I think I’ve got it!
Oct
16
We got our quizzes back from the A&P instructor today. I was sure I’d done horribly. I ended up with a score of 20.5 out of 25! Next week will be tough because it will be a practical covering everything we’ve done so far from cells to joints and everything in between including chemistry, slides, and models.
We visited with our cadaver today too. I am amazed at how easy it was to go right on in and pick up his femur without a second thought. The first time I was worried I’d barf at the sight or gag at the scent so I made sure to use Vic’s Vap-o-rub under my nose. Today it didn’t occur to me to do it until our group left the room and ran into a bunch of people with shiny upper lips. The first time I was so hung up on the cadaver being a person as if he’d get up and protest what we were doing. Today it was like he was never real. Weird how my brain did that.
Back to the femur: I was suprised it is so heavy! In a 80+ year old man! He had a shiny new titanium ball joint replacement. According to the instructor he also had perfect knees. I didn’t realize everything could still move so easily as she showed us nicely his knee joint worked. For the record the patella, lateral and medial epicondyles were so smooth and the ACL was still quite strong. Yeesh, I’m handling a cadaver.
Taking this class has enhanced my practice 500-fold. As I’ve said before my A&P for midwifery school was a distance, online reproductive organ centered class so there was nowhere near the detail I’ve received in just a few weeks. Explaining a cephalhematoma to a worried new mom is so much easier when I can explain it with academic and practical knowledge.