Emily in Wonderland

Palliative and End of life care Nurse 👩🏼‍⚕️ 👑
Passionate about the access to quality care for everyone
She/Her
Countyside girl living in the big city

[Emily in Wonderland @EmilySymone]

Just a reminder for anyone who needs this, you are no more or less promiscuous for wearing what you are most comfortable in when exercising

[Michael Livingston @DrMLivingston]

“It’s ok I said. We’re done.”

She smiled and thanked me.

The oncologist wanted another round, another trial, another drug. Jaundiced with as much meat on her, as a KFC chicken wing sucked dry, she was done.

It was over.

That’s how we came to the decision about her metastatic pancreatic cancer.

“What now?” She asked.

This is the quiet path we will walk together, I said, which is exactly what we did.

When the time came she was admitted to palliative care, we always chatted at the end of the day, we laughed, we joked my dinner was always cold when I got home, but it was ok. This was then final act and we would do it her way. When the pain became too much we started the pump.

“This is it” I told the family, once the pump starts it’s the end game.

They had their time, family visited and said their goodbye, we watched and waited till she was ready to go. The long slow deep lingering breaths, “how long” relatives would ask. “She will let go when she is ready” was my reply.

It was peaceful, it was quiet, it was on her own terms and an exit fit for anyone regardless of title or status.

Death is unique and a good death a beautiful rare event.

This is why you need a GP, from the gut wrenching diagnosis to the very end, they are your rod and staff to guide you on this journey. It is a roller coaster of a ride but one you wouldn’t change for the world.

#JustaGP

[Dr Rachel Clarke @doctor_oxford]

NHS nurses hold the hands, tend the wounds, save the lives, wash the dead. They comfort us, console us, diagnose us, save us. They toil & smile & endlessly care.

Not a single NHS nurse wants to strike tomorrow. They’re desperate.

Please show NHS nurses some love. Please RT 💙

[Vagina Museum @vagina_museum]

Since it's #InternationalMensDay, here's a thread of every part of the gynaecological anatomy that is named after a man, with a bit of trivia about each man. Some of the bits are very specific. Before you ask, there are no parts of the gynaecological anatomy named after women...

[Dino Sofos @dinosofos]

Possibly the greatest moment in the Today programme’s history courtesy of Miriam Margolyes.

[ScreenTime @screentime]

"The legacy of the movies is … that my children's generation will show them to their children. So you could be watching it in 50 years' time, easy. I'll not be here, sadly, but... Hagrid will, yes”

Thank you Robbie Coltrane 🙏

[Maddy Lucy Dann @maddylucydann]

They weren’t there. They weren’t proning unstable patients with invasive lines on ventilators. They weren’t telling a patient that they might die even after we intubated them. They weren’t on the phone every day to relatives who couldn’t visit. THEY WEREN’T THERE. #gotyourbackNHS

[Nish Kumar @MrNishKumar]

Can’t wait to get drunk with my friends and then also have a thorough and far reaching public enquiry into the government's handling of the pandemic.

[Meg @MegsEClarke]

Liar

[Emily in Wonderland @EmilySymone]

@BootsHelp Hi thanks for replying, the boots in both Liverpool Street Station and St Pancras advertised being open when they were shut

[Emily in Wonderland @EmilySymone]

@BootsUK I have a request that if your pharmacy is no longer open until midnight you change the opening times on google and on your opening times phone message so that when trying to avoid A&E people can go to the right place

[Emily in Wonderland @EmilySymone]

I wonder how many times a day I say, 'Hi I'm Emily the nurse' because face masks and scrubs make it hard to tell people apart

[Emily in Wonderland @EmilySymone]

@CaitlinBrenna16 @Medic_Russell @seasaltclothing I would also recommend Popsy Clothing

[Emily in Wonderland @EmilySymone]

When you are working but your patients know you are a rugby fan so put it on the TV for you 😍
#womensrugby #Nursing #MedStudentTwitter

[Emily in Wonderland @EmilySymone]

@emrouxx Ikea tetris should be an Olympic sport

[Emily in Wonderland @EmilySymone]

@Medic_Russell Becoming by Michelle Obama

[Emily in Wonderland @EmilySymone]

A man just explained how to cross a road to me... Thanks i really would have struggled... #mansplaining