Not So Typical Day

So, here's my side note: This will not be for the sensitive reader, nor the sensitive stomach reader. My day was far from a typical day in Nina world. So brace yourself, as what I'm about to describe may not be so pleasant.

Today I went in to take a Pharmacology quiz about parental ways to take drugs (LEGAL ones) at noon. So I walk into the school and call my professor to say that I was at school. He proceeds to tell me he's in the autopsy room...come and watch. Ummmm....WHAT? I didn't sign up for that!

So I said ummm...and he said where are you? Well we met up and he said he'd be done at one so I told him I'd go study for a while until 1.

I started to leave then said, noooo I'll wait till 1:05...so I did..ha. And went to knock on the door and to my surprise, a student opens the door and I'm greeted by the lovely smell of formaldehyde...now let me side track for a sec...

Formaldehyde is a preservative to um...keep organs and such fresh after the animal or whatever passes. I've experienced it when I dissected the frog (twice), cat, and fetal pig...each time, I had to step out cause of the smell. Don't even ask me what it smells like, cause I can't even describe it except...it smells like death.

Now, here I am in the door and everyone is telling me to come in and look...soo what do I do? I go in (mind you I am NOT one to give in to peer pressure...ever.) I must say though, it was quite an experience.

(NO this is not what it looked like) I came in just in time to see the skull opened and the brain in a silver bowl. Everyone told me the brain was heavy and it looks like all the pictures of brains you've seen...squishy and slimy. Anyways, you could see all the of lobes, nerves, fat, etc. perfectly...you could even see the spinal cord in the skull. It was quite an experience. We were going over how you could get shot in the head and survive and where would be the better spots, I guess.

You could also see the female's shoulders peeking out of the blanket and it looked fake...every looked completely fake until the juices...ha. He was explaining something and I felt a little light headed, so I excused myself for a sec to answer a text, sat down, drank some water, and went back in. By that time, they uncovered the other part of the body where her abdomen was open and the kidney and liver was out and you could see the fat, etc. I looked over to see the face...it looked as if she was asleep.

After I looked at all of that, and looking at the clock I hinted that I wanted to take the quiz that I was there for in the first place. So I took it (AND passed), but the rest of the day my clothes smelled like formaldehyde so I sat in my 3 hours nutrition class a little queasy, but I made it.

Am I scarred? No not really. It was an experience...I could definitely live without the smell, but it's like putting all of my learning to the test, which made it kind of...fun (nerd showing I know).

Nonetheless, let me get off here...I work at 6AM...Laterz.