Warning: Gory stuff!

So I went to visit the animal house for the first time! And, yes, they wear clogs in the surgery room! Can you see mine? So darn fashionable!

And so the bloody gore began.... In the first pic, Marijke is taking a blood sample from Mr. Rat for my experiments! In the next, we are taking out the pancreas after it is "blown up" with fluid. In the test tube is the pancreas after it is taken out. It is ready for islet isolation, meaning they will separate the insulin secreting cells from the rest of the junk. And the islet cells will be transplanted into a diabetic rat to save its life. So, remember, we do this to save diabetics like me.