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Pola Grzybowska

1 year

@COSMakin #armedforcesday23 My grandfather Klemens Grzybowski Born in 🇵🇱 now 🇺🇦 . In WW1 when 🇵🇱 was still partitioned fought in the Russian army. Fought the bolsheviks in 21-22 as a 🇵🇱(won). 1940 deported to Siberia. By 1942 was in the 🇵🇱 battalions in 🇬🇧 army. This is why I’m pro 🇪🇺.

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Pola Grzybowska

@PolaGrzybowska

9 months

This is mum and dad. Off to the annual commemoration of the mass deportations. This week 84 years deported, 66 years married. Within moments of arriving,”your dad did so much for our community,”your generation must never forget those killing fields. 😔 🙏 @KresyFamily @posklondon

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Pola Grzybowska

@PolaGrzybowska

4 years

@RevRichardColes My David died a year ago and I still have a box of printer ink he ordered. I found it this morning when looking for a cyan and magenta. I even hugged the box!! He was our requisition / IT guru. Your openness has made our openness much easier. Thank you.

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Pola Grzybowska

@PolaGrzybowska

7 months

@ruskin147 Rory what you all do in public health terms is amazing. Breaking stigma and improving care by services and society of neurological disorders is a win beyond Parkinson’s alone. Your big waves in parks will make useful waves for others. I hope.

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Pola Grzybowska

@PolaGrzybowska

4 years

It’s David’s birthday today. 4 years ago we came home, he cooked his birthday supper, we had settled to sleep he then had his only fit and everything changed. It will be important forever for us to talk about him, remember him, we will rely on these memories not make new ones.

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Pola Grzybowska

@PolaGrzybowska

7 years

Husband's electric bike nicked lunchtime Friday Charles St Cardiff. He has epilepsy and it's his only independence. Police aware. Pls share.

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Pola Grzybowska

@PolaGrzybowska

8 months

What the movers and shakers are doing for the public understanding of their illness continues. Such an important and yes cheerful episode! Both demystifying palliative care and advance planning. @ruskin147 @SBajwah 👏🏼

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Movers and Shakers: a podcast about life with Parkinson's · Episode

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Pola Grzybowska

@PolaGrzybowska

3 years

Massive day for me and my daughters. Moving out of the family home, me for 27 years, to them the only place they have known. It has been a kind house to us and where David wanted to be ill. It was his last view and this is mine.

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Pola Grzybowska

@PolaGrzybowska

3 years

This is one of my favourite photos. ⁦David bore such a difficult illness with such endless stoicism. His huge desire was to minimise the negative impact on his family and daughters. Its my 🎂 and on days like today where his loss is tangible, they so care for me.

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Pola Grzybowska

@PolaGrzybowska

3 years

@DerekVsOwusu I was a doctor like this, this week. Functional, task orientated translation can be really useful and happily instant on the phone. However, complex consultations are transformed with the right language. I too am amazed how little accessible translated patient info there is.

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Pola Grzybowska

@PolaGrzybowska

3 years

Today is a difficult day and a day of going to familiar places. Nephrology in @CAVUHB gave us a departmental hug when D was ill and support still. We saw the sign today for the first time. Yes 😭, also declared cool and so kind. 🙏 @bluelou60 @RilesinWales @toomuchaltitude et al

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Pola Grzybowska

@PolaGrzybowska

3 years

I was in civvies today and introduced myself by showing my badge. “do you talk Polish?” I do and got a huge smile and lots of useful additional history. Lots of people brought up in E Europe have several languages! My Polish is useful most weeks in my corner of @CwmTafMorgannwg .

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Pola Grzybowska

@PolaGrzybowska

4 years

I left work on time and it was the first time it was light at the end of the day in months. What with a second Pfizer vaccination and day light in the same week. I’m going to smile.

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Pola Grzybowska

@PolaGrzybowska

3 years

I didn’t understand bereavement till it was me. It’s cold outside, been shopping, now making rillettes, drinking wine, thinking of ⛷ 🇫🇷 🍞 and David. This is not pathological or complex, it’s normal. #GriefAwarenessWeek has allowed me to feel normal. Well done @goodgrieftrust

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Pola Grzybowska

@PolaGrzybowska

3 years

This is my fabulous Dad 92 next week. He has been despairing at the condition of my garden tools and swept, cleaned and pruned all week end. He got these for mum, “I have been getting you flowers for 64 years and I’m not stopping now!” Barely been indoors all week end! Too busy!

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Pola Grzybowska

@PolaGrzybowska

3 years

@JDaviesPhD Walking, digging, sewing, embroidering, essentially ploughing a lonely furrow as therapy. In the absence of people and proper companionship, social media to this novice was a positive. Always something of interest to find in the wee small hours.

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Pola Grzybowska

@PolaGrzybowska

4 years

@paddygrant Thank you for losing it so cheerfully. It made us chuckle. So glad you are back. “Best thing on telly” says a 16 year daughter who loves her singer!

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Pola Grzybowska

@PolaGrzybowska

3 years

This is mum, 89 this week. At low points this year she described life as “like confinement in a chicken hutch”, covid, OA, fatigue. She knows the story of every plant. Where from, which memory. Seeds, cuttings, sharing plants, little wins. Gardening at any scale is special.

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Pola Grzybowska

@PolaGrzybowska

3 years

It’s David’s birthday, 5 years to the day since his seizure that changed everything. We miss him so much. His capacity to love, laugh, work, be a friend is a family legacy. On Friday R graduated. A tutor said her capacity for friendship showed itself as important as knowledge.

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Pola Grzybowska

@PolaGrzybowska

4 years

This was published in December’s BMJ. D would have gently laughed that I have missed it. It is a year in the preparation and summarising him into 200 hundred words was just too brutal. Thank you to the gentlest of nephrology giants for helping me through so much of this. Pola

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Pola Grzybowska

@PolaGrzybowska

4 years

#braintumourresearch So proud of my daughter. First birthday without her dad and it’s not presents but a fundraiser for brain tumour research. Every new day is a memory and life event not just landmark days. A lovely picture for a nearby 20 year old!

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Pola Grzybowska

@PolaGrzybowska

2 years

A man dropped off some things at Y Bwthyn Newydd in Bridgend. We looked after his mum. “We will never forget the kindness and the cuppas”. He has done this a couple of times a year for 12 years. Quite a thank you, but also him thinking about his mum. #goodgrief @CwmTafMorgannwg

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Pola Grzybowska

@PolaGrzybowska

2 years

This is my annual thank you to estates in POW @CwmTafMorgannwg . A patch of grass in spring turns into a beautiful meadow outside our unit and deliberately left to flower. The orchids, yarrow, ox eye daisies, clovers, 🐝 🦋 as well as me appreciated this ++ today!

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Pola Grzybowska

@PolaGrzybowska

2 years

@nikosevangelou3 @pickersgill1 @BBCNews I see these all over parks. Can you help to make this a story?

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Pola Grzybowska

@PolaGrzybowska

4 years

Remarkable day in a good way. Was chatting about what we miss with a patient last week, jokily🍕was the answer. These appeared today at work. Huge smiles. Perfect timing. Thank you from the happy key workers and a delighted patient.

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Pola Grzybowska

@PolaGrzybowska

3 years

Such a beautiful thread. For those of us living with loss, a prompt of a memory, in a place or a conversation is universally welcome. The huge numbers of comments testify. You are suddenly in that place again. @goodgrieftrust gives us confidence to be honest and true.

Sherri Turner

@STurner4077

3 years

I look at my mum’s old house on Google maps street view, the house where I grew up. It says ‘Image captured May 2009’. There is a light on in her bedroom. It is still her house, she is still alive, I am still visiting every few months on the train to Bodmin Parkway,

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Pola Grzybowska

@PolaGrzybowska

2 years

I have been a huge recipient of care and kindness from my work family. I have done secret guerilla drops at Christmas to nephrology for similar reasons for a few years, but today did it in person. Thank you to the lovely HCA who let me be a teary part of her day. This is the NHS.

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Pola Grzybowska

@PolaGrzybowska

4 years

Well I’m done, with the whole department, people coming in on mat leave, days off. Such a great effort. Smiling 👀 behind our masks today! Thanks @CwmTafMorgannwg

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Pola Grzybowska

@PolaGrzybowska

4 years

This is a David’s bike. I thought it would be impossible to keep never mind use. He said whow much he missed riding his bike. This was probably the only outwardly declared loss . Most of the rest was kept inside. I rode it today, got up the hill and missed him desperately.

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Pola Grzybowska

@PolaGrzybowska

3 years

Jolly green scrubs on #greenjumperday . My pea green outfit can’t be missed. Pall Care has officially become a branch within sustainable healthcare! Tiny acorns ➡️🌳🌳 @palligreen @DrLucyPain @PallCareSusNet @GreenHWales

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Pola Grzybowska

@PolaGrzybowska

4 years

I’ve been clearing boxes under the bed. I found this! I was born in the UK of passionately Polish parents, who had a difficult war but grateful for an peaceful life in England. Mum has just finished a very short very personal life story. This is not going back in a box.

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Pola Grzybowska

@PolaGrzybowska

2 years

@ScottDuncanWX Shocking. And we in uk are faffing around on questionnaires about imperial measurements. 🤦🏻 So many have existential threats that the international 🛩 setting executive has chosen to ignore.

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Pola Grzybowska

@PolaGrzybowska

1 year

@ruskin147 Rory that is amazing! Your profile at 2 is a mirror of other Cellan-joneses I can think of. Few more wonderful things than when people can be bothered to do things like this on another’s behalf! Magic and thoughtfulness on another level!!

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Pola Grzybowska

@PolaGrzybowska

1 year

Had to share. My lovely consultant colleague Jenna! Urgent specialist palliative care assessments still have to get done even in a flood! We have scrubs, toolboxes with 🩺 and 🧪but no departmental wellies. Lovely family supplied the shopping bags.

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Pola Grzybowska

@PolaGrzybowska

4 years

All the talk of Christmas. We are coming up to what for me and many other people is an overwhelming mountain of an attempt at joy with the people we have and pain for the people we are missing. Spare a thought for people who are finding the thought of the weeks ahead really hard.

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Pola Grzybowska

@PolaGrzybowska

3 years

@herdyshepherd1 Great thread. So much of what you are saying rings true even in my bit of edge of city wales. My daughters who are 17 and 21 said yesterday “ can you remember when those houses were fields!” The industrialisation of habitat loss is boggling!

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Pola Grzybowska

@PolaGrzybowska

4 years

My daughter has her GCSE results in the morning. She at 15 was a tower of strength through her dads final illness. She already wonders if educationally she can ever catch up. Tonight I am thinking about those GCSE students for whom life has been hard and this has made it harder.

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Pola Grzybowska

@PolaGrzybowska

1 year

@jim_reed Consistent coverage on our national broadcaster of this please. Biggest crisis since WW2. The daily formats of podcasts perfect . None of us out here have enquiry fatigue, this is of national interest. @BBCNews editors this is newsworthy till it’s done.

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Pola Grzybowska

@PolaGrzybowska

2 years

@wildmoorsuk Hope you got home safe. Hard to comprehend how this is still seen to be acceptable or indeed necessary. The rest of us quite like our clean air. Heather and scrub brown, green and purple not black please.

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Pola Grzybowska

@PolaGrzybowska

3 years

Trying to be optimistic. I was feeling a bit subdued for one reason or another. So I made some scrubs! So yes I’m ready for which ever 🎄 we are about to have. #craftydoctors

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Pola Grzybowska

@PolaGrzybowska

3 years

This popped up on my phone today. We are so lucky to be able to access photos/ videos effortlessly. Facebook timelines, photos, videos, clicks on phones actually happen, very modern bereavement. I love finding letters and postcards, but this is quite the memory. #goodgrief

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Pola Grzybowska

@PolaGrzybowska

2 years

Huge excitement! Post covid recovery Y Bwthyn Newydd style. Evidenced based patient ( and staff well-being) pet therapy! All trained up and ready to go. Thanks @CariadPet @CwmTafMorgannwg staff who have got this off the drawing board! Welcome Ozzie and Roger v soon!

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Pola Grzybowska

@PolaGrzybowska

3 years

@mrjamesob @MartinSLewis @sajidjavid I had to hire a wheelchair car when my husband developed a brain tumour. It amounted to £600 a month, excactly the same as the DS1500 allowance. Allowances do not touch the sides of illness related expenses. Just ask @mariecurieuk @macmillancancer , data all there.

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Pola Grzybowska

@PolaGrzybowska

2 years

@clare_eliza We are three part time consultants. We rearranged our week/ childcare/ lives, so that we were all in today, ward rounds, home visits,📞. We supported our nurses right to strike by supporting critical patient focussed care. No food or drink till 4, proper shift ✅. POW ⭐️ nurses.

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Pola Grzybowska

@PolaGrzybowska

3 years

It’s really busy. I found myself factoring and almost justifying the time to walk down the corridor, the minutes in the microwave. Then snatched some time in the garden talking non clinical work. The idea of breaks, well-being, self-care, nutrition. Do as I say, not as I do day!

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Pola Grzybowska

@PolaGrzybowska

3 years

@SarahJFoot This is brilliant. I have two CCTs effectively, GP and pall Med. Use both every day. I’m delighted you are the first of a new generation with GIM and pall Med. It will make a huge difference to be part of that group of on call senior decision makers. 👏🏼

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Pola Grzybowska

@PolaGrzybowska

2 years

@muggleplantmom Embroidery when wet, gardening when dry. No shame at all. As a lovely Ukrainian lady said to me recently, I keep my hands busy to keep my brain busy. I understand the sentiment.

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Pola Grzybowska

@PolaGrzybowska

4 years

Such a good piece on @BBCr4today #johnscampaign Julia Jones’s profound understanding of the realities of supporting a loved one in a nursing setting. Why enabling visiting in context of the current risks so important. What an important campaign! Great coverage 👏🏼

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Pola Grzybowska

@PolaGrzybowska

4 years

No record player in 30 years. Secret 🎅🏼 wins. Many tears but some gentle 💃 too. David always loved Christmas and having tried to push it away, I’m just rolling with such such strong emotions of sadness, love, reminiscence. Good luck today. #gbm #grieftrust

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Pola Grzybowska

@PolaGrzybowska

3 years

@jcollm1 @apnoeaboy @betweentheSBARs @BellaRoscetti And the tuition fees went from free to £9250 p.a. Graduate entry medics have eye watering entry debt. The fact that medicine is over subscribed seems to allow for anything.

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Pola Grzybowska

@PolaGrzybowska

2 years

Great slide from a great education day. PCH looking very different once I could see it through the 🌫 . “Palliative care in acute hospitals, ICU, critical care” lovely people seeing such difficult things,communication and compassion front and centre. So glad ED reps there. 👏🏼

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Pola Grzybowska

@PolaGrzybowska

3 years

Had such an interesting morning, trauma ward, 4 doctors, hello in Polish, then many more. We started to count, we were all multi-lingual, 8 between the four of us, with different cultural backgrounds. Great opportunistic international pall care conversations in @CwmTafMorgannwg

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Pola Grzybowska

@PolaGrzybowska

7 months

Just beautiful. I only got 27 years with my lovely man, clearly we had barely started. This is all so completely true. Just being there not having to say much at all, yep miss that.

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@BBCr4today

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"I believe that you can't just stop." Michael Palin speaks to @BBCNickRobinson on #R4Today about returning to work for a new series following the loss of his wife Helen. Sir Michael is back on our screens with a travel documentary about Nigeria.

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Pola Grzybowska

@PolaGrzybowska

4 years

Lots of reading about child bereavement this week. Not all about what you say. Can be too hard. Sometimes you can only do. Swept the patio, potted on some plants, avoided the match, burnt brambles, cursed the jet washer and cooked sausages. Hugged.

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Pola Grzybowska

@PolaGrzybowska

3 years

Lone parenting, bereaved, working, school, exams, a family, a house. The reality of most days is functioning. Most of us who have loved and are now alone, anticipated a life of “together”. We think about our literal other half a lot, like we always did. We missed you.

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Pola Grzybowska

@PolaGrzybowska

4 years

Cardiff really beautiful today. 🐉 💓 🏥 a great place to teach students as it happens. Saw colleagues I haven’t seen in a long time. Thank you for not making a fuss and letting me do my job. Feels right. Great students. Another difficult day done. Can I come back again please?

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Pola Grzybowska

@PolaGrzybowska

4 years

I like many people have had a difficult year and frankly been unable to think about 🎄. Just been on my walk and seen the first 🌼 🌼 bulbs pushing through. Symbolism perhaps but i had a “spring will come and things will be feel better moment”. Nature works every time!

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Pola Grzybowska

@PolaGrzybowska

4 years

GCSE results day survived. Bereft as hugs for three not four. D read every day before and after school and even very hot roullottes in Versailles in 2007. Thank you David she did you proud..

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Pola Grzybowska

@PolaGrzybowska

3 years

@Poppyjuice Brilliant thread. I got it early soon after restarting, two months after my husbands funeral. It was the right time, but I also went back because he wouId have if he could. I was scared, breathless, sats at home of 93. Vaccines have changed so much. Just duties of a doctor.

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Pola Grzybowska

@PolaGrzybowska

1 year

@anneapplebaum Another reason we can’t get “bored” of this war.

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Pola Grzybowska

@PolaGrzybowska

4 years

I was having a normal day at work, quick mid morning tea. I found myself thinking of days off, then how every future plan, holiday, memory would be without D. Just wept. I’ve been a doctor for years, but living though an illness and it’s aftermath. Hard #compassionatecolleagues

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Pola Grzybowska

@PolaGrzybowska

4 years

Two years ago this happened. A year ago tomorrow we were supposed to be holding David’s memorial in the hospital chapel. Lock down. We have all had a horrible year. But not for the same reasons. #dayofreflection is important and different for us all.

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Pola Grzybowska

@PolaGrzybowska

2 years

@ShaunLintern @hospiceuk Only when you have been a user or work in specialist palliative, any supportive or social care role do you realise how critical it is. Sadly for many it’s only when you need it do you ever know. Cancer or non/cancer. Critical NHS infrastructure that we never want to think of.

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Pola Grzybowska

@PolaGrzybowska

2 years

First Christmas Eve in a new house was always going to be different. Happy Christmas all and I empathise for anyone for whom it is small, large, sad, tired or different. Good luck with doing whatever works for you.

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Pola Grzybowska

@PolaGrzybowska

2 years

@AKurkov @chrischirp Barbarism meets what point did we start calling dictators, war criminals and territorists by their names in WW2 not Mr President. Is it courtesy, diplomacy, innocent till proven guilty?

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Pola Grzybowska

@PolaGrzybowska

2 years

Lots of people think my job is hard. Yesterday I got a kiss from a patient for holding a hand, listening, “explanating so well” and trying to make the pain better. Today I got a kiss as the pain and sickness was better. Small wins. #palliativemedicine

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Pola Grzybowska

@PolaGrzybowska

1 year

The canteen got it so very right on new doctor day. Cawl. Nothing so reassuring and saying you work in Wales. Thank you POWH canteen, it was very delicious. ( very happy with my paper cup and wooden spoon)

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Pola Grzybowska

@PolaGrzybowska

3 years

Cold symptoms, negative PCR. The only possible solution is the biggest 🪵 in the store. No family Wigilia again! Daughters “it is what it is” . Wesołych Świąt. Nadolig Llawen. Happy Christmas.

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Pola Grzybowska

@PolaGrzybowska

4 years

Missing family so much, not seen them other than on screen in so many months. Real comfort that we are all eating the same food, wherever we are and starting the meal the same way, thinking of each other. Only decision all the same. #Wigilia2020

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Pola Grzybowska

@PolaGrzybowska

1 year

@RoryStewartUK I’m watching polish 📺 with the 90 year olds in Hillingdon, so much hope that the far right is finally out , ( less polite words here). 10 hour queues to vote, youngsters out in huge numbers, record turn out. Mum ( 91)🤞 that the grannies stay at home!

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@PolaGrzybowska

4 years

Something inadvertently lovely happened on a teams call with school. A teacher knew David in his 20s and said to L how much she looked like him as she approached that age. L was so happy to have heard that. Talking to us does not make us sad, it can make us happy.

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@PolaGrzybowska

3 years

The last time I was here I was with David the week before neurosurgery. He shouted “if” on the quay at new quay and we walked this bit of the coast path in reverse. It will always be hard and we miss him so much, but I’m glad I have here to remember him. @ruskin147 soon!

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Pola Grzybowska

@PolaGrzybowska

7 years

Chris Martin doing it so well!! Oasis there in spirit! #OneLoveManchester

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Pola Grzybowska

@PolaGrzybowska

3 years

@RupertMyers @bluelou60 Too powerful to share without a warning, but #bloodyoil indeed. I’ve turned the heating down and don’t want to use my car.

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Pola Grzybowska

@PolaGrzybowska

9 months

@BBCScotlandNews This is the vaccination news I like to see.

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Pola Grzybowska

@PolaGrzybowska

3 years

View from my window. Thinking about those who can’t get out, get up and access outdoors, basic joy, their own devices independently. May need to track down a work tech person this week. It’s all a bit clunky and hard!

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@PolaGrzybowska

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Todays reflection. Palliative Care for Patients with End-Stage Liver Disease. If I’m seeing more of this, I can’t imagine what it’s like being a gastroenterologist. I think we could be useful, but must just dream of the services I see described elsewhere.

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@PolaGrzybowska

3 years

@ruskin147 I saw this earlier. It is also properly worrying. Her language in relation to doctors and nurses offering the vaccine is literally hateful. This feels like incitement not just wacky words. There is already too much violence against clinical and first responders. 🤦🏻

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@PolaGrzybowska

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@chriscraigCCC Love this so much. We couldn’t get to Cornwall when D was ill, C19 and the summer uncertainty meant we still haven’t taken his ashes. I’m already planning the trip, St. Ives, Prussia Cove, Port Isaac, Boscastle, Zennor, he’d love it!

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Pola Grzybowska

@PolaGrzybowska

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This is Ozzie, the king of therapy dogs! @CariadPet it’s amazing what effect he has on us all. I was a simple warm up act for today’s ward round.

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Pola Grzybowska

@PolaGrzybowska

2 years

To join the chorus of what’s going on. 7am MDT only time possible, early flow phone call, ED, cardiology, ITU, resp, stroke, cote, surgical wards, my own ward, calls from CNSs, junior docs, GPs. Specialist palliative care has plenty on and it can’t wait. Ozzy here a➕in a 🤦🏻day.

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Pola Grzybowska

@PolaGrzybowska

3 years

The 🇵🇱 communities are using the supermarkets as collection points. I have attached what is needed and where it needs dropping off. The facebook pages are useful if you want to do more. I spent my elective sorting 💊 and bandages in Poland. M4 corridor shops involved.

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Pola Grzybowska

@PolaGrzybowska

2 years

@TOMASZBURZYNSKI Thank you so much for sharing. For a long time poland being written out of remembrance events was a such sadness. This image is perfect, marvellous man present and honouring the fallen is beautiful. My uncle was at Monte Cassino as an underage Anders army Siberian survivor.

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@PolaGrzybowska

2 years

End of my working week. Taken the bermuda + scrubs route and it has been a game changer. Been everywhere today, lovely staff, smiling and being helpful in the heat! Bottle of icy water pressed into my hand in Bridgend Clinic ! ♥️ No joke in the heat.

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Pola Grzybowska

@PolaGrzybowska

3 years

David would have found this translation hilarious. I was told recently how I seemed to be missing him a lot. Almost as if that was inappropriate. Until it happens to you, some days simply not sharing a joke is hard and can make you sad.

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Pola Grzybowska

@PolaGrzybowska

4 years

Lock down being lifted means different things. I’m starting very gently to see people I last saw more than a year ago. Even when David was still here. Reminiscence lovely such physical sadness again. Like many missed a year of supported bereavement. So I’m arranging David’s maps.

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Pola Grzybowska

@PolaGrzybowska

2 years

I took a walk into town yesterday. This is cardiff, during a 6 nations match. Birdsong and the occasional roar of the crowd! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🏉. Cardiff is amazing on days like these.

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Pola Grzybowska

@PolaGrzybowska

3 years

We were there! @GreenHWales

WalesOnline 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

@WalesOnline

3 years

Hundreds of climate protesters are gathering to walk through Cardiff to demand action to stop global warming - follow updates here:

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Pola Grzybowska

@PolaGrzybowska

2 years

@Billbrowder The bravery of people seems to have no boundaries. Sadly driven and balanced by repressive regimes. I salute the work you do. 👏🏼

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Pola Grzybowska

@PolaGrzybowska

2 years

@austintxerin @doctor_oxford This is a witness statement no one wants to read. Unbelievable in any country that values life. The world is watching as particularly two superpowers are showing the world how money and power corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely and with such desperate consequences.

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Pola Grzybowska

@PolaGrzybowska

1 year

@MartinSLewis @bbc5live @PenguinBooks @PhilipPullman I bravely asked for a proof. Two came for our two daughters pretty much the next post. I read it aloud to anyone in the room in the last few months of his life. The calm routine this gave us I remember still. This was a random act of kindness for us beyond compare.

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Pola Grzybowska

@PolaGrzybowska

3 years

Can I say thank you to estates in the Princess of Wales hospital. They have left lots of bits of “meadow” to grow. I think I have just seen a clump of bee orchids and something else purple and loads of lovely daisies! @CwmTafMorgannwg

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Pola Grzybowska

@PolaGrzybowska

2 years

Biggest teaching/training session yesterday I’ve done in years! 150 in a lecture theatre 150 on teams at the Annual Bridgend♥️study day. Thanks for the feedback which suggests cardiology is ready for palliative care! Even my IT nudges for WCP got some 👍.Fine team to be part of.

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Pola Grzybowska

@PolaGrzybowska

1 year

In a new house, I made a garden with a pond in a big old galvanised can. Last year I was besides myself to have frogspawn then 🐸 🐸 . This year I was bereft as it was frozen then pillaged by crows. Today i have spotted 3 tiny fogs. Small personal achievement of the season!

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Pola Grzybowska

@PolaGrzybowska

2 years

Much excitement at work today. The orchids have arrived. There are kindred spirits in POW, Bridgend.

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Pola Grzybowska

@PolaGrzybowska

3 years

Such a good programme. Should be part of any doctors or nurses induction, or indeed all of us, as the content is universal, as much as we don’t want it to be. Clear, informed and absolutely grounded in person centred compassion. @DrLindaDykes 🩺 helpful language. @DyingMatters

Yasmeen Khan

@yasmeenkhan1

3 years

Do not resuscitate. Chilling words? For many, but not for all. But ones we all should know more about. I've explored for my latest @BBCRadio4 doc. Spoke to @AGoodDeath , @Resus2Runner @DrLindaDykes @mencap_charity @merryvarney and more. Tmrw (Tue) 11am R4

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Pola Grzybowska

@PolaGrzybowska

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Well this is a bit of a first! So many polish 1/2 even 3rd generation people living in wales and this is where I’m heading today! Yes I used to despair every Saturday going to Polish school as a kid. But the language did sink in and I now feel lucky to use it.

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Pola Grzybowska

@PolaGrzybowska

1 year

@ruskin147 He looks very happy with his progress. I also can’t resist looking at your holiday reading! I have a week in September to plan for!

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Pola Grzybowska

@PolaGrzybowska

3 years

Needed to see this today. No one I know is having a straight forward time. I’m sending this to my colleagues with a good strong coffee on the side.

charlie mackesy

@charliemackesy

3 years

To the NHS and healthcare workers everywhere. Thank you. ⁦ @NHSuk ⁩

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Pola Grzybowska

@PolaGrzybowska

3 years

This is ❤️ Dad, 91, pacemaker, v deaf. Mum awful OA, macular degeneration, post hypotension. This weeks convo, “we lost ground in covid”. Give them a mower, an allotment, garden shears, a hoover and let gentle rehab commence. Mum, “it’s nice to help!”

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Pola Grzybowska

@PolaGrzybowska

2 years

Heading for the train and a major family get together. Poland 🇵🇱 🇫🇷 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🇦🇺 First in several years. My trusty Notre Dame cookery class 1977 still doing sterling work! 🥖 , 🥧, samosas, 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🥚. Only way to travel, with a picnic 🧺 !

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