A Human Lab Rat
So I have agreed to join a study that will pay me a substantial amount of money. Providing everything goes well, and I don't have any complications. Otherwise I may need surgery.
The study I am joining takes place this coming Wednesday. I cannot have anything past midnight on Tuesday evening. Then, I will need to come to an office Wednesday morning to swallow a pill size camera with 1/4 of water. I will then be asked to eat an egg sandwich with radioactive jelly on it(I'm not kidding). Then, I am only allowed to sit and read or watch DVD's for eight to nine hours. The only nutrition I will receive during the duration is a can of Ensure (a nutrition supplement) at lunchtime. Physicians want to study how my intestines pass the camera in hopes to help other people with an illness that makes it hard to digest food properly.
Then the physicians will give me a little plastic sifting cup. With this, they will show me how to properly sift through my waste to retrieve the camera pill. Upon return, they will give me a check for my troubles and that will be that.
The drawback is that it could get stuck in my stomach and they would have to pump it to get it out. Or it could get stuck anywhere in my intestines, which in that case I would need surgery to get it removed. I am hoping not to even have to worry about these two drawbacks but hey, we'll see.
posted by Beo @ 12:10 PM
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Radioactive jelly and sifting through waste? I thought my life sucked.
In all seriousness, good luck with that. I hope everything goes well.
Thanks, it should go fine.
How did your doctors appointment go?
It went great.
So as the big day approaches, how do you feel? Nervous? Scared? Excited?
Hey eo! Thanks for your comment! I was raised in Attleboro Ma! ahow bout that? Small world. I am also a deep thinker and have an eye thing I deal with. Hereditary optic nerve damage...vision is 20/70 corrected and cannot drive. Same for my older children. Vut we don't let it stop us. It's just part of life. I'd like topost my picture up in the corner like you have yours, but haven't figured it out yet! Loke your music too! Thanks again!
I'm a little nervous thurston, but not much. I just want to get through it and get the cash.
Thanks Jill, acutally the only piece of the picture that is actually me is the mouth and jaw. The rest is just clips from other things. You can post you picture in the edit my profile section of your dashboard and just put the location of the picture in the area for the URL. If you play around with it you'll figure it out. If not let me know what probs you are having and I'll try to help.:)
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