Rather quiet on the western front

[nari]

Bernard is swimming in the Mediterranean, Diane is dissecting cadavers, the Olympic mania is on ;
so emad, Cory, Pablo - it's up to us to keep the cogs turning for a few weeks. I am sure Bernard will be full of bright ideas when he returns with a suntan, and Diane will have discovered something that doesn't appear in Gray's, for sure.

If I get any inspiration I will post a few topics but today is not an inspirational day at all...


Nari

[emad]

Hi Nari :

Hope Bernard :arrow: enjoying his time
Diane :arrow: get what she hopes .

cheers
emad

[Diane]

Well, I'm already back from dissecting cadavers. My big adventure lasted a mere 24 hours or so.. I leisurely took the day off yesterday to get ready, do laundry and other domesticky chores, getting my place ready to leave in the hands of the cat feeder.. drove to the venue in the US, booked into residence, paid my six day fee, unpacked, read, slept, got up today ready and rested. We gathered at the anatomy lab, got to know each other a little, looked around at all the cadavers, lying on guerneys in black body bags. Our two were in blue body bags. We unzipped the first body bag to take a look at our fresh cadaver.

Turned out he had already been dissected by some other hands! So had number 2! Turned out the school had made some horrid beaurocratic error, and the bodies (fresh ones) although they had been arranged for 8 months previously, and supposedly confimed 4 months ago, and money had exchanged hands, were no where to be found. Our instructor was distraught, and so was the guy in charge of it all, who had been on the job for only 5 days.. his predecessor was the bungler. The doctor who was overall in charge of the process was irate, to say the least. Nothing could be done but to refund us our fees, which was done.

So here I am back home.. short holiday. While we were there, we unzipped and inspected one cadaver that was already dissected, and I had a chance to see quite a bit, a v-e-r-y long obturator nerve that went all the way to the big toe, a transversus abdominus, a sort of flat, smallish extra muscle in the lateral thigh, embedded within the iliotibial band, a quite deep dissection of the anterior neck, a whole bunch of viscera. His gall bladder had either been nicked during the dissection, or had burst before death, because much of his inner workings were green.

Hmmnn... now I have all this free time on my hands, til the 30th. I'm just not used to facing idleness.
Cheers,
Diane

[nari]

Hi Diane

Quite a disappointment for you - I hope you have better luck next time!

But I am sure your cat was pleased to see you back again so soon.


Nari

[pablo]

Hi Diane,
I am intrigued by the long obturator nerve going all the way to the big toe. The copy of Gray's Anatomy I have at work (35th ed. 1973) mentions communication between the obturator and the saphenous, but not that the obturator itself reaches the foot. The closest it gets is saying that the communicating branch to the saphenous sometimes continues as far as the the medial knee, travelling posterior to sartorius, and then communicating with the saphenous.

Pablo

[Diane]

It was probably the saphenous then Pablo (it was just there, no label attached..:)) like a lot of the streets in this city, I suppose, that change their name in each neighbourhood even while being continuous.

Thanks for pointing that out,
Diane