no respirators. just have to don plastic suits and hoods and face shields when our teacher injects the phenol because we've had accidents with students getting burned and the school doesn't want to get sued. friend of mind got sprayed from a hypodermic needle while hypoing a leg, right in the face and neck. scary.

but yeah her arteries didnt want to be found at all and we accidentally injected the subclavian and had to go back and find the carotid. and then her legs werent getting any distribution at all. she had some kind of circulation problem in her legs and bed sores and skin slip on her legs. so we had to raise the femoral too. and hypo the legs and abdomen cuz she was starting to get green. she died from pancreatic cancer.

she pretty much handed me the scalpel and said make the incision, find the artery. i had no freaking clue what i was doing. as students we are so timid and shes like no get in there be aggressive. except for almost passing out it went pretty well.

just wish i knew what i was doing more. my teacher is kind of intimidating so im always scared of doing something wrong and getting yelled at. i couldnt have handled getting insulted or yelled at. but she likes me and knows i had a rough couple days.