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Apr 18, 2012 15:07:53   #
ngc1514 Loc: Atlanta, Ga., Lancaster, Oh. and Stuart, Fl.
 
Red blood cells. According to Wiki, these guys are about 6-8 μm in diameter.



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Apr 18, 2012 15:59:34   #
Bmac Loc: Long Island, NY
 
ngc1514 wrote:
Red blood cells. According to Wiki, these guys are about 6-8 μm in diameter.


These aren't your blood cells are they? They appear anemic. :shock:

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Apr 18, 2012 16:04:13   #
Bmac Loc: Long Island, NY
 
Nice website Eric, by the way. 8-)

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Apr 18, 2012 16:21:24   #
ngc1514 Loc: Atlanta, Ga., Lancaster, Oh. and Stuart, Fl.
 
Bmac wrote:
ngc1514 wrote:
Red blood cells. According to Wiki, these guys are about 6-8 μm in diameter.


These aren't your blood cells are they? They appear anemic. :shock:


That's me...Mr. Anemia! The wife showed me how to smear the blood to spread out the cells as you would for doing a red blood cell count. Apparently a trick you learn in medical school.

Thanks for the kind comment about The web site. I should update it occasionally.

Where on Long Island, if I may ask? I grew up in New York and spent some of my childhood in Port Washington and Fort Salonga.

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Apr 18, 2012 16:41:23   #
Bmac Loc: Long Island, NY
 
ngc1514 wrote:
Bmac wrote:
ngc1514 wrote:
Red blood cells. According to Wiki, these guys are about 6-8 μm in diameter.


These aren't your blood cells are they? They appear anemic. :shock:


That's me...Mr. Anemia! The wife showed me how to smear the blood to spread out the cells as you would for doing a red blood cell count. Apparently a trick you learn in medical school.

Thanks for the kind comment about The web site. I should update it occasionally.

Where on Long Island, if I may ask? I grew up in New York and spent some of my childhood in Port Washington and Fort Salonga.
quote=Bmac quote=ngc1514 Red blood cells. Accor... (show quote)


I reside in central Nassau County but have pretty much traveled all over the island. It's getting hard to find a park I haven't been to, but I did the other day and it is near Fort Salonga. It was the Nissequogue River State Park, which is north of Kings Park. What made it interesting is it is on the grounds of the old Kings Park Psychiatric Center. The buildings are still standing and it's a rather eerie place. Do you remember hearing of it when you lived here? Fort Salonga is just west of Kings Park. 8-)

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Apr 18, 2012 17:06:29   #
ngc1514 Loc: Atlanta, Ga., Lancaster, Oh. and Stuart, Fl.
 
Yes, I'm very familiar with the area, but expect it has changed considerably. We move to Ft. Salonga in 1954 and then back to Jackson Heights in 1958. Went to Kings Park Central School from the 3rd thru the 6th grade. We used to launch our boat at the Nissiquague and had to drive through Kings Park State Hospital to get there. The hospital was the source of all sorts of childhood fears for the kids. In an act of complete political incorrectness we called it "The building with the N on top.". N, of course, standing for Nuts.

I and a couple friends probably shot a thousand BBs at a hay bale in the loft of a barn thinking it was an escapee from the hospital! Our home was near the intersection of 25A and Sunken Meadow Road. The was nothing but potato farms between Kings Park and Smithtown but for the small town of San Remo.

Looking at it on Google... The place has changed a whole heck of a lot since we lived there a half century ago. It was a good place to grow up.

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Apr 18, 2012 17:41:19   #
Bmac Loc: Long Island, NY
 
Yes, it has changed considerably. The state had decided to tear down the buildings of the hospital and were to begin this past January. Seems they discovered the place is filled with asbestos which has delayed the destruction of the structures. Scary looking place, and, of course, some say it is haunted. I will try and post some pictures of it in the future, along with photos of the river itself. Might bring back some memories for you. 8-)

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Apr 18, 2012 18:15:48   #
ngc1514 Loc: Atlanta, Ga., Lancaster, Oh. and Stuart, Fl.
 
I'd enjoy seeing them! Place was even scarier with the patients walking the grounds and the ones in strait jackets visible behind the bars in the tall building admin building. That was the tallest building on the North Shore.

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Apr 20, 2012 03:09:08   #
oldmalky Loc: West Midlands,England.
 
I shall think twice about eating cheerios in future, that photography for me is a whole new ball game.

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