tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21900544.post4867259746176487086..comments2024-02-04T20:25:58.971-08:00Comments on How's Robb?: A Method of MappingLisahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03932975112078606231noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21900544.post-5564338774817775012007-01-25T17:17:00.000-08:002007-01-25T17:17:00.000-08:00The cadaver model job was a godsend- It helped me ...The cadaver model job was a godsend- It helped me make $ for school. And pay rent. And buy food.<br /><br />Employment-wise, It was really hard for JHU to ....<br /><br />1- find someone with my particular body type<br /><br />2- someone willing to work with dead people<br /><br />3- lying on a cold cold cold metal autopsy table was a test of will.<br /><br /><br />For me, this job was no problem, as the living often irritate me. Especially when in traffic.<br /><br />PS- For all your gentle readers, from my experience, all medical students do indeed throw up when exposed to their first autopsy. I know I did. I guess if Robb can vomit, he can get the job!<br /><br />AnnalisaAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21900544.post-24265062745010888102007-01-25T11:16:00.000-08:002007-01-25T11:16:00.000-08:00Hi, guys. Thanks for posting this report. I have t...Hi, guys. Thanks for posting this report. I have to say before following this blog my understanding of paralysis was a lot like what you described, Lisa.<br /><br />I think this was really a fascinating test and the photos are great. Thanks to Robb for putting up with it. I know it was probably very tough on him.<br /><br />Knit WitAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21900544.post-24591056291989838972007-01-25T08:58:00.000-08:002007-01-25T08:58:00.000-08:00lisa nd robb ...youse juys are making a dermatone ...lisa nd robb ...youse juys are making a dermatone quilt!<br />http://www.instantanatomy.net/leg/nerves/dermatomes.html<br /><br />or somethign like that anyway. how visually rad. <br /><br />but seriously, i swish I knew someone in the book publishing world becuae your blog would make a great book. <br /><br />how do you fidn the time to do all this?<br /><br />i have been stayign away from my computer and even crafting.sewing becuase my neck has been bugging me. all bad psoture issues.<br />pathetic of me to complain, slap slap to me, hmm maybe some sort of bondage would help my posture. oops, been watchign too much monty python. <br /><br />it sounds like you are making steady progress robb, and that is worth celebrating. I see you are signed up for teh april fools event...this tiem i coing to relax an dvisit and leave the boxing for a nother time.mimulushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16453055623021386050noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21900544.post-64107343597467364652007-01-25T07:57:00.000-08:002007-01-25T07:57:00.000-08:00The nervous system is a complex and weird thing. I...The nervous system is a complex and weird thing. I am learning that through my mom's MS. Her issues are far more random as various parts of her spinal cord are attacked. Maybe she'll let me map her. I know when we first started noticing symptoms (back when I was in 5th grade) she said her toes felt like broccoli. We indeed are weird, wonderful machines.Gothknitshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15839823928559652637noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21900544.post-84855454592106953162007-01-25T06:28:00.000-08:002007-01-25T06:28:00.000-08:00A "cadaver model," huh?
Why didn't that show up a...A "cadaver model," huh?<br /><br />Why didn't that show up as one of the useful jobs suggested to Robb went he took that vocational testing????<br /><br />Remember that?<br /><br />http://howsrobb.blogspot.com/2006/11/robbs-jobs.htmlLisahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03932975112078606231noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21900544.post-43019575020900741192007-01-25T05:57:00.000-08:002007-01-25T05:57:00.000-08:00Ps- I DO see a pattern- notice that the red appear...Ps- I DO see a pattern- notice that the red appears on areas of the foot that have stronger supporting bone structure? <br /><br />Weight and stress-bearing and flexible areas, specifically.<br /><br />Dont know what that means, though. <br /><br />annalisaAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21900544.post-4692827842847260492007-01-25T05:40:00.000-08:002007-01-25T05:40:00.000-08:00Yes! I can definately see this an an art project. ...Yes! I can definately see this an an art project. It makes me think of when I was a cadaver model for the JHU back in the 80's. I was on one table, and the cadaver was on the other, students would examine the cadaver for a autopsy/muscular study, and I would move the cooresponding part on my very thin body (this is when I was a bicycle messenger and was all muscle, tendon and bone). Students can't get a good response from an actual frozen cadaver, (or when rigor mortise sets in), yet I myself was movable and could twitch muscles when requested. It was an excellent teaching opportunity, and I was also marked with dots on muscular areas. I considered this the beginning of the "body paint" phenom.<br /><br />It's good to see you guys doing the exact same thing, (specially since Robb isn't a corpse, cause that would just be too weird in your own apartment, eh?, But I'm not going to judge you) and it definately has both medical and artistic possibilities. I suggest doing this once a month and thus photographing the changing status of Robb's condition. It's funny you know, the sticker photos also seem to have created its own "quilt" pattern. I see all sorts of art ideas stemming from this. Convince Robb to keep the stickers on himself and create his own "sticker man" persona, like the guys in the Blue Man Group, eh? <br /><br />In a strictly medical sense, get a colored page of the nervous system of the bottom of the human foot, (from medical books) and see just exactly what nerves to what parts of the body are making connections, month by month. It's all part of the ongoing progress of Robb's recovery. Since the Doc's get stymied by some of Robb's bodily reactions, you might as well create your own way to study it as well. I salute your creativity.<br /><br />Yours, covered in paint, AnnalisaAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com