TIG Moment

In anatomy lab yesterday I experienced my first 'TIG Moment' as well as being introduced to the phrase. The water in the anatomy building was turned off. o.o Really, imagine a hoard of first term medical students heading for the sinks to wash their hands after spending an hour poking and prodding cadavers to find...nothing. Note: many of these students had already put soap on their hands. Whining abounded. Hand sanitizer was passed out in small amounts, its market value skyrocketing in seconds. People's expressions ranged from vaguely distasteful to outright disbelief. Multiple students tried each sink, just in case, you know, that'd it would work for them even though they just watched others try in vain. Eventually, we shuffled out of wet lab and headed to dry lab - many holding their hands at arm's length, others were sacrificing water bottles just to at least have the illusions of having washed their hands.

Upon entering Dry Lab I was informed by our clinical tutor (after my harmless 'you'd think they would have a backup water supply for the anatomy lab if nothing else!') that it was a 'TIG Moment'.

This. Is. Grenada.

She then laughed and informed all of us that it wasn't so bad since we'd had gloves on. Oh, and not to touch her accidentally in any way. -.- At any rate, the small mix up with water aside, my anatomy lab went very well yesterday.

My group and I were all very well prepared and hit the bulls eye on each question time after time. Truly a triumph of..well, us. :) Apparently listing all the forearm and hand muscles on this blog proved a good luck charm (or it could have been the time I spent in wet lab the night before, or the notecard making, or my rewatching of the lectures, or my reading of the textbook...). I really should start paying attention to my other classes. I know, you didn't realize I was even taking other classes with how I go on about anatomy. But really, I was so happy last night when I looked at a cross section of the forearm and could identify the flexor carpi ulnaris and remembered it was innervated by the ulnar nerve and was one of the one and 1/2 muscles in the anterior compartment that wasn't innervated by the median nerve (the half is from the medial half of the flexor digitorum profundus).

Sidetracked again! Biochemistry. Histology. And even Bioethics. These are the classes that will gain my attention briefly for the next few days. If only to ensure I'm up to speed. And possibly to make a few notecards if necessary.

Upcoming Unified's may either cause me to blog every day or you may not hear from me until next tuesday... time will tell. ^_^'