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I just self-administered a stool sample. AMA.


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11 hours ago, TheShader said:

Did you touch it with your hands? What did your sample smell like? 

 

No, actual touching wasn't necessary as the kit the lab provided affixed to the toilet bowl and allowed completely hands-free operation using items #2 and #4:

 

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As for the smell, it wasn't particularly pungent comparatively speaking - just mildly unpleasant. 

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19 minutes ago, Bloodporne said:

Don't you just take a shit and dig in with something akin to those lil plastic spoons you get in one-serving ice creams? 

 

There was one part of the process that required scraping of the sample, but the implement wasn't a plastic spoon - item #3 was used for the scraping:

 

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This reminds me of some environmental storytelling I found IRL the other day while walking our dogs. I found a small pile of Fireball nips on the ground, as one does. About ten yards up the road, I found a used fleet enema kit. And about 10 yards up the road from that I found an empty bottle of astroglide. 

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I think I told this story before but I applied to work at Labcorp and I guess they sort urine and feces samples. I think the lady interviewing was trying to intimidate me and kept asking are you comfortable handling FECES!?!? And sure, it's in a bag, what do I care. The thing that concerned me was it was a graveyard shift thing and at the time I was kind of against it, but I ended up with an arguably worse job and doing the graveyard shift so it was all silly in retrospect.

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1 minute ago, Kal-El814 said:

This reminds me of some environmental storytelling I found IRL the other day while walking our dogs. I found a small pile of Fireball nips on the ground, as one does. About ten yards up the road, I found a used fleet enema kit. And about 10 yards up the road from that I found an empty bottle os astroglide. 

Someone got out of work early on Friday!

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2 minutes ago, Keyser_Soze said:

I think I told this story before but I applied to work at Labcorp and I guess they sort urine and feces samples. I think the lady interviewing was trying to intimidate me and kept asking are you comfortable handling FECES!?!? And sure, it's in a bag, what do I care. The thing that concerned me was it was a graveyard shift thing and at the time I was kind of against it, but I ended up with an arguably worse job and doing the graveyard shift so it was all silly in retrospect.

I've gotten the same thing when interviewing for BoH restaurant jobs, except it's unclogging food from the sink strainer that they make a huge deal about. 

 

And it's like... Yeah... I'm an adult, I can handle lifting some lettuce out of a sink without crying. 

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I had the option of having a stool sample analysis in lieu of a colonoscopy (turned 45 last year), but decided on the colonoscopy since the results are apparently valid for ten years, as opposed to 2-3 for the stool sample: that was the main benefit, although there are several others I discussed with the doctor.

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