there are no boundaries

I still haven't got my grade from the Patient Care/Isolation Control exam back yet. We are supposed to get them tomorrow in lab, so hopefully there will be good news! Last week was a short week because we had Friday off for the fourth of July. It really messed up my motivational equilibrium. I'm not okay with having two exams again this week. Alas, it is not my choice. I have an anatomy exam on Wednesday and an exam on Catheters/Tubes/Lines and Positioning on Friday. We've been looking on the cadavers at the abdominal region, and today we started looking at the pelvic region. This unit is a lot harder than the first one, in my opinion. Maybe because I don't want to get too close to the cadaver so I can't really have as much time with actually touching and reviewing as I did before. But in order to see the pelvic region better, and to have sagittal views of the structures inside the region, our professor bisected the pelvis. Meaning she sawed it in half. We now have a three-piece cadaver. Two legs/hips and from the ribs up. It's quite interesting...

We learned about positioning today, like how to name positions and projections and views. And different names for different positions, like the Trendelenburg position, the Sims' position, Fowler's position, etc. All used for different purposes and for different views of the anatomy. It's actually interesting stuff because I will be using it everyday. Tomorrow in lecture, however, we start Radiological Health and Imaging Physics. I haven't done the reading for that yet so we'll see how it goes................

If you WANT to see kind of what our cadavers look like, go here. Ours, however, has two separated legs and most of the stuff in the abdomen is missing, so we can see the posterior wall and its structures.