I have to fast this morning and delayed my breakfast because I have registered myself to take part in one experiment, that is about testing for dehydration in a human body. This took place in the School of Sports and Exercise Science, in the CW Building. I was a little intrigued because CW Building looks like a normal venue for lecturing and tutorial, what else could happen in there, I wonder. When I arrived, I was received by a student and being escorted up to the level where the experiment took place. I must say I was quite impressed when I knew where all these are going to happen, it was at the top floor on the other side of the building, totally well "wrapped up" like a sort of CIA location, quite protective and secretive I must say, and when I reached there, I was taken take by another guy in white coat, yes, as in doctor attire. He appeared kind of proud of his outfit, hinting to me as if "hey now i am the doctor and you are my patient" and then he says hi to me and introduced himself. That was fine. Then I followed this white coat boy through a few doors and meeting a few other white coat specialist, saying hi here and there. Then we reached a room, where the whole experiment began. I was then asked to collect my urine in a rather huge container, which was not quite the same like a tube normally GP will use. Then My blood sample was taken and I filled in even more forms.
I chat with the white coat boy and then I knew that this experiment was required as part of his final year dissertation project and he needs a lot more sample to complete the dissertation. It was about the study of the contributing factors to dehydration. I was then asked to collect urine samples for the next 7 days. I was then given with 4 EVEN LARGER containers, almost as big as those 2 ml in capacity! I was asked to collect them using each of the 4 containers each days, and to bring back and exchange for another 3 next Tuesday. Also, My first pee of the day must be into the container of the previous day and only my second pee is into the new container. I thought that was so complicated and I have to take down some notes. He also gave me a booklet and showed me to record my foodstuff I took every day, take down the times, what i ate and also how I felt before i eat those stuff, am I happy or not, between a scale of 1 to 5, also am I with friends and where I was, etc. I thought that was a bit daunting, but I decided to give it a go. Then I left and went back to my office.
Later that morning, the more I thought about this, the more I felt it was not quite right. Collection of urine in this huge container everyday means I have to go to the toilet with that BIG container and pee. What would my colleagues think about this, I cannot imagine. Even if i do it in my office, I still have to keep my urine in my office and that will smell horrible, and what if I have people in my office, that felt so wrong, and then at the end of the day, I have to bring my pee back keeping the BIG container in my bag, it was so weird. I decided that I am not going to do this quite quickly, call that white coat boy, and brought the container back to him, and explaining to him, and I can see his disappointment, and I gave him a pat on his back, implying to him "good luck" and I left and felt glad I don't have to keep my urine in those rather shockingly BIG containers. Perhaps those BIG containers are really not meant for me, hahahaha!
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