Mortuareally Morbid...

Another rat today! This time, it was the ol' rat we drowned in formalin the last time. When we lifted it out of the solution, the fella stank in a way no words can describe. Skin was yellow due to formalin, the muscles were white like steamed chicken meat but very much tougher, and the skin's texture puts Michelin rubbers to shame. Imagine having to cut out deader than dead tissue out of a very wet mummified rodent. Gaaa!
My visit to the dissecting room in the Med Fac in UM was very much better. At least the smell was more decent. The only thing that creeped me was there were huge freezers labelled "liver", "kidney".... God knows what other spare parts they kept... one can only imagine what horrific mutilation went on in there... To enhance the effect, the room was built in the early days of UM, so it's gloomy, faded yellow walls, discoloured small blue square tiles, and had wooden frames for doors. Shivers..