Saw a patient today with a hemoglobin of 1.9 g/dL. For context, a level that low is almost incompatible with normal consciousness, but she walked right into the clinic on her own feet.
For three long years, she lived with crushing weakness and since last 6 months breathlessness from just walking across a room. Why didn’t she get help sooner? At first, it was because the kids had crucial school exams and later her husband was reluctant to deal with the hassle of a hospital admission.
Her health was treated as a background inconvenience.
When we dug deeper, it got worse. A year ago, her Hb was 6.4 g/dL. A doctor explicitly told them she needed immediate admission. The family refused, walked out with a basic strip of iron tablets, she took them for two weeks, forgot about them, and nobody in the house ever bothered to check on her or remind her.
She didn't even come to the hospital today because of the air hunger. She came because her periods had completely stopped for months. Her body was so profoundly starved of iron and oxygen that it literally shut down her reproductive axis just to divert what little blood she had left to her heart and brain.
It’s completely heartbreaking. A woman will literally bleed her body dry, gasp for air for years and keep working silently, only to be brought to a doctor when her normal functioning stops.
Please check on the women in your homes. Stop letting them normalize chronic exhaustion.
Announcing Talk 317
#AncientGames: What They Teach Us About Modern People | Online Talk by Raamesh Gowri Raghavan
While play is universal to animals, games with set rules are a distinctly human trait. Sedentary games (i.e. games you sit down and play) have been unearthed in all material cultures, but remain a comparatively understudied aspect of archaeology. At our Online Talk #AncientGames, researcher, writer and educator Raamesh Gowri Raghavan, uses game boards and pieces unearthed in excavations, games etched on monument floors, heirlooms, depictions in literature, and ethnological reports, to present the rich opportunities to be had by historians, anthropologists, archaeologists and museologists in the study of games to complete the picture of historical societies.
📍Sat | 16th May | 6 PM | Zoom
Admission Free.
Register now at: https://t.co/hNCjYultjy.
About the speaker:
Raamesh Gowri Raghavan is a researcher, writer, and educator specialising in archaeology, cultural history, and the study of ancient games. He holds certifications in archaeology, ancient Indian culture, and epigraphy from the University of Mumbai, and has taught courses in archaeozoology, palaeobotany, archaeopaizology, and epigraphy. He has organised national conferences on ancient and medieval Indian games, including 'Playing with the Past,' and has published research on board games, material culture, and their historical significance. His work involves documenting game boards found in archaeological sites, caves, and monuments across India, bringing attention to this overlooked aspect of the past.
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We uploaded property papers, old records, pics, every proof we had protected for 34 yrs. Got a ref ID.
Months later, a patwari called. Said he was handling our case & couldnt locate our home. My dad walked him through every lane like he never left. Landmarks. Turns. Everything.
As long as Islam survives, terrorism will survive.
As long as Islam survives, non-Muslims will have no safety, free thinkers and rationalists will have no safety, women will have no safety.
As long as Islam survives, flowers will wither, children will keep dying, millions of dead doves will keep falling like rain.
From the womb of Islam, hatred will keep being born, ugly monsters will keep being born.
As long as Islam survives, no kingdom, no state will become civilized, the world will not become civilized.
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@_SatChitAnandam@Keir_Starmer I saw the video (wish I had not) & got the uncomfortable impression that the guy was enjoying the rough play with a white woman, all the while saying Please madam. 🤢