Sharon Coyle

Retired Nurse. Health care advocate. Masker. Sole caregiver to husband. Dog LOVER! Knitter. Worried for state of democracy.

[D.B. Miller @DBMillerIMO]

The face of an abuser when confronted by a female.

[Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @ReichlinMelnick]

You are doubly wrong:

1. Many of the detained DID come through ports of entry (breaking no laws) and were detained despite pending applications.
2. Many people cannot “self-deport,” or are detained for weeks after being ordered removed (deportation isn’t instantaneous).

[Scott Robertson @sarobertson_]

Chrétien: When you look at the polls, Canadians have never been more united. Thank you to Donald Trump for that. I should propose him for the Order of Canada, but I cannot succeed. Do you know why?

Rosie: He's not Canadian?

Chrétien: Because we don't give it to a person who has a criminal record.

[Anonymous @YourAnonNews]

Today, to save face - the algorithm is making sure to push attacks Kristen Welker. The premise of the main attack seems to be "She's full of hate" & "Liberals are full of hate" - she didn't do anything hateful during the entire interview; she just asked questions. MAGA is over.

[Larry the Cat @Number10cat]

"If a person has ugly thoughts, it begins to show on the face. And when that person has ugly thoughts every day, every week, every year, the face gets uglier and uglier until you can hardly bear to look at it." - Roald Dahl

[Marlene Robertson🇨🇦 @marlene4719]

Maga ~ “Historic, Trump is the first sitting president EVER to go to the NBA finals at Madison Square Gardens.”

Maybe because other presidents were too considerate to inconvenience 20,000 attendees by having to arrive at the game two hours early and the Watch Party cancelled because of security concerns.

[Afshine Emrani MD FACC @afshineemrani]

I'm a cardiologist. A 42-year-old mother of two came to my office complaining of jaw pain and crushing fatigue. She ran half-marathons. Her EKG was normal. Another doctor had sent her home with anxiety medication.
When I got her into the cath lab, I found severe microvascular disease — plaque choking the tiniest vessels of her heart, the ones standard angiograms routinely miss.
Her heart had been starving in silence while everyone told her she was stressed.
She is alive today. Too many women like her are not.
Heart disease kills more women than every cancer combined. And medicine is still diagnosing it through a male lens.
84% of cardiologists report having patients in the past year whose heart disease was misdiagnosed by another physician. Women with a STEMI heart attack have a 59% greater chance of being misdiagnosed compared to men. Women with an NSTEMI — 41% greater chance.
The reason is structural. For decades, we screened, tested, and treated women using a template built for men.
Men's heart attacks announce themselves — the crushing chest pain, the clutched fist, the Hollywood collapse. Women's hearts whisper. Crushing fatigue that feels like wearing a lead vest. Jaw pain written off as TMJ. Nausea blamed on a stomach bug. An ache between the shoulder blades blamed on a long week. Shortness of breath blamed on being out of shape.
For years, medicine called these "atypical" symptoms. They are not atypical. They are female-typical. Half of humanity is not a variant.
And the biology runs deeper than symptoms.
Women have smaller hearts and narrower coronary arteries. Plaque doesn't only clog the big highway vessels — it hides in the microvasculature, the tiny branches feeding the heart muscle itself. A woman can have a heart attack with a completely "clean" standard angiogram.
SCAD — spontaneous coronary artery dissection — occurs 90% of the time in women. Often young, fit women with zero traditional risk factors. It's the leading cause of heart attack in women under 50, accounting for roughly one quarter of all cases in that age group. Most doctors have never diagnosed one.
And some of the most dangerous cardiac risk factors are hidden in women's medical histories where no one thinks to look:
Preeclampsia or gestational hypertension doubles to quadruples lifetime heart disease and stroke risk. Pregnancy is the body's first cardiac stress test — and these complications are early warning sirens, not closed chapters.
Autoimmune disease — lupus, rheumatoid arthritis, psoriasis — far more common in women, turbocharges inflammation and plaque formation at any age.
Cardiovascular disease in women aged 20-44 is projected to surge nearly 50% by 2050.
The youngest patients in my practice keep getting younger.
What every woman should ask her doctor — and what every doctor should be asking:
"Given my pregnancy history, autoimmune status, and family history — what is my full cardiovascular risk?" If they don't ask about preeclampsia or gestational diabetes, volunteer it.
"Should I have an Lp(a) test and a coronary calcium score?" Standard cholesterol panels miss too much. Lp(a) is genetic, one-time, and most women have never been tested.
"My tests came back normal but my symptoms haven't stopped — what's next?" Normal stress tests and angiograms can miss microvascular disease, spasm, and SCAD. Persistent symptoms warrant coronary CT angiography or cardiac MRI.
And if something feels wrong — say these exact words to your doctor: "I am concerned this could be my heart."
That single sentence changes the workup. Do not soften it. Do not apologize for it.
80% of heart disease is preventable. But the playbook has to be built for female biology.
Two decades ago, I wrote one of the first books warning that heart disease was the number one killer of women and that medicine was diagnosing it through a male lens. It was recognized by First Lady Laura Bush at the White House during the early years of the national conversation about women's heart health.
I'm haunted by how much of that book I could republish today unchanged.
The science has advanced. The awareness has grown. But the gap between what we know and what happens in the exam room is still costing women their lives.
Share this with every woman you love — and every doctor who treats them. READ MORE: https://t.co/4LRugiY8q2

[Ab Gamble 🇨🇦, grateful Canadian.. @AbGamble1]

@PierrePoilievre Repeating a lie does not make it true. It only causes us 🇨🇦 needless stress and anxiety. Carney is doing the heavy lifting while you're galavanting around on a self promotion tour...

[Sharon Coyle @hwcoyle]

@elonmusk So is the lying.

[Neil Stone @DrNeilStone]

If you are unfortunate enough to be diagnosed with cancer please see an oncologist

Delays caused by trying unproven therapies could be fatal

[Lakota Man @LakotaMan1]

The only people in the press who have been brave enough to ask that fucking pervert Trump the tough questions have been women.

Trump fear’s strong, opinionated women.

Because he’s a misogynistic coward.

[Sharon Coyle @hwcoyle]

@bluesunquake @helenaddy Of course, but her reply was "you need me more than I need you". When reported, her manager asked me not upset her staff.

[Sharon Coyle @hwcoyle]

@oldcanadaseries Grew up in Calgary. Loved going to Banff. Small question...when did those street lamps get installed? They look newer than the 60's to me. What say you?

[Spela Salamon, MD, Ph.D. @SalamonSMD]

@waltz_tales Almost everyone who dies in the future will die due to COVID as a contributing factor.

Even if you die of falling from a roof, something like a COVID infection, which impairs your risk taking choices, may cause muscle weakness etc. can contribute.

[Sharon Coyle @hwcoyle]

@JamesFLoveIV The next stage of his deterioration is violence. He will hurt someone. Precautions would be prudent.

[Sharon Coyle @hwcoyle]

@TheRickWilson I say again...the next stage of his deterioration is violence. He will hurt someone.

[tern @1goodtern]

So if you're criticising vaccines saying that they're causing widespread harm (the evidence says that they're not) but you're not criticising Covid infections (the evidence says they are causing harm), then you're... just wrong.

[Anonymous @YourAnonNews]

Congress thinks $83 an hour isn’t enough for them…
but $7.25 an hour is enough for you.
That’s not public service. That’s class warfare.

[Sharon Coyle @hwcoyle]

@echipiuk @AndrewKnack Please do not pretend that you speak for anyone but yourself. Your opinion is irrelevant. Most of us elect leaders to LEAD. Speaking out is what we expect. You, on the other hand remain irrelevant.