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Dental Surgeon, Mother, Law abiding Citizen. Clinical Director/CEO @RidgeSmiles Executive Producer @smilestoriespod Unapologetically Nigerian!🇳🇬😎

[AA-I @drdeola]

@Sisi_Yemmie Sigh…..one of the traumatic lessons one learns as you get older. The Lord KNOWS those who are His….

[AA-I @drdeola]

@Jboyyyyyyyyyyy @mummmylusty @DAMIADENUGA He is…..

[Crazy Vibes @CrazyVibes_1]

Something is happening to women in their 50s, and I don't think people are paying enough attention to it.

I'm watching women who spent decades being the reliable ones. The peacemakers. The caregivers. The ones who kept the family together, swallowed their frustration, carried other people's emotional baggage, and were told that being "good" meant being accommodating.

And now something has shifted.

They're looking at marriages that have been one-sided for years.

Friendships built entirely on their effort.

Jobs that took everything they had and gave very little back.

Family roles that expected endless sacrifice while offering little appreciation in return.

And they're asking a simple question:

"Why am I still doing this?"

What's fascinating is that many of these women aren't becoming angry. They're becoming clear.

Clear about their boundaries.

Clear about their value.

Clear about what they will and will not tolerate with the years they have left.

The guilt that used to keep them silent doesn't seem to work anymore.

The fear of disappointing everyone else doesn't seem to work anymore.

The pressure to be endlessly available doesn't seem to work anymore.

An entire generation of women appears to be looking around and deciding:

"If this relationship, job, friendship, or obligation only works when I'm the one doing all the sacrificing, then maybe it doesn't work at all."

And honestly?

It's one of the most interesting social shifts I've seen in a long time.

[Michelle Obama @MichelleObama]

Barack and I were so honored to have @AkunyiliCrosby create our portrait for the Obama Presidential Center. Her artistic brilliance shines through — and the way she infused such life and joy into the piece is truly extraordinary. We love it, and we think everyone who visits the Center will too!

[AA-I @drdeola]

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[AA-I @drdeola]

@InneInnih Because ‘…a loaf of bread, a container of milk and a stick of butter…’ #Sesamestreet

[AA-I @drdeola]

Saw through the whole charade years ago! The question now is why can’t women fund women? 🤔

[Olúwatósìn Olaseinde @tosinolaseinde]

Women want funding they are tired of mentorship.

[AA-I @drdeola]

My younger Sister!!! 🥳🥳🥳@PissChief

[AA-I @drdeola]

Yes please….! 🧖‍♀️♨️🧖‍♀️

[Cross˚ @Elkrosmediahub]

@Princez_eve You women can’t manage lukewarm? Must it be boiling?😩

[Nike Adeyemi @NikeAdeyemi]

Let my discernment be greater than my compassion

[AA-I @drdeola]

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[Afshine Emrani MD FACC @afshineemrani]

In medical school, we are taught a golden rule: "When you hear hoofbeats, think horses, not zebras." It is a reminder to look for the common explanation before the exotic one. But after decades in cardiology, I’ve learned that if a patient is still suffering after the "horses" have been ruled out, a doctor must have the courage—and the curiosity—to go hunting for the zebra.

Sarah was a thirty-four-year-old marathon runner and a devoted mother who came to me after six months of being told she was "fine." She had been bounced from one specialist to another, each one pointing to her normal EKG and standard blood tests as proof that her crushing fatigue and racing heart were simply the result of "new mom stress." By the time she reached my office, she didn't just look tired; she looked invisible, as if the medical system had stopped seeing the woman and only saw the data.

Instead of re-reading the normal test results that had already failed her, I asked Sarah to walk me through her life. We talked about her training and her family, eventually landing on a backpacking trip she took to the Mendoza province of rural Argentina. She described staying in a charming, rustic cottage made of sun-dried mud bricks. She mentioned waking up one morning with a strangely swollen, purple eyelid that she assumed was a simple spider bite.

As she spoke, a memory surfaced from a biography I had read years ago about Charles Darwin. Most people know Darwin for his theories on evolution, but medical historians have long puzzled over the mysterious, debilitating illness that plagued him for decades after he returned from his voyage on the HMS Beagle. Darwin had written in his journals about being bitten by the "great black bug of the Pampas" while sleeping in mud-walled huts in South America. He spent the rest of his life suffering from heart palpitations and exhaustion that the Victorian doctors of his time could never explain.

I realized then that Sarah wasn't suffering from stress; she was likely hosting the same "silent killer" that may have haunted Darwin: Chagas Disease.

The "Kissing Bug" lives in the cracks of those mud-brick walls. It bites its victims—often near the eyes or mouth—while they sleep, passing a parasite called Trypanosoma cruzi into the blood. The danger of Chagas is that the initial symptoms disappear quickly, but the parasite can hide in the body for years, slowly weaving itself into the muscle and electrical "wiring" of the heart.

To confirm this, I moved beyond the standard tests. I ordered a specialized "Strain Rate" ultrasound, which doesn't just look at whether the heart is pumping, but at how the individual muscle fibers are stretching. We saw that while her heart looked strong to the naked eye, the fibers were "stuttering," a sign of early parasite-induced scarring. A specific blood test for the parasite's antibodies confirmed the diagnosis.

Treatment required a difficult, sixty-day course of anti-parasitic medication to stop the infection, paired with a protective heart regimen to keep her electrical system stable while the inflammation settled. Because we caught it before her heart was physically damaged or enlarged, the recovery was a success.

Months later, Sarah returned to my office, her vibrant energy restored. She brought me a leather-bound copy of The Voyage of the Beagle with a note tucked inside. She wrote that while other doctors had looked at her charts, I had looked at her. This case remains a vital reminder for my memoir: in a world of high-tech scans and AI, the most sophisticated diagnostic tool we possess is still the human story. When we truly listen, we don't just find the disease—we find the patient.

Good morning.

[AA-I @drdeola]

@kanyazim @Musanathi2 Sis! You walked on water! Even if it is ice water o!!!!! 😂

[AA-I @drdeola]

@inkaseth @Morris_Monye @Row_Haastrup The trick is not to rinse with water after applying the sensodyne. Just spit out after brushing!

[AA-I @drdeola]

@baltimore_flow @Morris_Monye @Row_Haastrup So sorry, the frequency of the scaling tips can be regulated so that it is mild. Request for this please when next you attempt to have this procedure done.

[AA-I @drdeola]

@thapelotpt @Morris_Monye @Row_Haastrup Not all Dentists offer this as a service

[AA-I @drdeola]

@iherinwa_w @Morris_Monye @Row_Haastrup Yes! Try to purchase directly from abroad, UK/US Unfortunately, this is what i recommend.

[AA-I @drdeola]

@Otunde_ @Morris_Monye @Row_Haastrup Rapid Action

[KABUGO @Kabugo_]

Some battles start because you prayed, not because you messed up. You didn’t invite problems. You interrupted a system.

[Real Talk Kim @RealTalkKim]

Not doing them how they did you is what's keeping your blessings coming.