Golden Anvil

Yesterday MrsKheldar and I wen to visit the BodyWorlds exhibit here in Salt Lake. Unfortunately, you aren't allowed to take pictures, but I did find a few on their website here which may give you a little better idea of what the exhibit is about.

This was an absolutely amazing experience. We took 2.5 hours to wander through the exhibit (they suggest that most people take about 90 minutes). The human body is an incredible thing!

Some of the highlights included getting to see exactly how a hip replacement works and looks. Now I know exactly what's going on inside Mom! It's definitely different then I'd imagined, and yet, seems relatively straightforward. We also got to see some examples of the stent that was put in MrsKheldars leg after her blood clot, and got to see some examples of a hole in the heart between the two sides like I've got.

Some of the more impressive things were the blood vessel networks made by filling the vessels with a liguid which sets up and then they remove all the organics stuff from around them, leaving the vessel network behind. You can see some pictures of that on the page I referenced above.

Was it gross? Not really. The sense of fascination really overcame much of any sense of it being gross. It was totally worth going and seeing.

...of course, I've found myself looking at people differently now...