Friday: birthday party

Today A. went to a birthday party. We stopped at Quill and Press to buy origami papers, because the birthday girl likes to fold plain paper and I thought, well, plain paper is great but origami paper is awesome. Who knows if this is true for other people.

The birthday party had half chocolate and half vanilla Roche Bros. cake, and they played corn hole and hide and go seek. The movie part did not go so well, so A. bailed out early. Everyone was nice, and it was a pleasant environment.

You Really Should Test Bits of People You Are Going to Put Into Other People

It seems like we keep having to revisit this, and I am not sure why. It took a while to realize we really should test blood before transfusing it. It took a while to make sure that we were testing body parts (like cadaver gum tissue) before transplanting them. I mean, this seems pretty obvious by now. But, no, we are still rediscovering that this is an issue.

https://arstechnica.com/science/2019/06/killer-poop-fecal-transplant-patients-death-prompts-fda-to-push-out-warning/

Surprise: you need to test the poop before transplanting it. Because, it came from a human. And humans have cooties. Now, in the poop case, you want some of the cooties. But some of the cooties you do not want. Testing!