OVERDUE UPDATE

So it's been a while......

I know its been quite some time since my last post, our schedule here has been out of control.  But I'll give a little description of what has been happening in the gross lab becuase usually that is the most interesting.

We finished up abdomen and thorax- we had cut the heart and lungs out and found our cadaver had lung cancer.  The next part of the dissection was "urogential and anal triangle" [med school is not glamorous].  I can tell you this was not my favorite dissection.  part of this dissection included "trisecting" the body.  Trisecting......well we first tied off the colon and then got a bone occilating saw and hack saw and cut the body in half around the 4th Lumbar.  After the body was in half we cut the legs into right and left halves the old fashion way-with a pair of $2 manual hand saw.  That's trisecting.

We took our gross anatomy lower extremity test Monday along with developmental anatomy exam and histology exam. Four test in a day are draining so I took the night off after the tests and played some volleyball with some class mates which was a great stress reliever.  I also watched a litle TV and caught up on sleep.  Tuesday we started back to the med school grind.....we have biochemistry test and medical physiology test this coming Monday and lecture just started back up so I better pay attention.

Thanks for reading

Salt and Light,

Kelly