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…

It’s my second week at the Red Deer Regional Hospital and it’s going better than last week, where all we did was read manuals on safety and WHMIS. Today, I got started in Micro planting all sorts of specimens: stools, throats, etc. Most people wouldn’t find that interesting but it was something. A start. A stepping stone to much cooler things.

so I rented Blade Runner the other day.

wikipedia.org

The film depicts a dystopian Los Angeles in November 2019 in which genetically manufactured beings called replicants, visually indistinguishable from adult humans, are used for dangerous and degrading work in Earth’s “off-world colonies”. After replicants became illegal on Earth, specialist police units — called “blade runners” — were trained to hunt down and “retire” (kill) escaped replicants on Earth. The plot focuses on a brutal and cunning group of replicants hiding in Los Angeles and a semi-retired blade runner, Rick Deckard (Ford), who reluctantly agrees to take on one more assignment.

I’ve been wanting to see this movie for 15 years. no jokes. I remember seeing trailers for this movie as a kid, I just never got around to seeing it. And my first impression is not that good. I was expecting soo much more. The protagonist, Rick Deckard (Harrison Ford), is too much of a…wimp. He had to be saved numerous times from danger by his own enemies! And the action is sub-par as well. The one thing I liked about the film is the vision of the future we’re presented with. It can actually happen. And in that sense, this film was way ahead of its own time.

Maybe I’ll give it a second watch…