The Third week of medical school is officially over and I'm about to embark on the fourth week.
I started off my labor day in the Gross Anatomy Lab at 9:00 this morning (saturday I was there at 8:00am) to dissect what the book calls the cubital fossa....aka the elbow---they should just call it the elbow.
Nonetheless, we took skin and fat off and looked at the arteries in the fold of your elbow along with the tendons of the bicep and the median nerve.
I usually let the boys in my group do most of the cutting-they like that, although I do plenty of fat removal myself.
I did find the cadaver "hugging" me today. I had swung her arm out to get a better look at the brachial plexus (this is the huge bundle of nerves that goes down the arm that orginates in the arm pit) and before I noticed it my cadaver had her arm around my waist. I guess she knew I needed a hug this morning :)
Best wishes to each of you on your holiday weekend-hopefully you got a hug from someone today-I sure did :)
Salt and Light,
Kelly
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