OH, THE BLOOD...
July 18, 2006
by: jovial_cynic
by: jovial_cynic
No, it's not what you're thinking. I need a break from the violence, so this is not a post about the senseless bloodshed that's taking place in the Middle East.
I went to fill up a cup with ice for my Pepsi (big fan of Pepsi, by the way), and on the way to the cafeteria, I noticed that one of the conference rooms had a bunch of lab tables set up. Apparently, it's blood-donation day here at work, so I figured I'd take a break from my busy schedule and give some of my blood away.
After a very long series of questions by the medical examiner as I thought about the whole process of giving and receiving blood (poetic, during these crazy times), I was told that I am in fact ineligable, indefinitely. Apparently, my time in Germany from ages 4 to 7 potentially exposed me to Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease or Variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease... otherwise known as Mad Cow Disease.
That's fantastic. Thanks to the global beef industry's cost-saving method of chopping up inedible cow byproduct and feeding it back to cows, I might have contracted a brain-wasting disease. Brain... wasting... disease. Awesome.
And it sucks that I can't give blood. Stupid food industry. I swear, the food industry has introduced so many problems into humanity, all just to make more money.
I went to fill up a cup with ice for my Pepsi (big fan of Pepsi, by the way), and on the way to the cafeteria, I noticed that one of the conference rooms had a bunch of lab tables set up. Apparently, it's blood-donation day here at work, so I figured I'd take a break from my busy schedule and give some of my blood away.
After a very long series of questions by the medical examiner as I thought about the whole process of giving and receiving blood (poetic, during these crazy times), I was told that I am in fact ineligable, indefinitely. Apparently, my time in Germany from ages 4 to 7 potentially exposed me to Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease or Variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease... otherwise known as Mad Cow Disease.
That's fantastic. Thanks to the global beef industry's cost-saving method of chopping up inedible cow byproduct and feeding it back to cows, I might have contracted a brain-wasting disease. Brain... wasting... disease. Awesome.
And it sucks that I can't give blood. Stupid food industry. I swear, the food industry has introduced so many problems into humanity, all just to make more money.