Finally I am no longer intimidated by gross anatomy. Today we began the equine thoracic limb, and I rocked it! esp. the hoof (I can hear Dr. Redden: PI, PII, PIII...) I have been feeling so overwhelmed up until now. I've spent HOURS making flashcards for origin/insertion/action, coloring pages over and over in the workbooks, but every time I went to lab, all I saw was a piece of meat.
Honestly I could rattle off every muscle in the brachial and antebrachial regions, but give me a probe and gloves and my eyes glazed over. I could identify medial/lateral and cranial/caudal, but that's about it. Needless to say, there is a massive learning curve to anatomy. So being the procrastinator that I am, I had been studying every other class anxiously and avoiding looking anatomy in the eye, or even looking at it whatsoever. But one day (this morning), it finally clicked once I got my hands on the equine. And I got to be the star who explained all of the external/internal structures of the hoof to my anat groupies. Everyone's quaking in their boots about our 1st exam next week. No longer!!
Today was farmer's mkt again. It's funny to watch the other students make grocery "lists." It didn't take me long to figure out that it's hit or miss. Meat man just pulls up, then chills out from the back of his sketchy van, or egg man, or a heap of veggies on the lawn with a little man in the middle. I just show up with a handful of cash and take what I can get. Today there was no squash :( but there were watermelons! and eggs :) But alas no milk (boo) this week.
ambitiously pirating for 9 and studying nonstop - til next time!
take care
Lydia
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