@plsleaveamsg_
omg yes I love her. I also love how much she *loves* cleaning. it's her passion! she's not only working to help & destigmatise mental illness, but she's also destigmatising cleaning as a profession.
fellow student midwife on 21 births, wear a mask. newborns have NO immune system. how would you feel if you were asymptomatic but gave a baby COVID & they ended up in NICU or dead?
absolutely fucking sick of seeing COVID cautious accounts tweeting about IQ.
IQ is a useless fucking racist tool invented by asshole colonisers.
You can make your point about COVID without resorting to IQ measurements.
finally had to bring up COVID w my therapist. she seemed kinda reluctant to accept my reasoning for being CC but she said she'd be happy to read anything I sent her. linked her to the "covid for therapists" presentation from
@o_bel_
- here's hoping!
@DefectiveBecca
Reading Ahmed's brother Mohammed talk about seeing him die made me so grateful my sister died peacefully in the arms of family.
I cannot imagine. the suffering. the trauma. I can't. it makes me want to retch. the grief would be monumental.
@RaxKingIsDead
before my wedding my mum asked my sister to fly in as a butterfly during the (less than 10 min) ceremony. she flew right between my husband & I as I was saying my vows. we even got it on video 🦋
@_celia_bedelia_
sorry Celia don't u know that when you skip your period all the blood is saved up and it ends up filling up your body and u have to cry tears of blood to let it out.
what I do believe is caused by COVID brain damage: increases in road accidents, persistent brain fog, increased mistakes in the workplace, reduced communication skills, etc.
what I don't believe is caused by COVID brain damage: bigotry, fascism, hatred, etc
@audragabrielle_
most leftists won't wear a little mask to the shops bc it's a slight discomfort. I think it's getting better for actual anti-facsists in the US but yeah. sucks.
just wanna say if you are able to, but don't, wear an N95 mask in all public indoor spaces/large crowds you are:
-ableist
-pro-genocide
-racist
-anti-community care
-not a leftist
-not a communist
-pro-government
@AJM2quiche4u
@ejf9719
it's not that easy. I'm currently on a placement & I am saving up all my reports of bigoted behaviour for my last day bc otherwise my learning/course/career/safety could be in jeopardy. And that's *if* my complaints are taken seriously.
@PajamaPajamaPa2
@lucisevs
@conureCC
urine is NOT sterile. The urethra is full of bacteria (similar to the gut) and urine will pick some microflora up as it passes thru. it is not even sterile in the bladder. Our bodies are full of bacteria.
@unicornthorn
hope you don't mind my question, feel free not to answer, but are you allergic to all beta-2 agonists? (salbutamol, salmeterol, formoterol, vilanterol, etc). even if you are, there's so many alternative bronchodilators they could try instead of giving you anaphylaxis. what a joke
@AmberlynWhite
my husband is autistic and untraumatised! he was homeschooled his entire life & simply does not care if people think he's weird. he's like. a well functioning, emotionally mature adult. cannot relate.
@brainnogood
overheard the most awkwardly sweet date between two (hetero appearing) teens. After about 2 solid minutes of silence he pipes up with "so...do you...like arts and craft?"
@latkedelrey
if it makes anyone in the comments feel better I don't have caffeine, alcohol, cigarettes, or recreational drugs and I still feel the same amount of shit as before
@mmbopaj
I'm in my mid-20s and I remember seeing screenshots of her videos yeaars ago and not watching bc I just assumed it was a disgusting caricature of disabled ppl and that everyone was cool with it. Can't believe some people convinced themselves it wasn't?
Hello fellow disabled friends I am looking for disabled literature for my mum. She is trying to come to terms w her own disabilities, but due to the beliefs ingrained in her growing up she's having trouble. 1/
@AlsJaneTherapy
my therapist is so cool w talking about death and suicide. I think bc she knows me so well. I brought up how I find the idea of suicide comforting - like knowing I have an out if things get so bad. And having that safety net makes me less likely to use it.
@RageSheen
I'm the lone masker in both classes and clinical settings (unless mandated). any time I mention covid in class I'm met with silence and awkward looks. I'm seen as the conspiracy theorist freak. I frame it as protecting vulnerable newborns, I get guilty looks or disdain.
@dogicoats
@darkmagelauren
@unicornthorn
you think. disabled people. don't experience violence. disabled people. the group with sky high rates of sexual, physical, financial, mental, and neglect abuse. that's what you think. seriously.
@Gabrielle_Rainn
ok so i have dreams of like being in a HUGE cinema or a stadium but the incline on the seats is SO steep and i feel like if i take a step i will fall, but into the sky. this is the only image i could find that gave a similar sensation. (apparently it's called casadastraphobia)
@BeanGilsdorf
In Vic, Australia our premier is helping our state recover by investing $868mil in mental health, $5.3bil in housing incl social housing, $1.3bil in solar energy, $5.5bil in healthcare, over $25bil on transport, and $882mil in universal kinder.
#DanTheMan
@katimcf
my sister got bad oral thrush for the first and only time in her life just a few weeks before she died of unknown causes. She had never had COVID or HIV. I never realised it could be connected to her death.
@Maladroithe
if you told me the last three were written by me & my husband I would believe you 😭 the way he can go off his dial at the football & turn around to me and say "you doing okay honey?" in a soft, sweet voice. meanwhile I'm snapping at him after I play crash bandicoot
@AlsJaneTherapy
You don't come back from the Big Red Door, but how horrible would the corridor be if it had no end? It makes the other doors that bit more enticing and exciting, makes the corridor easier to walk.
@matchu_chutrain
I was 5yo w a hole in my heart & bad asthma. During sport I felt very unwell & was eventually sent to the nurse. Nurse eventually rang my mum & said "she's being a drama queen to get out of sport". Cut to me in ED w a fully collapsed lung
@ireneweeny
@plsleaveamsg_
defs! I've been a cleaner a few times in my life, most recently as a support worker for the elderly and disabled. I could turn someone's whole week around by cleaning their house. but, as usual, my employer never gave me adequate supplies, time, or compensation 🙃
@AlsJaneTherapy
she was like "that makes a lot of sense" and started telling me an analogy she likes about life/death:
Life is like walking down a corridor, with lots of different doors to either side which represent different experiences.
@AlsJaneTherapy
Every door is different, some can only be unlocked after a different door is opened, some are heavy, some are light, sometimes you bring things back with you into the corridor, some doors take things from you. But at the end of the corridor is the Big Red Door.
people genuinely don't give a shit about their kids. I just had this interaction with a parent who has a very sick infant with down syndrome & recently went to a superspreader concert with her other daughter.
@AITA_reddit
Ok so I'm a nurse & I fully sympathise w this dudes situation but he seems so be missing some key nursing concepts:
1. CONSENT
2. Recognising the characteristics you bring to nursing scenarios
(Also his friends [except for the pooper]) suck. 1/
@sarahschauer
I once held a woman's hand when the doctor (who I hated) did a massive episiotomy with absolutely no anaesthetic or pain relief. I'll never forget the scream.
@MIMI_ZIMA
honestly it's a great meme/mfw pic. she looks amazing in the pic. people in the comments are mostly replying like normal humans (like "her face card never declines", "me 3 seconds before blacking out on the dance floor" etc. it's great imo
@chronicallybeee
holy shit. so all of it was a lie? that he was mechanically ventilated, was on dialysis, had a full leg amputation? all the surgeries and hospitalisations? the tweets about his male carer? gina???
@punished_cait
it's my husband's job to explain who old famous dudes are & events in mainstream history, and in return I tell him what "bussy" means. as it should be.
@hutchleah
right!! my in laws say this and then my FIL is like huh why am I dizzy when I stand up or bend down so weird getting old is weird.
like bruh you have long covid
@thesarahyork
Bi women should feel okay bringing their straight boyfriends to pride even if he's "boring" by your standards. If he's kind and supportive of his partner and the community then he should be welcome. And boring is a really arbitrary descriptor. Your idea of boring is someone
@herong
& she still doesn't seem to get it. At one point I had to be like "yes I've been dealing with that pain for most of my life why do you think I wasn't able to do xyz?" and she seems shocked. also doesn't seem to grasp that I've been in pain for years at age 25 and she's 57
@fuccae
please tell us that u are just a kind and lovely person who takes in palliative cats & u are not the monster of a pet owner we're thinking u are 😥
@herong
omg my mum's chronic pains have gotten much worse in the past year & she keeps telling me about how bad xyz pain is & I'll be like "yeah I feel that". but she thinks I'm just sympathising? and I have to explain to her that I've been dealing with that pain for years 1/
ok this is mainly for my moots, but here's my thoughts/feelings on the current "discourse".
-Masking at the shops/doctors/etc but not anywhere else is Not It, but I am personally thankful when I see anyone else masking at those locations.
-Everyone deserves clean air. 1/
@dogicoats
@darkmagelauren
@unicornthorn
that's not what u said tho. and if that's what u mean how the fuck do you expect people to know that.
and regardless. you think her "local" disabled community doesn't experience violence?
@VicAmboUnion
random suggestion but maybe all paramedics should wear N95 respirators to help reduce the spread of COVID & therefore reduce pressure on the healthcare system.
@sarahschauer
Worst bit was the same dr overruled me when I said the woman was 6cm (confirmed by supervising midwife) and said she was only 4. That was the reason she was rushed down for c-section (""failure to progress"") and birthed in theatre
@gldivittorio
I went w my fellow nursing student friend and talked her thru all her COVID jabs bc she passes out with needles. she told me to stop using my nursing voice on her lmao