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Month: September 2012

Blood Discrimination

Posted on September 14, 2012 by Cheryl

I’ve posted before about my adventures with hemachromatosis, and my negative experiences with the Puget Sound Blood Center. Things since the last post hadn’t improved tremendously, but I still went (out of my way) to perform my therapeutic phlebotomies there since it

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Biography, Medical hemachromatosis, medical, mutant, service design

Losing My Nintendo

Posted on September 14, 2012 by Cheryl

For most of my gaming life, I was a Nintendo girl (and a PC girl, but those are other stories.) Our first real gaming console was the Atari 2600, which was loved but ultimately met an untimely demise when my brothers left

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Games, Technology

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