First Dissection Lab.

There are 2 lifeless body on the dissecting tables.
1 is an old woman. A very skinny woman.
1 is an old man. His belly visible. His face dark.
When I was small, I was told that people who drink alcohol will have a blackened face when they die.
I don't know if it was scientifically proven.
Anybody interested to carry out a research about it?

Well, since we are there first, we get to choose which cadaver we want.
Of course we go for the old man cadaver.
Thick fat - lower risk of cutting superficial vessels and nerves.
10 excited students dissecting on a cadaver.
Albeit,we work harmoniously.
Constantly reminding each other to watch out.
Well, the scalpel is used to cut the cadaver but high fat chances it can cut u too. (remember,the scalpel is contaminated with the died old man's fat)
Everyone is committed with their work.
Chatting occassionally.
And when your thumb and index finger loose their strength and the tweezers that they control slips.
It's my face that serve as victim to the flying fluid.
That.is.gross.
I've to buy a mouth and nose mask in case in the future the fluid may enter my mouth *puke*

So, for today we just separate the skin from the subcutaneous layer (FYI, it's fat layer)
No pic from today coz I'm immersed in the feeling of being a surgeon.
And we need to choose a small region to dissect and later to write on.
Since we are given the chance to choose our cadaver and cut it first, when it comes to regional part, we are the last
That means leftover.
And it's totally leftover that I and Aizat don't have anything to work on.
I tell you what, I nearly ends up with tok mudim profession (if u get my drift)
what?
U don't get it?
Ok.
Me...
I...
er, actually Prof Hajek (pronounced Hayek)
after he closes the door and when it is only Mr Kuchar, Prof Hajek, Aizat and me in the dissection room
he asks either me or Aizat,
either one of us, take the
ahem...
penis
none of us want it
We keep saying "u take it" to each other
I told him that I'm totally not taking it.
Because I'm a girl.
And can u predict what's everybody reaction when I have to work (I mean dissecting) with it.
NO.NO.NO.
NE.NE.NE.
TIDAK.TIDAK.TIDAK.

And Aizat doesn't want it too because he says
" Can u imagine me holding it when I dissect it?"
"People will call me gay"
Since we are very declining, Prof Hajek tries his best to find other regions for us.

Lastly, I get the right anterior tibial region (that's your shin and the muscle beside it readers)
And Aizat, poor guy, he gets all 5 right toes.
The region is so small that u can finish dissecting it in your first period (class la weh,not menstrual)
But that is the price that we pay to protect the cadaver's genital (Mr. Cadaver, you must thank both of us u know)

Even I don't favour the part that I get,
at least I don't have to cut the penis

I Got The Thorax!!!!

wheeee!!!!
I.Got.The.Thorax.

Image from here

There are 4 groups who want thorax but only 2 groups can have it.
And me and Neo did!
Thorax is pretty interesting TO DISSECT
Since thorax dissection is on 2nd dissection class (which allows me enough time to revise on it)
And the fact that I like internal organ and thorax seems to have the HEART


Why not :
Head and neck?
- 1st dissection

Abdomen and Pelvis?
- I don't think cutting thru cadaver's (I repeat, cadaver's) gut and genitalia is my interest.NO. (I prefer living human's)

Arm?
- 3 people on an arm, that's too many hands, scalpels, tweezers and brains
- plus, no organs, just muscle, bone and vessels

Leg?
- (refer hand)

All in all, like Prof Slizova said
"Every part is interesting"
and I have my pick

Dissection

My first dissection kit (but why I'm not excited - the alien syndrome again?)

I don't like cadavers.
I'd be the last person to hold it.
But starting next week, we are CUTting open the lifeless bodies.
OMGOMGOMG
It's not that I'm scared
It's just that I'm freaking hate the formalin
It makes my eyes water and it doesn't smell nice either (complaining too much- I can't help it)
Bright side of it - I'm dealing with tweezers and scalpel and I get to revise what I learned in winter semester (literally) via the dissection
Er, just one thing, should I charge forward?
Well, U know, the thing about being a tall person.
U are always asked to give way to the so called smaller ones.
And tall people like me?
I feel like I'm being dumped
I'm not happy okay.
Never.
My principle, first come fist serve
So if you want to get a nice spot, move quickly
So that you wont push me to the back
I've give in during winter sem
Spare me this time

Anyway, I'm going to CUT!
double triple yippie!

Am I a Chicken?

I'm not talking about me as a coward if that is what you think.
Neither a prostitute (mintak simpang)

But I'm feeling like I'm a chicken because I need to take so many shots (vaccination) ever since I was born (thanks Malaysian government)

Image kidnapped from Flickr
Shots are good, no doubt about that. Otherwise, my immune system would fail me.
But when I was a baby I got shots.
In elementary, I got shots.
In high school I got shots.
To work at Pizza Hut, I got shot.
And to be a doctor, i got 3 extra shots.
Even a chicken doesn't get that much shot in its life *sigh*

Anyway, I just want to tell you.
That to be a doctor, we need to take Hepatitis B shots.
3 shots Within a year.
So that we can practise without giving our patient extra helping to their immune system.
After a month of your first shot, you need to take your second shot and 6 months after that, is your final shot.

I did my first shot in Malaysia.
I got the shot at my waist.
The doctor told me it hurts less.
And he was right.

Too bad, I delayed my second shot.
So I start over again (look, that make 4 extra shots for me instead of 3,oh my!)
I paid 720 Kc (26 EURO or RM144)
For a morsel of alcohol
A shot and a tiny plaster
Just one complain here-could you rub more alcohol please?coz I can feel the needle in my vein.

Pengajaran di sini : for those kt Malaysia, be grateful, coz kita kena rub dgn alkohol yg byk,even misi 2 tonyoh-tonyoh,asalkan time kena injek tak sakit sgt.