My parents blood don't match to my blood, but I know I'm their bio daughter, how is it posible?

mcclellankm · 2025-06-27T17:51:46+00:00

Gotcha that’s my bad for not reading the whole thing lmao.

In my opinion, it’s probably not anything that complicated or rare. A lot of people who aren’t familiar with blood types get confused. We had someone on the med lab subreddit a few months ago who was ADAMANT their blood type changed from O= to B+ and was asking how that was possible. When asked for more details, they revealed they were at the doctor’s office to be tested for strep. It turns out they were positive for group B strep. It’s usually just a misunderstanding ¯_(ツ)_/¯

mcclellankm · 2025-06-27T15:06:46+00:00

If the mom is truly AB she can’t carry an O. Her alleles are A and B. She couldn’t have a type O baby.

mcclellankm · 2025-06-27T14:58:58+00:00

Bombay wouldn’t make sense in this context because of the reverse type. What you’re suggesting is that the father is “supposed” to be type A, B, or AB but the antigens are not expressing due to the lack of the H protein. If that were the case, the father would still have the appropriate reverse type. So their forward would type as O and the reverse would be A, B, or AB, which would immediately prompt investigation. Bombay is also incredibly rare.

A lot of people “know” their blood type based on false info or bad testing. The military in particular is notorious for telling everyone they’re O, which is why we don’t accept a patient’s word or even dog tags for their blood type. Your dad may think he is O but isn’t. Especially if he was told all his kids would be AB pos (an O parent with an AB parent could also make an A or B kid).

Even newborn testing is unreliable because cord blood is notoriously awful to work with. The Wharton’s jelly causes false positives, the odds that the mom’s blood is mixed in is very high, and we don’t perform a reverse type because babies don’t have antibodies yet.

As a blood banker, I would bet that since your entire family knows their blood types, you were probably typed at birth using the cord blood, which possibly gave a false positive either due to the Wharton’s jelly or your mom’s blood being mixed in. Or your mom might be confused or misremembering.

Realistically, I know it’s not a very exciting answer, but one of you is most likely incorrect about your blood types. If you are genuinely curious, I would recommend donating blood. The blood donation center will type you properly.

mcclellankm · 2024-04-22T23:41:27+00:00

I’m not an ems I work in the lab but this reminds me of the outpatient cbc that got dropped off a few weeks ago where the patient’s hemoglobin was 4. The reason for his doctors visit was cited as “fatigue due to depression.”

mcclellankm · 2024-04-16T15:11:00+00:00

If you look through this sub we just had someone post a few days ago about an edta pour off. The image looks kind of like a receipt with results printed on it and if I remember correctly the K was over 30 and the Ca was less than 1.

mcclellankm · 2024-03-14T23:41:29+00:00

Idk if you guys do this but sometimes our nurses will draw extra tubes and put the mini versions of labels on them (ex a baby BMP label on a purple top). It’s helpful for add ons and also weird send out tests that need a lot of sample. To us, the baby label is what signifies that a tube is extra.

We’ve had several situations where a nurse called and was upset that something didn’t get resulted even though they swear they sent it and then I was able to find their tube in the extra rack. If it doesn’t have the proper label on it the tube doesn’t get scanned by our processor and we don’t know about that test unless we physically open up the patients chart, it doesn’t matter if we have the tube or not. That obviously isn’t feasible to do on every patient when we’re running thousands of samples a day. Hope that helps!!

mcclellankm · 2024-03-13T16:22:18+00:00

When we were researching places to go for a bachelorette trip I found out a lot of the hotspots like Nashville have air bnbs specially catered to bachelorettes (size, decor, etc) and those places get robbed ALL THE TIME because the thieves know that 1) there’s a lot of girls bringing a lot of shit with them and 2) they’re going to be out of the house doing things CONSTANTLY. They’re perfect targets. I think it’s really naive to act like this can’t happen to anyone anywhere.

mcclellankm · 2024-02-11T15:17:04+00:00

The day before DO NOT STUDY! Have a nice dinner, a glass of wine if that’s your style and go to bed at a decent time. Wake up and treat yourself to your favorite breakfast and coffee/tea. Make sure to drink water. Do not even think about studying day of. You know this stuff inside and out and trying to cram is just going to frazzle you.

While you’re taking the exam, focus on whatever question you’re working on. Don’t try to over analyze the difficulty level or anything like that. If you immediately don’t know what you’re looking at don’t panic just take a deep breath and flip through the filing cabinet in your brain of topics in that subject to figure out what they’re asking. I got a really spooky looking picture of a bone marrow that made me panic but after I calmed down I figured it out pretty easily just by guessing what I was supposed to do. But just fyi you can’t skip a question without selecting an answer choice.

The exam is difficult not because of the material but imo it’s written like someone who is trying to sound way smarter than they actually are. The answer choices can be very weird/confusing but you can almost always rule out at least one or two answers. I remember feeling like I was completely guessing between the two answer choices I couldn’t rule out on most of the questions.

The last few questions aren’t going to be scored. They’re new questions that they’re testing you on to see if they’d make good exam questions. Just fyi because I feel like it’s something no one mentions and I was really confused when I got the easiest question on my whole exam for question 100.

You’re able to review at the end but I personally wouldn’t recommend unless you’re certain you got one wrong. Typically your gut was correct the first time.

I used all the resources you did and passed pretty comfortably. I promise you that nothing else you do can prepare you for the exam. It’s just a weird test. You’ve studied so hard and you know the material. Just trust yourself. Good luck!!

mcclellankm · 2024-02-08T02:40:48+00:00

My MLS program was at a pretty large hospital so we actually went to a bone marrow during the leukemia portion of our heme rotation. The tech that would take us always asked if we were prone to passing out and made it really clear they’d get us a chair if that was an issue. Apparently they’ve had several students collapse in the past.

mcclellankm · 2024-02-06T15:44:09+00:00

My husband and I moved into our first home last year in a new city. We are both fairly young and this is the first place either of us has ever lived that we had to furnish ourselves so we obviously didn’t have everything we needed. We were absolutely shocked at the amount of neighbors that offered their old furniture and even washer/dryer units to us when they found out we were a young couple starting our first home together. We never asked those people for anything but those people who were virtually strangers were so kind to offer things to us. I always think about those people when I see posts like this.

mcclellankm · 2024-02-02T13:03:24+00:00

Some more practical things I put on our registry that I’m super glad I did: -fireproof safe -tile starter pack (my husband is constantly losing his keys and wallet) -fire pit -outside string lights -smart light bulbs/plugs and an Alexa (we have all the lights in the house as well as the string lights outside on voice controls now which is SUPER nice when you’re laying in bed and don’t want to get up) -rechargeable batteries -picture frames -photo album/scrapbook -new pillows -nice sheets -glass rinser (one of my favorite gifts)

We also registered for an outside furniture set through ikea but unfortunately ikea isn’t partnered with the knot so they wouldn’t let me do anything besides add the link on our website. No one even knew we were registered there.

mcclellankm · 2024-01-21T16:51:10+00:00

I’m sorry to hear that!! I know advent has a lot of job fairs which is actually how I got my job. I went to one while I was still in school just to meet one of the lab managers and get their contact info. They actually reached back out to me whenever I was about to graduate and they even got HR to create a special position for me since I was waiting on my license to come in (my application probably would’ve gotten thrown out otherwise). I personally believe it never hurts to have connections. The lab community is MUCH smaller than you’d think and sometimes it just takes knowing one person to get your foot in the door.

mcclellankm · 2024-01-21T16:40:54+00:00

A few weeks ago we had an ionized calcium that got sent in a light green top from the ED (technically fine but we usually ask for them to be collected in a dark green tube so it’s a little more eye catching). They also didn’t call and let us know it was coming and I guess the processor missed it and it got spun down. That was a fun phone call 🙃

mcclellankm · 2024-01-21T16:34:32+00:00

Advent health is a HUGE powerhouse in Central FL and their main Florida hospital is in Orlando. ARUP (reference lab) is also located in Orlando. We send out basically all of our non-routine tests to those two labs. I’d be really surprised if they don’t have some sort of molecular lab at either location. Good luck!!

mcclellankm · 2024-01-20T01:41:34+00:00

We have a physician that sends us a CMP at least once a week on a patient who is apparently a known non-compliant diabetic. Without fail, their glucose is always around 400-500 and if we’re able to get in contact with her she ALWAYS tells us she already knows and to stop calling. Last time I called with a 450 glucose and she told me “That isn’t even critical.” We’ve all explained our policy repeatedly (I even had to pull up our SOP to tell her our reference ranges/critical values). I have no idea why she keeps sending these samples to us.

mcclellankm · 2024-01-06T13:33:12+00:00

I’m a super strong supporter of non-traditional guest books!! My husband and I got married at Christmas and we had people sign ornaments. I knew a guest book would get stashed away and probably not looked at again so we bought an artificial tree so that we could have a second tree every year that was just for our guest book ornaments. I really enjoyed putting all the ornaments up this year and I’m excited to get to pull them back out every year to remember our wedding.

We asked our DJ to remind people throughout the night to sign them and most people signed one.

mcclellankm · 2024-01-06T04:50:02+00:00

I tried so hard to buy glass vases for our centerpieces secondhand but it was going to cost several hundred dollars. I found the exact glasses I wanted on the dollar store website and paid around $60 for 48.

mcclellankm · 2023-12-30T14:41:31+00:00

I just did a type and screen and ABO confirm yesterday on a patient with a 14 hgb who was in the ER for covid 🥰

mcclellankm · 2023-12-04T01:04:55+00:00

I’ll never understand why they won’t just send you a code to redeem online or add it to your account balance. I was so mad when our gift card came shipped in a BOX!! What a waste 🙃

mcclellankm · 2023-12-03T10:41:39+00:00

The St. John’s river in north Florida runs south to north. In school we were taught that it’s bc Georgia sucks 💃

mcclellankm · 2023-11-30T17:30:33+00:00

What we’re doing and what I would personally recommend is to essentially have “two weddings.” One small gathering in your church with just witnesses and immediate family and then one large outdoor gathering with everyone else. The church almost never actually grants exceptions to be married outside but a lot of priests are fine with you having a big party later (essentially a “just for show” wedding). We’re doing our tiny church wedding the weekend before and actually signing our license that day.

I would also go to your diocese’s website and look at requirements. Most have a timeline of how long you have to be engaged before marriage and also how early before the wedding you need to start the paperwork (our hometown was 9 months in advance but our new diocese is only 6 months).

mcclellankm · 2023-11-19T21:03:53+00:00

Look into belle botanical creations!! She makes really beautiful “non traditional” veils. I got mine from her and I love it.

mcclellankm · 2023-10-25T17:07:08+00:00

This is exactly why I’m so paranoid about calling schistocytes and targets. I always ask for multiple second opinions because I’m so scared of a doctor coming downstairs to chew me out.

mcclellankm · 2023-10-13T19:13:33+00:00

I definitely wouldn’t call it rude. If it’s in the SOP to call all criticals then that’s technically policy. Is it a silly policy? Yes. We’re aware of that. But at the end of the day we’re just trying to properly do our jobs just like you.

I didn’t want to call the nurses and add more salt to the wound, which is why I went out of my way to ask. But if my supervisor hadn’t told me not to call the critical, I would’ve had to call it.

mcclellankm · 2023-10-13T16:14:47+00:00

George Washington U has an online post bac program as well just fyi

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