[created] for something greater

Last Wednesday was one of those days you had a reason to be excited about going to uni. Why? No it wasn’t because of market day or anything free for that matter, it was because we had a very interesting Human Physiology Lab Practical that tested something home made.

We tested our own pee, yeap pee, pee as in a number 1, a number 1 as in urine, urine as in the yellow stuff that your body produces. I can’t be bothered going into the science of it (mostly because i don’t know exactly what we were testing for)

the day started off with eating a normal breakfast plus 500ml of water. At 11am we had to drink another 300ml of water then pee between the times of 12-12:30 and note the time. We then had to void, aka pee, at 1pm and drink back 200ml of water and hold in our pee for the next hour until we reached the lab.

The lab started at 2pm and we did the intro with everyone in my group BUSTING for the toilet. Our instructions were to grab a container, 2 measuring cylinders and a tiny sample tube. We had to pee into the container then measure the volume in the measuring cylinders, pour some into the sample tube and then flush the rest down the toilet. Funnily enough i think everybody spilled their first urine sample because the tubes fill up ALOT quicker then you’d expect. I had a whopping 470ml of pee at 2pm. After that we were split up into 2 test groups:

test group 1 had three people

1. drink a can of red bull (for caffine)
2. drink 3.3ml/kg of saline
3. drink 10ml/kg of water

test group 2 had three people as well

1. drink 10ml/kg of water
2. drink 10ml/kg of water + do 8 minutes of exercise after 60 minutes
3. drink 10ml/kg of water + eat 5 sachets of salt after 60 minutes

I drank the saline which is what they give you in hospitals in the drip.  Ended up drinking 429ml of it, it was NASTY.  After we drank our dose of whatever we had to pee every 20 minutes noting the amount of pee and keeping a sample. Group 1 only drank once at the beginning and that was it, group two though had to re-drink (in water) whatever amount they peed out.

I was really happy with my prac group. every second word that came out of our mouths was PEE this PEE that, you PEE I PEE We PEE… haha… and surprisingly enough we were so comfortable with each other that reminding each other to pee was like reminding each other to do our chores haha. Even asking each other how much we peed out was like asking each other how we were going haha, and we were all happy to proudly say our amounts and even encourage the ones that did massive amounts haha.

Anyways it was a pretty awesome prac because we had an awesome group. Downside is that know i have to write a report on it oh wells.

oh yea we established ourselves as the RENAL CLUB! we plan to have a renal camp and meet every other week for renal fun haha jokes jokes.

yeap thats a picture of our pee in tubes! haha. There are some strange ways of meeting people at uni.