Internship Reflection #1

Internship has been beyond awesome so far. There is a lot of new things to learn, and it can be very challenging, but I really enjoy it. I start at 6:00 am, which means I need to leave no later than 5:30. I wake up at 4:45 every morning, which has been exhausting. The first day, I thought I would fall alseep on my feet, but it's getting a little easier now. I drive myself there and actually appreciate the lack of traffic o'dark thirty in the morning. I am a little worried about annoying people everytime I have to back into the lab, because I don't have a badge that can open anything. I have to ring the door bell everytime I need to come back in, and that door bell is REALLY annoying. I went to the Surgical Pathology Lab for the first time today and was very impressed. It's a really tiny room with a little fridge in the back where the body parts are kept. I have to wear scrubs and gloves all the time, because the samples are really bloody ad the formulin can get on me if I'm not careful. Today was a slow day apparently, because there were only ten specimens for the pathologist to look at. I helped Viviana prepare specimens for the Pathologist to look at, and it was certainly interesting and not at all what I expected. The funniest part was when we got a femoral head (top of the femur bone) and we had to prepare it by splitting it open. We put a towel down on the floor, laid the bone on it, and whacked it with a hammer. I was expecting saws and precision, but instead there were hammers. Next time, I get to do it!