Crunch!

Calcifications of the blood vessels show up in x-rays, making these vessels visible where they normally wouldn't be seen. Here we've got the calcification of the aortic root (arrow). The other day in Anatomy, someone demonstrated the crunchiness (no better way of putting this) of the said structure. It felt like someone put a wafer tube inside a latex glove that kept on cracking as you touched it more and more. "99% of the people in the world will not experience what you will in medical school" we were told somewhere along the line. How true.

Anatomy labs are now open 24 hours, and usually there is someone there at all times. Often large groups of students congregate around a particular table and teach one another various parts of anatomy covered in lecture. Our exam is next week, Friday. Not to be outdone, the Fundo 2 (2nd part of the fundamentals track) class is throwing a big one our way on Monday of the said week. Parents: sign your kids up early. This is a lifestyle that many envy and few achieve.