Heellloooooooooooo!
Week one - check!
One week has officially passed and so far, not too bad. I know the worst has yet to come (or anything even close to it) but I feel good. I am getting back into the swing of things and am actually starting to feel like I am learning tons of stuff. Colby and I were watching a House marathon and I got super excited because they were talking about all sorts of stuff I understood!
Friday was our first anatomy lab. We got our new cadavers and mine is a MASSIVE man. Last semester we had a dainty, old woman. The difference? First and second semesters share cadavers and there is a lot of flipping back and forth from back to stomach involved. =/ The bonus for me? My lab group consists of 5 guys and me! Guess who does the flipping? NOT ME! But still - when we do the abdomen, it will involve digging through a lot of fat, which is disgusting.
Back to Friday's lab.. We did the interior skull and cranial fossa - translation: the grooves and holes within the skull. How do you get to examine these things? Well -- you take a scalpel, cut anterior to posterior and from ear to ear, peel back the scalp, take a Stryker saw, cut circumferentially around the head and use a hammer and chisel to break the top of the skull (the calvaria) off!!!!!! Thennnnnn you take scissors and cut, anterior to posterior the attachments of the dura mater (the outermost covering around the brain) to the skull and the nerves and LIFT OUT THE BRAIN! Oh yes, yours truly held someone's brain in her hands. It was unreal. Honestly, I probably won't ever do it again, considering I definitely won't be performing autopsies. It was really freaking awesome. Colby walked by and I showed him, proudly, my brain .. he turned around and walked away. hahahahah
The weekends are kind of hard this semester considering Saturday and Sunday are filled with football games. Thankfully, the Steelers play tonight at 8:15p and so I can have a productive day of studying. Colby is working today 2:30-9p. Yesterday were the first intramural football games and Colby played all of them .. he earned himself a starting spot :) He kicked butt and was an animal. It was great! He is super sore today though, its kinda funny - -he could hardly get dressed this morning!
Time to get back to the flow and production of cerebrospinal fluid :)
Oh! Bahamas update -- things just might fall into place!!! We should know for sure, hopefully, by mid-October!
Love from the land of brown water, yuck.
by Marissa ♥
My last year of medical school and less than a year until our wedding.. we have a lot going on!
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