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Current weather : Sunny, -10 Celsius.

Doing: Eating instant noodles, pelmeni and cutlet + red wine.

I was watching this Thai horror movie yesterday which end up with the ghost sitting on the guy’s shoulders (looking up and around). Feeling very eerie now because I’m alone at home. Errr.. Scary.

Anyway, let’s count the amount of dead bodies I saw today in the Morph. 1, 2, 3…. I think it should be 5. Yeap, this morning was my post-mortem day for my forensic medicine cycle. Besides the eerieness when I think of yesterday’s movie, I’m actually pretty happy now.

I entered the building and the first thing that welcomes me is the smell! Smell like… dead bodies. And to tell the truth, I don’t really like the idea of seeing dead people on tables and being pushed around by personnels. For one moment I thought this whole process is going to be scary, eerie and disgusting. Everybody was pretty nervous in the waiting room.

We went into the room. Today’s victim is an skinny old man who died on the street. See, I told you, lotsa people die on the street during winter. The weather is cruel. We were quite relunctant to enter the room because there are another dead auntie lying on the other table. And it took us like 5 minutes? Or maybe less and our medical students curiosity kicks in and our hands are everywhere!

It was utterly cool to have 2 experts explaining to us what is going on, where is being cut, what is seen and we have the chance to touch and see for ourselves. The lungs was bubbling when we squeeze it and the adrenal glands are so small! But I guess the smallest ever would be the hypophysis. If he didn’t even point that out, I would thought that it was just some coagulated blood. When the scalp’s skin is over the face, I think even the most timid girl in our group felt okay and didn’t actually fainted (I was expecting that). We started with checking of internal organs, and saw cardiosclerosis, ‘fresh’ infarction and normal heart muscles in his heart (the cause of death) and then to the brain, the 12 cranial nerves and revised some signs of death on the patient.

I got blood on my arms.

But luckily my white coat is clean. LOL. (meaning no need to wash).

And it lasted for some 1 hour. I was anticipating for the chance to cut things myself but well, the teachers never initiated anything of that kind and so I kept quiet. It is end of the year! I would consider ‘not cutting other people’s body’ as a good deed this year.

If you want me to summarize today’s class, well, this is a very good experience! But I have some documents to fill up, one being the crime scene report and the other one would be the autopsy report. Hate homeworks on new year holidays.

That’s all for now. 1 last day to new year!