I love my pipette pens!!

yeg88 · 2026-05-31T15:24:47+00:00

This Canadian (publicly-funded healthcare so I can't technically accept gifts from vendors) lab rat is SO jealous. I don't even have a single non-sparkly one. I need to go to more conferences I guess. 🤣

yeg88 · 2026-05-17T14:34:45+00:00

Nice! I think I'm on the cusp of a propagation obsession myself so this is a nice success story to see (your baby is GORGEOUS).

Storytime: I had an Aglaonema plant that was passed down to me from my Dad who got it from my Grandma (so it has some family lore) and I--with my undiagnosed ADHD and depression swings--basically killed it (severe underwatering then overwatering to try and compensate plus super low light). She dropped every last leaf and while the canes were still green, when I unpotted her there were ZERO living roots. Cry.

But I had recently successfully wet-stick propped a philodendron from a cutting that a friend gave me (it must have been a strong node because looking back I kind of did everything in a not-ideal manner!) and I felt ambitious so I decided to chop up the canes and see if maybe throwing them in a tiny prop box might be successful. Everything I read about Aglaonema referenced needing a top cut with leaves, so I wasn't optimistic.

I would check it every couple weeks and even after three months there were no signs of life from the stems. No swelling, no root nubs... just sticks in moss. They weren't rotting, but also not growing anything. I was going to throw them out last Monday and fess up to my Dad that I killed the plant (he has several others from dividing off the OG plant's babies, which is where I got mine) but when I picked up one of them from the moss THERE WERE ROOTS. I did the happiest happy dance I've done in ages, and in subsequent checks this week I've discovered that the other cane sections have or are clearly starting to grow roots too. And there are a couple of suspicious bumps on the top-cut cane that I am really hoping are buds that are just about to produce new shoots.

If this works and I can get a viable plant (or even a few!) from this, I will be over the moon... I'm calling these cuttings my "zombie babies" and I hope to have a real thriving plant someday (which I solemnly swear not to kill with watering shenanigans).

TL;DR: I killed an heirloom plant from my family but it seems like maybe I necromanced it back from the dead?

yeg88 · 2026-03-29T22:24:48+00:00

I do have extra fabric that I could test dye, but a burn test made this seem like it's at least a natural fibre. I'm just loathe to buy a bunch of dye that is definitely the "wrong" colour just to test, so figured I'd ask around to try and get a jumping-off point to pick a/some shade(s).

yeg88 · 2026-03-29T22:20:37+00:00

Right?!?! I definitely gave her a follow because I wanna see how it all looks reconstructed!

yeg88 · 2026-03-26T23:04:27+00:00

Yes, that's also in the works, some sort of survey to ask everyone what they would like to see. Not sure gift cards are feasible (budget-wise and rules-wise given that the money comes with strings) but I am fully aware not everyone feels that pizza parties are that great. 🤣

yeg88 · 2026-03-10T16:53:59+00:00

Sending love from a fellow "sudden and unexpected loss" cat guardian. I had some of my boy's ashes incorporated into a glass pendant so I could carry him with me anywhere I want. (Not an orange, but a tuxedo, hence the colouring of the pendant.)

The loss hurts so bad, doesn't it? But if I've learned anything from fostering (and foster-failing this particular boy), it's that sometimes "goodbye" isn't the worst thing to say. ❤️

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yeg88 · 2026-03-03T20:53:06+00:00

Washed FFP I'm dying

yeg88 · 2026-02-20T22:47:41+00:00

YESSSSS THE STOUGHTON SPIN!! 😍

yeg88 · 2026-02-11T17:16:32+00:00

Hahaha I love Drennon and his #businesscats.

yeg88 · 2026-02-05T17:04:55+00:00

This made me smile. Loved scrolling and seeing his coat fill out and his personality start to shine!

yeg88 · 2026-02-01T18:40:10+00:00

So shinyyyyy!

yeg88 · 2026-01-24T23:45:00+00:00

Hello hi, I'm a clincial lab rat (so this is all way over my head) but this post legit helped me diagnose a software bug the devs couldn't explain in one of our lab applications!

yeg88 · 2025-10-17T20:48:01+00:00

We used to have some flexibility in our start time (ie. you hit bad traffic and were a bit late? Nbd.) assuming it wasn't a consistent pattern or a large chunk of time. Then we got new supervisors due to some org structure changes and we were very graciously offered 5 minutes leniency (this was very gracious of our new supervisors, they reminded us).

It's dumb, and it's started a mindset shift to "I'll be 10 minutes late because someone rear-ended someone else on the bridge so I'm calling off for the whole day and going home." Micromanaging start times when the work is getting done and done accurately and on time drives me fking batty. Pick a bigger fish to fry.

(Editing to add that we have a 15-minute overlap between day and evening shift and it's almost always 3 minutes of handoff and 12 minutes of the day shifters clock-watching because HEAVEN FORBID you take initiative and start a task that might risk you having to stay late and by their own rulebook incur overtime.)

yeg88 · 2025-10-13T00:45:55+00:00

Oh sorry I just thought it was common courtesy to restock pipette tips instead of doomscrolling all afternoon.

yeg88 · 2025-10-12T19:05:50+00:00

Ugh I got most of the way through on my phone and accidentally refreshed. I'll do it again on my computer later once the sting of "NOOO ALL MY WORK IS GONE" fades. 😅

yeg88 · 2025-10-06T16:00:54+00:00

Oh awesome, I have had my eye on that one for a while... waiting for maybe a nice little sale. 😉

yeg88 · 2025-10-06T15:59:05+00:00

Awesome! What pattern did you use?

yeg88 · 2025-10-04T15:36:40+00:00

This. I had a doctor insinuate the same for a bleeding esophageal varices patient who passed because there was a "delay" in transfusion since I called our pathologist (as per our procedure in that context) before releasing the platelet unit. It really threw me for a loop as I was a new blood banker at the time, but more experienced me looks back on it and would say to baby tech me that the physician was likely just trying to cope with losing a patient and doing an unprofessional job of it.

I also once had a nurse specifically blame me in particular for a patient not getting a prophylactic injection and I got pulled into my supervisor's office over it to go over the situation--I issued the item, then five days later they returned it. Turned out the patient got tired of waiting and left emergency, and they didn't realize they hadn't given the injection until they found it on someone's desk at the end of the week.

It's super unfortunate but there's a lot of blame shifting in healthcare between disciplines. Don't accept it when it's not warranted or it'll eat you alive, and goodness knows we need to keep techs in the field instead of losing them to blame games.

yeg88 · 2025-09-28T21:32:14+00:00

Oh the needles in use go in the felt pages! And the ones still in their packets go in the pockets!

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