Parents

My parents are in town for the next week or so. We spent Sunday in Philly - walking around exploring and going to the Mutter Museum which houses medical anomalies and pathology. There are all sorts of skeletons there - some bones with huge bone tumors, ankylosing spondylitis (where the vertebrae fuse together so a person cannot bend over, and the skeleton of a man who had myositis osificaans progressiva (something like that) - where one's muscles slowly turn to bone. There were jars and jars of other pathological specimens. Some things not so uncommon - a horseshoe kidney, a colon of someone with familial polyposis (1000's of polyps), a liver from someone with hemochromatosis (when one has a genetic defect so that they cannot excrete iron - so it accumulates in their body). Most of the pathological specimens look like what we see in pictures in med school, but it was neat to see them in person.

We went to the Reading Terminal which was filled with tons of little food stands and random booths, etc. Reading Terminal as in Reading Railroad in Monopoly (I think). This is where we ate our required Philly cheesesteak for the trip! We were also within walking distance of Chinatown - so I had my fill of dim sum before we had to head back to Hershey. This morning they dropped me off at school, just like in elementary school. They picked me up after I was done, too. Heck, it beats parking and having to walk the 10 minutes it takes to get to clinic. My Dad made me b-fast this morning, but I'm a big girl, because I did pack my own lunch!

Ok it's getting late - bedtime. Another day of radiology tomorrow. Heading off to Niagara Falls - part 2 this weekend! I'll try and post some pics in the next few days.