Good news, the first two days of this week have been more exciting than the last two weeks. Hooray!
The excitement started yesterday morning around 7:30. My roommate's damn alarm that has been waking me up too early for the past 5 months finally came in handy when I realized my I had not set an alarm for my 8 a.m. lab. So, rushed with adrenaline, I made it to my first anatomy lab in Fetzer. We first sat in a classroom where my TA answered questions from the three students in the class. After there were no more questions, she quickly asked "So, wanna see the cadavers?"
Of course, the answer is yes. But I wasn't sure how my stomach could handle it so early in the morning. We walked in the next room to a severely sterile stench and a slight whiff of... death? My TA turned on the vents and started unwrapping her cadaver that her class last semester had gotten to disect. It wasn't too bad, he didn't have skin anymore so we were just looking at bones and muscles and a nerve here and there. She also let us see the inside of his skull, which made me wonder where the brain was (the sketchy ingles bag on the counter answered that one for me).
After examining #1, our attention was turned to the pile of towels and coverings behind us; introducing dead guy #2. This one still had skin, so my stomach was immediately on edge, but to make it worse, #2 had a lot of body fat. uggghh. Needless to say I wasn't too upset to be leaving. But I'll just have to get used to, I'll be in there for the next 6 mondays with #1 and #2.
The only reason why today was more exciting than previous Tuesdays is because I wasn't an epic fail in beginners swimming this morning. But that's just a small victory for me.
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Cadavers, well that's definitely an exciting introduction. I have thought about going into medicine because I've kinda grown up around it (my parents are PA's)and I wanted to take anatomy but couldn't fit it into my schedule. I've always thought that it would be totally creepy and disturbing to work on cadavers. I like dissecting things but a pig is totally different from a person. In medical school, cadavers are necessary and my dad said that you get used to it real quick. I guess there is no better way to study the human body. I would not want to be the first person a doctor has performed surgery on; I'd much rather a doctor have experience at least with a cadaver.
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