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posted by mrpg on Tuesday March 13 2018, @02:39PM   Printer-friendly
from the fertil-ground-for-mistakes dept.

A second fertility clinic has reported a liquid nitrogen cooling system failure:

A San Francisco fertility clinic says that a problem with the liquid nitrogen in one of its storage tanks may have damaged thousands of frozen eggs and embryos, triggering calls and letters to more than 400 concerned patients of the Pacific Fertility Center.

The nitrogen level in one tank fell very low, according to Dr. Carl Herbert, the fertility clinic's president. Herbert told ABC News that an "emergency filling" immediately took place, and that the tank's contents were then transferred to a fully functioning tank.

The problem struck on March 4 — the same day that a similar cryogenic tank failure was reported in Cleveland, where the University Hospital Fertility Clinic is investigating "an unexpected temperature fluctuation" that jeopardized its tissue storage bank, where liquid nitrogen preserves eggs and embryos. That incident reportedly affected some 700 patients.

One failure: accident. Two failures...?

Previously: Freezer Malfunction May Have Damaged Up to 2,000 Frozen Eggs and Embryos


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  • (Score: 2) by PartTimeZombie on Tuesday March 13 2018, @11:40PM (5 children)

    by PartTimeZombie (4827) on Tuesday March 13 2018, @11:40PM (#652056)

    Are you OK at the moment Michael?

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 14 2018, @12:24AM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 14 2018, @12:24AM (#652072)

    MDC is just fine. He's just posting in the wrong story.

  • (Score: 2) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Wednesday March 14 2018, @12:55AM (2 children)

    by MichaelDavidCrawford (2339) Subscriber Badge <mdcrawford@gmail.com> on Wednesday March 14 2018, @12:55AM (#652086) Homepage Journal

    -ems.

    I haven't practiced my guitar or piano in damn near a year. I regard that as quite a serious problem: "anhedonia" is a symptom of depression in which one loses interest in the things that make life pleasurable.

    I'm on what's mostly a good happy pill now but it hasn't unanhedioniad me.

    I'm way late on my Obamacare insurance. I have until May to pay off my balance due. I regard that as quite a serious problem because I've tied up all my USD$ into cryptocurrencies. To sell any of three of them would realize a substantial loss, whereas I cannot sell any of the other three because they are ICOs - Initial Coin Offerings - that are not yet complete.

    I had some good fortune with another ICO. I bought it at $1.00 then sold it at $3.00. I have the hope I can do the same with these three but for that to happen the ICO period has to expire, then the companies behind the ICOs have to convince at least one exchange to list them. Not every cryptocurrency succeeds in getting listed but these three I regard as legitimate.

    I'm totally smitten with a convenience store cashier so I stopped going to a real grocery store. This had the eventual result that I'm up to my eyeballs in plastic bags full of recycling - mostly Hungry Man boxes and trays - as well as having about ten milk cartons scattered around my kitchen that I drink with the hope that I won't die of malnutrition.

    To my dismay that cashier has a boyfriend and so refused my invitation to meet for coffee. Yet she is still quite friendly and always happy to see me. Maybe they'll break up in a few years.

    The cashier isn't the only one I'm smitten with. It happens from time to time that damn near everything I do is determined by the various women I have mad crushes on.

    But some really happy news: I think I've found a girlfriend.

    And some bad news: she lives in an entirely different country. Air fare to her homeland must be quite costly.

    Some friends have warned me that she was likely to be a scammer but after some online research as well as having spoken or texted with her many times I have concluded she's legit.

    But a _real_ scammer found me and quite bluntly asked me to "Go to Walmart right now" then buy her an "iTunes gift card".

    "Sure how much do you need?"

    "$300"

    "OK"

    "I like to help people"

    "You're such a darling."

    When I get home tonight I'm going to copy-n-paste the complete transcript into a complaint at the FBI's Internet Crime Complaint Center [ic3.gov].

    I'm not going to report her to Facebook because I have the hope that if I string her along long enough, the FBI and Facebook's security people can track her down. While quite likely she's in a foreign land, some such lands are not lawless.

    Just today I grew concerned that I've just made myself a candidate for a mob hit. I'm going to lie in my Facebook profile and claim that I live in Walla-Walla.

    --
    Yes I Have No Bananas. [gofundme.com]
    • (Score: 3, Insightful) by PartTimeZombie on Wednesday March 14 2018, @01:13AM (1 child)

      by PartTimeZombie (4827) on Wednesday March 14 2018, @01:13AM (#652100)

      I'm glad you're not too bad, other than the minor issues you're facing.

      I hope you don't get too enamored of the cashier, as she has a boyfriend, and might not take kindly to other suitors.

      The girlfriend situation can be difficult, especially if you've never actually met. You might like to take heed of what your friends say, as they will have your best interests at heart.

      I look forward to seeing more of your posts on Soylent.

      All the best.

      • (Score: 2) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Wednesday March 14 2018, @09:33AM

        by MichaelDavidCrawford (2339) Subscriber Badge <mdcrawford@gmail.com> on Wednesday March 14 2018, @09:33AM (#652242) Homepage Journal

        This evening I had a long Facebook Messenger chat with B.

        For all the lengthy chat sessions we've had, we have both been avoiding any mention of the elephant under the coffee table.

        She's heavily into posting Heart emoji's and Heart GIFs all over my FB wall. Here's one:

              http://www.warplife.com/art/Teddy-Hearts.png [warplife.com]

        So for the last little while I've been sprinkling Heart emoji and Heart GIFs all over _her_ wall.

        I finally came to feel that while the following was quite risky, that it had to be done or neither of us would be happy:

        I have an important question for you. But perhaps right now is not the right time.

        Ask me.

        Right about here I was experiencing tachycardia. My mother and her twin sister both have pacemakers, and both take cardiac medicine. When my Tick expires quite likely the first symptom will be my own sudden death.

        Would you like to be my girlfriend?

        Yes.

        I later said "I love you". Quite a long time passed with no response of any sort. I puzzled over whether the Golden Gate Bridge was the right choice. As a known wingnut I'm not permitted to purchase firearms.

        Finally: "I love you too".

        There's more but I have the idea that by staying up all night I can get some quality time in on my side project.

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        Yes I Have No Bananas. [gofundme.com]