Despite my initial misgivings, I really enjoyed the craniotomy. Definitely one of those med school moments which I will remember fondly because let's face it... we're not going to be able to crank out one of those unless we're going to become neurosurgeons or pathologists doing an autopsy. I know that some people found the noise rather offputting, but I personally found it reassuring that the sound of the mallet hitting the skull sounded like hammer on a concrete. I feel so grateful that we were created with something so resilient to protect our brains.
And once we peeled back the calvaria, we saw the dura mater exposed with the meningeal arteries coursing through it. We didn't get to see the superior sagittal sinus (which I was quite disappointed about), but we did see a few arachnoid granulations. Once the incision was made through the dura, we got to see the arachnoid mater glistening under the fluorescent lights. Here, we got to use a knife to make a sagittal cut and another coronal slice to get a wedge of brain out to better examine the deeper structures.
It amazes me that something so unassuming controls all the functions of our body. Just... wow.
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