this girl had the nerve to pull up next to me when driving and mouth “get off your phone.” You shoulda seen her face when I lifted up my Pancheros burrito for her to see
Today I held a mother in my arms so she could cry her tears of frustration. She stays up all night to care for her crying kid who scratches herself until she bleeds everyday. She’s only 2 years old yet she’s spent most of her life putting creams after creams on her little body.
The kid needs Dupixent (injection). But her insurance wouldn’t cover Dupixent until she fails crisaborole. It won’t cover crisaborole until she fails tacrolimus. It won’t cover tacrolimus until she fails 2 moderate to high potency steroids.
We have to go down the “list” of creams and fail each one of them against my clinical judgement because insurance dictates what I do. It will take us months.
My patient will spend these months not sleeping. And her mother will spent these months blaming herself and worrying if she’s done anything wrong.
So today, when I prescribed more creams, the mother cried. And I know why she did. But I couldn’t speed it up more than what insurance “allows” me to.
My spoken words: “I’m so sorry. We will get her better. I promise.”
My unspoken words: I wish instead of playing the stupid, unethical, unlawful, inhumane game with the insurance companies, we could just help a child, instead.
What will forever astound me about MAGA, is just how many of them will vote against their own self-interests to support him.
He is a rapist who said he would date his own daughter, called women dogs & bragged about sexual assault, and he has said that he wants a federal ban on abortion.
Women will vote for him anyway.
He dodged the draft, attacked a POW, called fallen war heroes suckers & losers, disparaged scores of Generals, tried to gut the VA and will decimate it if given the chance.
Veterans & members of the military will vote for him anyway.
He wants to destroy public education, cut food stamps, Medicaid, housing assistance, and other welfare programs that millions of Americans rely on.
The poor will vote for him anyway.
He doesn’t care about any of them. He doesn’t want to help any of them. He would willingly hurt all of them. And has.
But they don’t care.
Because he hates who they hate.
And sadly, that’s all they think they need.
Alphabet date ideas:
A- Art Gallery, Amala hangout, Amusement park, Aquarium visit.
B- Beach picnic, boat ride, bowling, biking, beach bon-fire, book store date, baking classes, board games.
C - Cooking, Cinema, Car date, Concert.
JUST SAW THIS ON FACEBOOK AND I HAVE NEVER FELT MORE VALIDATED.
“Client session today:
Client shared something tragically horrible. My response was "This is the kind of thing that you will never get over or heal from or be okay with. You will, over time, have more and more-
I reread @jk_rowling’s 2008 Harvard speech a lot, especially this line:
“There is an expiry date on blaming your parents for steering you in the wrong direction; the moment you are old enough to take the wheel, responsibility lies with you.”
A 9 year-old girl lost her life trying to pull the fire alarm to warn other students in a mass shooting. Yet, a congressmen from her state the very next day said ‘there’s nothing you can do’ and basically said that’s why he home schools his kids. The 9 year old had more bravery.
People like MTG in re: #Ukraine. The aid is not pallets of cash. It’s in the form of military equipment, assigned a value, that is donated.
That equipment is usually older and would be replaced in the next few years anyway, at a cost .
I’m sure she doesn’t understand this.
The Creston Schools & Community suffered a huge loss today with the passing of Darwin West. Darwin loved driving a bus, our kids, & our activities. He volunteered his auction services to raise money for many school activities. Simply put, Darwin made Creston & our Schools great.
In 2019, President Jimmy Carter, the oldest living former president in US history, at age 95, built Habitat for Humanity homes in Nashville.
President Carter represents the best of humanity.
@IAGovernor Your “smaller government” has been more intrusive in Iowans’ lives than any other governor in Iowa’s history. Hurting rural schools through a flawed voucher system is pretty big government to me.
Senator Rick Scott introduced a plan that would sunset Social Security and Medicare every five years unless Congress votes them back into existence.
https://t.co/spnUd4vyQg
On the left, Republican Senator Mike Lee feigns outrage during the State of the Union when President Biden suggests that some Republicans want to cut Social Security and Medicare.
On the right, Mike Lee says he wants to get rid of Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid.
Iowa Senate just approved final passage of school voucher bill 31-18. Three Republicans voted no: Lynn Evans, Charlie McClintock and Tom Shipley.
One Democrat was absent (Bisignano), all others voted no.