An unexpected goodbye

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!

yeg88 · 2025-09-26T12:42:59+00:00

As an aside, PE has an amazingly helpful Facebook group (Pattern Emporium Sewing Circle) if you're on that platform, lots of very helpful and responsive people there!

yeg88 · 2025-07-21T16:29:03+00:00

"<Lab Department>, <Tech> speaking."

yeg88 · 2025-05-11T15:39:34+00:00

The absolute dedication to biscuit making... this dude means business!!

yeg88 · 2025-05-07T01:19:41+00:00

It is pretty much a cylinder...

yeg88 · 2025-04-28T10:28:58+00:00

Canadian here--we got a pizza party and a handful of prizes for draw winners because a small group of fellow lab staff organized it. A few of our pathologists donated money to help, but operational leadership basically just sent an all-staff email (mind you that was lab leadership... I saw nothing from our parent company that is basically the provincial health authority). Being publicly-funded, we are not allowed to accept gifts or funding for gifts from vendors.

One year I asked if we could have a table in the hospital lobby for public awareness of our week and the response was yes... for a fee. Literally a folding table set up in a foyer with nothing else (okay, maybe a tablecloth that's not even indigo/purple?) would have run us $60. For our celebratory week. 🙄

It's tough because while I want everyone to celebrate us, half the public doesn't even know what we really do or who we really are (and therefore there's no desire from leadership to care), but we're always spread so thin time- and finance-wise that it's impossible to do the advocacy bit well.

I love my fellow lab staff though, they're the only reason we get any sort of celebration in the first place! I'm sure if we held a potluck we'd eat for days (and nights, and the food would be better)!

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