Change of Blog Topic

In the past, I’ve blogged about music and theatre, and how it ties in to my everyday life. I’ve recently decided to change my topic to medicine. More specifically, different types of medical procedures and how I plan to go into medicine for my career. I’ve always been fascinated by the medical world, and will be sharing some links to some interesting medical procedure videos and then talking about them in my blog. I hope to inform people about how complex medical procedures really are and how interesting it really is.

            Keep in mind that I will not be performing these procedures in my future career. I’ll be a part of them, but I will not be the one doing the surgery. I plan to be an ER nurse, but not a doctor or a surgeon. Nevertheless, I still want to be informed on how these things work so I know what to expect.

            There are so many interesting and somewhat gross surgeries that go on in a hospital. A skin graft surgery is one of them. A skin graft is a live and healthy piece of skin taken from a part of the body that has a large surface area and is put on the open wound. The most common place of the skin for a skin graft to be taken is the thigh, because it’s one of the largest surface areas on the body that would cause the least discomfort, compared to skin being removed from the back or stomach. Once the skin is removed, it is sutured onto the injured area. The skin cells “welcome” the new skin and allow it to heal back to the body as if nothing ever happened. This is because the skin is still from that person’s body, just a different area, and the new skin is healthy, containing healthy cells. This procedure is usually done to a burn victim, or to someone who had a skin eating virus. The healthy area that had skin removed for the skin graft heals quickly because of the amount of healthy cells within it.