Siobhán McManus

Previously global equities trading/asset management. London & NYC. News & clever humo(u)r junkie. Necessity will be the mother of my reinvention. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

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@DanielLatto @KeruboSk This 💯 🎯every time!

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@London_W4 What a great idea! I’d love to come along Alastair.

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@Matt_Pinner Bad Sisters

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@JonathanPieNews Draw in place of drawer 🫣 and loosing!!! 😤

[Nicky Clark @MrsNickyClark]

Dear All.

It’s 3.30am on Monday 27th January and I have some time as I’m awake currently.

I’m awake because I’m in hospital.

I’m in hospital because on Saturday morning at 4.30am I had a heart attack.

The paramedics saved my life for the first time and then the consultant in Stoke where I was taken in a blue light ambulance, saved it again.

The nursing teams, auxiliary staff and everyone involved is so brilliant and so kind.

(6.43am)

(Sorry bloods & blood pressure and a rest. )

The thing I want to highlight is that we aren’t very good at knowing the different presentations of symptoms of cardiac problems in women.

It doesn’t always start with left arm pain or jaw pain.

It ended up there believe me, and with a crushing burning pain in the centre of my breastbone radiating out over my back and shoulders but that’s not where it started.

It started weeks earlier with heartburn and as women can we honestly say that’s something we would take to a doctor?

No.

Most of us will brush it off and carry on. I know I did. Too trivial, they’re too busy, I’m too busy, “I can’t pitch up there with heartburn how embarrassing wasting their time”

But grumbling heartburn if you’ve never suffered from it before, shouldn’t be ignored. I ignored it for the last 6 weeks and here I am.

So what I was thinking was I’d post it here and then if any woman with no other symptoms suddenly get heartburn which wont go completely, she could offset her embarrassment at visiting the doctor with my post.
Then she can blame me.

10.27am

Like many people in my situation I have such love for the NHS.

The speed and efficiency of the paramedics, the A&E team at RSH who put two cannulas in my arms so that the hour long blue light trip to stoke was covered “just in case”.

The team in Stoke (led by Dr Karim Ratib) and the nurse, who told me gently that I’d had a heart attack and then told me I needed a stent fitted straight away.

The immediate procedure, the aftercare ,the time the patience and the dedication, all of it was beautiful and precious and irreplaceable.

10.56am

And that’s the word isnt it. Irreplaceable because the NHS is just like the people we all love, absolutely irreplaceable and always there for us when we need them.

💙

Tuesday 28th January. 8.30am

Morning all. I’m home again with lots of meds & lots of bruises and so much gratitude for our NHS. I need another stent fitted but this will be in 6-8 weeks.

There was mild to moderate damage to my heart from the heart attack but fortunately it wasn’t the part of my heart which carries the love I have for my children, my husband, my family and my friends.

I’m going to see Em today because she needs to know what happened from me, so she knows I’m ok, but obviously I’m only giving her enough info to inform not frighten her.

I will post this message to you all after that.

My big aim right now is to work towards making other women aware of how the symptoms of cardiac problems present so differently in men and women.

I’m hoping @wesstreeting as health secretary might help with that.

Women matter at every age and women’s health is too important to continue to put ourselves at the bottom of the list.

We are so often the glue holding everything together, we fight for those we love and share our concerns and worries with our friends & spouses/partners but not always with GPs in case we’re “being a bother”

But it’s time for women to have a “heart to heart” with their GP on that. Don’t leave too late like I did.

Huge love, from a moderately damaged heart.

Nik xx ❤️ xx

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@martin_mcvay @followwollof66 Troosers➡️twizzles➡️tuzzels 🤣

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@JakeRudh The Blue Nile 🙌🏻💙💙💙

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@DigitalManSteve @OneWayMusicX Katie Melua does an awesome cover version if you haven’t heard it…

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The horrifying reality of being a woman, perfectly summarised by @_CaitlinORyan

If you give even the slightest shit about women, watch it all. This is what it’s like.

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@JaneyGodley @PPWHospice Notting Hill, London tonight. Sending love Janey & thank you for all the pure, dead, brilliant laughs over the years 🙏🏻😅

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@JaneyGodley Thank you for all the brilliant laughs Janey. Sending love, strength & hugs to you 💔💪🏻🤗

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@oceansoulgrl @johnpavlovitz 👌🏻😂

[Mark Elliott @markmobility]

Imagine the media treatment of Kamala if she had five children by three different men. Then add in having sex with a porn star.

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No president of America has ever given birth - I don’t understand why it’s suddenly an issue

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@girl_tinder Beyond gross! 🤮 🥴

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@JimithyJimdale @girl_tinder 🤣👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

[Joey Rosati | Tampa SMB Owner @rosaticorp]

🚨 Just received a phone call from the Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office this afternoon. Officer reads off his badge number & proceeds to ask if this is [my name] located at [my address] w/ SSN# [reads last 4 of my social]. Fuck. Was walking through Costco as I took the call.

[PumpkinsandPost-Its @2ndtimeMama]

Twitter please can you help by sharing and tagging anyone who might help?

Liz is 16 and lives to take photographs. She has a rare and aggressive cancer which doctors have told her means she has between 6 months and 3 years to live. We hope every day for a lifetime for her but if we can’t achieve that we hope to create her a lifetime of memories. If we can make even one of her photography bucket list happen for her she will be beyond delighted.

Liz would love to:

Photograph the rehearsal of a major musical @OfficialALW @HamiltonWestEnd @sixthemusical @lesmisofficial @PhantomOpera @StarlightExp @MatildaMusical @TheLionKing
Watch the filming of Would I Lie To You @WILTY_TV @BBC1
Have photographs published in as many magazines as possible @hellomag @GraziaUK @BritishVogue @ELLEUK @harpersbazaarus @okmagworldwide @Tivoli
Take photographs of the catwalk at London Fashion Week @LondonFashionWk
Photograph circus performers practicing their act @CircusVegasUK @planetcircusuk
Help film a movie @PinewoodStudios @ElstreeStudios @EalingStudios
Photograph a music festival @glastonbury @liveatleedsfest
Take photos of the Christmas markets at Tivoli Gardens
Do a photo shoot with professional models @IMGmodels @StormModels @Wilhelmina @PremierModels
Take photos in a fashion shoot at a big fashion house @MulberryEngland @FollowWestwood @victoriabeckham @Burberry @StellaMcCartney @PaulSmithDesign

She would also jump at any other photography based opportunities.

Please help us to give her the life she deserves in the short time she has.

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@FT why are there no magazines with the Weekend paper in west London?

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@SH_Berkhamsted @henrymance @abrdn_plc Disemvoweling 👏🏻😄