By kittkatt1 - 11/11/2013 01:52 - United States - Dearborn

Today, I found out that when you flush an animal clear of blood for research, there is a nerve inside the heart, which when you strike it right, electrical signals cause the animal to writhe as if alive. Now, my boss knows about my fear of zombies, and I'm now terrified of half my job. FML
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Zebediabolical 39

Plot twist: It wasn't the nerve that made it twitch.

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jenn1808 16

Sounds like a pretty unpleasant job to begin with. I hope that it's for a good cause; animal research always makes me really sad.

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Omniprism 14

I would not be able to handle that. I love animals too much and I have way too much empathy. I believe you can do it though. Good luck.

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sickerthanyou 13

so your job is pretty awful (not everybody can cut a living thing open and drain its blood) and you are scared of zombies?, I am more scared of living people.

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sheep42 1

so it's not just the nerve that does that if you're perfusing (which it sounds like). if you're using paraformaldehyde this interacts with the muscles during fixation and causes contractions so the legs will clench up and down (source - neuroscience professor who loves telling gruesome anecdotes)

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sanecatlady 13

I'm so sick of this zombie obsession people have been having near the end of every year now. People can appear to be zombies from an illness, when they're high or really drunk or even sleepwalking. But they're not zombies, because zombies are not real! We need to be more afraid of being nuked or an asteroid hitting this planet or the environment going to pot. Or becoming roadkill crossing the street. Or having a heart attack. Or cancer... someone shoot me now. :(

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uhnevermind 24

People have been obsessed with the dead coming back to life going back to ancient nomads. It's not like it just started. And it's a much older, much more primal fear than any of the things that you mentioned.

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flashback_fml 14

Wtf is your job exactly

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iluvpeanutbutter 22

I'm surprised there aren't more animal rights people on here, going on about how horrible all animal researchers are... this would be right up their alley.

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ea247 20

Where do you work and how do I sign up??

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Bradley_Dillon 39

He's not a book! Don't make fun of him! :(

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Wolf87535 4

OP, I feel bad for your trauma, but.... LMFAO!

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