Cadaver Lab!

Before you get all worked up with either excitement or the taste of bile, it was a short experience.

But it was F***ING AWESOME!

OK, now that I got that off my chest! I got there around 0840, was given gown, gloves, booties and a cap, got all dressed up and went down with the first class. There were two cadavers, much older people. They were there for the practicing of intubating, something I've seen done time and again, but not like this. They all showed me how it was done and then the doctor had me try it as well. I asked a million questions and I loved it. I also found out how to get the air out of a hemopneumothorax and put in a small but very strong needle into the bone marrow of the tibula or shoulder of someone that you can't get fluids into any other way! I really enjoyed it.

Unfornately, when I returned to the upstairs after going through several rounds of this, there were no other bodies so there was no more cadaver lab! I was crushed. There was no smell (at least nothing objectionable) and I was so ready to see a lot more and do a lot more. But there were not enough bodies donated to science. (At first the woman said there were not enough dead bodies in Newark and I know what the look on my face said - not possible! She laughed and said there weren't enough dead bodies in Newark that were donated to science.)

I had to laugh at that.

But it was really amazing, even if there were not enough dead people!

Comments

CrystalChick said…
What an interesting experience. Glad you got to do it.
After my Mom died I sort of remember wondering about embalming and the funeral process. Never took any steps to find out what happens or how but even after all these years it's still a little interesting. Don't think the local parlor would be having an Open House any time soon though. ;)

Have a great day.
4 November 2008 at 10:20
Anonymous said…
hey- its me..

I'm glad you had a great experience. It was my pleasure to be able to help you out on this. If I can do it again for you.. I will..

*smile*(

L
5 November 2008 at 22:24
Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Interesting Aftermath a From Season Five of "MasterChef"

Image
Do I agree with this? You will have to read it first and decide for yourself. I had long since made up my mind before finding this article. MasterChef Season 5 Fixed: Courtney Lapresi Won Finale After Getting Preferential Treatment – Former Stripper Favoritism BY  STORMY ELIZABETH  ON SEPTEMBER 23, 2014 "They say if you can’t take the heat, you should get out of the kitchen, but what if you like it hot? If you’ve been watching  MasterChef this season 5 , you may have noticed that one contestant in particular seems to  be “winning” challenges  when her dishes don’t seem to be quite up to it.  Courtney Lapresi  has been billed as an “aerial dancer” on the show. So what exactly is that, you ask? It’s a fancy word for stripper. You may term what she does as burlesque, but nekked is nekked and she takes off her  clothes  when she dances, so you have to call them as you see them. Plus is it really...
Read more

The Longairc-Green Family

This is a family that was on Nanny 911 , the precursor to Supernanny , which airs on Wednesday nights. While Supernanny is a better production and leaves out some of the dopey American-isms of stupidity (such as the opening scene with a much older nanny head whose television showing the family and their issues turns around into a painting on the wall), this show has its value. These families are clueless or don't bother to try and definitely need help. This family is an exception in that the mother couldn't care less what the monsters do and will do anything to mollify them. The father is more consistent and definitely takes a much more disciplinary stance, but the mother undermines it at every step of the way. The two boys are so unbelievably rude, I'd've killed them where they stood. The little girl only wanted a moment of attention and was not doing anything negative, and the mother was awful to her. The nanny, Nanny Stella, spent the first day observing. When she s...
Read more

Shocking!

Image
I always open my day at work by starting up my various programs that I'll bounce back and forth between throughout the insanity that is my normal workday. And they are always in the same order: Internet Outlook Microsoft Excel Microsoft Word The timekeeping program, GenPro, is always running. This is not me being unbelievably anal or just a little OCD, this is logic. I know excatly where everything is. It's just good organisational skills. When I open Outlook it is almost entirely for the e-mail. Yes, I do know how to use all of Outlook (well, 80% of it, any way, but since I use my belovèd Franklin Covey Time Management system (the physical book, not the electronic solution), I only use Outlook for e-mail. What is so shocking, you may ask? Be patient, I'm getting to that. I open the Internet and the default page is Wikipedia, in English. I happen to love that site and skim over whatever interesting things it may have, such as: Today's Featured Article The word thou was...
Read more