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    donellda reacted to Cliff in A little about me   
    I rarely post about me, or my family.
    I was raised by a single mom from 2 until I was about 10. That was probably really hard for her in the 60s. Whenever I ask her, she just says it wasn't so hard.
    We had a lot of roommates to help with the cost of apartments, one was Georganne (Giorgi Baino Sr.). She seemed to be around the longest. I really liked her, she was like an aunt to me.
    Maybe 10 or more years ago, we got back in touch - Sadly, just on Facebook. I am going to try to have a video chat with her to catch up.
    Anyhow, it seems my mom wrote a poem about me when I was a kid, and Georganne has always played guitar. The song was about me riding bikes, I never heard it until yesterday. For those that know me, you know I've been a cyclist (avid at times) for the last 15 years.
    She put the poem to music and sent it to me yesterday. I cried.
    Here it is if you're interested.
    I cried.
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    donellda got a reaction from Cliff in 2025-06-17 Birthdays   
    Happy Birthday to all, including our fearless leader Cliff🎂🎆
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    donellda reacted to Darin in Welcome Darin   
    Thank you so much!  I've been perusing the site for a few years and thought, hey, why don't I sign up!  LOL
    I'm the BB Lead at a smaller hospital in AZ and have 30 years experience.
    Looking forward to learning more here and, hopefully, even providing a few answers along the way. 
     
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    donellda got a reaction from DLabGirl in Welcome DLabGirl   
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    donellda reacted to spammonia in Welcome spammonia   
    Hi! I am glad I found this forum. I am a lab supervisor at a VA Hospital, and we're drowning in paperwork right now getting ready for mid-year TJC inspections! Excited for Lab Week in April though. ☺️ I don't know about the rules for politics here but we're all just hoping we still have jobs here by June/July.
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    donellda got a reaction from Cliff in ChemLabTalk: Serum Urea   
    My computer forced me to arrow back and when I came back, I didn't notice that the correct answer shifted down.
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    donellda reacted to Cliff in Welcome Krina   
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    donellda got a reaction from Saeeed in Welcome Saeeed   
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    donellda got a reaction from Cliff in Happy Thanksgiving!   
    Happy Thanksgiving to all of our Canadian Pathlabtalk members
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    donellda got a reaction from Cliff in 2024-06-17 Birthdays   
    Happy Birthday to all including our wonderful administrator Cliff
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    donellda got a reaction from Malcolm Needs in BloodBankTalk: Yt Blood Group System   
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    donellda reacted to Malcolm Needs in Floods in Australia.   
    I hope all of our friends and colleagues in Australia are safe from the awful floods that are being reported from there today.
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    donellda reacted to Cliff in March 2024 Challenge   
    Great job, we got 20 new newsletter subscribers in March.
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    donellda reacted to Cliff in Antibody ID   
    Hi @Pamo,
    There are a few options.
    If you subscribe to a proficiency testing program, you can often save what they send you.  WARNING - do not use these samples until after you have received the results if you are a CLIA lab. You can spike your training samples with commercial antisera.  These don't always react as expected / hoped for. In my opinion, the best option is to save a recent prior patient sample that is no longer needed or expired. Commercial samples are also available, such as this from Hemo bioscience.
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    donellda got a reaction from Malcolm Needs in BloodBankTalk: Correct Blood Bank Nomenclature   
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    donellda reacted to Cliff in 2024-02-15 Birthdays   
    The person on the top is very special to me. 
    Happy birthday
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    donellda reacted to Cliff in February 2024 Challenge   
    And here we are after just one week.  Getting very close!

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    donellda got a reaction from REN_NH in Welcome REN_NH   
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    donellda reacted to Jenny Hoek in Introduction   
    Hi. My name is Jenny and I work at Seattle Children's.  I've been in Transfusion Service for 20+ years and have evolved from a centralized blood bank module to a lab inside the hospital. We primarily use gel and tube technology due to our patient population and sample size. We do some reference work (DAT batteries, ABID, Elutions, DTT treatment) and we perform a lot of secondary processing on RBCs and platelets (dividing, plasma reduction, reconstituting, plasma pooling, washing). I love reading about how other institutions approach procedures and problems.  
     
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    donellda reacted to DOGLOVER in Introduction   
    Hi, I haven't been on this forum since I retired about 10 years ago.My 40+ years took me from bench tech in hematology and Blood Bank to supervisory positions in both to just Blood Bank. The last13 years were in Florida, retired and came back up north to Maine. Got my EMR license and work with our small volunteer fire dept. The lab background was extremely helpful in the EMR classes. Also helpful because I know how to write policies and QA isn't a foreign language to me.

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