Jackelyn Lara
Professor Oriol
English 101
29 August 2018
Learning How to Suture
It’s a normal day of high school. I’m on the last period of the day, ready to get out of
school and go home. At this time I’m taking a class called biomedical innovations, a course
which purpose is for students to gain knowledge on the medical field. As I just got back from
lunch time, I’m not ready for a lecture. To my surprise that day was a different day, as my
teacher said we were going to learn how to suture. The reason of this was because as a previous
project we had to dissect a pig, and now we were going to learn how to suture the body back
together. When I heard about this activity I was feeling intimidated because I know I’m not the
best at working into detailed related stuff.
We began to prepare for this activity. My teacher pulled up a video tutorial on the basics
of how to make a suture. After taking some notes the video finished, and I was feeling nervous
because I still didn’t had a clear idea of how should I perform a successful suture. From a large
classroom full of students we got spread into our lab groups to start practicing. To practice we
were able to suture a foam sponge and a banana. Each group was given a suture kit accompanied
with a paper which had instructions of how to make different styles of sutures, some more
complicated than others. Since we were given one kit per group each person had an individual
turn. Although I thought it was going to be harder to have a precise suture, I was able to manage
my body without pressure and it turned out really well. Overall the practice was a success, my
