Life in Rochester is....well....I guess I'm not sure what life in Rochester is like, with working as much as I am. I'm excited for two weeks from now when I will slip back into having only one full-time job. Of course, with my disposition, that will still be one job too many, but what can you do?
Anyway, the other big development is that my wife is now the scariest person I know. On Friday she began dissecting her cadaver as part of her human anatomy course. Now think about this - the only people who have had the experience she is having now are doctors and serial killers. Which is she? I guess we shall see, although I'm leaning towards the latter.
remember that scene in "Seven", when the cops find that dude...who they think is dead? And one cops leans over and say something: you got what you derserve.. Then the dude is really alive and starts like screaming... It'd be pretty cool if Sarah's cadaver jumped up and starting dancing....
Some info for the troops (and I can't say a ton, because we are veeeeery careful about confidentiality stuff when it comes to cadavers):
-Smell is pretty tame right now. The amount of formaldehyde is pretty low in the embalming solution, so it's not so bad, but there's definitely a distinct "cadaver" smell that even without copious amounts of Febreeze is not going away. We have sneakers and scrubs and socks just for anatomy lab that are all getting tossed in December. I also dissected a cat in high school and the smeel is similar, but on a larger scale. I can update you more once we've had the cadaver for fourteen weeks. I am anticipating an upswing in smelliage.
-I think we've done enough by now that if my cadaver was alive, he'd be pretty pissed off. They have also been dead long enough that there's none of that gas escaping, makes the body jump around or look like it's breathing kind of thing that you see on various television shows.
-On a more appreciative note, I am so amazed at the people who have chosen to donate their bodies. Rochester is an all-volunteer program - all the bodies are people from the community who sign up and put it in their will well before they ever get near the end of their life. Talk about the ultimate gift - I'm just so grateful. I'm definitely considering it for myself.
-And for those of you just reading for the gross-out factor, today we removed the spinal vertabrae with a chisel and a mallet. Wednesday: the forearm!
