Today in Anatomy we exposed and studied the eye and surrounding structures (nerves, arteries/veins, muscles, etc). It was pretty cool. In order to get to the eye though, we approached from behind and above the orbit (since the top of the skull and the brain have been removed). We had to use chisels and mallets to remove the bone behind the eye. This was really neat for me since I have interests in orthopedic surgery (the carpenters of the surgical world). I was surprised to see how much fat is deposited surrounding the eyeball filling the orbital space. A girl in my dissection group joked that, “Great! I’m even fat behind my eyes!”
As for our dissection groups, at the beginning of the year there were 6 of us in my group. Each assigned pair (three pair per table) rotates out of lab once a week so that there are never more that four students at a dissection table. My day to rotate out is Monday. My partner and I are in the lab on Tuesday and Thursday. Monday afternoons that I am not in the lab I do my clinical preceptorship (every other week anyways). Well, two people that began in my group have left school. One was my assigned partner and the other was Kim’s (the joking girl from above). That means that on Thursdays it is just Kim and me at our table. I kind of enjoy it since we each can work on a side and are not bumping into each other. I guess that I am selfish, but I like not having to share my dissection time.
Tomorrow night my wife and I have a date planned. We haven’t had a real date since our anniversary at the beginning of January. The kids are off to PaPa and LaLa’s house to spend the night, so we don’t have to rush home. I am REALLY looking forward to it! We don’t know what we’re doing, but something along the lines of dinner and a movie is probably not far from the plan. Then Saturday will be another long study day at the library. I would much rather be studying at home, but I am too easily distractible. I can always find things to do besides study, like clean bathrooms, change the oil, type a blog…… ;-)
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Ya. But get this...our typical date is a night at the local Bashas. We put the kids in the free day care and we sit in the store eating stale sandwiches from the deli. We only have an hour and a half though. Sometimes we head over to Fry's for dessert. They have a kids club too.
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