my corpse cherry popped!
so yesterday i gained new life experience! for the first time ever i got to handle a freshly expired corpse at work. me and four other people had to move the recently deceased patient from the bed to the morgue stretcher and also place it in a body bag. sounds easy enough right? not so when the patient is over 500 lbs. lucky me i got the head and arms. lifting him wasn't really the problem. the whole bag stuff was what really did it, since ht bag was meant for people 300 lbs. and under. boy did i have to do some wiggling and moving to fit the head in so we could zip it up. the whole time the o.r. was in an uproar feeling sorry for the deathly ill man, who just happened to die(because he was deathly ill), i on the other hand was overwhelmed with excitement. the whole dead body thing was something i wasn't sure i'd be able to handle. it turns out i'm really cut out for such things, because i found it to be so interesting, i'm considering that instead of nursing i should go into becoming a mortician. i feel weird being so excited about death, but it really was a great learning experience since as my career in health care goes further so will my exposure the disturbing and gross. it is with respect to the patient that i should learn so much from them.