I have grown...

Hey everyone, well my mom and jensen's. Hey so last friday I had the opportunity to go on a "field trip" at work. We were given a chance to go to visit a lab, because it was lab week. So I went with four other girls in client services, and we got to go to the Huntsman, where there is an ARUP "surgical pathology gross lab"in the hospital. We went into the room, and I think Marne' would have died w/ the smell walking in. I walked in and saw some guy in a lab coat, rinsing what looked like a piece of steak. I had faith that I wouldn't faint.

I think watching Fringe, and see all the body parts on that TV show, has prepared me for this moment. There was a lady that took us around, and she explained that they get all the specimens from surgery. She reached into a bucket, and pulled out a uterus, that had HUGE tumor/cysts on it. It was crazy, surprisingly I did not pass out. Then she pulled out a heart that was 3 times bigger than it should (kind of like the grinch, Eric told me), and it was crazy. She showed us some intenstines, and then she said that she had something crazy in the "fridge". Ya, she pulled out this white garbage bag, with blood all inside... (keep this in mind, I passed out when a nurse drew blood from me).. she then said that this was a foot (basically from the knee down) that had gangrene. She told us that this was probably an elderly person that had a leg amputated and didn't notice it had gangrene, and that his toes were dead. She said anyone feeling "hot" should sit on the floor of the lab. I told her that I was okay( because I did not want to sit down on THAT floor). Anyway, turns out I was okay, did NOT faint. As one of the ladies in the lab walked by us, and she said, "Oh, that is what is stinkin up the fridge... That is a RIPE foot!" What a different world! When I got back from the lab, I sat down at my desk, and I was never so happy to answer phones.

BUt I was so proud of myself! I figured that if I can see that leg, that I can handle anything in life. The sad part about seeing the foot, I thought to myself, "gosh this would be a good blog post"...