Tuesday, September 30, 2008

Dark Room Disaster!! :)

Monday in radiology lab we had to pass off our BWX Process Eval... So, I start doing my thing and explaining what I am doing... I take my 4 BWX and explain to professor Mc. that next I would go process the films. She sends me back to process the films (okay #1 lesson --Alyse, alone in a dark room=bad idea). I decided I would practice proper "infection control" techniques to open the film packets... As I opened the packet, trying not to touch the film, but rather, slide it out onto the counter, it dropped and disappeared!! AH!! Panic set in... I start feeling through all of my packet wrappers, on the counter, under bins and machines... Next step--the floor.. I'm down on hands and knees feeling the ground for my poor lost vertical BWX! All in vain... So, I step into the light and tell professor Mc. that I dropped my film and "it's really dark in there!" haha. Denver then, being the nice person she is, decided she would come help me. Together, we repeated my search from countertop to floor to no avail... It was a lost cause. The lights had to go on :(

When the lights came on I found my film... pretty much right in front of me! But apparently, films on the counter top, disappear in the dark. Normally this story would just be funny, but the irony of it happening on a PE is just too much! Haha.. jk.. It could have been traumatizing, BUT it all worked out because professor Mc. is a saint, and she too had her tough days in the darkroom! :)

Anyway, the moral of the story is... Be careful when practicing proper "infection control techniques," and don't let Alyse process films alone :)

3 comments:

Abby said...

You are so dang cute!!! I'm so glad we can laugh at these things.:)

The Pyper's! said...

Your picture is so funny! :)

Anyway great post - you will look back and laugh at the day you were on the floor looking for your film. You are right Prof. M. is a saint :)

Sarah Wood said...

This story makes me smile!! :)