Patient came on this morning with pretty bad labs. Sysmex threw up flags along side 6% IG so I did a smear review. What are these RBCs? I’ve asked a couple techs they told me could be my technique but I’ve never ran into this and couldn’t find any reference pics. Gonna send out to path but anyone have any idea?

Hey fam! I feel absolutely gaslit hahaha. I have been told that these are NRBCs, but I genuinely believe all 4 are lymphocytes?!

So I just had a phone call from a Life Share scientist from a local number. He proceeded to tell me there is a case study happening with experimental equipment. Apparently I have the blood type (A+) with an extremely rare mutagen. The mutagen is the (RH D WEAK D 85?). It’s so rare that over the past 80 years in America I’m the only person alive in the southern United States with it. Of course I’m in shock, I have no idea what any of this means. He said if I agree to the trial which would be don’t at the local life share he would give me $100. If I say no the guys that built these machines that study this mutagen will be screwed. Does this make any sense to anyone? My wife says I’m being scammed but the number he called from checks out. He said to meet at Life Share so he can fly the scientists in to get the blood. I just don’t see why this would be a scam?

I was collecting serum from some patient samples.

I found this weird looking thing floating after I spun a red top tube at 1500g, 10 minutes at 4°C. I collected the serum anyways but I am just curious as to what it could be? Some clotting thingy?

Thank you in advance!

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Help a student out! This is an unknown slide and we need to know the diagnosis of the patient. Do you have any ideas about this?

WBC: ~14k/µL
Absolute lymphocytes: ~7k/µL
Hemoglobin: ~11 g/dL
Hematocrit: ~35%
MCV: ~94fL
Platelets: ~150k/µL

Female, 87yo

I looked it up online, but it’s way too technical for me to understand. Couldn’t find helpful YouTube videos to dumb it down for me.

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Honest post: I’ve shipped several apps and never quite gotten the response I hoped for. My latest is Blood Reference — a free app to help people make sense of their blood work. I’m not here to sell anything (it’s free), I just want to know if it’s genuinely useful or if I keep missing something as a solo dev. Brutally honest feedback welcome — that’s more valuable to me than downloads right now.

It looks beautiful. My supervisor reported it as normal.

I have no formal medical education but I’m hoping to get a better understanding of iron deficiency anemia. If iron saturation and hemoglobin are responsive to oral iron supplements, what would cause a decrease in ferritin and an increase in TIBC?

If ferritin decreases while iron increases, could it be indicative of bone marrow dysfunction or more likely gastrointestinal blood loss?

I’m sure this topic is very complex but I’d appreciate any insight or literature recommendations so I can gain a better understanding. Thanks!

Is it a blast cell?

How do you track yours and your whole family members blood reports?

Do you usually have report papers stored in one place or use a platform to store it all in one place?

Although I would love to call this a skipocyte, I'm thinking giant thrombocyte? Cool cell though. 😎

Me parece que cromatina está mais frouxa, mas não me parece um monócito, talvez linfócito reativo mas essas lobulações...

I'm having a hard time telling lymphocytes from monocytes here... Any help is appreciated!

I'm not after medical adviser despite feeling chronically ill for a while but I'm very curious about what people strictly observe here.

(Disclaimer: not a medical question, question about blood donation service methodology for calculating and reporting blood volume.)

I'm in Canada, and the Canadian Blood Services app on my phone lets me track my stats such as hemoglobin, bleed time, and donation volume.

There's always a window after my donations where they drastically overreport the volume. ​​​​I gave on Tuesday this week, Wednesday it reported a number over 550 mL, and now today it's settled back down to ​491 mL.

Can anyone tell me why this is?

Secondary question: it's very slight, but if you graph my donations over time and regress it, there is a very slight upward trend in volume. I'm not worried about it or anything, but I am curious if it's just coincidence or if there might be some kind of mechanical reason for it.

Pic unrelated but required to post. ​

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