People actually eat peeps? I learn somethin' new every day here!
Oh, they totally ate them. Actually, when I told them what we were doing, one of the boys said, "I hate Peeps! They're disgusting. I want blue!"
And I wonder, what possible catastrophe came crashing down from heaven and brought this dashing stranger to tears?
Drusilla ,'Conversations with Dead People'
Spike's Bitches 44: It's about the rules having changed.
[NAFDA] Spike-centric discussion. Lusty, lewd (only occasionally crude), risqué (and frisqué), bawdy (Oh, lawdy!), flirty ('cuz we're purty), raunchy talk inside. Caveat lector.
vw bug - Mar 19, 2009 5:33:38 am PDT #4054 of 30000
Mostly lurking...
flea - Mar 19, 2009 5:35:16 am PDT #4055 of 30000
information libertarian
Sparky, no unless you know of a possible need already (like, you have a known genetic condition): [link]
JZ - Mar 19, 2009 5:47:30 am PDT #4056 of 30000
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
We have a strong family history of cancer on one side (three different kinds in three different nonsmokers), so I definitely would have done it if I'd had time to arrange it. But I'd just barely started gathering materials and looking at the different companies (as in, making a list, not even actually comparing them) when Matilda made her early entrance.
eta: I definitely would have donated if it had been an option at our hospital, but IIRC it wasn't.
Sparky1 - Mar 19, 2009 5:46:33 am PDT #4057 of 30000
Librarian Warlord
Thanks, flea. I'll have to check the lists of what's being researched for what floats around the DH's family. I hate these companies that prey on my guilt and never-good-enough fears.
P.M. Marc - Mar 19, 2009 6:13:51 am PDT #4058 of 30000
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
I saw a Buffista in that cord blood thread!
SuziQ - Mar 19, 2009 6:31:16 am PDT #4059 of 30000
Back tattoos of the mother is that you are absolutely right - Ame
Is LJ acting up for anyone else? I can hit my home page, but not my friends page or anyone else's journal pages.
Vortex - Mar 19, 2009 6:34:49 am PDT #4060 of 30000
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman
Sparky, I banked blood for my surgery because I am not able to be a blood donor (lived in the UK too long), and I didn't want to take blood from the supply and not be able to replenish it. Just a thing of mine, I guess. I want to give blood, but they won't let me because of MAD COW. Do I look crazy?
Wait, don't answer that. It's not the MAD COW!
Sparky1 - Mar 19, 2009 6:48:35 am PDT #4061 of 30000
Librarian Warlord
banked blood for my surgery
This is saving the baby's cord blood and banking it in a private bank (to the tune of about $4K), so think more stem-cells not transfusion-type blood.
I generally can't donate to a blood bank because I don't weigh enough, which is too bad because I have no problems with needles and my veins pop up nicely for collection.
Do I look crazy?
Only to some probably very narrow-minded people, but we don't like them anyway.
Vortex - Mar 19, 2009 6:53:53 am PDT #4062 of 30000
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman
This is saving the baby's cord blood and banking it in a private bank (to the tune of about $4K), so think more stem-cells not transfusion-type blood.
oh, I see. Um, what do you do with it? Is it for the baby if there's a problem ([insert diety of choice] forbid?) Is it for research?
Sparky1 - Mar 19, 2009 7:00:30 am PDT #4063 of 30000
Librarian Warlord
Is it for the baby if there's a problem
Yes. Or a sibling. But whether or not they're collecting correctly, storing correctly, etc., is questionable. It's very speculative, but guilt and fear are powerful motivators.
If we don't do cord blood, we can donate the placenta to NIH for research (which I'm cool with, but from the look on some other people's faces last night at child birth class, some people certainly aren't).