I saved a life... kinda.

Day 2: Today is day 2 of MedEx, and this time I don't have sweaty palms!

The morning started off by heading to the life center to have our blood drawn. Once we arrived we were led back to a room where we first had our blood pressure, height, and weight read. Then two small vials were filled with our blood. The lady taking my blood had an easy time finding my vein. Surprisingly, it did not hurt as much as I had expected. I heard that a few people actually passed out.

Today I sat with a different group of people so I can try to get to know everyone and it turned out pretty good! We started the day researching and planning how to do our presentation for "Body Stories". Our story is about the spleen. I met with my group and they seem like amazing people. We put a Google document together so we can do research on that one doc and then later transfer the information to a power point presentation. For researching for just one day, I would say we did a pretty good job!

Today was much more hands on than yesterday. Also since everyone was getting to know each other, there were many more conversations.

After lunch, we were taken to be CPR certified! It was a very long, but an interesting process. The instructors told us what to do in case we pass by a situation like that. They clearly told us instructions step by step. Although we were practicing on dummies, we felt like pros. It is a scary procedure to do on a live person and on the spot, but it is defiantly a helpful learning experience since at the end of the day, it can save that person's life.