My crab larvae are coming along well in my experiment. All of the Unfed control group have died! While this sounds cruel, it is necessary for the experiment and they probably would have all died long ago if they were in the ocean anyways. Also, my non-toxic diet larvae have begun to molt. This means that they have passed into the second stage of larval development and gives me a comparison to the stage duration of the toxic diet larvae (a few of which molted today). I am excited to continue the experiment and eventually analyze the data I am getting to see what effect the toxins have. Next week I will start a new experiment that seeks to observe the differences in development of the larvae when there are differing levels of toxin present in the diet, which is also pretty exciting. I realize that this is super nerdy, but I am at a marine science REU, so :-P
As for general life stuff...
Yesterday all the interns and grad students living at SPMC had Thanksgiving in July! It was tons of fun. We had great, yummy food and a wonderful time of fellowship. I made some bread rolls from frozen dough that expanded so much that they were ginormous! I cooked some of them in muffin pans, two to a hole, and they turned out looking like this:
I'm sure you can imagine what they were nicknamed. Yep - butt buns! It made for an interesting dinner... Just imagine, "Can you pass the butt buns, please?" Haha. It was great.
For all of you who have been praying about my wound, thank you! My dad called my surgeon and he gave me some advice about how to clean it and put the wick in and this seems to be helping immensely! Not only is there less fluid coming out each day, but it seems like it might even be closing a little! I still have to see my surgeon right away when I get back and we will probably end up doing exploratory surgery to get out whatever is irritating it, but as long as its not getting worse, I'm happy. Please keep praying! I know that God will eventually heal the wound, either by a surgery or miraculously. Your prayers are always welcomed and greatly appreciated. :-)
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