I neeeed medical equipment! I need it or I will explode!

[cyrano]

This morning I did my first 'all by myself' blood test. The instructions for using the test strips (the little chunk of plastic that you bleed on) contains this useful information:
These test strips are for use outside the body only. Do not eat these test strips. The cap contains beads to keep the test strips dry. Do not eat the beads.

Now, I understand that when I do this test I'm not supposed to have eaten in four hours, so I'm likely to take anything that I find in my hand and shove it in my mouth, but here's my concern. There is no such warning on the lancet container, or the box that holds the electronic doo dad that does the blood testing. How am I supposed to know not to eat that? It's about the size of a cell phone, I could finish that off in two bites easily.

Comments

[mszappata.livejournal.com]

Do they mean that it has some edible parts?

[cyranocyrano.livejournal.com]

I don't think that's what they mean...
I mean, there's nothing in there that I'd *want* to eat anyway.

[mszappata.livejournal.com]

Still, they advise you against eating it. They should think about an edible version, I guess.

[cyranocyrano.livejournal.com]

Hrmmm. Edible blood testing device.... They could brand it with Twilight characters. That might be a seller. (:

[orchidsofdesire.livejournal.com]

Maybe the maker was watching that show called Strange Addictions

[cyranocyrano.livejournal.com]

That... is a disturbing thought, and I want to know no more about it.

[phillipalden.livejournal.com]

Sometimes I think that some of these "warnings" are useless, but then I remember how stupid people are.

[ashtoreth.livejournal.com]

This has had me giggling for hours.

[cyranocyrano.livejournal.com]

"Just think of the average person you know. Picture them for a minute. Okay, now realize that half the people in the world are stupider than them."

[cyranocyrano.livejournal.com]

**hugs** And that made the entire experience worthwhile. (:
Thank you for appeasing my approval demanding side.

[phillipalden.livejournal.com]

A friend of mine had a theory: Only one-in-four people are "real" people. The rest are "filler people," here only to take up space and do the jobs "real" people don't want to do.

And the "filler people" are mostly stupid.

I don't think he envisioned his "filler people" taking over the political system.