Jenn Stinebiser

Health communications professional and proud nerd girl! Views are my own.

[Jenn Stinebiser @JLStinebiser]

@jennaportnoy Thank you for all your important reporting! Grateful to have worked with you to tell stories about the people in our community.

[Jenn Stinebiser @JLStinebiser]

100% this

[Dr. Glaucomflecken @DGlaucomflecken]

I have never heard of these brands, but if you asked me which eye drop is most likely to contain dangerous fungal pathogens, it would be a drop called “Mr. Berne’s organic castor oil eye drops”

[Sara Gilgore @WBJSara]

BREAKING: @ChildrensNatl has named @MMRileyBrown of @TexasChildrens to succeed @ChildrensNatCEO as the D.C pediatric institution's new chief https://t.co/200rHZwyiw

[Jenn Stinebiser @JLStinebiser]

"Every amazing reward in your life will cost you something...It's worth it." Needed this reminder today while caring for my 14 yo pup.

[Bunsen, Beaker, Bernoulli & Brix @bunsenbernerbmd]

Deciding to welcome a dog into your home is a life changing event.

Those that have dogs can separate their life into B.C. and A.D.

Before Canine and After Dog.

If you are thinking about getting a dog, this read is for you.

A dog isn't an easy pet.

If you want an easy pet, get a pet rock.

Dogs are kids.

That's the best way to describe them to people who don't have dogs.

They aren't human kids obviously, but they are perpetual children that live in your house.

This means you get the absolute chaos that comes with toddlers when the dog is a puppy.

Can you reason with a toddler? Not really, it's more of a hostage negotiation.

Example:

"I have this treat here so you don't bite Grandma, please don't bite Grandma. Ok you bit Grandma, now you need to go to time out to think about why you bit Grandma. Oh, you are biting me now. Great."

Will a toddler flush your keys down the toilet and set fire to the house if you don't watch them?

Most assuredly.

Will a puppy eat all your shoes, fall down stairs, and poop on your carpet?

That will happen if you don't watch them.

Or it will still happen even if you are watching them like a hawk.

Toddlers and puppies could teach espionage agents about silent poop strikes.

As the puppy ages, it will be less toddler like and more childlike.

Do you see kids at Walmart that are knocking over mannequins and yeeting sodastream bottles across the aisles?

How about the kids racing in shopping carts that run down senior citizens in motorized scooters?

Yeah? You've seen those kids?

Guess what.

An untrained dog can be a terror just like children who were raised without boundaries and expectations.

A well trained dog takes a TON of work.

Bunsen and Beaker are trained, but not "well" trained.

Our family put in hours and hours with them in obedience classes and work at home so they mostly listen.

If you are planning to get a dog and just hope for the best, chances are that dog will become a nightmare for you and others.

Kinda like the kids in the movie theatre throwing popcorn at the screen and cooking bacon on their smuggled in George Forman grill.

Finally that dog will age. It will get old.

It will need care that is time consuming and expensive.

You MUST be their for that dog at that time and you must save up for that time.

The dog will then die and for a time it will destroy you.

Here in lies the conclusion of this post.

Despite all this insanity of eaten drywall and mooselegs, and eventual sadness, that dog will be the best thing in your life.

A dog is the only thing on Earth that loves YOU more than anything else.

That is the reward of having a dog in your family.

Every amazing reward in your life will cost you something.

Be prepared.

It's worth it.

[Jenn Stinebiser @JLStinebiser]

Cute baby alert! Wrapping up #HeartMonth with this beautiful story I helped tell w/ @ChildrensNatl. It's my job but it can be your timeline cleanse! Love working w/ families and amazing docs like Dr. Donofrio and @drcanyerebakan

[Children's National Hospital 🏥 @ChildrensNatl]

It makes all the difference when you have a team that cares. The cardiac team at Children's National helped this Virginia family on their journey from diagnosis to heart surgery. 💔➡️❤️ https://t.co/rAkdJvot0y

[Jenn Stinebiser @JLStinebiser]

#SaveWarriorNun !!

[Simon Barry @SimonDavisBarry]

Not your average show about NUNS. #WarriorNun #SaveWarrionNun (volume up!)
Nice edit!

[Jenn Stinebiser @JLStinebiser]

This thread 🔥

[Library of Congress @librarycongress]

Many of you following along with #LizzoAtLOC were surprised that the Library has a flute vault. We are the largest Library in the world & home to more than 173 million objects, so there are many more surprises like that in our collections. Enjoy this thread of just a few of them.

[Steak-umm @steak_umm]

this is what happens

[Jenn Stinebiser @JLStinebiser]

Thank you Twitter for reminding me there's still hilarity on this platform if you know where to look.

[Best of Nextdoor 🏡 @bestofnextdoor]

"IS THIS A COYOTE"

[U.S. FDA @FDA]

You can't rely on the Force to keep #COVID away.

Get vaccinated and boosted! https://t.co/NVAJOIM8b3

#MayThe4thBeWithYou

[Jenn Stinebiser @JLStinebiser]

@Leysamie does a t-rex help? and yes, my selfie-taking is approximately this.

[Jenn Stinebiser @JLStinebiser]

Donating @ChildrensNatl directly benefits the patients there. If you are able to donate, now's the time to make an appointment.

[Jenn Stinebiser @JLStinebiser]

Really important for kids, especially in places where strep throat goes undetected and untreated--it can lead to rheumatic fever and possible heart damage https://t.co/1vS97mpTGp

[Children's National Hospital 🏥 @ChildrensNatl]

Major study in @NEJM reveals that treating rheumatic #heartdisease w/ affordable & accessible penicillin can prevent #RHD from worsening - potentially saving the lives of thousands of children in Africa and beyond. ❤️🌍 @HeartUganda @CincyChildrens https://t.co/ChkgzZwkGe

[Washington Journal @cspanwj]

"There are no vaccines ever created that have any late onset side effects. There's no reason to think this would."

- @ChildrensNatl's Dr. Boogaard on @RealBenCarson's criticisms of giving the #COVID19 vaccine to children

["Dr. G", Geeta Nayyar, MD MBA @drgnayyar]

For everyone still working to understand the importance of masking— especially as kids head back to school, read this important thread from @meganranney. 😷

#MaskUp to:
✅ Reduce community spread
✅ Protect yourself and others
✅ Bring us closer to the end of this pandemic

[delthia ricks 🔬 @DelthiaRicks]

Masks work. This illustration is from the journal Science

[Jenn Stinebiser @JLStinebiser]

Yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes.

[American Academy of Pediatrics @AmerAcadPeds]

We want our children back to school in-person, but many students will not yet be eligible to get COVID-19 vaccines. Masks are an important layer of protection to keep students and staff safe. https://t.co/sodwbXU3bk

[Jenn Stinebiser @JLStinebiser]

@JMUswag Good resource here from @NIH, too: https://t.co/TPZ5DxneRU

[Reuters @Reuters]

It took the deadly disruption of the COVID-19 pandemic to expose a deeper, more intractable U.S. public-health crisis. For more than a decade, the world’s richest nation has been losing the battle against diabetes https://t.co/hpubtSzWqY

[Ashish K. Jha @ashishkjha]

There's a group of pesky unvaccinated ruffians I want to discuss

You know -- no lottery tickets will get them vaccinated

They are recalcitrant

I have one of them in my house

Yes, the under 12

How best to protect them?

Empirical data can show us the way

Short thread