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<body id="essays">
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<section class="writing">
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<h1 class="header">
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<dl class="list">
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<dt>Mice</dt>
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<p>
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Blood is renewed rhythmically. Like relay runners on a track, cells pass batons back
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and forth, from lungs to heart and outwards. Inhalation calls them back, resetting the
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race. The breath purifies the river of life, expelling the body's waste in spent sugar
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remains. The runners reset. Carbon removed, blood anew.
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The quiet heart. Its left atrium expands, inviting oxygen rich blood cells into the
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first room. The atrium contracts, opening the door to the left ventricle. Its muscles
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wrap the walls, waiting for the signal to open the gates. Onwards. A network of blood
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shoots upstream the tributaries of vasculo-muscular tissues, to the loneliest fractal
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ends of capillaries. Oxygen is released, the body rejoices, the blood becomes acrid
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with carbonic acid. The poor blood is pulled back through the veins and returns to its
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heart through the right side, atrium to ventricle and back to the sweet lungs. Carbon
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and oxygen swing in and out of the body like a lead and follow. Sugar and air for each
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moment of life. Her heart beats steadily 369 beats per minute.
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How sweet the moonlight sleeps upon this bank! Here will we sit and let the sound of
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music creep in our ears.
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On the workbench lies a clear plastic shoe box connected to a system of machines by
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two tubes. A gauge measures the amount of gas left in a canister of oxygen. A small
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device attached to the tank controls the flow of oxygen to the tube. The last machine
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whirls a solution into vapor, waiting to be misted in with the flow of air. The gauge
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off, such that the shoe box is solely filled with air.
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An assistant weighs the mouse. 21 grams. She is lifted into the box by the tail. The
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lid is sealed. Her fine whiskers brush each wall and corner, bending against hard
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plastic. She peers up at the assistant through the glass ceiling.
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He switches the gauge, to administer 4% concentration of vaporized Isoflurane.
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20 seconds. Her attention is diverted to the smell emitted from a small circular vent;
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pungent and unpleasant. Pacing the room frantically, her body becomes excited, alert,
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unsteady. She can't keep upright.
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56 seconds. Concentration is lowered to 2%.
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Lulled, she rests, drowsy, her heart beats 259 beats per minute. The assistant tilts
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the box. The body tumbles to one side.
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Soft stillness, and the night becomes the touches of sweet harmony.
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1 minute, 45 seconds. The body is equilibrated with the inhalant, 2% Isoflurane.
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2 minutes 20 seconds. The assistant turns the gauge and vaporizer off, and the chamber
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is filled with pure O2. The remaining inhalant exits to the waste evacuation system.
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Removing the lid, he holds her warm body. He pinches her foot. No response. Like
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threading a needle, he inserts a small cone into her nose, dispersing a light dose of
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the anesthetic to ensure she stays sedated. He places her back against the styrofoam
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board, pins her arms to the side, and her ankles to the base.
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Look how the floor of heaven is thick inlaid with patines of bright gold. There's not
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the smallest orb that thou beholst, but in his motion like an angel sings. Such
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harmony is in immortal souls.
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<dt> Mice </dt>
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I'm experimenting with creative non fiction. This is part one of a series of
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pro science vignettes.
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<a class="list__link" href="./mice.html">read more here</a>
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<dt> український щоденник </dt>
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