Tra lala

Things are looking up logistically wise. I've extended my room stay, booked all my flights for all holidays, got dental wax from good ol Benny! woah big thanks for that. braces were making me bleed. fun!

Did animal experiments today. i think I just numbed myself before i did it. anaesthetised the rat, Karen didn't hold it tight and it wriggled out of her grasp as I injected its stomach! ARGH! it was hanging by the needle in mid air for a second. I almost had a heart attack! Man, then we had to seperate the connective tissue, so it was like ripping it's muscle apart. Found the air pipe and had to cut it, stuff a tube down it in case we needed to put it on the respirator if it stopped breathing, then had to find these miniscule veins and arteries to stick tiny plastic tubes in.

Thank goodness I had 'training' sticking needles into Ah Ma on our China trip. Karen, my Scottish lab partner was freaking out half the time. fun!

Anyway, we couldn't sdtick in the tube into the vein, and somehow, blood didn't come out of the artery. darn! Well, I did the euthanasia this time round, it's Karen's next time to be the hangman.

Poor rat... died under the hands of 2 girls, one who was sleepy and hungry as she cut it up and the other rather jumpy.