This week, I had to do a presentation on a topic I chose to advocate for about the brain. My topic was cerebral palsy. I chose to do the topic of Cerebral Palsy because I have a little brother with it. Cerebral Palsy is a collection of disorders caused by abnormal brain development or damage to the brain that occurs around the time of birth or early in life. When he was born, he was born three months early and he died for seven minutes. The doctors always said he wouldn’t be able to function like a “normal” person would. They always said that he wouldn’t be able to eat, speak, or function like I would. He is very much alive and can do pretty much everything “normal” people can do, except walk. He eats by himself, he can most definitely tell you something that he remembers from the day before. He walks, but using a walker and that's it. I absolutely hate the stigma around any people with disability, because it sucks to know that people are called stupid or dumb or anything mean because of something that isn’t their fault. They didn’t choose to be that way and they are more than capable than doing anything they want just like I am. They should not ever be put down because of something that they can't change. It can affect them greatly and make them do bad things. They shouldn’t have to go through more when they already go through enough.
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I did the same thing as last week except this week I almost threw up. It was Tuesday morning, I came in late to school because I went to the dentist and we started cutting opening the pig’s stomach. I couldn't stand the smell and it looked so real, I know it was “but this time it was different”. I just couldn’t look at it any longer and, I had to go outside and read alone. I felt so sick that day and I don’t know why. Last week the first day, I could barely look at it but then I got used to it, and this week I could barely even be in the same room with it. It was horrible. I could barely even walk, I was so weak. I don’t think that dissecting animals is for me. It was a really cool experience and I know a lot of people dont always get to do it, but I dont think I could do it again. It smelled like dead pig. It was too sad for me to watch. It was cool to see where all of the body parts of the pig are and how closely pigs are to humans. I liked my role, taking pictures. I got to see up close what the pig looked like and where everything went. I didn’t think I would get so sick from just looking at it, but the smell contributed to it too. I have never felt that from dissecting something,but it was sure an experience.
I couldn't even look at the poor thing. It was dead I know, but it was so sad! I walked into my classroom to see dead pigs on all of the tables. It was a baby pig too. I didn't even want to look at it so how could I cut it open? I spent the whole hour that day freaking out and trying to process that there was a dead pig in front of me and we had to open it. The next day, I was still kind of processing it but I could handle it a little better. I actually looked at it for about half of the class then I got the courage to try and cut it but as soon as the blade hit the pig I freaked out again. So I didn't cut it but I helped by taking pictures and documenting. I am still sad that we're still cutting a pig open now but I have no choice but to at least sit there and learn. I learned that the pig isn't that different from the human, It has the same systems and parts but just smaller. I learned a lot about where the parts of the body are, I learned that I didn't know where a lot of things were. The pig looked so sad lying dead on its side but I know it didn't feel anything. I think it's pretty interesting actually now that I'm used to seeing it and know its not that bad. |
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