Death to FunZo

Today was a crap day.

I had a crappy exam that I didnt have time to fully study for, but the highlight would have to be the fact that I measured blood pressure today for physiol, with a Sphygmomanometer, and it was fun. Pretty boring so far? Not to fear.
During our prac, I dunno whos fault it was, but my partner, who had the cuff on at the time decided he would get up randomly and walk around. This is perfectly fine and legal and stuff except for the fact that, yep, the cuff was still on. What happend next was a loud bang, and the contamination of our entire working area by splatters of mercury. Of course, we didn't realise for quite a while so we had plenty fun breathing in the vapors, etc. And Yes, it was shiny and it was all beauytiful at the time, but now that I think about it... I think I'm dying. So, here I am, admitting to the world my failure in the lab, and thanking you all for a wonderful life. Goodbye.

Hmm...not dead yet...

righto, might as well lookup google to see how I'm gonna die..

Ah, crap, I'm not gonna die after all, I'm just gonna suffer for another 70yrs or so...

ACUTE HEALTH EFFECTS

Very high exposures to mercury vapor in the air can cause acute poisoning. Symptoms usually begin with cough, chest tightness, trouble breathing and upset stomach. This may go on to pneumonia, which can be fatal.

If the inorganic mercury compounds are swallowed, nausea, vomiting diarrhea and severe kidney damage can occur.

CHRONIC HEALTH EFFECTS

Exposure to any form of mercury on a repeated basis, or even from a single, very high exposure can lead to the disease of chronic mercury poisoning. There are three main symptoms:

1. Gum problems. The gums become soft and spongy, the teeth get loose, sores may develop, and there may be increased saliva.
2. Mood and mental changes. People with chronic mercury poisoning often have wide swings of mood, becoming irritable, frightened, depressed or excited very quickly for no apparent reason. Such people may become extremely upset at any criticism, lose all self-confidence, and become apathetic. Hallucinations, memory loss and inability to concentrate can occur.
3. Nervous system. The earliest and most frequent symptom is a fine tremor (shaking) of the hand. A tremor may also occur in the tongue and eyelids. Eventually this can progress to trouble balancing and walking.

OTHER HEALTH EFFECTS

There are a number of other symptoms that may be caused by exposure to mercury and mercury-containing compounds.

• A skin allergy may develop. If this happens, repeated exposure causes rash and itching.
• Exposure to mercury vapor can cause the lens of the eye to discolor.
• Some of the inorganic mercury compounds can cause burns or severe irritation of the skin and eyes on contact.

EFFECTS ON THE REPRODUCTIVE SYSTEM

Some organic mercury compounds (methylmercury) are known to cause birth defects in children born of exposed mothers. It is not known whether inorganic compounds or elemental mercury have this effect.

Yes, I hope you had fun reading my random blabber. Apologies to Dez for freaking you out, haha, although it's 80% ur fault.

On another note, I got a guitar, and I'm endeavoring to become more attractive by mastering its intricacies. I think the mercury in my blood could screw me abit though, with the hand tremors and all.