Tuesday, June 18, 2013

365 Days of Jazz Hands - Day 169

TUESDAY, JUNE 18th, 2013  

Contrary to what you may now believe, based on previous posts, I respond to the sight of blood with unease.  Especially my own.  Especially when there is an abundance of it.

I can say with complete confidence that, for the most part, it is my intention to prevent blood from escaping my body.  If I choose to bleed it must be for a good cause, and in a supremely controlled environment.

That is not to say that the process is any less fascinating.  As a contributor to the medical science world (as yet to be fully realized, accepted and appreciated), I value the knowledge and technology that makes blood extraction a routinely safe procedure.

Even if the ritual takes place on a bus.

But that's tomorrow.  Let's embrace today and not get too far ahead of ourselves.  Today I must navigate through a complex system made up of many components that combine to make but one, finely tuned machine.  Today I am but one small bit of an equation that is meaningless without the network.

I am a thrombocyte.  A platelete.  A fragment.  A mere constituent.  

Today's Jazz Hands facilitated clotting to prevent the loss of fluids.

Day one-hundred and sixty-nine complete.

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