We recently had a particularly entertaining time at our regular weekly meeting for the medical emergency response team down here, when we got to learn to do casting--or, as our Kiwi doctor calls it, "plastering." (One of the best parts of this team is hearing our American PA balk or be totally confused by half the stuff our NZ-trained doc says.) Still casts are casts, and we had fun messing around with them.
My attempt was highly unsuccessful; it's the one on the left in the picture below, and because of some less-than accurate instructions I was given when wetting the plaster roll, it never got saturated and therefore never set. But I already could have told you that this experience on the medical team was not going to lead to me discovering a latent desire to work in the medical field, so...oh, well!
My favorite part of the whole thing was this great moment caught on video when it was time for the casts to come off. (No humans were harmed during the making of this clip.)
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