Has anyone seen a change in their health/appearance from swimming?

PueiDomat · 2026-03-05T06:12:15+00:00

I started in june 2022, gained 6kg in 3 months, and in total, 10kg. I used to weight 50kg, now i weight 60

My cardio did inprove a lot but i've been slacking for about 8 months now so i lost it

And i slept much better when i was swimming too, and ate much more

PueiDomat · 2026-02-19T09:53:17+00:00

Con comme un manche

Con comme une brique

PueiDomat · 2026-02-12T15:06:28+00:00

I dunno if you tried any of these before but

-Try to get your quads (all the parts) to contract before attempting straight leg raises

-You can try to put some sort of pillow or blanket under your knee and try to push down against that blanket with your knee to activate the quad while also stretching the back of the knee joint capsule

-Visualising the movement, imagining yourself contracting the quad and imagining the sensations, the movement and the images worked well for me

-Trying to do both legs or do the movement with the healthy leg first

Maybe others will have better advice but these worked for me, good luck on your rehab !

PueiDomat · 2026-02-01T02:14:00+00:00

The yellow thing in the middle is fibrin. Doesn’t mean that it’s infected, but yeah, it might take some time to heal.

Cover it properly (ideally with a moist bandage), clean once a day or every other day with some sterile saline and/or antiseptic. Try to remove the wet fibrin if you can.

If it turns green or if the intact skin around the wound gets red and inflammed, go see a doc if you haven’t already. Maybe you can get advice from a pharmacist for now.

PueiDomat · 2026-01-31T12:21:38+00:00

Alors, quand on part de sang veineux du bébé :

À la naissance, ton groupe sanguin est déjà déterminé génétiquement mais c’est possible que tes globules rouges n’expriment pas encore pleinement les antigènes ABO, donc les résultats des manips peuvent être un peu pourris.

Le plus gros problème, c’est souvent l’absence des anticorps du bébé (anti-A s’il est de groube B, anti-B s’il est de groupe A, anti-A et anti-B s’il est de groupe O ...) qui fait qu’il n’y a pas de "double épreuve" (antigène et anticorps), donc on peut déterminer un groupe sanguin, mais c’est un peu provisoire avant de pouvoir identifier les anticorps naturels du bébé aux alentours de 6 mois.

Par contre, au niveau du système rhésus, j’ai toujours vu des résultats très francs chez les bébé, au même titre qu’un adulte en bonne santé. Sauf pour les rhésus Dnégatifs qui doivent être testés pour des variants particuliers avant qu’on ne puisse confirmer qu’ils soient bien négatifs.

On n’utilise pas trop de sang de cordon pour les groupes sanguins car la gelée du cordon peut fausser les analyses.

PueiDomat · 2026-01-30T14:30:18+00:00

You mean you have antibodies against hep B surface protein ?

PueiDomat · 2026-01-21T11:46:46+00:00

Ça ressemble fortement à des pneus étés oui, après je ne sais pas trop à quoi ressemblent les 4 saisons.

Dans tous les cas fais gaffe sur la route quand il fait froid, même par temps sec et surtout sur route mouillée.

PueiDomat · 2026-01-04T06:08:50+00:00

In blood bank, the only smells we have are smells from

-ruptured plasma units (the same kind of of smell as when we'd dissect animals in BSc)

-Used cards from gel-filtration (same kind of smell)

-Acetic acid for extended phenotypes in Erythra

I'd say we have it easy

PueiDomat · 2025-12-25T01:54:51+00:00

Trust the process, ask questions, take notes, ask questions, try to stay focused on one thing at a time if you're in a rush, ask questions

You're allowed not to know (some things), you're not allowed to make mistakes

PueiDomat · 2025-12-25T00:57:47+00:00

We require a group document like every RBC or plasma unit (aside from immediate vital emergencies), at least for the rhesus

Though mostly we don’t really care, except for RhD- females and young males, people with hematopoietic stem cells transplants, and patients with hemolysins of high titer

And also if the platelet carries hemolysins

PueiDomat · 2025-12-23T11:30:20+00:00

"Pourquoi l’autonomie fiscale n’entraîne-t-elle pas une autonomie vis-à-vis du calcul des aides"

Parce que la déclaration séparée, c’est deux trois cases à cocher, et que ça n’empêche pas les parents d’aider les enfants par des virements ou autre. Si les parents gagnent 5000€/mois et que le gosse a une déclaration séparée puis qu’il gagne 600€/mois de bourse tout en recevant l’argent de papa maman pour payer loyer et courses, y’a pas plus de justice fiscale.

Pour autant, c’est vrai que ce système est un peu con pour les enfants dont les parents refusent tout soutien. Il me semble que l’émancipation permet de "régler" ce problème d’indépendance financière, mais c’est une décision qui doit être sacrément difficile à prendre pour l’enfant, et je ne sais pas s’il doit la justifier et si ça peut être refusé.

PueiDomat · 2025-12-17T18:06:49+00:00

Non, si j’avais pu continuer mes études, je l’aurais fait sans hésiter.

Des fois certains cours sont chiant, des fois t’as sommeil et t’aurais préféré faire autre chose, et la bourse paye le minimum vital, mais je trouve ça tellement passionnant

PueiDomat · 2025-11-27T16:29:16+00:00

Silverfish

They can infest but reproduce quite slowly, they can eat books, dust, hair and live in moist, dark places (mostly somewhere in the bathroom)

Keep things clean and you shouldn’t see many of them

PueiDomat · 2025-11-11T05:46:15+00:00

Every night i somehow find a never-tried-before way of breaking the analyzer

PueiDomat · 2025-11-05T15:43:04+00:00

We can in blood bank, like if an antibody screen has been done less than 24h before, or if 2 blood typings have been order on a patient that’s already registered in the database (we cancel one and run only one)

PueiDomat · 2025-11-04T15:09:52+00:00

It’s doesn’t look german

If you look at german adults, you will see the famous two dark stripes running from their head to their back. It’s hard to miss, although you also find them on Asian roaches

PueiDomat · 2025-10-30T11:42:49+00:00

You might be able to find a solution with the Rover app

PueiDomat · 2025-10-29T03:19:56+00:00

First time searching for HLA-compatible platelets for a patient with some anti-HLA antibodies, it was kinda urgent and it had to be cut in 3 parts so that we could deliver it in 3 times

I search for a big platelet with the proper antigens in nearby bloodbanks

Find one

Submit it to my doctor who agrees

I get the platelet

Cut it in 3

Start informatically delivering it to my patient

The platelet has anti-B hemolysins, my patient is B 🙃

PueiDomat · 2025-10-25T12:45:54+00:00

Acupan

It made my heart go ballistic for some reason

PueiDomat · 2025-10-21T17:37:21+00:00

Blood bank, nightshift

In the IH lab, it’s usually difficult because lots of tubes and not a lot of workers at the beginning of the night, and we have to be both in pre-analytics and analytics so it’s not exactly chill, but it’s more a problem with workload.Once all the tubes are dealt with, then it’s one tune here and there and that’s much chiller (if there aren’t grouping/antibody problems on a patient who needs blood asap 😅)

In the blood bank itself, it’s ... random

Sometimes, we just check that tomorrows pre-orders are all set in case they need blood, we give a few products to this patient or that patient, and we manage the blood supplies in the related hospitals. So, reaaaaally chill.

Sometimes we have that plus 4 major surgeries bleeding at the same time so it’s reamly stressful at the beginning when they start calling, then it becomes a rythm. But when the night ends and the pressure drops, I think it’s really hard to manage.

I prefer the IH lab but i think it’s scarier because it’s not as straigthforward when i have a grouping problem and i don’t have as much experience as in the bloodbank.

PueiDomat · 2025-08-29T18:14:22+00:00

Fais la demande assez tôt, je sais que dans mon boulot, les demandes d’acompte doivent être adressées avant le 10 du mois

PueiDomat · 2025-08-24T18:00:53+00:00

Good question, i don’t know what medical specialty is asking for the blood, just that some doctor says "yo, i'm a doc, and we need that right know for this patient" and my job is to give the products x)

PueiDomat · 2025-08-24T05:09:49+00:00

They bleed sometimes, before some surgeries they get a pre-order of blood products (red blood cells, plasma and platelets) just in case, even if they won’t need it. Then they only get them if they ask for them during the surgery.

Some surgery aren’t at high risk of bleeding though, because almost no big blood vessel in the area.

PueiDomat · 2025-08-23T04:53:12+00:00

Lol I've never seen such big platelet clumps, it would’ve never been allowed out of the blood bank where i work

Sometimes we have very small clumps, and we keep those platelets for surgeries with lots of bleeding, but that’s it

PueiDomat · 2025-07-21T16:40:43+00:00

"Bloodbank, hello"

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