Blog Fifteen

There is so much and so much time to be into doing this job. Marilena Marignani is a plastic surgeon with dark hair and large eyes and large cheekbones. As practicing a nose job on a cadaver she is talking with another doctor, she poked at an edge of a yolk colored blob. Apparently the blob is known among plastic surgeons as the malar fat pad. "malar" means relating to the cheek. The malar fat pad is the cushion of youthful padding that sits high on your cheekbone (zigoma-medical terms) and also the things that grandmothers pinch!
More facts and interesting things:
over the years, gravity coazes the fat from its roost, and it commences a downward slide, piling up at the first anatomical roadblock it reaches: the nasolabial folds ( the anatomical parenthese that run from the edges of a middle-aged nose down to the corners of the mouth.) the result is that the cheeks start to look bony and sunken, and bulgy parenthese of fat reinforce the nasolabial lines. During facelifts, surgeonsput the malar fat pad back up where it started out. That is more of a scientific way of looking at it, but in other words, the cheeks get saggy when you grow old and that bony, sunken look is when you get a face-lift to bring the malar (fatty stuff) back to where it was to look young again!

Blog Fourteen

"Though perhaps there ought to be a box for people to check, or not check, on their body donor form: okay to use me for cosmetic purposes"
I just wanted to explain this quote... Would you want to be a donor for cosmetic purposes??
Well, i wouldn't neccesssairly want to be a donor/cadaver to be worked on and practice nose jobs to, and face lifts. i would rather check that box before i die to be a donor for my organs. i haven't yet gotten my license or permit, however when i do i am planning on being a donor. I mean why wouldn't you donate your organs to a person who is trying to survive and live through surgery, rather than not doing anything with them, and possibly going to waste.
I though this little paragraph part in the book was funny...
"*i am a believer in organ and tissue (bone, cartilage, skin) donation, but was startled to learn that donated skin that isn't used for, say, grafting onto burn victims may be processed and used cosmetically to plump up wrinkles and aggrandize penises. while i have no preconceived notions of the hereafter, i stand firm in my conviction that it should not take the form of someone else's underpants."

Blog Thirteen

The next character we are introduced to is Yvonne and her job is to saw off the heads of the cadavers. EW! People wonder and ask her what that is like and she says she thinks of them as wax. Also the best way to deal with cadavers and people who work with them is to think more of them as objects not people. For example, it compares to us eating animals very well. It's is much the same reason as of why we call our meat "beef" and "pork" and don't refer to them as cow and pig. When referring to them like that it is much less appetizing/ same goes for people who work with cadavers... it's all about the depersonzlizing and objectification.
Fact: a injection of saline is used to freshen the cadavers.
Yvonne is also the lab manager, the person responsible when things go wrong.

Blog Twelve

Practicing surgery on the dead:
The first character that we get introduced to is Theresa. Cadaver heads are being put in roasting pans, as they explain, to collect the drippings, just as a chicken is put in a roasting pan to catch the drippings as well. The doctors that work with cadavers must have guts. When i go to funerals and they have open casscets it is kind of scary looking at the dead people in them, not going to lie. Roach uses good describing words such as this wordy sentence, "It surprises me to hear that men and women who spend their days pruning eyelids and vacuuming fat would require anything in the way of soothing..." just the words pruning and vacuuming are perfect describing words, because i can picture in my head exactly what that may look like. When the docs enter the room that has the dead bodies in it they are covered except for the head, and their heads are shaved down to a stubble. And according to the docs they are bloody and rough. I don't think this would be the job for me:/

Blog Eleven

I started a novel called Stiff by Mary Roach. I bought the book at an airport one day when I was off to Florida! I thought it would be an interesting book to get into. There were a couple reasons of why i chose this one. First of all, the front cover looked intreguing, with the bottom of the feet showing and a sub title of The curious lives of human cadavers.... This leads to my second reason, i love this kind of stuff, dealing with bodies (dead or alive i suppose), and medical issues or stories. It is also a new york times bestseller... so it really must be good. The first page has already caught my attention with this line..."The way i see it, being dead is not terribly far off from being on a cruise ship. Most of your tme is spent lying on your back." This could be taken differently for different folks, but the way i see it is that it's comparing and saying that a ship is just a lifeless transportation. Now because no one knows what it is like when you're gone, until you actually die, this could mean many different ideas. I feel like heaven or hell, wherever you end up, could be like another life... and what i mean by that is, it could be crazy and moving and lots of camotion. The way that the author describes it as though is a dead person just lying there, on your back. Yes, that is what the human eye sees when they see a dead person/cadaver. but we will never know what is going on inside that person, or where the soul takes you. All in all, i wouldn't neccessarily compare a dead person to a ship who just lies on their back.

Blog Ten

My cousin's boyfriend just recently got in a car accident and died. He was 24 years young and it was devistating to hear about it. The conditions outside were horrible, and he simply made an arrond to target to get my cousin a pair of sweatpants because she was chilly. There are choices that have to be made and we make thousands a day. The first question and decision we have to make is, "should I get up and out of bed this morning?" "What should i eat for breakfast?" Car accidents are one of the most common tradgedies, and i feel horrible for everyone that has to go through the pain... there was a young girl, 15 years young, and she had her permit. She was driving with her dad in the passanger seat while he little brother was in the back seat. The roads were slippery i am sure, and teens are so young to be driving that she got in a car accident, died, and the other people were dead as well. So in all she killed about 5 people... just driving around. Anything can happen in the blink of an eye, and you have to be so cautious of what is going on around you at all times. THere shouldn't be one minute on the slippery, dangerous, scary roads right now that you can't be paying attention. You never know what is going to happen and what will happen tomorrow. Think before you act is a great saying and lesson!