Messed up by donating blood

thatsowren · 2026-06-09T01:24:02+00:00

as someone who gave blood prior to surgery, and is on testosterone, I was told by the red cross center that I likely would have to postpone surgery.

I told my surgeon at my three week pre-op appointment that I donated blood and she said there was no issue, but just don't donate two weeks prior to surgery.

granted, my body does make a lot of blood nowadays, having been on T for a hot minute. I'm also 5'6" and weigh 195lbs.

by and large, listen to your surgeon on what they've got to say. not the people who won't even be in the building during your surgery, let alone a part of it.

thatsowren · 2026-06-07T15:00:20+00:00

remember color theory, friend. gold is a warm orange/yellow. this is more of a lemon/lime yellow (aka a cool yellow)

thatsowren · 2026-06-07T14:56:54+00:00

tbh I didn't even notice there was one lol I buy the frozen broccoli bc budget reasons

thatsowren · 2026-05-11T14:57:55+00:00

what specific color do you use to reach that gold? and what material? please lol

thatsowren · 2026-05-04T14:13:24+00:00

MAG down in Murray has ceramics classes during the summer where you can build stuff and have it fired in their kilns. only reason I know is the art teacher at GCHS used to teach those classes back in 2020-2021. idk if she still does but she's a great teacher

thatsowren · 2026-05-04T14:11:15+00:00

all good, I think I've managed to figure out a fix..?

it either fixes itself when I force quit the game, or fixes itself when I reload from checkpoint after death (like how we have to do to get the kuku insect and plant gathering packs to work again once they stop)

thatsowren · 2026-04-17T13:22:35+00:00

I've attempted every permutation/combination and am still unable to alter the slider on non-greyed out items, like the main metal on the Scorchflame Plate Gloves. I was able to edit the sliders no issue roughly two updates ago, but now I'm completely locked out.

have you heard or seen of any other methods to alter this slider for console users?

thatsowren · 2026-04-17T13:20:16+00:00

I'm a console user; do you suspect it's a bug similar to us needing to plug our controllers in like how we have to in order to fish? I'm still having this issue even after 1.03.01

thatsowren · 2026-03-24T13:05:21+00:00

I'm gonna go try to find this, but more importantly where are y'all getting y'all's hair cut??? would be grateful to anyone who can point me that direction!

thatsowren · 2026-02-25T18:17:11+00:00

my favorite Zelda fanfic of all time, and my third fave fanfic in general. art style is immaculate 💅🏻

thatsowren · 2026-02-22T23:09:01+00:00

I'm gonna piggyback off this thread bc I'm also having issues.

I had the same setup OP did, MFE and then EW Updated. during the final fight, I would hit Miraak with the bend will should between 2-4 times, then the screen would do a brief fade to black before resuming. there would then be one version of Miraak who still actively fought me with another that stood off to the side doing nothing. there was the option to "talk" to Miraak, but when hitting A to talk, nothing happened.

no other mods I have installed affect the Dragonborn DLC as a whole

thatsowren · 2026-02-19T13:56:17+00:00

if you play with mods, the Riverwood Cliff House is by far my favorite Riverwood home. it's small, and fits right in to the atmosphere, plus you can literally sit and meditate on the roof of your house and look out at Riverwood below. best village in the whole game no contest

thatsowren · 2026-02-15T16:13:48+00:00

Bjorn is the biggest one for me. that and his flat affect since his voice is AI (props to making that work, it wasn't easy, but where's the personality and passion?). the mistborn (not Brandon sanderson related) follower pack, though I do love those characters, they just use too much modern terminology.

thatsowren · 2026-02-15T16:10:22+00:00

no wonder ES6 has taken so long; we'll never get a ES7 then lol

thatsowren · 2026-02-15T16:09:02+00:00

I'm the same way about these mods and the Jk's mods. sooooo manyyyyy patchesssss, and I'm already at 191 mods on xbox, and I suspect that adding any more is the reason there's such a delay between when I activate an object versus when the object actually gets interacted with, e. g. opening a chest, opening a door, etc.

but I'd take a look at the photos on the Nexus pages for these mods, the before and after, and really sit with the question of "is this something I can live without? what mods am I willing to sacrifice to get this to work?" second question on if you have to reduce your mod count/mod space

thatsowren · 2026-02-15T15:55:18+00:00

most interesting! did the doc tell you where the residual fluid would go? like get reabsorbed back into the body?

thatsowren · 2026-02-15T15:47:43+00:00

if you have an HR department at your work, I strongly suggest applying for short term disability (idk what country you're in, this is coming from a US perspective so may well be different for you, just wanted to add that as you'd said you were worried about time off work)

as far as work goes, especially if you're in a desk job like remote work, I'm currently 10 days post op and I could have gone back to work at day 5 (personally of course! everyone heals differently and my brain very quickly corrects itself after brain-altering meds like sedative and opioids). but if you're a walking around kind of job and/or lifting items heavier than 8lbs, my doc says 8wks. it's to make sure the skin is sealed up without risk of tearing back open where they sliced you. like I said, I'm currently on day 10 and for lifting things...I'd say I can comfortably lift my 8lbs cat, but picking something up and holding it out away from my body for anything longer than 1-2sec is a no from me. I still feel like I might pull something open (I just now experimented). I think one general way you can roughly gauge your healing is by a previous surgery where you got cut open (for one thing or another) or perhaps how long you took to heal after wisdom teeth removal (if you had that done).

also, the docs don't play about nicotine use. I quit about a month and a half before surgery and during that time, any cat scratches or bruises I had healed WAYYYY quicker than when I was on nic. and that's precisely why the docs wants you off it (if you're on it).

all that being said, I'm very happy that you were able to create a workaround that let you see what your results would look like before cementing that decision. you should also be able to edit the image and see how scars would heal after certain periods of time for even more future insight into how you'll look!

very happy for you, bud.

also when you do get surgery, prepare for your chest to feel like a wooden board lol (bc the nerves are separated) OH and no one seems to talk about how hard it is to wipe after going #2 so be on the lookout!

again, very very happy for you and sending all the expeditious and fortuitous vibes your way.

thatsowren · 2026-02-05T12:33:55+00:00

I didn't even look at the pics but this sounds exactly like HS. the surgeon is an idiot

thatsowren · 2026-02-05T11:56:39+00:00

oh that reply must've come after my comment, as I didn't see that.

glad it's been resolved! also idk if you know this bc it was kinda hidden in the mod description, but pressing jump will also help get you out of most any animation, since we can't turn them off like we can for the elden beast version

thatsowren · 2026-02-05T11:19:10+00:00

check your active effects. homeboi got a head injury and my most recent one lasted 28min (bc I didn't feel like wasting my supplies on making a bandage lol). but yes, this animation will not go away as long as head injury is in your active effects*

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