Laura Jane Walker

Freelance writer, word nerd. Healthcare + news junkie. #IBD patient + advocate.

[Laura Jane Walker @LadyEllJay]

@nataliesparacio Longterm steroid use was the most damaging for me! I was unrecognizable to myself and others, and I never found much support for those body changes and the mental health impact from 'roids.

[Laura Jane Walker @LadyEllJay]

@nataliesparacio That's me almost every Xmas season, trying to get my post-deductible scope in!!! Good luck!

[Laura Jane Walker @LadyEllJay]

@patientpolitics Good luck. The work I've done with an IBD psych has been transformative, maybe the most significant improvement in my care. No diagnosis but ID'd my tendencies toward depression/anxiety and link to IBD flares/inflammation.

[Brett Kelman @BrettKelman]

There is a lot in this story, but don't miss this: When TennCare drops people from coverage, it “misleads” about their options to appeal, said a federal judge. And it did this when it cut 240,000+ kids from coverage in recent years. https://t.co/eEfcTNLFuI

[ChattyWendy @ChattyWendy423]

Sabrena Smedley actively courted Dem votes (screenshot of a text I received from a vol on her campaign). What changed? Oh yeah, she lost. Can someone explain open primaries to her please? @newschannelnine @NC5 @Local3News @TimesFreePress @TheTNHoller @NoogaHoller

[Laura Jane Walker @LadyEllJay]

@Empoweringpts9 @MondayNightIBD A1 #MondayNightIBD 1-Family planning/longterm outlook/impact on GYN health; 2-other specialist checkins (derm, eyes); 3-MENTAL HEALTH. I feel lucky that my IBD team spends a good deal of time answering my Qs.

[Times Free Press @TimesFreePress]

After weeks of watching people peek through the shop windows and give thumbs up as they passed by, the owners of The Book & Cover officially opened to customers on Thursday. https://t.co/tonitTFv2q

[Dr. Longissimus @DrLongissimus]

Meeting your baby for the first time, that magical first touch, that moment, priceless...

[America]: That'll be 39.35$

[Laura Jane Walker @LadyEllJay]

@DrTiffTaft Ooh I get my booster blood draw today! So neat.

[Meghan Mangrum @memangrum]

A Tennessee parent (and member of Moms for Liberty) proposed a school board have certain books they have concerns with "be re-written" without the objectionable content.

M'am. "The Hate U Give" sold more than 2M copies as of 2019, per The Guardian 🙄

[Chattanooga Holler @NoogaHoller]

An important thread about literacy in Hamilton County Schools:

[Meghan Mangrum @memangrum]

In 2018, I spent some time with @hamcoschools educators and students from Howard High School, Chattanooga's oldest school for Black students and the same school @BillGates later visited in 2019.

For this particular story, I was there for a book club.

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[Laura Jane Walker @LadyEllJay]

@nataliesparacio Fast, without thinking too much, and in a celebratory mood! I find it much more tolerable than IV sticks these days. Stelara needles are itty bitty.

[Ashley R. Cummings @ashleyrcummings]

Freelance isn't code for "someone who will drop everything and do whatever you want at a moment's notice."

[Laura Jane Walker @LadyEllJay]

@jamiescoop @TVAnews Your work continues to inspire me—I was a j-school intern from UTK on the copy desk when I first read your reporting more than a decade ago. Thank you for continuing to fight.

[Jason Yaun, MD @JasonYaunMD]

I wish our state loved its children as much as it loves its guns. These tweets came almost exactly 2 hours apart.

[Laura Jane Walker @LadyEllJay]

@DMart423 How bout those differing pronunciations of autumnal? Au-tooooomnal vs. au-tumnal. (I am fully in the toomnal group.)

[McSweeney's @mcsweeneys]

"Around the time God started listing all the possible side effects of the first trimester, Adam became uneasy."
https://t.co/LYdkrGpX2r

[Jonathan M. Metzl @JonathanMetzl]

Tennessee, epicenter of COVID, now sees spiraling costs and threatened medical bankruptcies.

https://t.co/jqI0NyBmqR