Vela 🍉

Women’s health advocate, mother, creative. Always up for a good pastry. Choose kindness. she/her

[Vela 🍉 @betterwithsoup]

@evankinney I truly am so so sorry Evan.

[Vela 🍉 @betterwithsoup]

@jsauxofficial Would love an answer on when my Christmas order is actually going to ship and arrive instead of getting the run around. 😔

[Vela 🍉 @betterwithsoup]

@jsauxofficial How does one get ahold of customer service for a Christmas gift ordered at the beginning of the month that hasn’t even shipped yet? I’ve already emailed and DMed on IG. For a first time customer, this hasn’t been a great experience, even with a cool product

[Vela 🍉 @betterwithsoup]

@jsauxofficial It’s impossible to get a response in a timely manner for orders placed that takes 3+ weeks to ship.

[Ryan Hamilton @TheRyanHamilton]

My heart is broken💔: As friends & family know, my wife was pregnant with our 2nd child, & about to begin her 2nd trimester. A few days ago she had severe pains, & bleeding, and had to go to the emergency room. There, it was discovered that our baby no longer had a heartbeat. Devastated doesn't come close to what that feels like.
Unfortunately for people like us, because of the current laws in the state of Texas, that was only the beginning of this nightmare. Jess (my wife) had an "incomplete miscarriage", and what needed to happen, what was best for HER, and her health, was to terminate the pregnancy, and get the baby out.
The doctor gave her a medication that would move this process along, and sent her home. Where, apparently we would be handling it ourselves. We were told it might take a couple of attempts before it worked.
I'll let you decide how you feel about that.
After a long, painful night of the equivalent of early labor, the baby was still with her. So, we went back to the Emergency Center to get the 2nd dose. A new doctor was on call. He was an older man. You could hear him in the hallway as he said, "I'm not giving her a pill so she can go home and have an ab*rtion!". Being well aware that our baby no longer had a heartbeat. Then, he came into the room to say, and I quote: "Considering the current stance. I'm not going to prescribe you this pill". Then, just sent us on our way.
The "CURRENT STANCE"?! Did he really just say that?!
No one should ever have to hear their wife say: "Get this dead baby out of me!".
Can you even imagine how that must feel?
The pain, and the bleeding continued. So, we decided to go to another hospital, about an hour away. There was a female doctor on call there, and we thought we might have better luck.
I should probably mention, the procedure to get the baby out is called a D & C. It's scary, & traumatizing, but sometimes necessary in situations like ours. Especially in emergency circumstances.
So we get to the next hospital. They take Jess in, ask her a bunch of questions, do a new scan... confirm that the baby is still there, with no heartbeat, and then disappear... for hours. Only to come back in and keep asking the same questions over and over. It's becoming clear that they're primary concern is NOT my wife's health. Instead, they seem to be worried about the legalities involved.
So, they decide it is not "enough of an emergency" to perform the D & C.
They do, however, prescribe another, stronger, final dose of the medication for us to try again... at home.
So, we go home to try again. Another long day/night of early labor pains. Only to discover my wife UNCONSCIOUS in the bathroom. Having to pick my wife's cold, limp body off of that bathroom floor, not sure if I was about to lose her, is something I will NEVER forget.
She had to be rushed to the hospital.
By this point she had lost so much blood, and bodily fluid, her body gave out.
They were able to stabilize her, give her the fluids she needed, and we came back home yesterday afternoon. We were also able to confirm that our baby was no longer with her.
Now, not only do we have to live with the loss of our baby... we have to live with the nightmare of what we just experienced because of political and religious beliefs. MY WIFE'S HEALTH SHOULD HAVE COME FIRST. PERIOD!
God knows what mental and emotional damage this has done.
If you consider yourself a staunch "pro-lifer" ... 1) You've never been through what we just went through, and 2) You should take a long, hard look in the mirror and reevaluate your reasons for supporting such a cold, barbaric, ignorant point of view.
It's not that black & white, and it's never going to be.
If you think your "Pray To End Ab*rtion" sign in your yard is "Christian", I suggest you revisit the teachings of Jesus and try again. If you support these laws that make ab*rtion illegal, and result in people being put through what we just were, you should be ashamed of yourself. I've never been so angry, or heartbroken... and the devastation I'm feeling must pale in comparison to what my poor wife is feeling.

[Vela 🍉 @betterwithsoup]

@devpostor It’s my fault 😭

[Vela 🍉 @betterwithsoup]

@devpostor But

[Vela 🍉 @betterwithsoup]

@annhoff Kettle corn is SO good though. Salty and sweet.

[PUNS @ThePunnyWorld]

People said I’d never get over my obsession with Phil Collins.

But take a look at me now.

[WZRD🔮 @WzrdRaph]

She nasty and I’m nasty. We crumbl cookies

[trash jones @jzux]

just found out that if there’s a nuclear missile coming towards us the government is gonna give us a TEN MINUTE warning. at that point just don’t tell me?? why would you ruin the last 10 minutes of my entire life

[Vela 🍉 @betterwithsoup]

@evankinney When in Rome 🙃

[Vela 🍉 @betterwithsoup]

@KatyRose9 Slightly sweet pringles that are somehow more dry than usual.

[Qasim Rashid, Esq. @QasimRashid]

Today 43 Republicans voted to keep insulin at $1200/mo instead of $35. Tomorrow every Republican will ask you to be outraged that gas is $5 instead of $3.

In the GOP world, $1200 for life saving insulin in fair play but $5 for gas is an outrage.

Vote them all out.

[Vela 🍉 @betterwithsoup]

@710wonderdev Hey I live near there! Let me know if you need anything or any help!

[Vela 🍉 @betterwithsoup]

@firepile I feel this in my soul.

[Jennifer @JenniferHarr]

It blows my mind how there are two totally different takes on where we’re at with COVID. The nurse and doctor at our pediatrician office told me today that they are seeing their highest rates of COVID and cases are much more severe in kids.