Oops, return of the poop posts! Community patients here get a lot of Occult Bloods done as a screen for tiny GI bleeds. Through some odd stroke of luck, I ended up doing these for a day (normally a lab assistant job; I love you, lab assistants, please keep rocking on).
For some reason, despite being the most well equipped lab in the city, Base doesn’t have a fume hood for these, so you’re sitting at a bench with some 300 (x3) cards full of 3 day old stale poop that’s crusting off onto the bench. They’re kind enough to line up a couple of citrus air fresheners out to help you out, but then the smells mix and you just get poop scented oranges stuck in your nose for a few consecutive hours. And I’m sure you smell like it too until you take a shower.
I happen to take public transit through the busy downtown core. I publicly and retroactively apologize to all those people right now.
