Digusting Anatomy Lab

I attended my class 7:00 am and went to the anatomy lab for checking out the heart ("corazón" in Spanish). I took a close look at the heart and it was very pale in color (almost appears little bit green). I flipped the heart to other side to take a close look into it, and accidentally I splashed small amount of liquid (probably small amount of formaldehyde and some other preservatives) that came with heart into my pants and book. I was like "Eu...so digusting". So I ran into the restroom and cleaned it out. Afterward, I took another heart for a closer look, and it was quite slippery on its surface.

Anyway, next to the heart, there was a peeled hair skin. So I took a close look into it (because I was curious how does the hair attach to the skin), and at the profound side of the skin, there were some yellowish adipose tissue attached to the skin (adipose tissue = fat) which has thousand of hair follicles attached to the adipose tissue. It was as if I saw thousand of ants walking around a dead body, which means super horrible to me! I was almost vomit at that time. So I left and went home.

I was so tired, so I took a nap, and I had a very bad dream -seeing someone was feeding me with blended frog liquid (it had the same color as the heart -greenish yellow). I woke up with fainting and almost vomit. Anyway, I was very sick, and hope that I can get use to anatomy lab.

By the way, that was not my first anatomy lab, but I found that lab was relatively disgusting compare to others.

The beginning is always hard!

Being a non-Spanish speaking medical student in a Costa Rica, is not easy. I faced much more challenges than other native students, well in term of learning and speaking abilities. Not only the material itself is hard, but learning a new language is always a challenge. However, challenges always make me growth to be a better person.

I found a lot of interesting thing in the process of learning and studying medicine. That's why I want to share with friends and everyone else.

Anyway, I hope this blog can record my growth history as being a medical student, and hopefully couple years later, I can see this blog again with a magic Dr. title.