Blood....

The BBQ Pit
1

Ok… that’s it.

WHERE THE FUCK IS MY BLOOD YOU ASSWITS!

Is it so much to goddamn ask? Look the box says… oh WAIT, they don’t have to put biohazzard stickers on pigtailed blood anymore. It’s not like pigtailed macaques aren’t NATURAL CARRIERS OF HERPES B VIRUS!

“Oh yes please! Please I want to catch B Virus! I want my spinal column destroyed! I wan’t an 80% chance to die and a 15% chance of LIFE LONG INSTITUTION”

Oh sure, the monkeys in the colony all SHOULD be antibody negative…

O M F G.

Look asswipe, if the infection doesn’t kill you, the odds are most of your mind will be be GONE by the time you fight off the infection. The virus ATTACKS THE BRAIN AND SPINE! Those cells DO NOT REGENERATE!

I’m not trusting my LIFE to someone halfway across the country to do GOOD lab work on checking out the monkey before they send the blood.

FUCK I don’t even trust my co-workers to avoid infecting themselves.

IT"S THE NATURE OF THE GODDAMN JOB! You treat EVERYTHING as a hazzard, that way YOU ERR ON THE SIDE OF CAUTION.

So STICK THE FUCKING BIOHAZZARD STICKER ON IT!

You see, HUGE ORANGE BIOHAZZARD STICKERS = Shipping/recieving DELIVERS THE GODDAMNED PACKAGE FAST…

GIVE ME MY BLOOD!!!

FUCK FedEx was here 2 pope-squicking hours ago!

To put this in context…

I’m running experiments that require primate blood, specifically white blood cell populations. Which means I get the blood, seperate out the red blood cells and serum and then do stuff with the white blood cells. It’s long, requires good hands and TAKES 4 FUCKING HOURS!

And ya know the thing about blood. And cells.

Cells need food, sugars, amino acids and oxygen.

And ya know the thing about blood drawn in heparin tubes?

IT AIN’T GETTIN NO MORE SUGAR, OXYGEN, or AMINO ACIDS!

WHICH MEANS THE FUCKING CELLS ARE STARVING TO DEATH!!!

I NEED MORE THAN ONE GODDAMN CELL TO RUN THIS EXPERIMENT!

GIVE ME MY CELLS! ARRRG

Also, I’m in texas.

Its 90-fucking-2 out. HELLO! Biologicals… they don’t like BEING OVER BODY TEMP! THAT MEANS MORE DEAD FREAKING CELLS!

!!! The goddamn viability will be lower than the possibility of Carrot Top having a hot steamy 3 way with the pop and brittney spears!

It’s not like this is a rare occurance.

I told shipping and recieving that I would be expecting blood today, and each day for the next 5 FUCKING WEEKS!

I’ve processed more than 20 shipments in the year and month I’ve been here! So WHAT IS THE FUCKING SUPRISE! ARRG

GIVE ME!

It’s 11am… I’m hungry and it’ll take me and hour to prep the blood to the 30min spin point, which is when IF I"M LUCKY! I can go grab a quick bite to eat.

Other wise I’m stuck working with blood with no blood sugar left in my body (That glass of applejuice isn’t holding me as well as I thought) and shaking hands…
ARRRG FUCKERS!

I TOLD THEM TO EXPECT IT! GIVE ME MY BLOOD!

2

You’re in Texas?

3

I don’t know about anybody else, but after that rant I’m ready to open a vein and let CRorex have all he wants…

4

I think he’s angry, by gum. What say the rest 'o ya?

5

Yeppers, he’s a bit chapped, methinks.

I myself am about to go scrub my brain to remove the mental image of Carrot Top in any sort of sexual situation.

:: shiver ::

6

You know, CRorex, some of your posts scare me more than anything I hear on the news or the net. To think that labs that work with unbelievably deadly viruses and things have as many morons as any other industry…shudder!

But at least they’re amusing! (Your posts, that is)

7

Listen, you’re not the only lab in the building. I am required to log in all packages and this takes a little time, so even the ones that say freeze on arrival still sit around a little while on the dock. Don’t get me started on the radioactive packages where I have to page that guy to come process them.

Do you think I like to even handle your packages, let alone the used lab coats I have to collect on their way to the cleaners, where they have to use a special process to make sure everything is sterilised and removed. Who knows what’s on those??

I only cover the dock when regular staff isn’t here so sometimes I am wearing flip-flops for gosh sakes; yes, toes regenerate but what about the OSHA steel-toe boot regs?

8

Well, OK, a severed toe doesn’t regenerate exactly but what I meant was it is possible to heal an injured toe. Unlike that brain and spine damage thingie. Carry on.

9

Yeah, CRorex has one of the scariest jobs on this board, hands down. And just out of curiousity, what’s the difference between Herpes B and Herpes Simplex B (or did I just say it?) I always thought that Herpes Simplex B meant that you get sores on your genitals, but there’s a chance of death, too? One more reason not to sleep around, I guess.

10

Yeah but when someone comes in and says, “Hey I’m getting blood from seattle on the next 4 thursdays, it’ll be in at 9:35am each thrusday comming by FedEx can you call me when it gets in, then I’ll pick it up.”

And at 2:30 pm the find it (they stacked the news paper on top of it…) … grr…

! shouldn’t the person incharge of autoclave trash take care of lab coats since they are technically biohazzard…

11

You’re correct, absolutely! In fact it’s great when people come pick up their own stuff. The above is just slipshod, no excuses for that!

12

I will have to look into this–I would love to get rid of this laundry business.

13

Oh, goody. Another biohazard rant from CRorex. Looks like I’m going to be spending the rest of the day washing my hands again…

14

I remember that you work with pathogens and the REALLY NASTY strains of AIDS and all that. So in the future, could you please not start threads with titles that make me think there has been a containment leak that TURNED YOU INTO A GODDAMNED BLOODSUCKING ZOMBIE? Jesus Christ, your job is already about half a step removed from Resident Evil as it is!

Otherwise, good post. You rant with such style. I think I have a board crush on you now! :slight_smile:

15

Sheesh, what do you want, blood or something?

oh.

16

Much too much pope abuse. I liked it.

17

I agree. Well, not about the crush thing, but your previous thread about the batshit Canadian researcher put CRorex on the top of my ‘must read’ list.

18

You’re confusing two different viruses. Viruses come in many different varieties - the herpesvirus family is a very large and successful variety that infects many different animal species. Herpes simplex virus (HSV) is one of several human herpesviruses; HSV type I generally causes cold sores, and HSV type II generally causes genital sores. VERY rarely, HSV can spread to the brain and cause encephalitis or even death, but most of the time HSV infections are uncomfortable but not serious. (The major exception is in newborns, whre HSV infection is very serious.)

Herpes B virus is also a herpesvirus - but it’s NOT a variety that normally infects humans. Its normal host is monkeys (several macaque species). Humans are not a normal host for it, and we have very little resistance to this virus. When Herpes B virus does infect a human, it attacks and destroys the nervous system, and the person usually dies; survivors generally have massive impairments, and are little better than vegetables. This high death rate isn’t uncommon when a virus jumps across species barriers - the natural host species has evolved in step with its own viruses, and consequently has some resistance to them, while the non-native species may have little or none, since it hasn’t seen that particular virus before.

Ah, Herpes B… One of many reasons I’m glad I never did any primate research (Ebola and Marburg being others).

19

So…ummm, did you get the blood yet? I sure hope you at least got lunch.

20

Yeah I just recently read up about the whole list of effects of it.

Thank god I didn’t read up about B virus when I did my first blood prep…

I accidently dropped a droplet of blood on the hood then, and it splattered and sprayed my arm.

Thank god for biohazzard gear!