Well This is Awkward...

Preface for my mother, the following quote is rather disgusting, but so was my day.

"Is it necessary for me to drink my own urine? No, but I do it anyway because it's sterile and I like the taste." -Patches O'Houlihan (Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story)


Today is probably the only Monday after a Fast Sunday that I was not dehydrated. Why do you ask, well we are learning about kidney function in physiology and from what I've learned if patches liked the taste because it was sweet he is most definitely diabetic. Today started out with studying and then going and taking a test all while downing about 2 liters of water, because we were told we needed to be properly hydrated for today's physiology lab, in which we were doing urinalysis. I got to lab and there are 6 people and we all had to do something different to see how our kidneys changed the output of our urine. Someone drank something really acidic, another ate a bunch of tums, there was supposed to be ingestion of salt(that didn't happen), there was a control, a dehydrated subject and Me who was over hydrated. At the start of lab we voided our bladder and then drank what we were assigned, which in my case was a liter of water in 15 min. Then we waited a little over an hour, took beakers without lids into the closest bathroom which was on the other end of the building, voided our bladder and then carried our beakers(without lids) back to the lab. We all went at the same time, so we wouldn't feel as awkward carrying our beaker, that didn't help. There were only 2 stalls in the bathroom and three girls. As the two of us who were done were waiting in the bathroom for the other girl to finish, so random girl walked into the bathroom, stared at us and said "well this is awkward"...hmmm, no kidding you're not the one who is holding almost a half a liter of lidless warm urine and has to walk back to the classroom with the potential of running into a large variety of different people.

Moral of the Story: I shouldn't complain about pointless computer simulated labs, they are better than pointless disgusting real labs. Also if they are going to make us pee in a cup shouldn't they have a small bathroom attached to the lab or be like a doctors office and have a bathroom right next to the lab with a secret cupboard. Heck, I would even be happy if they would have just given me a lid. I don't care if it's sterile, still kind of gross. And then after we were done with the lab we just dumped it down the sink and washed the beaker out with only soap, lots of soap mind you but still.