Adventure-Seeking Lancet Finds Way to Arctic Clime

While most of my used lancets and test strips end up where they are supposed to – in that conspicuous, yellow, biohazardous materials container (a.k.a. the place where lancets and test strips go to die) – there is always the odd, adventure-seeking lancet or test strip that somehow ends up elsewhere.  There’s an obvious stash of used test strips in the bottom of my backpack and an understandable supply of used lancets on my bedside table.  But there’s also those lancets and test strips that I discover in more unexplainable locales (I guess word must have gotten out that “destination: conspicuous yellow container” isn’t the vacation it’s cracked up to be).

I’ve found used test strips under the mats on the car floor.  And last week, I found a pile of used lancets and test strips under the futon…strange.  Sometimes, they turn up outdoors, on the sidewalk or along the walkway to our apartment.   Some make their way into the washing machine and I’ve even found these sneaky, biohazardous materials in my bed!  But today’s adventure-seeking lancet trumps all other adventure-seeking lancets.  Today, just chillin’ with the Five Alive and frozen bananas (that seriously need to be turned into gluten-free muffins), I found a used lancet in the freezer.

And that’s just plain weird.