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well, can you?

Yes, just not other peoples.

Yes, and other peoples. It doesn't bother me.

I can. Even other people's.

But I get weak in the knees when I see something surgical.

Really? When I see guts and stuff it doesnt bother me. It's just there blood that does it.

Yes. Some people lick their blood.

Originally posted by Princess-Puppy~
Yes. Some people lick their blood.


I do if I have a cut on my fingers, or arms. Why not? Its your's anyways.

Originally posted by Rogue Jedi
well, can you?

yeah, I even cut myself to see it

On a logical scale? It depends on how much, if I see a crap load of blood pouring outta me or someone in real life then it wigs me out because you only have so much blood before your body decides to check out on you. It's not the color of it or where it comes from or it's density and viscosity or anything, it's the fact that if you bleed enough you'll die.

Why do I sound like a boring little nerdling who's never gonna get some in life?!

Let's not answer that, shall we?! ^_^; It'd make my life easier! That it would.

lol dissing yourself? That's a sign of security in your life.

If you touch or lick other peoples blood you get H.I.V.!

Yeah, I can. And other people's, I'm used to it.

Originally posted by Princess-Puppy~
If you touch or lick other peoples blood you get H.I.V.!


LoL but who would do that?

Originally posted by Snoopbert
Yes, and other peoples. It doesn't bother me.

Originally posted by Princess-Puppy~
If you touch or lick other peoples blood you get H.I.V.!

Um, no. Only if that person has HIV can you get it.

Sheesh.

Anyway, I'm okay with the site of my own blood (I tend to randomly injure myself a lot on accident, I'm a total clutz), but I can't handle seeing anyone else's blood.

Originally posted by Lana
Um, no. Only if that person has HIV can you get it.

Sheesh.

Anyway, I'm okay with the site of my own blood (I tend to randomly injure myself a lot on accident, I'm a total clutz), but I can't handle seeing anyone else's blood. I know!

Originally posted by Lana
Um, no. Only if that person has HIV can you get it.

Sheesh.

Anyway, I'm okay with the site of my own blood (I tend to randomly injure myself a lot on accident, I'm a total clutz), but I can't handle seeing anyone else's blood.

I had a friend one time touch a metal part of a tray from the toaster oven. It burned.

blood never bothered me.

Originally posted by Isredel
I had a friend one time touch a metal part of a tray from the toaster oven. It burned.

lol well I thought that was a given.

Originally posted by Darth Macabre
Yes, just not other peoples.

Originally posted by Darth Macabre
lol well I thought that was a given.

don't give him too much credit Mr. Macabre

I can. It's just blood. Blood never really bothered me.

Originally posted by AOR
don't give him too much credit Mr. Macabre

lol I'll remember that next time.

i saw a guy with an open fracture once. the bone was sticking out of his leg. that freaked me out.

Originally posted by Rogue Jedi
i saw a guy with an open fracture once. the bone was sticking out of his leg. that freaked me out.

See that kind of stuff doesnt bother me.

it did me. man, it was like "thats not supposed to be showing!!!"

lol

it was weird.

I know where your coming from. One of my friends broke his leg on the football field, and i had to carry him off. When I laid him on the bench, it wasnt pretty.

my dad broke his finger once at work. he looked at it, bent it back into place, finished the popsicle he was eating, then fashioned a splint out of the stick and finished the day.

Originally posted by Rogue Jedi
my dad broke his finger once at work. he looked at it, bent it back into place, finished the popsicle he was eating, then fashioned a splint out of the stick and finished the day.

lol Are you serious?

with all of the blood i get drawn I have to be.

I suffered form self injury when I was younger, so yes, I'm fine with it. Also fine with other peoples blood or surgery or whatever

Originally posted by Rogue Jedi
well, can you?
I can stand the sight of my own and other ppl's blood

Yes.


Ceterum censeo OTF esse delendam.

Originally posted by Darth Macabre
I do if I have a cut on my fingers, or arms. Why not? Its your's anyways.

The "lick your finger if you have a cut" thing is instinctual, primarily because drool is a very potent antiseptic

And no, i have no problem with blood, be it mine or someone elses.

Originally posted by Dark Urizen
The "lick your finger if you have a cut" thing is instinctual, primarily because drool is a very potent antiseptic

And no, i have no problem with blood, be it mine or someone elses.

Drool's an antiseptic?

Originally posted by Darth Macabre
Drool's an antiseptic?

yes

that's why when you cut yourself the first instinct is to put the finger in your mouth.

Or at least that's what i've heard

drool contains more bacteria then where ever

seen my own eye socket and nerve in a mirror once, i stuck me finger in trying to get to my brain ( i was six, don't blame me).
Yeah that was kool, then after that wen i was ten i had a stick go through my index figerstarting at the nuckel up through the bone and out the top, when it came out i bled and bled and bled, but it was rapid savage.

Originally posted by silent dreams
I can. It's just blood. Blood never really bothered me.

Originally posted by Rogue Jedi
well, can you? I drink my blood! I just look at other peoples.

Originally posted by Rave X
drool contains more bacteria then where ever

That's funny because it's wrong

One of the contents of saliva:

Antibacterial compounds (thiocyanate, hydrogen peroxide, and secretory immunoglobulin A)

Originally posted by Rogue Jedi
well, can you? why not?

Originally posted by Rogue Jedi
well, can you?
Yes. Yes I can.

Originally posted by Princess-Puppy~
Yes. Some people lick their blood.
Twice in the past two weeks I've bit my tongue in my sleep, waking up to a mouthful of blood. It's a weird phenomenon, I guess. It goes like this . . .

I wake up, my tongue hurts, I don't know why, so I start falling back to sleep, then I taste blood, I stick my finger in my mouth, I snap on my reading light, I look at my finger, it's covered with blood, I get up, rinse my mouth out for about five minutes, the bleeding stops, I go back to bed.

The next day, my tongue is sore and has bumps on it. True story.

Originally posted by Tired Hiker
Twice in the past two weeks I've bit my tongue in my sleep, waking up to a mouthful of blood. It's a weird phenomenon, I guess. It goes like this . . .

I wake up, my tongue hurts, I don't know why, so I start falling back to sleep, then I taste blood, I stick my finger in my mouth, I snap on my reading light, I look at my finger, it's covered with blood, I get up, rinse my mouth out for about five minutes, the bleeding stops, I go back to bed.

The next day, my tongue is sore and has bumps on it. True story.

No need to fret unless one night you wake up, throw up, crap yourself, urinate everywhere, and pretty much eliminate everything from your body that isn't blood or organs. And if after that you see in shades of purple and have enhanced senses and a need for blood, start worrying...


According to Anne Rice

Originally posted by Dark Urizen
That's funny because it's wrong

One of the contents of saliva:

Antibacterial compounds (thiocyanate, hydrogen peroxide, and secretory immunoglobulin A)

Hm... youre right. My bad. Wounds in a mouth heal much quicker indeed than anywhere else. Animals lick their wounds.
But as a nurse, with a pierced tong, exposed to (severe) trauma wounds have to wear mounthcaps. It must be than that the bacteria can only do 'damage' to others?

Originally posted by Rave X
Hm... youre right. My bad. Wounds in a mouth heal much quicker indeed than anywhere else. Animals lick their wounds.
But as a nurse, with a pierced tong, exposed to (severe) trauma wounds have to wear mounthcaps. It must be than that the bacteria can only do 'damage' to others?

No prob

Nope, fear of HIV and other hundreds of diseases that are easily transmitted through internal fluid contact.
You'd be surprised at the number of pacients that cough up blood or saliva, or are just plain junkies that spit the nurses inthe face. It's a precaution for their own health.

Originally posted by Dark Urizen
No prob

Nope, fear of HIV and other hundreds of diseases that are easily transmitted through internal fluid contact.
You'd be surprised at the number of pacients that cough up blood or saliva, or are just plain junkies that spit the nurses inthe face. It's a precaution for their own health.

I dont mean diseases, I mean that saliva can infect a wound. Because if you had a severe wound and I'd spit in it the risk for infection is much greater then when you spit in it yourself, because you have other bacteria in your saliva than I have

Originally posted by Rave X
I dont mean diseases, I mean that saliva can infect a wound. Because if you had a severe wound and I'd spit in it the risk for infection is much greater then when you spit in it yourself, because you have other bacteria in your saliva than I have



Where did you get this from???
Humans don't have bacteria in their saliva (unless we're talking hobos that eat from the garbage can). So if you spit in my wound or i spit in my wound, the same anti-bacteria in all humans' saliva (the ones i enumerated a few posts back) would help with the healing process....

Originally posted by Dark Urizen


Where did you get this from???
Humans don't have bacteria in their saliva (unless we're talking hobos that eat from the garbage can). So if you spit in my wound or i spit in my wound, the same anti-bacteria in all humans' saliva (the ones i enumerated a few posts back) would help with the healing process....



Humans do have bacteria in their saliva right? I've seen tests on tv (kinda hard to explain in Englisch, since my native language is Dutch) where they test for example food that has been laying on the floor for 5 seconds to see how much bacteria it gained compared the the same food that hasnt. That way they have tested saliva... or am I not making any sence at all and have I confused two things badly?
I'll see if I can look it up on the internet

Yes. Yes, I can. I donate about 3-4 times a year.

Yes. Blood, I don't mind.

Originally posted by Snoopbert
Yes, and other peoples. It doesn't bother me.

i have absolutely no problem with the sight of blood. Mines or anyone else'e

If i didn't hate biology so damn much I would have studied to be a surgeon, had the stable fingers to do it. Lol but not anymore, since I cant use the 2 fingers that got crushed earlier this year.

Yep, blood was never a problem for me.

-AC

It depends; in large amounts blood gets dense and looks like jam. Even getting that cleaned is quite gross. It forms a film on top of the puddle when it begins to dry up.

Originally posted by Rave X
Humans do have bacteria in their saliva right? I've seen tests on tv (kinda hard to explain in Englisch, since my native language is Dutch) where they test for example food that has been laying on the floor for 5 seconds to see how much bacteria it gained compared the the same food that hasnt. That way they have tested saliva... or am I not making any sence at all and have I confused two things badly?
I'll see if I can look it up on the internet

I think you're confusing things. If you ate something that was on the floor it would have bacteria, but the anti-bacteria in your saliva would fight it and most likely win.
Normally, there isn't bacteria in your mouth.

i don't mind it even other peoples blood

Originally posted by Rogue Jedi
well, can you?
Yes and the taste as well.

I cut my hand a minute ago I can't stand the sight of my blood...it is all over my gloves!



I guess it is kinda my fault for smashing that glass...

I guess it depends on the extremity of the blood flow. If I get a lil' ol' paper cut, I'm not going to pass out like a little school girl. But, when I was in Iraq, I was shot on the neck and when I saw blood spurting out of my neck like a damn lawn spicket, I passed out cold.

Impediment, you served?

Originally posted by Impediment
I guess it depends on the extremity of the blood flow. If I get a lil' ol' paper cut, I'm not going to pass out like a little school girl. But, when I was in Iraq, I was shot on the neck and when I saw blood spurting out of my neck like a damn lawn spicket, I passed out cold.
I think I may pass out just from hearing that story....

Originally posted by Impediment
I guess it depends on the extremity of the blood flow. If I get a lil' ol' paper cut, I'm not going to pass out like a little school girl. But, when I was in Iraq, I was shot on the neck and when I saw blood spurting out of my neck like a damn lawn spicket, I passed out cold.

I think I'd pass out to if it happened to me...

I'm not too proud to admit that I did. It scared me sh*tless. I woke up a day later in a hospital.

yes.. my own and anybody elses..... and im just about used to the smell of formaldehyde b/c my dad always smells like it.....

when i cut myself I have no problem,but I turn the other way when I am at the doctors and I see it going into a tube,makes me faint seeing it withdrawn like that.

If I'm happily hacking away at some pour soul that has trespassed onto my land and whom I have subsequently kidnapped and am holding hostage in my cellar, then I'm fine.

Bit of blood here, kidneys over there, what's not to love?