lingqi's Journal: August 12th, 2003

August 12th, 2003 (6:39pm)

We got back our health check results. Actually, I am thoroughly disappointed at it.

For THREE whole test tubes of blood, they only tested like 13 items. I mean, if you are going to skimp on all the protein tests and antibody tests (like hepatitis / HIV / etc), you'd at least take a little less blood, eh?

bastardly vampires.

hmm... maybe that's why they took so much blood. Now I feel dirty.

In any case, the only cool stuff I could find on the blood test was the liver functions portion. I didn't pay much attention until now, but there are three items, AST (10-40), ALT (5-45), and gamma-GTP (16-73).

The neat thing is that gamma-GTP tends to become high if you are a moderate to heavy drinker. Maybe chronic (regular?) drinker would qualify too. My gamma-GTP hovers at 17 (one point away from the low normality boundary). I guess complete abstinence from alcohol does have some its rewarding moments. I mean, maybe not to make up for all the missed chance at all the casual no-attachment sex in college, but it's better than nothing.

The only other thing that I was surprised to find was a normal reading for blood-sugar content. Without breakfast and having the blood taken after a 5k in the morning, I was expecting the blood suger level to be bottomed out. Error in the readings? I mean after all the blood was mostly going to the thirsty throats of the underworld...

Ok, I will stop fantasizing. I must have been reading way more Megatokyo than I really should have in a single day.

Its amazing..

[molo]

I'm amazed this stuff is legal over there. If people tried that over here, they would be screaming discrimination left and right. "I got fired because I wasn't health enough" and so on.

Perhaps thats why they didn't do HIV, Hepatitis, etc. testing?

-molo

Re:Its amazing..

[lingqi]

My understanding is that hepatitis is a common occurance in Asia, though maybe not so much in Japan...

Either way, though - age / sex / whatever discrimination is not legal in Japan either, but it certainly does not seem to be one of the better enforced laws...

Though, I must say that there is a higher than usual amount of married women working where I am, which is both surprising and encouraging.

how quickly we forget

[rewdpost]

"I mean, maybe not to make up for all the missed chance at all the casual no-attachment sex in college, but it's better than nothing."

I know you're not talking about your time at IIT, right??? Anyway, didn't you have a girlfriend through most of your time in school?

arm/needle or neck/fangs?

[heliocentric]

bastardly vampires... I mean after all the blood was mostly going to the thirsty throats of the underworld

Would you rather us vampires snuck up on you and bit your neck?

Re:arm/needle or neck/fangs?

[heliocentric]

Softening things by licking doesn't do you much good since the teeth are not thin little needles. Since they are big thick things you have to jab into a person (a person who might not enjoy said thing and resist I might add) breaking the skin any easier doesn't really impact the game.

Now, if you could use some adolf's meat tenderizer (I think it has some papaya in it) or something of that sort it might make matters go easier, but I've never found a good way to lure someone into doing that.

"Oh yeah baby,

Re:arm/needle or neck/fangs?

[lingqi]

as far as I know there is considerable pleasant foreplay involved in the feeding rituals - until the bitter end, anyhow.

hey, everything comes at a cost - for all the damn needle poking I was seriously hoping to get some results on hepatitis antibodies (got vaccinated a while back, wanted to see if antibodies was generated)