In 2012 i was diagnosed with a deadly blood disorder known as TTP. I was in the hospital for a month. A white nurse almost killed me because she thought i was drug seeking. I kept telling her my central line in my groin was hurting& she wouldn’t give me any morphine just Tylenol.
I went septic later on that night because of the central line. I went into SVT and had to go to cardiac ICU for a week. I was 18. My TTP flared up again in 2016 and i went to the ER. I told the (white) doctor that i had TTP and that i needed to be admitted. He had my records right in front of him. I was just there 4 years earlier, the same hospital diagnosed me.
He told me that i didn’t have TTP…i had ITP. He sent me home with steroids and pain meds. I cried and cried and sat at home all weekend until i could get to my hematologist. I called them and they had me come in immediately. Got labs drawn…my hemoglobin and platelets were VERY low. They did a direct admit: I had to get 14 bags of platelets and 3 bags of blood. My hematologist and his NP told me if i would’ve waited any longer i would’ve died.
More recently in 2022 i went to a freestanding ED because i thought i had the flu. I was in pain, my blood pressure was elevated, i had a fever. I told the black NP that i have TTP and asked them to do a cbc and ADAMTS13 level if they could. I got pain meds, waited for the (white) doc to come and see me. He told me ny labs were “fine” and that i just had a stomach virus. I didn’t believe that so i asked him what my platelet count was. He told me 30k (normal platelet count in non chemo patients are 150k-400k) i almost lost my shit on him.
He went back and further with me for 10 minutes about how i wasn’t having a TTP flare up and i told him to call the fucking hospital that I’m usually treated at and find me a bed. He begrudgingly did it. He came back not even 10 minutes later and said that the hospital i usually go to was full (it was around Christmas time) but after the on call hematologist at the level 1 trauma center downtown saw my blood work they wanted me to come in IMMEDIATELY. Hematologist told me if i would’ve waited any longer i would’ve been dead before Christmas.
Every time that I’ve almost died it was either at the hands of a white nurse or doctor. They don’t take our pain or complaints seriously! They think we are drug addicts. I literally became a nurse because of this. We need black doctors. That lawsuit is just a bunch of fucking racists who are mad. Fuck them.
Thank you for not fabricating stories and lying on my uncle for $. I wish everyone wasn’t or wouldn’t become morally bankrupt for dirty cash. Its disgusting. Thank you Bill. Respect. 🙏🏾
Just found out today “children honor thy parents” is only the first part of the verse and the rest is “parents, do not provoke children to anger”…I’ve been bamboozled 😭
@buhle_mdingi You can get over the person, but sometimes it’s harder to get over what happened, especially if y’all had a lot of issues & don’t end on positive terms
33 years ago this week, Michael Jackson did what the Hollywood never dared to do
His iconic 'Remember The Time' short film was released featuring an all Black cast as Kings and Queens depicting Egyptian royalty 🤎👑
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Quarterly reminder: The majority of the people who fought for the Confederacy during the Civil War were too poor to even own slaves. But they wanted Black people to stay in bondage so bad that they were willing to die to make it happen. Now apply that to present day…
During slavery, they used “science” to prove that we had thicker skin, larger organs & weaker skulls. Thus, we were impervious to pain & could be whipped, sexually assaulted & experimented upon with no anesthesia. This is where this comes from. But you’re a low reader
Kid sleeping in my office bc his teacher said he was being a distraction falling asleep in class.
Now MIND YOU all I did was ask why are you tired? And he said his dad was arrested so he was up all night.
So I said OK get in the chair and take a nap.
He not bothering me 🤷🏽♀️
My son is autistic and non verbal but when he’s hungry he comes in the living room and (on his iPad) plays the part on lion king where the hyena tells scar “it’s dinner time and we ain’t got no stinking entrees” 😂😂 This dude (and every other autistic person in the world) is so much smarter than any of us will ever understand.
They thought my bitch career was OVA. She had to lay low to record one of the BEST albums of her career & she came out SWINGING with this lead single. Y'all really had to be there, THIS was a COMEBACK