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Heather Badenoch 🇨🇦

@heatherbadenoch.bsky.social

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She/Her. Living liver donor (non-directed), plasma donor. Skye and Dori’s fur-mom. RIP Mini, my Saint Bernard. Runs Village PR: comms for nonprofits. Lefter than left. Not related to that hateful UK "leader." Taller than you. Ottawa 🇨🇦

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Heather Badenoch 🇨🇦 @heatherbadenoch.bsky.social · Jul 24

Hello!
I post about:
- living organ donation (mostly liver because it’s a thing I did and loved, non-directed)
- my rescued dog, Skye
- Ottawa 🇨🇦
- Communications and PR for charities
- Things I cook, if they turned out exceptionally well (or badly)
- My leftie political opinion. Very, very left.

Organ donation cooler leaving the surgery room.

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Heather Badenoch 🇨🇦 @heatherbadenoch.bsky.social · 16h

Reducing the deferral period from 12 months to 3 months for those with "high-risk behaviours" did not increase the incidence of infectious diseases like HIV and hepatitis B appearing in donated blood from 2017 to 2023.
www.ajmc.com/view/overall...

Overall Incidence of HIV in Donated Blood Declined Despite Reduction in Deferral Periods | AJMC

Reducing the deferral period from 12 months to 3 months for those with high-risk behaviors did not increase the incidence of infectious diseases like HIV and hepatitis B appearing in donated blood.

www.ajmc.com

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Heather Badenoch 🇨🇦 @heatherbadenoch.bsky.social · 16h

A new study has found that caffeine may impair the quality of donated blood and reduce the effectiveness of transfusions. Your morning cup of coffee may impact the quality of stored blood and its effectiveness when transfused into patients.
news.cuanschutz.edu/news-stories...

Study Reveals Caffeine May Undermine Blood Transfusion Effectiveness

news.cuanschutz.edu

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Heather Badenoch 🇨🇦 @heatherbadenoch.bsky.social · 7d

Appointments are available at several Shoppers Drug Marts near me.

Heather Badenoch 🇨🇦 @heatherbadenoch.bsky.social · 7d

Fall COVID vaccine on board.

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Heather Badenoch 🇨🇦 @heatherbadenoch.bsky.social · 15d

Looking forward to attending the #DEIinTransplant2025 conference in October.
www.deiintransplant.com #MedSky

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Heather Badenoch 🇨🇦 @heatherbadenoch.bsky.social · 24d

Just received.

Heather Badenoch 🇨🇦 @heatherbadenoch.bsky.social · 24d

Northern lights are happening right now.
GO OUTSIDE if you're away from light pollution. Some incredible photos are showing up in the aurora groups. (that I don't have permission to share)

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Heather Badenoch 🇨🇦 @heatherbadenoch.bsky.social · 24d

Congratulations on your new family member!

Heather Badenoch 🇨🇦 @heatherbadenoch.bsky.social · 24d

Impressive!!!

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Jeff Leiper 🛴🚲🚇♻️🚌📊 @jleiper.bsky.social · 28d

The @mayormarksutcliffe.bsky.social and I were pleased to welcome to Council for a performance of the national anthem students from Nepean High and their teacher Jeannie Hunter. It rocked!

Jeannie Hunter, Mark Sutcliffe, Liam West, Gregory Nicholas, Ethan Tam and Jeff Leiper in Council chambers.

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Heather Badenoch 🇨🇦 @heatherbadenoch.bsky.social · 28d

Zero chance.

Heather Badenoch 🇨🇦 @heatherbadenoch.bsky.social · 28d

Reading glasses can be a lot of fun. So many great styles. Welcome to the club.

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Jeff Leiper 🛴🚲🚇♻️🚌📊 @jleiper.bsky.social · 28d

At today's Council meeting, I brought a motion forward to reverse the City Manager's five-day-a-week return-to-office order. We'll debate that in two weeks. I've heard from many City staff about the diminishment in the quality of both life and work the order will create, with too little benefit.

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Nature @nature.com · Sep 8

This is the longest a pig organ has survived in a living person

go.nature.com/42dgjzo

‘Amazing feat’: US man still alive six months after pig kidney transplant

The first six months after an organ transplant are the riskiest for recipients.

go.nature.com

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Heather Badenoch 🇨🇦 @heatherbadenoch.bsky.social · Sep 7

Right?!
We are extremely thoughtfully, and with expert guidance, helping our dog (new to us, recently adopted from a rescue) work through her trauma and trust people.
Nobody should be grabbing anything that doesn’t belong to them.

Heather Badenoch 🇨🇦 @heatherbadenoch.bsky.social · Sep 7

That fully checks out in this case.

Heather Badenoch 🇨🇦 @heatherbadenoch.bsky.social · Sep 7

Why do people do the least helpful thing?

Heather Badenoch 🇨🇦 @heatherbadenoch.bsky.social · Sep 7

Right?! That would have put Skye in an extremely vulnerable position. It’s WAY over the line to grab for a dog’s leash.
Skye is making slow and steady progress and it’s going to take a long time.

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Heather Badenoch 🇨🇦 @heatherbadenoch.bsky.social · Sep 7

Skye, one of my dogs, is *extremely* fearful of people. There are only three of us who can touch her.
At the park, someone tried to GRAB SKYE’S LEASH to force Skye to interact with them. Thankfully they missed.
That’s how you terrify a dog and get bitten. And it’s always the dog’s fault.
FFS.

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Heather Badenoch 🇨🇦 @heatherbadenoch.bsky.social · Sep 7

Oh my goodness he’s adorable. I hope he finds a great spot with an owner with giant breed experience.

Heather Badenoch 🇨🇦 @heatherbadenoch.bsky.social · Sep 6

CBS plasma donation waiting area…
People talking: I wonder what kidney paired donation is?
Me: Hi strangers! Lemme tell you…

Heather Badenoch 🇨🇦 @heatherbadenoch.bsky.social · Sep 5

Cars on the street were broken into last time, so I’m checking our doorbell footage and hiiiiiiiiii.

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Heather Badenoch 🇨🇦 @heatherbadenoch.bsky.social · Sep 1

French toast bake? Naw, make it a croissant bake for brunch.
butternutandsage.com/prosciutto-a...

Prosciutto and Gruyère Croissant Bake

This Prosciutto and Gruyère Croissant Bake is basically a fancied up ham and cheese breakfast casserole. Layered with crispy prosciutto, cheesy Gruyère, buttery croissants and herby mushrooms.

butternutandsage.com

Heather Badenoch 🇨🇦 @heatherbadenoch.bsky.social · Aug 31

This was for dinner and it was DELICIOUS.
www.happyveggiekitchen.com/creamy-lenti...

Creamy "Marry Me" Lentils

A dreamy pan of lentils in the viral creamy sundried tomato "marry me" sauce! This is amazing scooped up with bread, with rice or as a sweet potato topping. I love to use luxurious black

www.happyveggiekitchen.com

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Heather Badenoch 🇨🇦 @heatherbadenoch.bsky.social · Aug 31

Keep your eyes on the skies this weekend.
Northern lights possible. Best viewing is facing north of the city, eg facing the Quebec side along the Ottawa River. From either east or west of the city. Away from light pollution.
@blacksweather.bsky.social

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