a fainting spell, such an odd feeling...
i'm glad that i never had the slightest idea to become a surgeon.
my grad student's project has led her to some experiments requiring intra-thymic injection of the mice. so today, one of the faculty who is an M.D., and is THE person who knows how to perform the surgery to open up the chest cavity of a mouse, came down to our lab to show her how to go about doing it.
it was a "performance" in the lab, and everyone in the lab gathered to watch him, since no one in the lab has done this before. so after the prep, the show began...
WARNING: THIS IS NOT FOR THE FAINT-HEARTED. DO NOT READ FURTHER IF U ARE NOT COMFORTABLE!
1. IP injection of the mouse with anesthetic
2. after the mouse is asleep, pin the mouse down to a board.
3. cut open the skin at the neck, and push the muscles away.
4. cut the cervical bone to reach down to the location of the thymus.
5. tease the muscles apart further to reach the membrane above the thymus.
6. slit an opening in the membrane.
7. inject sample into thymus.
8. pull the skin together and stitch (using this stapler clip) the wound.
9. leave the mouse on 37 degrees heater "bed", covered with soft tissue until it wakes up.
so... attempt #1:
everything was fine, until... when trying to cut the cervical bone, the scissors was not dead center, slightly to the right. and blood start to ooze out. excessive loss of blood: the mouse was not gonna make it thru. since it was lost, the prof went on to open up the chest to show us the insides and the following steps anyways...
but as he was cutting, and more blood was coming out, i suddenly felt nauseous, and everything was turning white, i was losing my vision and the world was starting to spin. all this just hit me in a matter of milliseconds.
i pulled myself away from the bench immediately, and walked away. i could barely see my surroundings, it was a patch of white. but i knew my way around the lab, and made my way out of the lab with the extremely bleached vision i had.
amazingly, although my head was spinning, and my vision bleached out, i could still control myself. i walked over to the lounge area, got a cup of water. my vision was slowly returning, and i din feel like throwing up anymore.
in less than five minutes, i was fine again, except for a lingering headache. thank god i overcome that spell without freaking out, or fainting...... never had i experienced this before, strangely odd, strangely freaky......
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anyhow, i took a break off, and went back to look at the rest of the demonstration, taking care not to focus too much, but glancing away and looking around elsewhere periodically.
oh my gosh, fainting--- horrible but strange feeling indeed...
my grad student's project has led her to some experiments requiring intra-thymic injection of the mice. so today, one of the faculty who is an M.D., and is THE person who knows how to perform the surgery to open up the chest cavity of a mouse, came down to our lab to show her how to go about doing it.
it was a "performance" in the lab, and everyone in the lab gathered to watch him, since no one in the lab has done this before. so after the prep, the show began...
WARNING: THIS IS NOT FOR THE FAINT-HEARTED. DO NOT READ FURTHER IF U ARE NOT COMFORTABLE!
1. IP injection of the mouse with anesthetic
2. after the mouse is asleep, pin the mouse down to a board.
3. cut open the skin at the neck, and push the muscles away.
4. cut the cervical bone to reach down to the location of the thymus.
5. tease the muscles apart further to reach the membrane above the thymus.
6. slit an opening in the membrane.
7. inject sample into thymus.
8. pull the skin together and stitch (using this stapler clip) the wound.
9. leave the mouse on 37 degrees heater "bed", covered with soft tissue until it wakes up.
so... attempt #1:
everything was fine, until... when trying to cut the cervical bone, the scissors was not dead center, slightly to the right. and blood start to ooze out. excessive loss of blood: the mouse was not gonna make it thru. since it was lost, the prof went on to open up the chest to show us the insides and the following steps anyways...
but as he was cutting, and more blood was coming out, i suddenly felt nauseous, and everything was turning white, i was losing my vision and the world was starting to spin. all this just hit me in a matter of milliseconds.
i pulled myself away from the bench immediately, and walked away. i could barely see my surroundings, it was a patch of white. but i knew my way around the lab, and made my way out of the lab with the extremely bleached vision i had.
amazingly, although my head was spinning, and my vision bleached out, i could still control myself. i walked over to the lounge area, got a cup of water. my vision was slowly returning, and i din feel like throwing up anymore.
in less than five minutes, i was fine again, except for a lingering headache. thank god i overcome that spell without freaking out, or fainting...... never had i experienced this before, strangely odd, strangely freaky......
---------------------
anyhow, i took a break off, and went back to look at the rest of the demonstration, taking care not to focus too much, but glancing away and looking around elsewhere periodically.
oh my gosh, fainting--- horrible but strange feeling indeed...
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