I’ve resuscitated a 900g baby born at 27weeks, at a level 1 rural hospital, w/out a ventilator /paediatrician. I kept her alive by manually breathing for her all night coz I didn’t trust anyone to have my patience. I discharged her 2 mnths later weighing 1,8kg. Don’t generalize.
You fought a good fight.. for 8 weeks you never gave up..
Your body gave up earlier today... But your spirit lives in the hearts of the MANY whom you SERVED till your last breath.. and I will carry it in my heart forever 🕊🕊
Till next lifetime to my friend ❤️
#RIPDrSindi
🕯💔
It is our beloved
@sindivanzyl
‘s Bday tomorrow.
There’s only ONE gift Sindi needs right now..👉🏽 the gift of life.
Her family is appealing to you to show her the love she’s shown you &
#GiftSindiLife
💞🙏🏽
You can “send her flowers/ gifts” by donating >
17yrs together & Yes.. I get excited to see him after he’s been away. I giggle when he calls me by his pet names for me.. Buts it’s more than butterflies.. it’s the feeling of “home”. It’s knowing how far you’ve come & that you both still choose each other.. it’s deeper.. ♥️♥️♥️
One of my patients adopted a baby girl who looks exactly like her… 🥺🥺
I get goosebumps every time I think of this…
Sometimes the baby you so desperately yearn for will come to you through another woman’s body.❤️
Don’t let biology limit you & the happiness you deserve..💓✨
The vaxxed patients I’ve seen so far who have covid have mild symptoms… as compared to the unvaxxed ones…
& This is the moral of the story… nobody ever said vaccines prevent infection. They reduce morbidity and mortality.. & the burden of having to hospitalise people.
Hello to everyone here &beyond Twitter streets☀️
As of 7:35, there is R78k cleared in the KHAYA trust account.. pending monies from other banks outside FNB.
So
#GiftSindiLife
has raised an actual R942,461.00 ..almost R1M in 24hrs!! 🙌🏽
The Van Zyl family is immensely grateful🙏🏽
09-02 > 09-08-2020 • 6 months ago today.. 📷 2 = day before stitches removal
The past 26wks have taught me to see me beneath the beautiful. Not coz I’m one to obess about my outer beauty.. but becoz I had to look beneath my wounds to not obsess about “will I ever look the same”
I’ve done many post-mortems on young fit (usu. males) people who exercised hard while sick. Histology results showed “viral infection” in the heart muscles.
I tell people ALL the time to rather wait a week & heal, than push through an illness w a fever & body pains.. but ppl...
Guys please don't train, run or gym when you have flu.
Someone who was fit tried to train through flu.
He had heart complications, now he is living with a heart condition & he can't train for long as he runs out of breathe when his HR hits a specific number.
#90DayMovement
Here’s some (not so sensational) facts 🙂:
1. People can’t just call up any dr & say “I’m an NHI user, please see me.”
That is not how it will work. Drs have a choice to opt in to be NHI providers.. and those who do opt in, will provide the service to those who want to use
I can already foresee some private doctors telling you that they are fully booked or private hospitals saying they don’t have beds when you say you’re an NHI user.
Life happened during my run today. & I had to dig within me, quickly adjust mindset instead of quitting. A few times the rescue busses looked inviting. I ran with a sore knee, tummy issues (again 🙄).
But, I thought of my kids who came to see me finish. And I did. I’m
#grateful
Because:
1. They were conjoined twins, an uncommon phenomenon.
2. They were separated successfully by a brilliant young black Neurosurgeon during times of apartheid when black excellence was muted. Not only that, the surgery happened at Ga-Rankuwa hospital..in a black township
Sindi used to drive from Linksfield, 2-3x a month, to come shop for groceries at the woolies at my practice in Boskruin when I went back to work after my accident last year.. just so she can “check up on me..”
She’d dismiss this show of love as “just another route to Kayafm”😭💖
Unpopular option 🔊
Choose to forgive your parents for not fitting the perfect idea of what you thought they should be/ how you thought they should raise you.
Your parents were once other people’s children also, you (most likely) don’t know how their childhoods impacted them..
Twitter gave me a friend who became a sister for 9yrs...
This past week was the hardest.. coz medically I knew we needed a miracle... but as a friend, a sister & a mother, all I wanted was another 50yrs to hug you & for your kids to have their “squishy mommy”.
#RIPDrSindi
🕊
LRT:
If it were up to me alone I’d have waited till about age 32-35 to have kids.
But the baby making partner “won the argument” & I started at 26 & him 27.
We were both clueless about what type of a parents we wanted to be & definitely not ready financially either.
09/02/2020 > 09/02/2021
A year ago I fell off my bike, broke & disfigured my face, broke my knee, tore my right hand.
I feel nothing but gratitude out of that experience..for another chance at life life; the opportunity to grow &to love myself more.
#SelfLove
#RecoveryJourney
Thank you for the messages, I will try to get to them all😇
Pls note the family asks that no flowers be sent; Sindi didn’t like flowers.🙏🏽
So if you want to send condolences, please send money to ANY cause that was close to her heart, or to her Khaya Trust still..🕊
#RIPDrSindi
18wks ago...I fell off my bike &the tar road shredded my lip open; but, I never let that take my smile away..
😊✨😊
#photoshoot
📷
#sidebar
: I’m wearing a wig for the 1st time & it’s clear need a tutorial on how to1!🙈.. whose insta TV or YouTube should I watch for best tips?😭
#LRT
I’m so glad that when I was 18 & pregnant in varsity, the dr that I saw listened to me.. and treated me with kindness.
He never once lectured me, he never discouraged me from termination. He didn’t make me feel ashamed. He asked me if I have any other options (adoption etc)
Lately I’ve been thinking a lot about how I can’t remember a lot of things from my childhood. & some stuff in my adult years also.
My siblings & I would be talking & they’d mention a past event we supposedly all went through & proceed to laugh & I’d be in my head with crickets..
Neurologically speaking akho need to go beyond the inferior border of orange.. The nerve endings that matter are above that.🤷🏽♀️
These “gag reflex activating” stunts are unnecessary & come with risk of Temporo-Mandibular-Joint dislocation..😉😉🚶🏽♀️🚶🏽♀️🚶🏽♀️
#UseItOrLoseIt
😇
It’s the man..
The man knows he’s married…
The man can say no to the other woman if she’s the one making advances…
The man can stop himself from going after other women as he knows he didn’t include them in his vows…
It’s the man.
It’s always BEEN the man.
It will ALWAYS be
Any woman that I want to marry must, first of all, stay with my mum for 6months/1year so that my mum can train her and let her know how to take care of me.
Thuto-Lesedi Funeral Home - my parents baby - buried our father today... Their employees took on the difficult task of burying their boss and did a great job 🙏🏽♥️✨🕊🕊
25•12•2021 // 27•12•2021
Last December when I was in Zambia & being driven around in our host’s RR, I “just knew” then that my search for a car had ended. I’d found the 1.
This year I recreated the shots on my own car, at Mama’s house.
Please, Dream in colour❣️
The POPI Act is just vibes neh? The amount of spam calls I get is 🤬🤦🏽♀️🤬
And they get so offended when asked if they have written permission from me to call me.. Mxm 😑😡😤
Stop “working from home” when you’re sick.
If you’re sick enough to be booked off you’re doing no one any favours by “pushing through” your fatigue & pain & dizziness etc..
You don’t owe your employer your health coz you now “work from home anyway”.. ✌🏽
I’m going to be a deputy glam-gran…
🥰💖
My baby sis is having a baby…💓😍
I’m happy beyond words🥺
#AllThingsLovelee
💖
**Cake done by the person who inspired Tutti to become the pastry chef she is today… He was so proud to present the cake to me when I picked it up..❤️**
35+ gang… I’m here for you if you’re worried about side effects of vaccines & need reassurance that you’re ok…
I’m here to hold your hand the way I cuddled my kids when they got fever and other niggles after their vaccines…
DMs are open!! 🤗🤗🤗
First passport should be free. Like the ID..
It may encourage young people to look beyond home borders for employment opportunities... like working on cruise liners etc.
Me thinks....
I feel like NDZ needs to amend that smoking in public areas law to include vapes & hubbly’s. Because I don’t enjoy inhaling whatever fumes that people are exhaling from those devices either … 😔
By the way… I was a student for the past two years… And guess who passed their Advanced Diploma in Aesthetic Medicine… and not only that but in a *distinct manner 😇
Henceforth please note my credentials:
Dr Lerato Masemola; MBChB - MEDUNSA; DipForMed(Path) - CMSA;
AdvDip
Starting the new year w Dreaming &
Doing the impossible.. coz
Impossible is nothing✨
To be one with nature;
To see, touch & feel the magic of this universe..
To share that w my kids.. That is something I will treasure forever..
📍: Devil’s pool, Mosi oa Tunya national park,🇿🇲
Stop asking women/couples
When are you having a baby
When are you having another baby
You could be asking that to someone (a couple) who
Is battling to conceive
Just had a miscarriage
Doesn’t want to have kids
All of you must stop it. Families, in laws, friends, strangers.
My husband told me after 2weeks we met that he’s going to marry me & I must just let him know when I’m ready.
I was doing my final year then so I told him “only when I’m done studying”..
We got married 10months after I finished school. It’s 18years later this year.. 😇🥰
I see a lot of men are pressed by that man who proposed after 6 days because y'all been stringing your women along for six years on some:
"I'm still getting to know her."
Sindz,
When you got sick 6wks ago I didn’t think you’d spend your Bday in hospital.
On this day, may the love you give to others come back to you 2 million fold &
#GiftSindiLife
& Strength to persevere through this hurdle.✨💖
I love you friend ❣️
#BirthdayBlessings
🥳🎂🎈🥂🎈
I loved my husband more when I decided to love me more, instead of putting pressure on him to be who he is not, in the name of “making me happy”.
I stopped being selfish & expecting him to live according to my expectations for him. I’ve never had such peace in my heart. ❤️❤️✨
42 🎈 UNWRAPPED 🎁🤩🖤
I’m deeply grateful for each & every passing year that comes with a deeper understanding of myself 💖✨💝
Here’s to 42.. 🥂🎉🥳
Congratulations on making it this far Mologadi ‘a Mazwi le Pheladi.. Kgonene!! 🥂💓🍾
#BirthdayBlessings
#Unwrapped
It’s a LOVELEE day to be grateful..✨
My baby is a month old today.. so she can have “visitors” now coz Ngwana o bonwa after 1 month akere… ☺️😊
#GratiTuesday
💓🙏🏽💓✨♥️🥰♥️
I came across this video of me, Dec 2020… just living my life… no time for regrets…❣️
Life is for those living it… ✨
📍:Devil’s pool
Mosi’oathunya falls, 🇿🇲🇿🇲
Spare a thought for those who are sick at home & can’t get help because ambulances are being stopped & torched…
Spare a thought for women who can’t get to the hospital in time to deliver their babies safely because no transport/ ambulances & roads are damaged/ blocked
Last yr this time I was pretty much at the hospital every 2nd day visiting a sick friend… & I never for a moment thought she’d never make it.. I hoped against all odds that she’d make it.. she’d try talk/ make jokes with a tube down her airway..
But, life had other plans..☹️
Hello,
I know it’s been a rough week filled with concern.
I just came back frm the hospital. Sindi is stable & recovering.🕯
I can’t do individual replies in my DMs anymore, it’s a lot.🙏🏽
If I don’t post anything it means she’s stable. No news is good news.😇
I thank you✨❤️
Dear twenty something year old..
Don’t worry if you feel like you don’t have things together. They come together nicely when you figure yourself & other life stuff out in your 30s.
And as I sit on the cusp of 40.. I realize that it gets a WHOLE lot better.
Namasté 💖✨❣️
Virtual celebration of the life & times of Dr Sindi van Zyl:
On 17/04; 6pm till late
Live on KayaFM, YT, FB, Twitter.
Share your
#DrSindi
story.
*specs*
-Use phone on landscape (Not Portrait) to shoot.
- 60-90 secs long, good lighting & no background noise.
WA: +27769258822
Me as a stay at home mom:
- have someone to cook & clean up
- have a night nurse if there’s a baby
- have an au pair for bigger kids
My version of a stay at home mom is literally to have time to do what I want.. & what I want to do is not spend my days chasing kids & chores😊
I keep having visions of doc
@sindivanzyl
standing on a stage and also doing endless threads giving testimony of how she survived this ordeal... Please let this be a real vision and not just hope hoping... 🙏🏽
#PrayForDrSindi
🕯✨
Everything she said resonates AF!
🎯🗣📌
I’m NOT an angry black woman
I’m a HAPPY black woman
I’ve DECIDED to be happy
I won’t take NO for the things that I want..😊
I’ve worked HARD & CONSISTENTLY to get to know myself & what I want..✨
&,
I don’t subscribe to mbokodoness ✌🏽
This morning my 16yo said:
“I’ve listened to you talk about the things you used to do for your siblings & family at a young age & I think ‘that’s not right.’
Please do more childish things with us coz you need to catch up on lost time as a child.”
& I have been shook since..🥺
My then Boyfriend now husband told me while at the back of a friend’s car that he’s going to marry me when I’m ready.
He didn’t ask. No candle lit dinner.. no ring...
A year later, he was on some “so taba e la ya lenyalo..? 🤷🏽♀️🤷🏽♀️”
18yrs together he still hasn’t “proposed” 🙄
Today I am grateful that my 96yo patient with multiple co-morbidities (which include chronic bronchitis) has beat Covid 🤸🏽♀️😇
It was tough.. but we did it!
Also grateful for the Physio I work with who’s willing to do house calls, even for Covid patients 🙏🏽
Please
#vaccinate
🙌🏽
He jumps at chances to take pics of me🥰
& that’s why today we celebrate 17yrs since 25•10•2003💍❤️
Happy Anniversary lover.. I dedicate to you this scripture:
“She who finds a man, finds a baegrapher..” - Proverbs 32 Vs 1😇
#Amen
#Sunday
📸❣️🥰💍💓
Just found an old receipt while cleaning out the study and I … 🥺🥺
Caramellos was a restaurant I used to hang out at while waiting for the kids at bounce…
I promise I don’t need reminders my friend… I will never forget you… I carry you in my heart all the time … 🤞🏽♥️✨
We don’t talk enough about how pregnancy permanently changes our bodies.. & most of the time it’s not for better.
We should talk about these things so that women don’t suffer in silence thinking something is wrong with them after being pregnant.
#piles
#pregnancy
#Hemorrhoids
Full circle 👩🏽🎓👩🏽⚕️💫
Dr Lerato Masemola
MBCHB 2002
DipForMed(Path) 2005
AdvDip AesthMed 2023
There’s definitely room for more.. but for now we rest.. won’t wait another 20yrs though coz I don’t think my brain will be happy with me if I do that 🫣🫠
Grateful • Happy • Content
By the way… I was a student for the past two years… And guess who passed their Advanced Diploma in Aesthetic Medicine… and not only that but in a *distinct manner 😇
Henceforth please note my credentials:
Dr Lerato Masemola; MBChB - MEDUNSA; DipForMed(Path) - CMSA;
AdvDip
I lost a piece of me on this day last year.. 🤍🕊🤍
Life was a little bit easier when I had you - A fellow fire star who “just got me..” - as a sounding board..
Oh friend… I miss your giggles and our random coffee dates.. 🥺🥺🥺
Did a house call today... the patient - 95yo (will be 96 in 10days) insisted on making me coffee. She brought out the fine china too.. You know, tšela tša baeng ba special.. 🥰🥰
This is a set of 2, a wedding anniversary gift in 1997.
My heart is full 😇❤️
#WCW
#HouseCallDoc
✨
Took my nana out for her first walk around the hood…
Grandma tried to fight her on some “3months indoors rule” & I was like “show me your research..” 😅
Aunty duties 💖
Ever so often we’re reminded that getting married in community of property is unnecessary.
I don’t care how in love you (think you) are.. just protect yourself/ your estate.
If it’s meant to last forever it will. But if it ends before forever, at least there’s less headaches 😇
I wasn’t going to work today. Then I decided to go anyway. Glad I did coz I’ve saved someone from dying from a large blood clot that could block her lungs &heart.
I’d have seen her Monday if not today. Like, I dunno why I don’t listen to my intuition more. So glad I did today 😇
10 years ago, March 2012, I faced my fears head on, listened to my intuition & bet on myself & my abilities..
I opened my GP practice &never looked back.
I’m looking forward to the future limitless growth & possibilities that the future holds..🥂
#Gratitude
#Grateful
#Blessed
PSA 🔊🔊
There are MANY symptoms for Covid19:
Fever
Chills
Fatigue
Bone/ joint/ muscle pain
Skin rash
Headaches
Dizziness
Sore throat
Blocked nose
Cough
Chest pain
Shortness of breath
Loss of smell/taste/ appetite
Nausea+/-Vomiting
Diarrhoea
The way my nerves are shot today!?😭
I’m excited and nervous at the same time… I cannot believe I’m moving my practice yet again because GROWTH!! 🤩🤩🤩
From the dusty streets of Seleteng..
Ga-Mphahlele to the freakin’ WORLD!!