SV_awards, bandwidth and gut juice in my eye
Several things, o awesome flist.
Item A: I've been nominated several times for the svfanfic_awards along with some very AWESOME writers. I'm also in the run-off ballot; they need 5 entries per category. So *cough* *big eyes of cute*
Item B: Because of this or perhaps because of The Mutant Problem, Katt's Aerie exceeded its bandwidth quota for the month. Which, YAY! people are going but, y'know, it's gonna be a slow weekend. ;) Fortunately, I have my FF.net account for just such an occasion. When you're cheap, you gotta have equally cheap backup plans. Unfortunately, Sunshine won't have the manips on FF.Net but when I get bandwidth again in September, you can see the "illustrated" version of the story again.
Item C: I got gut juice in my eye. Or, if you want to be all scientific, gastro-intestinal fluid from a percutaneous enterogastric (PEG) tube splashed into the membranes of my eye. I had to be Fast-tracked to the ER for First Aid and bloodwork with a Hulking Security Guard and everything. Really, though, if you have to be exposed to body fluid, gastric juice is the way to go. It's so acidic, it kills 99% of contagions (the "stomach flu" is usually caused by bacteria not viruses). Plus because it was just the residue in a PEG, which is used to tube-feed people who can't take things down their esophagus for various reasons, it was mixed with a protein smoothie, essentially. Getting my blood taken hrt more. HIV can't be transmitted through gastric secretions; Hepatitis C has something like a 0.0001% chance of transmission. Hep B was what they worried about since it's a strong little bugger. However, I had my shots in Gr. 9 which give 95% of people lifetime immunity to the virus. Sure enough, my blood titres for Hep B antibodies are still up and so far, all is clear. I'll go back for testing in 6 weeks just in case.
Lesson of the day: Always perform procedures at waist level, not eye level. You never know when a PEG tube cap will flick off and splash gut juice in your eye. Also, when an incident happens at work, you have to kill a a tree's worth of paperwork. In triplicate.
Item A: I've been nominated several times for the svfanfic_awards along with some very AWESOME writers. I'm also in the run-off ballot; they need 5 entries per category. So *cough* *big eyes of cute*
Item B: Because of this or perhaps because of The Mutant Problem, Katt's Aerie exceeded its bandwidth quota for the month. Which, YAY! people are going but, y'know, it's gonna be a slow weekend. ;) Fortunately, I have my FF.net account for just such an occasion. When you're cheap, you gotta have equally cheap backup plans. Unfortunately, Sunshine won't have the manips on FF.Net but when I get bandwidth again in September, you can see the "illustrated" version of the story again.
Item C: I got gut juice in my eye. Or, if you want to be all scientific, gastro-intestinal fluid from a percutaneous enterogastric (PEG) tube splashed into the membranes of my eye. I had to be Fast-tracked to the ER for First Aid and bloodwork with a Hulking Security Guard and everything. Really, though, if you have to be exposed to body fluid, gastric juice is the way to go. It's so acidic, it kills 99% of contagions (the "stomach flu" is usually caused by bacteria not viruses). Plus because it was just the residue in a PEG, which is used to tube-feed people who can't take things down their esophagus for various reasons, it was mixed with a protein smoothie, essentially. Getting my blood taken hrt more. HIV can't be transmitted through gastric secretions; Hepatitis C has something like a 0.0001% chance of transmission. Hep B was what they worried about since it's a strong little bugger. However, I had my shots in Gr. 9 which give 95% of people lifetime immunity to the virus. Sure enough, my blood titres for Hep B antibodies are still up and so far, all is clear. I'll go back for testing in 6 weeks just in case.
Lesson of the day: Always perform procedures at waist level, not eye level. You never know when a PEG tube cap will flick off and splash gut juice in your eye. Also, when an incident happens at work, you have to kill a a tree's worth of paperwork. In triplicate.