The Last Cut Is The Deepest: My Take On Human Dissection (Page 2)

[ExperimentalMale]

This was actually so good, you've inspired me haha :)

[myTake Owner]

glad to hear that :)

[Theresao]

Amazing mytake. I love this so much! You're a really good writer!

[Anonymous]

Honestly, I don't know if I'm weird or what but so far I have witnessed live surgery (I was inside the operating room) and been in the ER for a school project of mine and I don't seem to find anything disturbing.
But I hope in a few years I will be dissecting a body myself. Reading this got me more motivated for med school.

[TheDevilInside]

The first picture is the prep kit biology students get. To dissect animals. I Used to have one of those, along with some microscope glasses

[myTake Owner]

I know. I got a similar kit in college anatomy and phys.

[TheDevilInside]

Probably with bigger instruments though

[TheDevilInside]

Ok i didn't have time to read your take completely when I commented. I have continued now.

Thanks for writing such an amazing insight to what I have always wished I could experience myself but have always been too scared to imagine, despite having read many of Patricia Cornwell's books.

I remember the first time I pulled a tendon on a chicken foot in biology class in school, I was also freaked when one finger moved. Can't imagine if it were a more similar organ to mine.

I also have never had much trouble seeing dead bodies, as long as I don't see the face and expression. Only the body is just like another fiberglass model for me.

Thanks for describing the spinal cord. Always wondered what it looked like.

I learned about the circle of Willis from you today. Thanks.

I also had depressed a grasshoppers eyes into its hollow head during zoology. It felt quite shocking already. Can't imagine if it were human.

[TheDevilInside]

And now after reading this til the end, I have 2 chicken thighs in my fridge that I've been dying to eat since I'm starving, that I now can't even eat. I toyed with it for like 30 seconds, and then decided to eat my veggies instead and some beef jerky.

[TheDevilInside]

Now some questions:
1. Have you seen your fellow students behaving disrespectfully when handling organs or the bodies? A fried told me that in her year, there were some guys who played with some organ and toss it around jokingly. I considered becoming a donor in the past, but her story made me seriously rethink my decision.

2. Did you finally find out how she died?

3. Were you able to eat meat after that? I now have lost all my appetite just by reading your story and I think I would also skip my veggies and eat popcorn instead. Or maybe not even that.

[myTake Owner]

thanks for reading :) definitely agree- much easier to handle if the faces were always off-limits. sorry about messing with your appetite. ever since i wrote this, i've been having problems with meat too. lol. i ordered a burrito the other day, took a bite, and immediately gagged because it just triggered the smell of the cadavers somehow. it's always that particular burrito. i think i'm off it for life.

answers to your questions:

1. yes. i didn't write about it in this take but there were definitely some moments where i felt really sickened by how careless people treated the cadavers. i remember seeing two guys toss a heart between them a few times, like playing catch.

2. cardiorespiratory arrest

3. i kind of answered this one- i was largely vegetarian during that time. the smell and taste of meat, I don't know, it did something to a lot of us- it just... somehow got the smell of those bodies so strongly in my mind. a lot of gagging until i just gave up on eating meat.

[abundantlyrich]

This is 😂 funny. I wonder why did the family gave it up for dismantling? Couldn't afford an expensive burial?

[myTake Owner]

i don't think that's the case. we had a former neurosurgeon as a cadaver too.

[WhiteSteve]

A live look in at me:

https://youtu.be/kW0mi0L83Ek

[redeyemindtricks]

Powerful.

You write well, too.

[myTake Owner]

thank you for reading :)

[redeyemindtricks]

may I ask -- how did *you* get stuck with making that last cut, that no one wanted to do?

Were you (and yr partner (s) for that activity) just the only ones dutiful enough NOT to be absent that day?
.. Or did you lose a bet?
Etc

[myTake Owner]

The three of us who did show up were probably more responsible tbh. When we were getting started, one of the guys point blank said he wasn't going to do it. The other one looked really, really uncomfortable, so I said I'd do it. I didn't want to argue over it, you know?

[redeyemindtricks]

Smh... boys. Wonder if he'll feel the same way about changing a diaper someday. 😶😶🙄🙄😂 Good on you tho.

[Toad-1]

Human anatomy on Gag? wow! :D

[myTake Owner]

i did ask if people would even want to read about it :)

[Bandit74]

I was grossed out when disecting frogs in middle school, I can't imagine working on a human =.=

[OrdinaryGentleman]

Look into the eyes, its a heart warming experience.

[myTake Owner]

Of a cadaver? I can't say i agree.

[OrdinaryGentleman]

Proof of your humanity.

[myTake Owner]

Did you doubt my humanity?

[OrdinaryGentleman]

No, i had no reason to.

[Imhotep99]

Nicely written. We once had a trip to a medical college and we saw the cadavers on the metal tables. We couldn't have our dinner that day.

[1truekhaleesi]

I love this my take!

[myTake Owner]

thank you!! :)

[kambo_trick3y]

My. Fucking. God.

[myTake Owner]

dark times, yes :p

[kambo_trick3y]

Well, I AM gonna have to go to a dark place if I'm to write my script. This was very useful for inspiration.

[myTake Owner]

oooh, so true. if you have any... anatomy-related questions, i can totally help you out, authenticity-wise :p

[akadatank44]

This was awesome!

[myTake Owner]

Glad you liked it :D

[akadatank44]

I did! Very descriptive and detailed. Glad I didn't go into medical school xD

[myTake Owner]

Hahaha yeah, it has its high and low points :p

[akadatank44]

Hahah definitely😛 looking back are you glad on some level you had this expierence?

[myTake Owner]

Definitely. It was a privilege. I learned so much. Just weird to reflect on sometimes.

[akadatank44]

Well thats cool! Yeah I imagine it would be weird.

[Anonymous]

This was nice take

[myTake Owner]

Thanks :)

[suseel_sushi]

Are you a doctor? 😱