Day 11, 12, 13

Day 11:  I did two hours of work this day at JBS under Mrs. Bahe, as I figured out I was short a few hours after biodreyland.  I washed out and cleaned all of the forest kits that were used at dreyland.

Day 12: I finished up the rest of the service hours with Mrs. Bahe.  I mostly organized a lot of the Grand Canyon trip names list of attendees and figured out all of who had the paperwork that was necessary to participate, such as health release forms.  After this I helped her clean out all of the kits from the river parts of dreyland.

Day 13:  Today was my last day for May project and it was also my last day at Barnes.  I started off the day at 7:30 and went into surgery and got to see the end of a gunshot wound case that came into the hospital in the middle of the night.  It was super interesting as they were closing up the minor blood vessels when I got there and to see them do that with a bovie and clamp combination was pretty cool.  I then went into an aortic aneurysm case where they deployed a graft just below the renal arteries and above the hypogastric artery.  The precision of the deployment was very difficult because of the angle it had to be at in relation to the artery.  After they had fixed the aneurysm I stopped by very briefly to a foot amputation just to see how it was different in relation to how they would amputate further up the leg like I saw earlier in the project.

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