Out of surgery
Spent the morning doing the usual–observing a temporal lobectomy. That’s brain surgery, in layman’s terms.
Somebody’s got a faulty temporal lobe (the portion of the brain running along the side of your head–running from behind your ears to the temples), so you open up their skull and suck out some brain. Sound inelegant? It is. But also really fun. I wore scrubs. More tomorrow, when I’m not so darn tired from being up wicked early to look at a live human brain.
December 13th, 2007 at 10:38 pm
Super cool. Exposed brains!
December 14th, 2007 at 4:39 pm
Did you act like a Monty Python Gumby? Gumbies
December 15th, 2007 at 9:44 am
You are lucky!!!
I found this info online, which is a pretty interesting description of a temporal lobectomy.
http://www.stanfordhospital.com/clinicsmedServices/COE/neuro/epilepsy/surgicalTherapy/temporalLobectomy.html
December 20th, 2007 at 4:59 pm
Good for you. I, on the other hand get sick to my tummy just thinking about that!