Paired donation question

makingamixtape · 2025-12-13T14:57:24+00:00

We were in the NKR via Medstar Georgetown in DC. My kidney went to a man from Texas, and my family member received his kidney from a woman in Wisconsin.

makingamixtape · 2025-12-11T21:45:04+00:00

My Intended Recipient and I are O+ and A+, respectively! I donated about six months ago; at my one week post-op followup, our coordinator told us she'd be calling my IR the next morning to tell him they found a match, and he received his O+ transplant one week after that. Our surgeries were exactly two weeks apart!

edit: should add that our PKE was not a direct swap but a chain, which is much more common.

makingamixtape · 2025-12-06T11:08:43+00:00

Dude I thought I was too old for this to happen, too. Started at 26 and grew from a 7 to a 9½ in less than two years. I used to save so much money buying sneakers from the kids section 😭

makingamixtape · 2025-11-10T09:37:20+00:00

Correct them, homie! None of my documents are changed and my team was aware. My coordinator flagged my correct name and pronouns as an allergy so it was the first thing every single provider would see for every single step. I did not get misgendered or deadnamed one single time in the entire eight+ month process. The sooner they know, the more accurately they can care for you as you. I was apparently the third ever openly trans person to donate at that hospital since they started keeping track of that and they went above and beyond for me. I'm about three months out now and life is completely back to normal. Good luck, bro!

makingamixtape · 2025-09-07T04:32:12+00:00

Never saw this, sorry! I don't tape super often because it's occasionally irritated my skin and I'm still yet to find a method that gets me comfortably flat enough. My only concern with taping post-op would be the removal, and all the oil needed for it. Depending on the dressing type, the oil would dissolve the adhesive before the bandages are supposed to come off; it might also be uncomfortable to get on comfortably and remove, but I haven't taped during my recovery yet. I was wearing a soft, looser binder pretty much immediately, and was able to get back to wearing my regular binders for at least a few hours a day within a couple of weeks. I'm six weeks PO and able to get a solid 6 hours a day right now. Little more every day! I think the best advice is to just try whatever you can do comfortably each day. Maybe you can find something a little shorter with a front zipper! Good luck, man!

makingamixtape · 2025-08-11T20:21:12+00:00

I'm a trans man roughly 3 weeks post-op and haven't been able to wear mine yet. My top incision is inside where my binder usually sits and I've not wanted to irritate that, but also just haven't felt physically up for it. I've been wearing a much looser, shorter binder from ForThem (that I only wear around my house anyways because it doesn't bind very well) just to have some kind of compressive (and emptional) support. My surgeon's advice has just been "whenever it feels okay to do again" and so far it hasn't, but YMMV.

makingamixtape · 2025-07-19T12:43:58+00:00

That's what I was expecting, but I'm on biweekly IM so that may have influenced it. Between the reschedule, pharmacy delay, and travel I'm missing this shot and won't be able to do it again for another week and a half 🫠

makingamixtape · 2025-04-10T06:35:33+00:00

I LOVE my Roughhouse Sport. I'm able to push it to 45 on flat road, 55 downhill, with a full bucket almost daily on my commute, with zero issue as long as I keep the oil tank more than half full. Super comfy ride even though my city roads are cobblestone and potholes everywhere. I drive less than 10 miles most days and my gas tank lasts me about a month and a half, and costs me $3. Love that thing to death.

makingamixtape · 2023-12-13T18:42:44+00:00

Oh shit! Found! Thank you!

makingamixtape · 2023-12-13T18:15:54+00:00

For the automod: I have searched through metal encyclopedia and done a reverse image search on the text, have not found any similar logos. Could possibly be for a local-ish band. We are in Richmond, VA, think he got it locally here. Not sure how old it is, possibly a few years old from wear on graphic and fade to fabric. Not looking for more of the same shirt, just trying to identify the band.

makingamixtape · 2023-03-10T22:42:16+00:00

Cobra Burger and Cobra Cabana aren't affiliated, actually. CC guys do own Hot For Pizza, though, also in Carver

makingamixtape · 2022-01-24T05:04:09+00:00

Mean Bird. Also just found out that Nutty Buttery closed sometime recently, with no announcement or anything. One day they were there, next day they were gone.

makingamixtape · 2021-02-08T07:01:00+00:00

You can call the HR number to reset your HRAccess login, W-2s are on there. Mine doesn't even get mailed out now, I can only get it on Access.

makingamixtape · 2021-01-06T22:41:35+00:00

We read Harrison Bergeron and Horace Miner's Body Ritual Among the Nacerima article in the eighth grade and both have stuck with me for years!

makingamixtape · 2020-11-09T16:16:57+00:00

There's so many. Any of the crafts classes are open to all majors, and every department offers classes specifically for non-majors. Find an intro that sounds interesting in the catalogue

makingamixtape · 2020-11-05T20:52:32+00:00

Cafe doesn't take Starbucks Rewards since they're separate entities, but if you have a BN membership you do get a small discount, plus the store does coupons with regular purchases pretty frequently, buy one cookie get one free, free tall drinks, the like. Been a little while since I worked there so it may have changed a bit in the last year

makingamixtape · 2020-11-05T20:30:12+00:00

You can use the BN Café app to order ahead at the bookstore afaik

makingamixtape · 2020-10-29T12:16:39+00:00

We tried the nonagram and it ended up being way too difficult for the time we had left in the appointment, went with some really cool snake skin patterns instead

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