Thursday, April 21, 2005 @ 10:09 pm
Eye-opening experience.

Warning: Wat i write below may be disgusting n if u can't handle gross stuff, either dun read or stop eating any food when u read this.

My 4 days at histopathology lab is really different frm wat i experience in sch. I guess mainly is because i haven take the histology module n most of things r not familiar to me. Wat i do everyday is almost the same as wat i wrote on the previous entry but now the staff got let me handle some non-gynaecological samples like urine and stuff. I'm supposed to make slides of the samples. Personally i not very confident to say tat wat i did is good lor but i jus did wat i was taught n do it the same way. Today i got to cut some tissues. Manage to cut appendix, tonsils, gall bladder n breast lump. The appendix was already cut so is like i jus cut the already cut portion. The appendix i get to c on tuesday was uncut and it looks like cooked sotong. A bit purplish-black looking n it's like curled up as it was congested. Then the tonsil looks like oyster lor, lucky i dun eat them. The gall bladder looks a bit green but it was also cut already so its original form i didn't get to c. The breast lump hor, looks like the macdonald's hotcakes the margarine, a bit oily-looking then yellowish in colour. So it's like i got some practice on cutting tissues when i'm here even though the staff are quite busy in the afternoon. In the afternoon, i get to c how they cut a breast specimen. It was done by a doctor. Most of the bigger specimen like breast specimen r done by the doctors. When i first looked at it, the fats portion looks like cheese especially those melted cheese but harden after some time. But it's more organised than normal melted cheese since it's a tissue. I not purposedly relate these tissues to food but somehow it always manage to link to food. I guess i too hungry after work bah. ^_^ Too bad i didn't get to c how the large intestine was cut on tuesday. The bag tat it was contain in it's quite big so i tink maybe the specimen is like the whole of the large intestine or most of it. If it was placed to next some other intestine i tink i won't be able to differentiate. Next wk i'll be goin over to urinanalysis section. Heard frm Sue Sue it's like only busy in the morning n afternoon like nothing to do. Hope nxt wk can be as interesting as this wk.