I have been to the ATCC, along with a principal investigator and another laboratory worker to pick up malarial parasites. We drove back to the state we came from with the parasites, in blood, in test tubes, under our armpits. Sometimes things that make straightforward sense in scientific work have a way of looking bizarre or creepy to normal, healthy people. It is a different kind of normal and healthy.
Lol! I often wonder about how laboratory workers cope with everything they've seen under the microscope. When I took Microbiology, we used to "grow" stuff and smear those petri dishes with e-coli, and a number of other pathogens. Needless to say, sometimes I would wonder how clean my hands really were when we went to break for lunch, but we had to eat! lol It's funny how you can just turn things off and go on. I'm still alive, so I'm thankful for gloves and hand soap, although I found myself holding my breath to do certain things! lol I can't say that I miss taking specimens and packaging them up to send to the lab without contaminating the sample and making sure I packaged it well enough that it didn't get on someone else. All I can do is hope that others are thinking the same way when they send that stuff out to an unknowing FedEx Driver. lol I wouldn't want to step foot in that place. haha I hope you have a blessed Holy Good Friday and Easter too. I appreciate your comment, thank you, it helps to put my mind more at ease about it.
I have been to the ATCC, along with a principal investigator and another laboratory worker to pick up malarial parasites. We drove back to the state we came from with the parasites, in blood, in test tubes, under our armpits. Sometimes things that make straightforward sense in scientific work have a way of looking bizarre or creepy to normal, healthy people. It is a different kind of normal and healthy.
(By the way, have a blessed Holy Thursday.)
Lol! I often wonder about how laboratory workers cope with everything they've seen under the microscope. When I took Microbiology, we used to "grow" stuff and smear those petri dishes with e-coli, and a number of other pathogens. Needless to say, sometimes I would wonder how clean my hands really were when we went to break for lunch, but we had to eat! lol It's funny how you can just turn things off and go on. I'm still alive, so I'm thankful for gloves and hand soap, although I found myself holding my breath to do certain things! lol I can't say that I miss taking specimens and packaging them up to send to the lab without contaminating the sample and making sure I packaged it well enough that it didn't get on someone else. All I can do is hope that others are thinking the same way when they send that stuff out to an unknowing FedEx Driver. lol I wouldn't want to step foot in that place. haha I hope you have a blessed Holy Good Friday and Easter too. I appreciate your comment, thank you, it helps to put my mind more at ease about it.