More dissecting

Yesterday morning when I got to lab, Dr Bee said she was looking at my neck dissection and was impressed by it. She asked me to do the man's anterior forearm for her. I had never done a forearm, but I went at it and got all of the muscles and nerves out really well. I asked if I could try the hand- for practice- and she said I could dissect anything I wanted to. So I did the hand, after helping Lindsay find the radial nerve under his tricep, and ended up finding a structure that Dr Bee said most PT students can never find. Dr Bee was so excited about it and made other TAs come and look.
She kept on saying I should for sure be a pathologist or a surgeon.
She said she need a foot dissected out, to the level of the ligaments. She said she can never do a very good job, but that I should try it. So inbetween the two labs we rolled the male body back into the storage room, got a saw, and with Nathan holding the leg still, I sawed off the mans foot right above the ankle.
Never thought I'd ever do that!
I brought the foot out to the lab on a tray. I got a few weird, curious looks.
I went in the corner and cut away the skin, and then each layer of muscle. I went through so many blades- and i felt bad but Dr Bee said not to worry about it. She said it was an advanced dissection and if I felt the blade becoming dull at all, to go change it for a new one.
Dr Bee said if I mess anything up, it's not a problem. "We have a lot of feet in here"
I worked on the foot for a couple hours before I found a few ligaments. But then I had to leave for yoga.
I have to run an open lab tomorrow- so hopefully I can get there a little early and pull the foot out again. Or if it's slow, I can leave the rest up to the other TAs there and work on it. She needs it done by Tuesday, which I should be able to do.

Yesterday was seriously one of the coolest days of my life.
Everyone kept on laughing at me- they said I looked like a kid in a toy store or something.
I"m going to ask Dr Bee for more things I can dissect. She said I could do whatever I wanted to practice on, but I feel weird not asking her first. I want to try the fingers, maybe the face. Some of the TAs tried the face last year and they couldn't do it. Maybe if I try on my own, I can. I guess because the facial muscles are so thin, they tend to peel away with the skin.
It might be weird to work on a face, though.
With a foot or an arm- I can stay detached.
but a face?
We'll see.