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[Derval @Dervval]

@RoyalMailHelp please check your DMS

[Derval @Dervval]

@RoyalMailHelp you have simultaneously delivered my parcel to my collection point and returned it to the sender at the same time. I cannot contact ye to confirm where my parcel is. Can you please tell me what has happened

[Derval @Dervval]

I have 1 spare ticket for Scotland v Ireland in Murrayfield. E8. Selling for £160 face value.

[Derval @Dervval]

@RoyalMailHelp My partner and I have looked at all possible causes. The envelope has been purposely ripped. Look at the attached image. The parcel has been torn on both sides of the envelope at the top and only one side at the bottom. This was not an accident. I would like this resolved ASAP.

[Derval @Dervval]

I am disgusted with @RoyalMail @RoyalMailHelp I sent my mother in laws parcel from Edinburgh to my partners home in Ayrshire with 24 hour tracked postage. This is how the parcel arrived. Somewhere between my local post office in Edinburgh and the sorting centre in Glasgow someone

[Derval @Dervval]

@RoyalMailHelp Someone has clearly stolen a very special Christmas present and I am very unhappy with my experience with the Royal Mail

[Derval @Dervval]

@RoyalMailHelp Hi RM I have tried to file a claim. As it is jewellery I would not be able to receive a refund for the value of the item. I have had to reorder the present and it will not arrive until January. This is unacceptable

[Derval @Dervval]

I am seething. Not only am I now nearly £50 down, I now have to rebuy the present after Christmas and hope it doesn't get stolen again.
@RoyalMail @RoyalMailHelp

[Derval @Dervval]

has stolen a custom made necklace valued at £45 pounds. Royal mail are now refusing to let me claim compensation for more than the price of postage. It's absolutely ridiculous that in this day and age Christmas presents can be stolen by Royal mail staff with no repercussions.

[WheelERdoc @realEDdoc]

His. Former. Vice. President. Told. Us. Not. To. Vote. For. Him.

His current VP candidate called him America’s Hitler.

Almost every single one of his prior Cabinet members said he is grossly unqualified and dangerous.

We are a nation of imbeciles. I hate everyone.

[🦋 Manson Infowars 💖 ✨ @MansonInfoWars]

Rape allegations really “ruin a man’s life” and yet you can still become president of the United States of America 🇺🇸.

[Derval @Dervval]

@luke_silke But it's literally healthcare? 99% of the women I know on contraception are on it for heath reasons like anaemia, period cramps, pcos, endometriosis and so much more. Maybe research the uses of contraception instead of putting out uneducated comments like that

[Derval @Dervval]

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[Ryan Hamilton @TheRyanHamilton]

My heart is broken💔: As friends & family know, my wife was pregnant with our 2nd child, & about to begin her 2nd trimester. A few days ago she had severe pains, & bleeding, and had to go to the emergency room. There, it was discovered that our baby no longer had a heartbeat. Devastated doesn't come close to what that feels like.
Unfortunately for people like us, because of the current laws in the state of Texas, that was only the beginning of this nightmare. Jess (my wife) had an "incomplete miscarriage", and what needed to happen, what was best for HER, and her health, was to terminate the pregnancy, and get the baby out.
The doctor gave her a medication that would move this process along, and sent her home. Where, apparently we would be handling it ourselves. We were told it might take a couple of attempts before it worked.
I'll let you decide how you feel about that.
After a long, painful night of the equivalent of early labor, the baby was still with her. So, we went back to the Emergency Center to get the 2nd dose. A new doctor was on call. He was an older man. You could hear him in the hallway as he said, "I'm not giving her a pill so she can go home and have an ab*rtion!". Being well aware that our baby no longer had a heartbeat. Then, he came into the room to say, and I quote: "Considering the current stance. I'm not going to prescribe you this pill". Then, just sent us on our way.
The "CURRENT STANCE"?! Did he really just say that?!
No one should ever have to hear their wife say: "Get this dead baby out of me!".
Can you even imagine how that must feel?
The pain, and the bleeding continued. So, we decided to go to another hospital, about an hour away. There was a female doctor on call there, and we thought we might have better luck.
I should probably mention, the procedure to get the baby out is called a D & C. It's scary, & traumatizing, but sometimes necessary in situations like ours. Especially in emergency circumstances.
So we get to the next hospital. They take Jess in, ask her a bunch of questions, do a new scan... confirm that the baby is still there, with no heartbeat, and then disappear... for hours. Only to come back in and keep asking the same questions over and over. It's becoming clear that they're primary concern is NOT my wife's health. Instead, they seem to be worried about the legalities involved.
So, they decide it is not "enough of an emergency" to perform the D & C.
They do, however, prescribe another, stronger, final dose of the medication for us to try again... at home.
So, we go home to try again. Another long day/night of early labor pains. Only to discover my wife UNCONSCIOUS in the bathroom. Having to pick my wife's cold, limp body off of that bathroom floor, not sure if I was about to lose her, is something I will NEVER forget.
She had to be rushed to the hospital.
By this point she had lost so much blood, and bodily fluid, her body gave out.
They were able to stabilize her, give her the fluids she needed, and we came back home yesterday afternoon. We were also able to confirm that our baby was no longer with her.
Now, not only do we have to live with the loss of our baby... we have to live with the nightmare of what we just experienced because of political and religious beliefs. MY WIFE'S HEALTH SHOULD HAVE COME FIRST. PERIOD!
God knows what mental and emotional damage this has done.
If you consider yourself a staunch "pro-lifer" ... 1) You've never been through what we just went through, and 2) You should take a long, hard look in the mirror and reevaluate your reasons for supporting such a cold, barbaric, ignorant point of view.
It's not that black & white, and it's never going to be.
If you think your "Pray To End Ab*rtion" sign in your yard is "Christian", I suggest you revisit the teachings of Jesus and try again. If you support these laws that make ab*rtion illegal, and result in people being put through what we just were, you should be ashamed of yourself. I've never been so angry, or heartbroken... and the devastation I'm feeling must pale in comparison to what my poor wife is feeling.

[Carol Kavanagh 🌈 @carolkav81]

All you people doing Darkness into Light this Saturday: Please note that the CEO of Pieta House earns :€2,500 per week. Let that sink in. €120,000 per annum, rising to almost €150,000 after benefits. As CEO of an MH charity that's disgusting. Stephanie Manahan is her name.