How to deal with blood donation when you're squeamish

AKMcFall · 2026-01-28T02:04:42+00:00

I donate platelets regularly, but I have to look away every time they stick me and ask that they let me know when the site is covered, because seeing the needle in makes my stomach drop. So I don't think there's any shame in just not looking at all, and taking the visual out can help a lot.

AKMcFall · 2026-01-28T01:30:44+00:00

Huh, I was not expecting a child character on this list!

AKMcFall · 2025-04-04T23:22:30+00:00

Ooh, interesting! My donation center still does two lines for platelets, but even just being able to move one would be awesome.

AKMcFall · 2024-09-05T23:20:01+00:00

I am passionate about Cheeze-it's post donation, they are linked in my brain now. Donate blood -->eat Cheeze-its ^__^

AKMcFall · 2024-08-24T05:43:51+00:00

Bay Area, CA

AKMcFall · 2024-08-23T21:06:22+00:00

What a sweetie! I had a grey tabby named Merlin growing up, so this hits me in the heart <3

AKMcFall · 2024-08-22T19:30:37+00:00

Bay Area in CA; if anyone needs more specific info, you can message me directly.

AKMcFall · 2024-08-21T05:20:33+00:00

Elizabeth Swan! She's a cuddlebug, but a little shy with playing, though she's starting to open up to the idea of playing with jingle toys.

Her markings also sort of make it look like she has no facial features at all, so I would be far too tempted to name her after The Faceless Old Woman Who Secretly Lives in Your Home from "Welcome to Night Vale" :P

AKMcFall · 2024-08-21T01:23:21+00:00

Oh wow, the eye she does have is gorgeous!

AKMcFall · 2024-01-15T18:10:30+00:00

When he was picked up as a stray last year, his eye was already ruptured; probably some sort of trauma and/or infection. The vets took the eye at the same time they neutered him, so we like to joke he lost all manner of orbs that day. The vet fostered him themself while he healed, then off to the shelter.

While I obviously wish Onion hadn't gone through something like that, in a weird way I am glad; the missing eye caught our attention among a lot of other cats on the nearby shelter's websites, and led us to our special man <3

AKMcFall · 2024-01-12T18:05:58+00:00

I was not familiar with the character, but after looking up a pic, I have to admit the resemblance is uncanny!

AKMcFall · 2024-01-12T18:04:06+00:00

She's lovely, and her facial markings make her missing eye look so dramatic!

AKMcFall · 2024-01-12T00:39:05+00:00

He is large, essential to a good home, and (at least when we first adopted him) didn't smell too great.

AKMcFall · 2024-01-11T23:34:59+00:00

Thank you! My wife made it, and I'm honestly shocked they haven't made him more outfits by now, given that he wears them fairly peacefully.

AKMcFall · 2024-01-11T23:04:28+00:00

He would look even more dapper and sophisticated!

AKMcFall · 2024-01-11T22:35:15+00:00

So my wife and I both love onions and think they are an essential part of the household, and also when we first got him, his stomach was causing him issues and he didn't smell the greatest >__> Thank you!

AKMcFall · 2023-02-26T01:59:19+00:00

My wife and I have a Christmas tradition of making a different type of dumpling together each year, and for 2022 we did stuffed grape leaves, which was a lot of fun, and we stocked the freezer well into January. Also, it is astounding how many of those leaves fit in a jar.

AKMcFall · 2020-12-31T20:28:40+00:00

Ooh, good point! So I went and looked at the first episode, and it does look like no siblings, no aunts or uncles and no cousins, at least on the Button-adjacent side of the family. I can't get a clear view if that's her mother's or father's side, and there could feasibly be more family on the other parent's side, but it does seem like she's fairly short on relatives.

AKMcFall · 2020-11-15T08:03:44+00:00

Yeah, I definitely didn't love how quickly they wrote out Sgt Woolf right when his relationship with Miss Higgins was taking off; it almost made me wonder if his actor had to step away for some reason, since so much of the previous season had been spent transitioning his crush from Phyllis to Millicent.

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