rat slicing day

The inevitable day has arrived.

Cannot believe I woke up this morning with stomach pains. And half asleep trying to get 3 assignments done in one night. Just thought it could not get any worse when I remembered that it's Rat-Slicing Day.

My housemates making jokes when I was eating breakfast like saying things like "Imagine crunching the rat bones" and squealing with glee that we're dissecting rodents. How more exciting can it be?

It sounds all dramatic but yeah, it went surprisingly well. To be honest, it got interesting after I got over the "omg we're gonna cut through a living -fainted- animal and inspect its insides" phase.

Cut the skin, cut off the layer and all the organs spilled out. Started prodding and fingering the digestive system when we (me and my partner) realized we're supposed to identify them. Managed to pinpoint most of the organs but missed out a few. It's difficult to be able to identify them when they're all piled up on top of each other and all mixed up. You'd have thought the small and large intestines can be differentiated with their size and length but noOoOoo they're both the same colour and everything. And so we had to trace all the way from the stomach through the intestines to note which is ACTUALLY the small intestines. We had to identify them infront of our lab instructor and missed out on finding the bile duct and pancreas. Mistook the pancreas for the spleen. Oh well.

Something really amazing we saw was that the heart was still beating. MashaAllah...


1 dissection down, 2 more to go. Thank you to those who have prayed I survived through this ordeal.