an ounce. I'm like I
love that you drink now.”
Bridgette: “You have changed so much since we've started but
go on, I won't stop.”
Dr. Joel Aronowitz: “I had my crossword puzzle. Oh, get
wild. I had my towel, I had the pen, and I had my phone and I'm holding all of
these things and I was looking forward to getting into them. I have a
clarifying. You walked out of your house all the way with all these things in
your...did you pour the whiskey in your kitchen naked? At what point did
you...? Just forget about that little thing. That's not important. I don't even
remember exactly. Okay. It's a little you know your curiant interests need to
be like calmed down. Okay so you're walking out you got all these things in
your arms. You step up or? So, it's about that high you know. A hot tub? With a
spa? The spa is about two feet you know has a wall. So, I was going to jump
with one step onto the ledge and then with the next step in and my trailing toe
caught on the edge and I didn't have any hand to catch myself so my face went
into the...which is okay and because I was actually wearing these glasses and
okay, they broke the lens and then the broken lens cut me. And I'm so happy you
didn't get more hurt. Let's say that first like you could have really knocked
yourself unconscious been floating in the ground and then we would not have been
here today but instead you just spilled everything.”
Bridgette: “You're you probably, probably wasn't a pretty
sight.”
Dr, Joel Aronowitz: “And Hansi the dog was there and there
was blood on the ledge and Hansi took care of that. So, you pick yourself up
you blow the water off. No, I knew that there was something going on here so I
put my hand up here.”
Bridgette: “Okay and then, what did you do?”
Dr. Joel Aronowitz: “I'm holding it like this and then I'm
like taking a minute to assess what's going on. Do the fingers move? Do the
toes move? Okay good. Spinal cord is intact.”
Bridgette: “You actually did this? Did you cry?”
Dr. Joel Aronowitz: “Well kind of. Did I cry? Yeah. No. And
then I'm trying to figure out okay how bad is this? If I just hold it long
enough it will heal and then I don't have to show everybody how stupid I was.
Okay so that didn't work so go on. Next step. So then after a few maybe a
minute or two my wife had heard all of this and she came out. Was she running?
I didn't see her because I was just holding it. He didn't have his glasses on
and okay. And at this point where you still in the hot tub or did you manage to
get out of the hot tub? I was still standing there. Well because I had my and I
was looking around for my glasses to see where there was blood. I feel so hard
but I can't.”
Bridgette: “Okay go on.”
Dr. Joel Aronowitz: “You don't look like you feel bad.”
Bridgette: “I feel bad.”
Dr. Joel Aronowitz: “I feel like you're laughing at me. I
feel really bad.”
Bridgette: “No no no. It's like deep. I feel bad deep deep
in there.”
Dr. Joel Aronowitz: “Somewhere yeah under all the blackness
there's some little tiny quivering heart the size of the baby birds you know
pumping blood real blood. Okay so you got your clothes on. Does she see? I
don't think she seems sympathetic. You get your clothes on you then look in the
mirror. You look in the mirror.
I then I get my phone and yeah look at my phone. Okay so you
use your phone because your phone is everything you know. Which also was
submerged and didn't die. Yeah, phone submerged and didn't die. That's pretty
good. Well, it's supposed to be able to go. 30 minutes. I googled it after your
incident because I didn't believe you. Okay so let's wrap this up a little bit.
Let's move forward. Okay so I'm holding it so then I go upstairs so after eight
minutes bleeding will stop unless there's an incompletely divided muscle. So,
after I held it for a good 10 minutes then it wasn't bleeding and I got a look
and I could see that it was cut on a bias. You know what cut on a bias means
like a French cut green bean. Which is tough. Tough to suture let me tell you
because that's the last part of the story. And then I had some this surgical
equivalent of duct tape some tega derm and I put the tega derm on.”
Bridgette: So here he is, a Beverly Hills classic surgeon
applying duct tape to his face his laceration. You know God forbid you call for
help. Not that I if you called me, I'd probably be like what?
Dr. Joel Aronowitz: “You put the tega derm on and you're
like yeah looks good. I couldn't really see that well however I would have done
a better job. Well from my side when you walked in, I walked in and you walked
in and you walked in and you walked in and you walked in and you walked in and
you walked in and you walked in we had surgery in the morning and he was
awkwardly like in one of the exam rooms like examining his face. So, I put my
bag down. You can tell how upset Bridget was that I was injured. Okay but time
out a lot of people talked to you that day and did not even notice. At least I
went up to you and said what happened? Because he's like playing with something
in the mirror and then you turn around. It wasn't bruised yet it takes a day or
two. Turn around and you've got duct tape on your face. No, I had tega. Oh,
like it's so much different. Anyway, listen how's your scar doing? It's getting
better. Bridget sutured it up for me. So, then I sutured it up. He was a
terrible patient. He was a terrible patient. And she sutured it up and it looks
great, I think. Oh, what are you gonna do Bridget?”
Bridgette: “Okay I'm gonna take this stupid. Put your head
back this is what you do. I have a big mirror.”
Dr. Joel Aronowitz: “Okay you've got a mirror. I think so I
think what you are the edges together. Inside to have a colonoscopy. So,
Bridget is going to take a night stitches out this morning. I took some of them
out already. Myself over the weekend because they were itching. She got mad at
me already. So, let's see how I do.”
Bridgette: “What if you buy an ice cream for yourself? Then
you've treated yourself, haven't you? Is that okay? Can you treat yourself that
way? What if you're in the forest and you fall down and you know cut yourself
and then you're bleeding. Would you not put pressure and treat yourself?”
Bridgette: “Ow! Why did you do that? Why are you smiling?”
Dr. Joel Aronowitz: “Come on let's go.”
Bridgette: “Stop you're making me nervous. All of this
nonsense. All of this nonsense. Come here I missed it.”
Dr. Joel Aronowitz: “Can you pep boost me again?”
Bridgette: “What do you think doctor?”
Dr. Joel Aronowitz: “I think it's going to be fine. It's
going to be fine. Come on sit down. Don't look at Thomas. Remember I told you
it's literally widening as we speak.”
Bridgette: “I did not. It isn't widening as we speak.”
Dr. Joel Aronowitz: “Are you taping?”
Bridgette: “Yeah.”
Dr. Joel Aronowitz: “If you're this close taping, literally.
Oh, shoot there's two tears. It is widening as we speak because you took them
out too early.”
Bridgette: “You played tennis. You got it wet.”
Dr. Joel Aronowitz: “You know what? You know blaming the
patient is really a bad habit to get into. What are you doing? I can't tell
what.”
Bridgette: “Oh, there we are. Come on. Can you sit down? I
wonder if I'm recording anything. Let me put a little one up there. Okay so
then after I sewed them up, what did we do? We did a little BVL.”
Dr. Joel Aronowitz: “Going through that smaller crystal.
Yeah. We're just going to increase the effluence by one. Okay. Because we're
treating them as a four. Usually, my four fives I'll just increase it by one.
If I was doing a one through three, I'd increase it by two. Good to know. And
then you can start, I would just do his nose and forehead.”
Bridgette: “Okay.”
Dr. Joel Aronowitz: “So same thing. She passes with 10 to 15
percent off. Are you saying my nose is too big?”
Bridgette: “Please rest your head back sir.”
Dr. Joel Aronowitz: “So, I want to tell you, your BVL
machine.”
Bridgette: “I know, wait.”
Dr. Joel Aronowitz: “Your Cyton BVL machine.”
Bridgette: “That I begged for.”
Bridgette: “You always had to add that in.”
Dr. Joel Aronowitz: “You did.”
Bridgette: “But like I begged for a long time. To the point
that I said forget it. I don't even want it. I did reverse psychology on you.”
Dr. Joel Aronowitz: “It worked.”
Bridgette: “It did work. Okay so go on.”
Dr. Joel Aronowitz: “I was not convinced the machine was
that much better than what we had but I was wrong. Your face looks better. My
face looks better. We should do another treatment soon. We should do another
treatment and the BVL was very good on the scar and it was very good on the sun
spots. I mean this side looks so much better. The only problem is that my face
is kind of handsome out of proportion to my arms because you know like people
see my face and they think oh wow and then they see the scrawny arms and they
think that's a let-down.”
Bridgette: “That happens all the time. You have no idea.
Okay but did your wife comment on how much better your face looked?”
Dr Joel Aronowitz: Must be the masks.
Bridgette: Must be the masks. How could she miss it?
Dr. Joel Aronowitz: My wife doesn't love me for my good
luck. She loves me for that.
Bridgette: Oh, that's so sweet.
Dr. Joel Aronowitz: So, the end of the day it was a close
call.
Bridgette: Honestly, I'm so happy you're okay.
Dr. Joel Aronowitz: Thank you and it was a good experience
for me to experience it from the patient's point of view.
Bridgette: Right.
Dr. Joel Aronowitz: It's always good to have that lesson and all's well that ends well. My scar is healing nicely. You know when patients are getting something sutured on their face and you're always like lay back, lay back. I did get some satisfaction doing that too because I thought you really needed to know what it felt like. She enjoyed that a little too much. And you could be like ugh. Anyway he survived. We all survived. We're all still here.
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