Our last day of the week was eventful. First order of the day was autopsies where we had the chance to view the individual that we had seen come into receiving on thursday that had his bottom half and top half seperated by a motorcycle accident. It was interesting to watch the autopsy as he had alot of fractures and broken bones. I got to feel one of the fractures that was at the top of his spine by the foramen magnum which is the hole in the botton of your skull for your spinal cord to go through. Putting my hand inside of his throat all the way up to his brain was intense and amazing...my hand was in all the way to my wrist a bit longer possibly. We were also allowed to put our hands into other parts of the body as well and able to hold the organs and watch the Doctor disect them for any anomalies (somthing different or abnormal in the organs).
After the autopsy we went to the bone room where we worked on our cases again and found some really cool remains for one of our cases, we found blunt force trauma to the skull and also found two bones in the leg (tibia and fibula) that were fused, which means that this man must have have had a limp and was in some pain. We suspect the fused bones were a bacterial infection because there were no signs of trauma from the x-ray that we had taken. And that was our last day of the week. Looking forward to Monday!
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