A Painful Life

Mom, Wife, Daughter, Sister, Friend, Artist, Living with Chronic Illness’s.

[A Painful Life @_apainfullife]

“We’re going to get it anyway, what’s the point?” I blame @fordnation for this narrative. Saving beds rather than preventing people from needing them. People are giving up after having done everything they can to prevent illness. 1/7
#Covid #MentalHealthAwareness

[A Painful Life @_apainfullife]

Warning - Get THE WORMWOOD TRILOGY by DH Nevins & you'll be reading all night. https://t.co/CMwu5JBNcs https://t.co/4fjJKdAXQX

[A Painful Life @_apainfullife]

@RichardCityNews Felt like this last minute election was strategic.I know many ppl that didn’t get their VIC.I registered to vote by mail due to disability & illness, and my ballot didn’t come until the 26th, being forced to find alt means to get my vote in. Defeated the purpose doing it by mail.

[Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran]

How Stevie Nicks responds to mask-shaming 🔥

"I dare anybody to give me a dirty look. I would just say, 'Hey, you know what? I’m Stevie Nicks. And if I get sick, my entire thing goes down. Forty families are out of work. So that’s why I have a mask on, asshole.'"

[A Painful Life @_apainfullife]

One of the most iconic voices in television and movies. RIP James Earl Jones.

[A Painful Life @_apainfullife]

First day of a school and a parent was already notified their kid has a fever. COMMON!!

[Kelly @broadwaybabyto]

Internalized ableism is no joke. It took me years to admit I was disabled… even longer to publicly talk about it.

I kept trying to play through the pain, slap a smile on my face and pretend it away.

It doesn’t work. We need visibility & to push back on ableist rhetoric!

[Dalia Hasan MD MSc CCFP @DaliaHasanMD]

Why the mask?

I have unknowingly been exposed to TB, measles, and SARS-CoV-2, only finding out later from positive test results. I'm not interested in gambling with my health—or yours.

[A Painful Life @_apainfullife]

My 8yr old has been getting my cane for me without asking all summer when we go out:

8- Mommy I’m going back to school, so you’re going to have to remember your cane on your own now okay?

Me: what will I do without you?

8- you’re going to have to learn to be independent
🤣

[A Painful Life @_apainfullife]

Anyone who works in home care for the elderly and immune compromised shouldn’t have to be ASKED to be masked. You go from 🏠 to 🏠 caring for the sick, and likely have plenty of 🦠 exposures in your personal life. Simple act #MaskUp, keep the people you’re caring for out of the🏥

[A Painful Life @_apainfullife]

#Ontario healthcare is a joke. Overflowing ED. “Personal responsibility” 😷 policies in hospitals, while immune compromised patients are stuck lying in hallways for days without rooms, surrounded by the virally ill, criminals being arrested, screaming police officers, and more.

[Barney Panofsky's Best Intentions @mynamesnotgordy]

Heard rumour Doug’s having a raffle at today’s Ford Fest and whoever’s number is picked wins a hotdog and gets to be the new Minister of Education

[A Painful Life @_apainfullife]

Neighbour shared they tested + for Covid. 3 days in and they have shared they have gone shopping for pleasure, and are now unmasked at the movies in real time. This is why I haven’t stopped masking. #notrust #YallMasking #MaskUp #CleanAir

[A Painful Life @_apainfullife]

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[Dr Elisa Perego @elisaperego78]

"I was just taken to the emergency room by ambulance after vomiting blood twice. I'll update you all. I dreamed for this day except living a nightmare like this"

Tokyo's gold medal Gianmarco Tamberi, hours before ending 11th in the Paris high jump final

https://t.co/hdC15yxKGC

[Hiroshi Yasuda (保田浩志) @Yash25571056]

"If you believe that Covid-19 is no longer a concern or that its impact has diminished, think again..
[The World Health Organization (WHO) is] warning that more severe variants of the coronavirus may soon be on the horizon.
[Dr Maria Van Kerkhove of WHO said that] Covid-19 is still very much with us and circulating in all countries..
Wastewater surveillance suggests that the circulation of SARS-CoV-2 is 2 to 20 times higher than what is currently being reported.
Such high infection circulation rates in the northern hemisphere's summer months are atypical for respiratory viruses, which tend to spread mostly in cold temperatures."

SARS-CoV-2 outsmarts unsmart humans.

'Covid-19 Cases Rising Again: WHO Issues Urgent Alert On Potentially Severe Variants'
https://t.co/HFxAYQPDej

[tern @1goodtern]

"Hello everyone, unfortunately I have to announce today that I will not be able to take part in the Olympic Games in Paris. I suffer from a so-called post-infectious syndrome caused by a viral infection... the cause of this syndrome is unclear... in February of this year I suffered from a covid infection, then a fall in Tour of Flanders and had fractures to my face and teeth, an operation and several infections in May, and I still haven't recovered."
Swiss cyclist Marlen Reusser.
How many potential Olympians share a similar story.
😢

[A Painful Life @_apainfullife]

😭 His death was caused by open-air carbon monoxide poisoning from the family’s boat. It’s seemingly way more common than I realized. 😔

https://t.co/H4ICrKCLBG

[Chris Turnbull @EnemyInAState]

STATE OF EMERGENCY DELCARED IN BRAZIL due to outbreak of SEVERE ACUTE RESPIRATORY SYNDROME (SARS)

[Jerome Adams @JeromeAdamsMD]

As a physician I am deeply concerned about North Carolina's potential total ban on mask-wearing. It’s disturbing to think immunocompromised and cancer patients could be deemed criminals for following medical advice aimed at safeguarding their health. 😞 https://t.co/Dj0WD9J68f

[A Painful Life @_apainfullife]

Child hospitalized again because of her weakened immunity, after now contracting influenza from school on her first day back after the strep infection.
#maskup #cleanair #ProtectYourImmuneSystem

[A Painful Life @_apainfullife]

Friend said Strep has been going through her kids school.She didn’t think it was a big deal until her kid was hospitalized.Not the first child I know who has been hospitalized for strep. Immunity debt isn’t a thing. Protect your immune system.😷. Clean the air. Stay home if sick.

[A Painful Life @_apainfullife]

@DaliaHasanMD I wish more doctors were as supportive of protective measures. We just got notice of a local paediatrics office removing masking requirements for anyone not visibly sick. After they assured me in Feb that masking was mandatory when I was doing research.