Wednesdays Digressions

• Mini-chupas head wound (should he be called chupacabrito?) I'll think about that.
• It started as a hemangioma which is a birthmark which usually presents sometime after birth-weird huh? He scratched it off himself in his sleep,which is the only time he's messed with it. He's ok but, man he was sleeping with me the first time it happened. You wake up and the bed looked like a crime scene!
• Even minor head wounds look bad though because the head is so vascular, meaning there are a lot of veins.
• Blood is so powerful the word itself is very evocative isn't it?
• Blood
• That wouldn't have had to be in caps and italicised to get our attention- it's a powerful word. Is that because we are so afraid of the substance itself so the word has an equally strong connotation?
• People like to start arguments about blood being the bodies largest organ (instead of the skin) It's not, it's actually a tissue to further complicate things.
• Blood is thicker than water.
• In the movie Rambo First Blood Sylvester Stallone broke three ribs on his fall through the trees.
• Sugar added to blood increases it's storage life.
• Mr. Spock has T negative blood, which is green due to the copper content.
• Roman doctors were the first to prescribe blood taken orally for life threatening illness and to confer youth to the recipient.
• 7% of human body weight is blood.
• A human adult has about 6 quarts or 5.6 liters of blood.
• Before you donate blood drink a large glass of water about an hour or two before and keep working on another until you donate. It will bring your volume up enough to make the process easier and faster. The tech. on my last donation said taking aspirin would help and doesn't hurt the product.
• Please donate and donate often-every 2 seconds in the US someone needs a blood product.
• You can't get blood from a turnip.
• Every culture in the world has a blood drinking monster legend and they also are among the oldest horror stories in the world.
• Cows have over 800 blood types.
• How many movies,books and campfire stories have,"As his life-blood formed a pool around his body..." somewhere in them?
• Chupacabra means goatsucker in Spanish. He is a legendary creature that feasts often on the blood of goats.