Scary legs

Listening to: YACHT – It’s coming to get you

I never really liked Histology in school and, now, after a day in the department, I have one more reason to not like it.

I observed gross dissection most of the day, when the most interesting case came through…a leg! It was a fresh “specimen” and not fixed, so the blood was bright red and the skin still flush. I assume it came from a diabetic patient because the heel of the foot had a wound that was all necrotic and gangrenous. And most lower limb amputations are from Diabetics. The pathologist didn’t really discuss much about it, maybe because he was busy with the saw. Every time he cut into that leg with the saw, it felt as if he were doing it to my leg. It was almost too much to stomach.

I’m scheduled to assist in an autopsy. Now, I’m rethinking whether I want to do it or not…