Carolyn Thomas ☮️

Author of "A Woman's Guide to Living With Heart Disease" @JHUPress. Speaker. Mayo Clinic-trained 🫀Patient Activist. Zack & Rosie's Baba.

[Carolyn Thomas ☮️ @HeartSisters]

For women living with heart disease: join me over in the friendly skies at https://t.co/cDzDxv0Cd2 (dot) bsky (dot) social 🫀

[Carolyn Thomas ☮️ @HeartSisters]

Weekly Round-Up: The Pinktober Begins Edition

21 years ago, diagnosed with #breastcancer in October, she wore her pink ribbon proudly. It made her feel less alone. Two decades later, Marie Ennis O'Connor sees Pinktober differently...

https://t.co/1wss8gMzq3 via @JBBC

[Carolyn Thomas ☮️ @HeartSisters]

Why are women (still!) under-represented in medical research?

"How are these research results still being submitted, peer-reviewed, accepted and published in medical journals when they continue to ignore over half the population?"

https://t.co/cOPAiESNeW via @HeartSisters

[Carolyn Thomas ☮️ @HeartSisters]

"How can clinicians help patients hold onto hope? Should hope be protected, even when being hopeful is unrealistic? Or should clinicians risk a loss of hope to ensure that patients understand their prognosis?”

https://t.co/L42ipuezoO via @HeartSisters

[Carolyn Thomas ☮️ @HeartSisters]

Patients, twisted thinking and cognitive distortion
"Any new life-altering medical condition can throw us off-balance, both physically and emotionally..."

https://t.co/fahdsC5fgY

[Carolyn Thomas ☮️ @HeartSisters]

@JBBC @womenofteal @ourmbclife @letlifehappen @NancysPoint @Bethlgainer @6state @crosserriddle @HabitgratLisa That's a labour of love, dear Marie!
I appreciate how many times you've included links to my @HeartSisters posts in your weekly blog Round Up! 😍

[Carolyn Thomas ☮️ @HeartSisters]

"Vous ne pouvez pas prendre notre pays🇨🇦 — et vous ne pouvez pas prendre notre sport!!!!"🏅

[Justin Trudeau @JustinTrudeau]

You can’t take our country — and you can’t take our game.

[Hockey Canada @HockeyCanada]

Just going to leave this right here. 🇨🇦❤️

Plein de fierté. Jusqu’au bout. 🇨🇦❤️

#4Nations

[Morgan Laidler 🇨🇦 @MorganLaidler]

Dear America,

We're not booing your hockey players.

We're not booing your country.

We're not even booing you.

We're booing your asshole of a president who keeps threatening our sovereignty for zero reason. Once he leaves us alone it'll stop.

Hope that clears it up for you.

[Carolyn Thomas ☮️ @HeartSisters]

@RobertMSterling Our 4 year old grandson still calls strawberries "straw babies".
His Mum says: "We are never correcting him!"🥰🥰🥰

[Carolyn Thomas ☮️ @HeartSisters]

@DrMarthaGulati Yes, that's my point: if a patient has to contact the researcher directly to ask for the non-Facebook survey link (because it's not included in the ask), it's more work for the patient. In other words, pls make it easier for participants to get to YES! 💕

[Carolyn Thomas ☮️ @HeartSisters]

A useful tip for all cardiac researchers recruiting survey participants: Every extra hoop you ask patients to jump through (e.g. not including a direct non-Facebook URL link to your survey) means another potential participant who will just move on. . .

💕

[Chelsey Gomez | Artist & Cancer Community Advocate @ohyouresotough]

Cancer doesn’t have one look ❤️

[Nancy's Point @NancysPoint]

Do you wonder if drinking #coffee is good for you? @HeartSisters discusses benefit/risk for heart patients in her latest. Tho I fill a mug at least 3 times a day, I actually only drink 1-2 as I never seem to finish a cup. Are you a ☕️drinker? #heartdisease https://t.co/0L0DmvuNQM

[Carolyn Thomas ☮️ @HeartSisters]

The Russian world champions in 1994...

[Jackie Wong @rockerskating]

One of my favorite pairs programs in my early days of figure skating fandom - Evgenia Shishkova/Vadim Naumov were playful in their musicality, original in their lifts, and phenomenal in their line. They won 1994 Worlds with this fun free skate

[Carolyn Thomas ☮️ @HeartSisters]

@itsaHeartLife @heart_spasms @UniofAdelaide Good luck with this survey! 💕

[Carolyn Thomas ☮️ @HeartSisters]

Link to this important survey on the following cardiac conditions: https://t.co/RckENpFBfC
@heart_spasms @UniofAdelaide

[International Heart Spasms Alliance @heart_spasms]

Please help us to help you.
We have collaborated with Adelaide University to develop a series of patients surveys.

The results will help to identify #ANOCA patients
& co-design future care pathways.

Please share with patients & clinicians

#ANOCA #INOCA #MINOCA

[Carolyn Thomas ☮️ @HeartSisters]

@shelagh_ross Some studies I read reported few if any differences between cardiac effects of consuming decaf or 'hi-test' coffee on palpitations...

I have friends who can't have chocolate desserts when we're out for dinner because they'd be "awake all night" - but are okay with coffee...

[Carolyn Thomas ☮️ @HeartSisters]

Coffee: good or bad for our hearts?

"The thinking about coffee’s effects on the heart has swung in both directions,” explains Harvard professor of medicine Dr. J. Michael Gaziano. Here's why we've had such mixed messages. . .

https://t.co/joCyZwR8pe via @HeartSisters

[Carolyn Thomas ☮️ @HeartSisters]

Implantable cardiac defibrillator shocks vs. "careful and kind" end-of-life care:

STUDY: "Even among patients with DNR orders, over half had their implanted defibrillators programmed "ON" just one hour before death...”

https://t.co/XcpJOSwey8 via @HeartSisters

[Carolyn Thomas ☮️ @HeartSisters]

Coffee: a win-win for #AFib ?

“Atrial fibrillation is an independent risk factor for the development of cognitive impairments. Coffee consumption is associated with better cognitive performance in patients with atrial fibrillation..."
https://t.co/joCyZwR8pe via @HeartSisters

[Carolyn Thomas ☮️ @HeartSisters]

Reader comment replying to post re turning off defibrillators in end-of-life care:
"I was stunned at resistance from several staff. I asked them if they “really understood the consequences” of dying with an activated #ICD in place..."

https://t.co/XcpJOSwey8 via @HeartSisters