The kinda gross thread

[Aggie_Ama]

Last night we were giving Maggie her SubCu and it slipped out and she bled. It was weird, I have seen dogs blood when they cut themselves and it was dark but I guess it is different because of the needle? It was BRIGHT red, quite a few little drops on her black fur. Anyway, I am suddenly really bugged by my Koozie I use at work because it is the color of Maggie's blood.

Am I the only one who ever needs somewhere to express kinda gross thoughts?

[Zen]

Funny that blood doesn't bother me but when we did blood labs at school I couldn't bear to prick another persons finger.

Not because of the blood but because of inflicting pain

[salsabike]

Here's the gross thing that I remembered instantly when I saw this thread: When I was an undergrad at Cornell we had to dissect a cow's eyeball in biology. It wasn't the eyeball so much that bothered me but the smell of formaldehyde that followed me to lunch and for many weeks after (in my head). Oog, that smell. Blechh.

[Tokie]

My human anatomy lab (with cadavers) was 2 hours long - and then I had to rush back to the cafeteria at my dorm before they shut down the dinner line. Not so hungry, but last chance to eat with pre-paid meal ticket : - (. True about the smell of formaldehyde - it seems to linger in your brain forever. Tokie

[Mr. Bloom]

Bad associations:
- In 1983, I had hepatitis. I ate a ton of peanut brittle just before I became gravely ill with nausea and vomiting; I still associate the sight and smell of peanut brittle with that experience.

[bmccasland]

Still can't face Italian Wedding Soup. I made a pot of it in prep for having food to eat after having minor surgery. It was a BIG pot. Yes I froze some. But I really got tired of eating it, and haven't been able to face the recipe since. I associate how I felt after surgery with that big pot-o-soup, that translated in to multiple containers in my frig and freezer. bleh.

[Aggie_Ama]

I usually do not gross out at other's blood. DH had a pretty bad wreck a few weeks ago, while I was cleaning a nasty puncture that just didn't want to stop bleeding all I could think was "this is a pretty cool injury". I could not pack his open wound after his apendectomy got infected because he wrenched and screamed. My own blood in anything more than a minor cut will make me panic though.

At first Maggie's blood didn't gross me out then I got slightly queasy and now I have a maroon koozy.

I am not sure I could do human cadavers. My college roommate is a doctor, she was so excited about it in med school she called me "WE GOT OUR BODIES TODAY!!!" Different strokes.

[malkin]

Bad associations:
- In 1983, I had hepatitis. I ate a ton of peanut brittle just before I became gravely ill with nausea and vomiting; I still associate the sight and smell of peanut brittle with that experience.

I have that with tequila, but I'm pretty sure it wasn't hepatitis.

[colby]

Last night we were giving Maggie her SubCu and it slipped out and she bled. It was weird, I have seen dogs blood when they cut themselves and it was dark but I guess it is different because of the needle? It was BRIGHT red, quite a few little drops on her black fur. Anyway, I am suddenly really bugged by my Koozie I use at work because it is the color of Maggie's blood.

Am I the only one who ever needs somewhere to express kinda gross thoughts?

I've seen the subQ blood, too, with our cat - it is very bright (not exposed to air for very long, I suppose?). It is hard not to think of that the next time knowing they read your every thought and feeling and it just makes them more uncomfortable

I ate Kashi Golean Crunch cereal before my first Ironman, then proceeded to have GI problems. I could not eat the cereal for months. Thankfully no vomiting, but it still had an identifiable smell going the other way. Last time I had the stomach flu it was movie theater popcorn. Took a while for that to be enjoyable again, too (and we see movies fairly frequently).

I find medicine fascinating, but I have no idea how I'd do actually being in the room with major open surgery or anything. I've seen a dead body and animals, but never explored one (other than the dissecting of frogs). It's really interesting how magically all of those systems come together to make people and animals go. Watching medical shows on TV (which I do alone, because my family can't take it) is really intriguing.

The mucous in the laryngectomy dudes might not be something I could stomach.

My mom could never clean the bathroom after the kids got sick (assuming they missed, which kids are prone to do), the smell and sight of it would make her get sick.

Interesting thread idea. Hopefully nobody reading with a seriously weak stomach.