That awkward three weeks of pain

Coming out of a break and nearly going into another one creates a really difficult atmosphere for studying. However, I have a semester to finish up here. :) Anatomy is going out like a lion with a huge test of over the head and neck, which is riddled with nerves, arteries, veins, and muscles. Everybody knows about the big hole in the skull where the spinal cord enters, but there are so many other tiny holes where nerves come and go. We learned about the orbit of the eye, for example. There are so many interesting little things about the eye. There is a surprising amount of fat behind the eye. This is why peoples eyes look sunken in when they are really malnourished; the fat keeps the back of the eye in place and insulates the muscles and nerves. Another fun fact about the eye is that the inside of your eyelid folds over and actually covers the front of your eye. This is the tissue that actually has all the capillaries that turn red when your eyes are irritated. This also means that, without some sort of a puncture wound, you are never at risk of getting something in your eye and having it go all the way around to the back of your eye and get stuck in your head. Hooray!