Amanda

“I’m so sorry, but probably yes. Grief is the currency to buy love, I still think it’s worth it.”

[Mr PitBull Stories @MrPitbull07]

Telling an eighty-year-old woman to "check the portal" for serious biopsy results is cruelty disguised as digital efficiency.

My 82-year-old aunt had a lung biopsy done two weeks ago.

The doctor told her they’d have the pathology report ready within five business days.

Friday afternoon rolled around. No call.
She dialed the clinic’s main desk, her voice shaking with anxiety.

The receptionist cut her off before she could finish explaining:

“Doctor doesn’t give results over the phone anymore. All lab findings are automatically released to your MyChart patient portal.”

My aunt said, “Sweetheart, I don’t have a computer. I have a landline on my kitchen wall. Can the doctor just tell me if I have cancer?”

The receptionist sighed into the receiver:
“It’s hospital network policy. We can’t bypass the portal. You’ll have to have a family member create an account and view the file.”

My aunt spent an entire seventy-two-hour weekend sitting in her recliner, gripping her reading glasses, convinced she was dying.

I drove out to her house on Monday morning, set up a profile on my laptop, and pulled up the records.

The result was benign.

The pathology report had been uploaded four days earlier.

A doctor spent three minutes clicking an upload button, and an elderly woman endured four days of sheer psychological terror because the hospital decided a phone call was too expensive.

Since when did delivering medical news become a self-service task?

[Laura W. @BumpstockBarbie]

How can you NOT believe in God when octopuses dream and otters have a favorite rock they carry around in a little skin pocket and cows have best friends and bees are out there communicating the coordinates of flowers through dancing and they have regional dialects?

Cats are purring at frequencies associated with bone healing? Forests get absolutely incinerated and respond by growing flowers? Dolphins literally invent names for themselves and yell them across the ocean? Penguins are waddling around Antarctica looking for the perfect rock to give their partner?

CROWS REMEMBER YOUR FACE. THEY TELL OTHER CROWS ABOUT YOU. THEY TELL THEIR CHILDREN ABOUT YOU. YOU CAN HAVE GENERATIONAL BEEF WITH A BIRD. I NEED YOU TO UNDERSTAND THE SIGNIFICANCE OF THIS.

Goats have accents. Rats laugh when you tickle them. Elephants mourn their dead. Whales make songs and then OTHER WHALES LEARN THE SONG and suddenly everybody across the ocean is singing the new song.

Monarch butterflies are born knowing how to fly thousands of miles to a place they have never been.

Sea turtles hatch out of an egg, immediately sprint toward an ocean that they have never seen, disappear into it for like 3 decades and then somehow come back to the same beach they hatched on.

Birds can see colors that we humans can’t see. There are colors out there right now that we don’t even get to know about.

There are sea slugs that eat algae and use the chloroplast/chlorophyll and then are just like…photosynthesizing. And they’re super adorable.

There are mushrooms communicating underground. There are seeds sitting in the dirt for decades like “no actually I will wait. It’s fine.”

Squirrels plant trees because they forget where they put their snacks. Relatable.

A CATERPILLAR GOES INTO A LITTLE BAG THAT IT CREATES ITSELF AND DISSOLVES MOST OF ITS BODY INTO ORGANIC GOO AND REARRANGES ITSELF, GROWS WINGS AND THEN LEAVES. WHY IS THIS NOT MORE BEAUTIFULLY TERRIFYING TO PEOPLE??

And you’re telling me a tiny acorn knows how to become a huge tree? It just has a blueprint inside itself?

Your body started as ONE CELL.

ONE.

And that cell divided itself into a brain that can think about its own existence and eyes that can look at stars and hands that can hold somebody else’s hands and a heart that runs on electricity without you even asking it to?

The iron in our blood was made inside a star??

We are walking around on a wet rock covered in bioluminescent oceans and singing whales and laughing rats and birds holding lifelong grudges and flowers exploding out of fire and somehow we’re supposed to act like this is a normal place to live?

We’re supposed to act like this is all just a random, accidental sequence of events?

[Tolkien World @TolkienWorldG]

We cannot get out….

[M. Castells @shamol_coder]

HABITS I STOLE FROM THE CALMEST MOM I KNOW WHOSE KIDS ACTUALLY LISTEN, RESPECT HER, AND FEEL SAFE AROUND HER.

1. She gave two choices instead of one command.

[DulceBiatch @BiatchDulce]

🚨ICYDK: A Texas police department that made national headlines after arresting a mother over a Facebook post criticizing her town’s dirty water has now been ordered to disband by the state.😳

The Texas Commission on Law Enforcement found that the Trinidad Police Department failed to meet minimum law-enforcement standards and was unable to provide evidence that the agency provided a “public benefit” to the community. Investigators also found the department was missing 18 required policies, including guidelines involving use of force, vehicle pursuits, professional conduct and active-shooter situations.

The department came under intense scrutiny after Jennifer Combs was arrested and spent a night in jail in May after a Facebook post raised concerns about bacteria and problems with Trinidad’s drinking water. The felony charge against her was later dropped, while environmental officials ultimately confirmed problems with the city’s water system.

Now, the state has stripped Trinidad of its ability to operate its own police department, with the Henderson County Sheriff’s Office expected to handle law enforcement coverage for the small Texas community.

[Amanda @AmandaGamez4]

@COSAGOV $60?!?

[SJohn @Sjohn123Allen]

A letter to our Senators and Representatives.

Gentlemen,
I am a 64-year-old American that has worked and paid taxes since I was fifteen years old. I have never taken any type of handout from anyone, including the US government. After 49 years of working, I have decided to retire, at least partially. According to you, it’s “early  retirement”.  I don’t consider 49 years of working, “early”. Had I been a government employee I could have retired 29 years ago, or had I been a senator, I could have retired, what… 39 years ago? with full retirement pay and free healthcare for life.
Because I retired before reaching my “full retirement age”; which is decided by you, I have a reduced Social Security payment, which you refer to as a “benefit”. I see it as a return of my money that I have paid in for 49 years. This reduced payment is not enough to live on. The payment at full retirement age is not enough to live on. I have to work some, to supplement my income, but low and behold I can only earn a certain amount (which is still not enough to live on) and then you start docking my Social Security.
Apparently, I earned too much at some point because I just received a letter from the SSA stating that my next three SSA payments will be cut in half, and the real kicker is I still “owe” $38.00. I can’t work more to make up the difference because I will only be further penalized.
It is extremely infuriating, as an American citizen, to be treated this way. Look at the amount of fraud, look at the number of people, many of whom have never paid a dime into the system, receiving free benefits from the government. Look at the billions paid to and on behalf of illegal immigrants. All I want is the money I paid in and a chance to retire in peace.

[Shea Jordan Smith @sheajordansmith]

Greg Abbott has been governor for nearly 12 years and held statewide office for nearly 30.

Property tax collections keep going up. Electricity and utility bills have skyrocketed. Homeowners insurance is through the roof, and health coverage is still too expensive and too hard to get.

[Jacob deNobel @Jacob_deNobel]

Just sharing Vin Diesel’s Dolly tribute for anyone who doesn’t follow him on Instagram

[Amanda @AmandaGamez4]

@jerseymikes Yep

[Amanda @AmandaGamez4]

@TLC every Sunday I get happy for a new @90DayFiance episode and then immediately sad there’s no more Pillow Talk. Boo.

[Amanda @AmandaGamez4]

Ughhh @TLC whyyyyy is there no more Pillow Talk?? #sad the best part of @90DayFiance is right after I watch a new episode I get to watch all the best past cast members watch the same episode and get their golden commentary!! #bringbackpillowtalk

[Amanda @AmandaGamez4]

@TLC please bring back pillow talk.
Sincerely, ALL THE FANDOM.

Xoxo 💋

[Lu for Alaska @luinalaska]

This makes absolutely no sense. I worked out in New Mexico as a nurse and had a hantavirus patient. I need you to understand this makes no sense. I’m not saying it’s not true. I’m saying something ain’t right.

[South Dallas Foodie @SouthDallasFood]

I could watch her make biscuits all day🥹

[Melanie King @realmelanieking]

Who is this? Because it is definitely not Jim Carey. The eyes aren’t even the same color. They don’t even care anymore. Thats how you know it’s a wrap.

[Emperor @emperoredetan]

@TheCinesthetic I really enjoyed this movie

[TPV Sean @tpvsean]

Epstein Files Reveal Courtney Love 'Murdered' Kurt Cobain To Protect Elite Pedophile Ring

Bombshell information buried in the DOJ's Epstein files release has blown the Kurt Cobain case wide open, directly implicating Courtney Love in his murder and proving an entire generation was lied to on a cosmic scale.

[Rothmus 🏴 @Rothmus]

I have been trying to find this for over 30 years.

Kids today don’t know how good they got it.