Oh, Hamburg!

I had a woooooonderful 3-day trip to Hamburg with my mom last week. We made some mommy-daughter memories with a lot of funny but also very fail moments. It was just really, really great overall ^^

Horror

I'm back in Gießen now for a 2-day internship at my uni's Institute of Forensic Medicine. I've been looking forward to it a lot actually, considering the fact that Forensic Medicine has always been the medical field I was the most interested in.

But well. To be honest, I was a little disappointed. I was able to witness two autopsies, nothing more. One of a man who died because of a heart attack and the other of a woman who probably killed herself by over-consuming addictive drugs (as in, Heroin). One corpse took like 2 hours to get done with, and by the end of the two cases, my feet were killing me T_T

I don't know, maybe I was expecting too much? I mean, in the end, it is still much cooler than watching a surgery. A normal surgery is quite a routine thing where everything happens the way it always happens and you'll realize after (at the latest) the third time that you won't get to see anything new or exciting (unless something goes wrong, but no one hopes for that).

With autopsies, each corpse is a mystery and you never know what to expect.

For example the woman we examined today, she looked fine from the outside but when we opened up her belly, she reeked abnormally horrible. Turns out she must have had an unknown mesenterial infarct which left the last third of her small bowel clearly irritated and totally destroyed the first half of her large bowel, leaving quite the nasty sight of necrotized enteric tissue. And then there was the content of her bowels. At first it was some kind of bright red soup, then the soup turned brown-red and ended up as a deep red, partly black mess that looked and smelled like diarrhea. Yuck.

(This is totally beside the point but I can never understand how anyone would want to become a gastroenterologist. You'll always have to deal with the nastiest of the nastiest, and you could easily catch a norovirus while treating patients and you'll end up having to deal with your own unstoppable pooping. Ew much?)

But yeah, as exciting as my first day at Forensic Medicine may sound, I still wasn't satisfied. Though, I'm not sure what I really want. Perhaps corpses with worse condition? Something that would really freak me out?

I never thought I was the kind who's like, overly brave or like, immensely immune to horror and fear but the past few days made me really question where my limits are. I mean, I went home after two autopsies and even dared to think of the word 'boring'. I watched three horror movies with Quynh (The Ring, Scream 4 and The Exorcist) and we either laughed watching it, or I fell asleep watching it. The only times I jumped was when Quynh next to me jumped/shrieked (typical her) and startled me.

I mean, hello? What's wrong with me? Or is the standard horror of the world just not enough for my foolhardy self?

Now I just... really wanna be horryfied for once, just for fun.

Bring it on, peeps. >:/

Anyone?