Wednesday, March 26, 2003

Best Laid Plans of Mice and Newts. . .

Oh-K, so I'm still extremely tired. After my APEX--which went extremely well even though a girl passed out during Nicole's surgery presentation--was done, I had to march straight home to a physcis formal lab re-write and another lab writeup for Nueroscience. I couldn't party, because early the next morning I was to begin surgery on my rat for the second time. I was too tired to do work, so I set my alarm for 5AM, thinking that if I went to bed early it would be alright to wake up at this hour. .. . WRONG AMBER. I woke up incoherent and confused many times to slap the snooze button tuesday morning. Eventually, I got out of bed, walked over to the Becker's office to turn in my lab report, then off to Bates for rat brain surgery.

Downstairs, my rat was already drugged when I got there--the professor and the lab instructor had decided to give the procedure a head start. My rat still had to get around 4 supplemental doses past an already higher dosage of sodium pentabarbitol to really put him under. You see, our surgery involved using what's called a stereotaxic apparatus:

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