Bodies Revealed

Grant had a crazy final this week (his last really big test-besides boards-of dental school!) so we decided to take the weekend off from school work and hang out and have some fun. We didn't really have the time/energy/money for a trip...but decided to spend Saturday together. We babysat in the morning in Louisville at the temple and then spent the afternoon shopping in Louisville. I found some awesome stuff at The Loft on clearance and felt good about buying it since I haven't shopped ALL semester, and I worked a 12-hour shift the day before ;) Then we came back to Lexington and decided to go downtown and continue our adventures...

The Bodies Revealed exhibit has been in Lexington for about a month now, and I have been wanting to go to this for years now (since I first saw it advertized). I took anatomy the second semester of my freshman year of college, and although I do not love the smell of the lab, I found it fascinating. It was this class that led me towards a degree (x2)/career in the healthcare field. A few more anatomy classes later (for both Grant and I), we now both only work with patients who are not dissected, trying to help keep them healthy and alive :)
This exhibit really was amazing, and I was so sad that you aren't allowed to take pictures in it! But, I guess that just means you'll all have to go check it out for yourselves. It was amazing to see how well these bodies were preserved and the dissection was so precise and amazing. As you walk through the exhibit, it goes through each organ system, and has full bodies dissected to show different things, but also separate organs (both healthy and diseased).
I feel like I'm fairly conscientious of what I put into my body, how much I exercise, etc. but this truly made me grateful for my body and its functioning and continued to motivate me to take care of myself. Near the smokers lung display there was a clear box where people could throw away cigarettes. There were some in there (not sure if it was just for show or if people had actually deposited them in there) but the concept was neat. If we could see what was going on inside, maybe we would make better decisions. In talking with a group of substances abusing teenagers this week, they said that actual visual examples like this were the only things that really made them think twice about their poor health decisions.

I was proud of us for getting out and going because sometimes it's too easy to just sit at home and be comfortable, but I am trying to be better about taking advantage of things going on around me.
On a less positive (in my mind) note, Movember has begun again, which yes, means that we are trying to change the world one prostate at a time, but also means my husband looks "scary" for lack of a better word, the entire month. Can't wait until December when I can get my husband back :)...and this semester will almost be done!