feet

Dr Bee was so impressed by my foot dissection today she said she wanted to keep this foot until she retires.



I got to lab around noon, and Nathan and I ate lunch in the office, then I got the foot out and started poking around trying to figure out what i was looking at. Nathan helped me get started- It was daunting trying to figure out where the bifurcate ligaments were going to be. and some around the ankle just didn't look like the book. Nathan left around 1. I kept working at it- Finally around 215 I decided I was going to start over on another foot, so I put the man's foot off to the side and found the saw and cut off one of the woman's feet. It seemed harder to do today. Maybe because I did it by myself- I don't know. I'm surprised old lady bones weren't easier to saw through.
By the time I emerged out of the storage room with my new foot, Dr Bee was there. So I went and showed her the man's foot, about to tell her how I think I messed something up.
She started raving! "Oh, it's perfect, it's better than I hoped for!" She recognized all of the ligaments I thought I had found, so sure enough I got them all correctly. She said she was going to keep this foot forever and show it to all her students.
i must admit- that felt pretty darn good.

then i told her i had already cut off another foot. she said that was fine. she got my book out and showed me some other ligaments to look for in this one. There's a ligament that attaches to one of the cuniforms and either the 1st or 2nd metatarsel (she couldn't remember which one) and if that gets severed then the whole foot basically collapses. So I'm going to look for that one in the new foot.
I worked on hers for about an hour. The skin and muscle is pretty much all gone. I was getting to the point where I have to distigush between what's left of the tendons and the ligaments, and I have to focus harder. I had already been in lab for 3 hours, so I packed everything up and left.

I'll work on it Friday.