Eye washed!

I got to use the eye wash in lab today! Oops..

In what can only be described as the most scatter-brained day ever, I forgot to put the comb into my gel when I set it up. Now that's a pretty important part since it makes nice little wells to inject the sample into, so basically, no comb=useless slab of gel. Well, it hadn't been polymerizing very long so I figured I could sneak it in. Of course, this meant I was frantic, which is never a good thing. I forcefully shove the comb in (my gel was already geling -tear-.) and a little bit of the liquidy part comes shooting out. And of course, I was just so lucky to be crouched down in front of the gel at the time so the liquidy part hit me just below the eye. -whew- I thought, at least it missed my eye. Well as it turns out, the chemicals that make the gel are all wonderfully toxic and carcinogens (while they're still liquids, that is, as the gel polymer, babies could play with the stuff). So Dr. Rita is standing there like: "AHHH EYE WASH, EYE WASH!!!"

So, yes, I spend the next 5 minutes spraying off my face in the sink. -sigh- It was not unlike when I shot myself in the face with frog juice in Rohal's class. Damn that fascia.