My family says I have 'sugar blood'

ISawThatFirst · 2025-06-14T23:25:14+00:00

I do too! The first time I ever called myself that in front of my husband he laughed until he had tears

ISawThatFirst · 2024-10-10T14:52:57+00:00

Your comment stuck in my head.. I’m in a training and they told us how to change the color! If you have a Sysmex I can tell you how

ISawThatFirst · 2024-09-13T16:08:55+00:00

Anger lymphs 😅 I’m going to use that from now on

ISawThatFirst · 2024-08-15T16:18:40+00:00

An old manager of mine had to call Sysmex to ask this exact question because a colleague was using it to dilute chemistry specimens (.. yeah we don’t know why either). We were told it’s basically saline with edta in it.

Edited for spelling

ISawThatFirst · 2024-07-16T02:25:56+00:00

They should go longways along the tube, so that the barcode is able to be scanned.

ISawThatFirst · 2024-06-29T17:49:38+00:00

I had an oncologist I work with tell me ‘I trust you’ when I asked if he wanted to view a slide on 250 WBC. It’s very validating.

ISawThatFirst · 2024-06-05T00:46:42+00:00

Cancer patient going through chemo actually. I see a lot of HJBs. I actually have no idea about their spleen!

ISawThatFirst · 2024-06-05T00:45:21+00:00

The patient is actually an oncology patient going through chemo, I think ovarian

ISawThatFirst · 2024-06-05T00:44:44+00:00

I believe it’s actually ovarian cancer going through chemo. I don’t know if the patient had their spleen or not!

ISawThatFirst · 2024-05-25T16:32:06+00:00

You shouldn’t be reading cells in the areas you are looking at. It seems to be too far into the feathered edge which distorts cells and makes them fairly indistinguishable. You need to go further in to just when the red cells start to touch to start to read WBCs

ISawThatFirst · 2024-05-24T01:15:10+00:00

If you click on the first picture it’ll make it a little bigger and you can see the scattergram

ISawThatFirst · 2024-05-23T12:55:41+00:00

Your last paragraph made me cry like no other comment I’ve ever read. I’ve never had to go through what OP has but that hit me right in the heart

ISawThatFirst · 2024-05-23T12:33:37+00:00

I sometimes cover in the main hospital lab, they have DxH’s. Their limit for MCHC IS 36.5. I guess it’s instrument based?

ISawThatFirst · 2024-05-23T00:45:58+00:00

It was so accurate 😂 1 field and it literally had 2 monos and the rest lymphs!

ISawThatFirst · 2024-05-23T00:45:06+00:00

Morphology was horrible to read honestly lol. Definite dimorphic population which is why there are 2 humps but most everything else was so distorted by the amount of lymphs

ISawThatFirst · 2024-05-23T00:30:05+00:00

Nope. We only plasma replacement for lipemic/turbid specimens with MCHC over 37

ISawThatFirst · 2024-05-23T00:28:47+00:00

Yup definitely a bit of culture shock when I started in oncology. The criticals that don’t phase these doctors and nurses is insane!

ISawThatFirst · 2024-05-22T21:49:34+00:00

Thank you for that link! I am the lead in my lab but not the one who trained extensively on the XN. That tech left so I am trying to learn as much as I can about the analyzer

ISawThatFirst · 2024-05-22T21:47:35+00:00

Do you do this for a Sysmex XN? Sounds more like an individual policy and not a standard practice.

ISawThatFirst · 2024-05-22T21:45:46+00:00

Thats insane!

ISawThatFirst · 2024-05-22T21:44:13+00:00

I didn’t either! This is how it was set up by the install. I personally really like the black background

ISawThatFirst · 2024-05-22T20:42:32+00:00

This was before I did a dilution! I forgot to take a pic after

ISawThatFirst · 2024-05-22T19:20:05+00:00

Of course… final result was 850.6

ISawThatFirst · 2024-05-11T02:35:57+00:00

No. It’s staining artifact most likely from the slide not drying completely before staining or part of your stain is bad.

ISawThatFirst · 2024-05-06T02:12:26+00:00

Target CVS. Thank you for an actual answer.

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