In the garden, and RAIN!!!!
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UPDATED: Thursday, December 25, 2025 04:27
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Hemoglobin was 7 when it should be 13, which is why I could barely make it to the street corner and back. Getting two units of blood this time.
I have a rare-ish blood type. There are all kinds of " factors" on red blood cells, not just ABO and Rh but hundreds of antigens and 30 blood group systems.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5061611/
The main groups are ABO,H, and Lewis.
I have no AB, H or Lewis factors, and until I was 30, no exposure to cyromegalovirus (CMV) so my blood was the plainest ofplain vanilla- suitable for everyone including sick babies. For the longest time I was a constant blood donor and have donated gallons, in my day. But being a universal donor means I would react to anyone else's non-plain vanilla blood. Now that I'm a blood receiver, makes me feel like good karma is coming back to me!
Last treatment, glory be!!!
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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake
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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Hemoglobin was 7 when it should be 13, which is why I could barely make it to the street corner and back. Getting two units of blood this time.
I have a rare-ish blood type. There are all kinds of " factors" on red blood cells, not just ABO and Rh but hundreds of antigens and 30 blood group systems.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5061611/
The main groups are ABO,H, and Lewis.
I have no AB, H or Lewis factors, and until I was 30, no exposure to cyromegalovirus (CMV) so my blood was the plainest ofplain vanilla- suitable for everyone including sick babies. For the longest time I was a constant blood donor and have donated gallons, in my day. But being a universal donor means I would react to anyone else's non-plain vanilla blood. Now that I'm a blood receiver, makes me feel like good karma is coming back to me!
Last treatment, glory be!!!
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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake
My mom was O negative too which I didn't find out until her second bout of cancer, which was lung.
Her white cell count took a couple of dips during her chemo treatments and they would be put off until the numbers were better.
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Back from my walk and just having a sit down.
Also found out that starting next Monday the elevator that goes down to the garage where the recycling and garbage bins are will be out for six weeks. Upgrades. So that means I will have to do everything like that in smaller pieces as I will have to take the stairs from the lobby down to that area. Oh the fun.
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Wow Sigs, you must be feeling better. Congrats on the clean kitchen.
Haven't done much here since I got back from my bro's. Think I got the Cobid, since that's been making the rounds in my family. Not going to bother trying to get tested for it.
Nowhere near as bad as the flu, if that's what it is. I'm probably suffering worse from the winter blah's and living through the halfway point of another frigid cold snap that should be ending sometime by early next week.
I gotta get back to getting indoor projects done soon though. I don't want to still be working on them when it's warm out like last year. At least I don't have a huge 5 month project like that kitchen looming over me anymore, and until I have the place ready to tackle the basement (see: watertight), I won't have anything left indoors that will tie me up for more than a week or two at most.
Man... It will be nice to have a beautiful, functional pantry though. I'm excited to see what I can do with it after seeing how the coat closet turned out.
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Out for my walk on a bright sunny day.
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Beautiful day where I am.
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Quote:Whatever you have I hope you get better soon, SIX. Sickness feeds into winter blahs, not a good combo!
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Wow Sigs, you must be feeling better. Congrats on the clean kitchen.
Haven't done much here since I got back from my bro's. Think I got the Cobid, since that's been making the rounds in my family. Not going to bother trying to get tested for it.
Nowhere near as bad as the flu, if that's what it is. I'm probably suffering worse from the winter blah's and living through the halfway point of another frigid cold snap that should be ending sometime by early next week.
I gotta get back to getting indoor projects done soon though. I don't want to still be working on them when it's warm out like last year. At least I don't have a huge 5 month project like that kitchen looming over me anymore, and until I have the place ready to tackle the basement (see: watertight), I won't have anything left indoors that will tie me up for more than a week or two at most.
Man... It will be nice to have a beautiful, functional pantry though. I'm excited to see what I can do with it after seeing how the coat closet turned out.
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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake
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Quote:Enjoy your day!
Originally posted by Brenda:
Beautiful day where I am.
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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake
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Originally posted by SIGNYM:Quote:Enjoy your day!
Originally posted by Brenda:
Beautiful day where I am.
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If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake
I did. Had a nice walk while I was out. Sunshine good even if there was some fog.
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Blizzard out there right now.
Entire forecast for the week went to shit overnight. Looked like all next week was going to be above freezing, now we don't even get a day in the 30's until next Sunday after three days of snow ending tomorrow, with a low of -8 Tuesday night not including the wind chill.
I see my neighbor out there shoveling now. It looks light, so the blower shouldn't have a problem when I get to it. I'm not going to do it in the middle of the blizzard though. I don't have anything in particular I think I'd even need to do outside the house over the next week, but no reason to box myself in. If there isn't a break in the snow today, I'm sure there will be one tomorrow and I'll blow it then.
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