We started the dialysis of our practice samples today at 9:00 am. Anna, Marie, Adama, Vieux, and I were present. As it takes at least 4 hours to travel to St. Louis, we left Vieux to finish the 2nd half of the dialysis. Anna, Marie, Adama, and I left for St. Louis Wednesday around 3:00 pm.
Thursday - The retrieval
As we were heading to the first site the pick-up decided to leak all of the water and coolant out of a fitting on the water pump about 10 miles from the site. We had to hitch a ride with what I believe was one of the driver's friends. For the rest of the retrieval we used a horse cart to travel from site to site. The retrieval was successful and all cages were still present and accounted for. Something did happen to the cages though...something i feared after taking a look at the old style cages. They had rusted. Some more than others. It seems as though the stainless used was either a bad batch or low grade. Most of the rust occurred along the welds. I will take some pictures on Monday and post them. I added one picture that kind of shows the rust.
The pickup was towed back to St. Louis and fixed relatively fast though we did have to wait several hours after the retrieval and our horse drawn carriage ride was over.
Sorry I did not post earlier, but I didn't get back to the hotel until about 9 pm.
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