Quest Diagnostics and Blood Work Samples

In 2017, I was at a free health clinic that offered medical, dental and optical appointments to patients who had limited health insurance in downtown Los Angeles. I wrote about the experience here.

In the medical area nurses drew blood for further testing and that’s when I noticed the variety of the tops of the blood sample caps. The rhythm of the circles and the colored tops were really interesting at the time. Quest Diagnostics graciously donated all the processing and analysis at their laboratories in the immediate LA area during the three day clinic.

Have you ever donated blood or had your blood tested? How was the experience for you?

Success for the Prickly Pear!

I am so excited to be a part of all the positive happenings around our Prickly Pear social media and video campaign. Let me explain: a few months ago, Michelle reached out to Mona to help with reviving the succulents from our wedding. Mona was gracious enough to teach us how to have better green thumbs.

After staying in contact, we came up with a social media and video campaign to help Mona step up her game to reach a larger audience and raise funds for the next phase of her business. We collaborated on two videos: The first was demonstrating her passion within the disability community. The second video was aimed at raising money to build out a larger space for the Prickly Pear.

We are so happy to see her community show up to support her vision of a succulent garden and raise enough to get into a bigger space to do so in the next few months. Mona was recently featured in the Sacramento News & Review for their Best of Sacramento 2018 issue. Thank you for trusting us with your story, Mona.