Spring she/her

Observer, questioner, challenger of the status quo. Tetraplegic. Anti-ableist. Atheist. Underestimate me at your own risk.

[Spring she/her @SpringHawes]

To all my disabled peeps - Please remember:

You are not a burden.
You are not a burden.
You are not a burden.

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We are assuming that doctors are perfectly following regulations they are perfectly assessing criteria they are doing everything in good faith, when we know that is not the case in essentially any other aspect of health care,” said Tang.

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“We know that there is a lot of discrimination in health care. We know health care was built on a foundation of racism and colonialism. And I think it’s very strange that we seem to entirely put that away when we are talking about MAID.

https://t.co/c2W2POsGb2

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Not sure about you, but I don't have a text-message-level relationship with my doctor, and I certainly have never hitched a ride with him. I don't think this was a 'normal' or professional relationship at all. Sounds a lot like grooming.

https://t.co/FTVZzPjQ6i

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We need systems that are efficient, and to do that, we need systems that care. We need to listen to patients, and then have the flexibility and ability to adjust, in order to provide the right care at the right time, in the right way.

I believe that would be transformative.

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The story out of Edmonton of a father who died of cardiac arrest after 8 hours in the ED is devastating and terrifying. Imagine how utterly powerless he must have felt.
Trigger warning: Contains an image of a deceased person. https://t.co/ogppAMb2GH

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There was no room for nuance. No space for personalization. No time to listen.

This was the opposite of person-centred care. This was systemic inertia; a system working against itself, and against me.

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This is @WestJet finding a loophole in accessibility legislation as a way to avoid providing service to some disabled passengers. People who use power chairs generally require more assistance. This is not a coincidence. @Stephanie4BC

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Boycott @WestJet for discriminatory and arbitrary weight restrictions on power wheelchairs.

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I have flown on WestJet planes - including their small Dash 8 twin prop planes - literally hundreds of times in the past 20 years, with a power chair that weighed 450 lbs. Weight was never discussed as a problem.