jess ✨

forget what you feel and remember what you deserve | RN 🐻 | she/her 🌈

[jess ✨ @jesswaatt]

To my incredible boyfriend @zulfi_sheikh : Thanks for the best year a girl could ask for. Hopefully you can put up with me for a few more 😉 Love you more and more everyday 💕

[jess ✨ @jesswaatt]

@zulfi_sheikh Lucky for you, I’ll be on the side of a volcano so you can do whatever your heart desires

[jess ✨ @jesswaatt]

@zulfi_sheikh Ur literally not even watching the grinch, u grinch

[Zulfi Sheikh @zulfi_sheikh]

The Toronto Raptors and MLSE Foundation made their annual visit to SickKids hospital on Monday.

For a 2nd year in a row, coach Darko Rajakovic committed to donate for every assist the Raps record. Up-ing from $20 to $30 for 30th anniversary.

Last year his family donated $46,700

[Zulfi Sheikh @zulfi_sheikh]

Gave my girl a ring before Joel Embiid made a conference finals 💍

[Zulfi Sheikh @zulfi_sheikh]

It hasn’t even been a full week of wearing a mask and Scottie Barnes is dressing like Bruce Wayne

[Wendy Hasson MD @WendyHassonMD]

Have you ever watched a baby die of pertussis? I have. Several.

This is what it looks like:
A newborn baby can’t stop coughing. They can’t catch their breath and they can’t eat. They get dehydrated and stop peeing. They sometimes have pauses in their breathing. Parents are terrified so they come to the ER.

In the ER, labs show they have a dangerously high white blood cell count. Their blood has become thick from the white blood cells and doesn’t travel through organs like it should. Less oxygen gets delivered to vital organs. They start to seize. Imaging reveals they had a stroke. They can’t pump blood to their lungs and body.

A breathing tube gets placed in their trachea. They get put on a ventilator. A plastic catheter is placed in their veins and arteries to give them medicine and measure blood pressure.

If they are lucky, they can make it to a #PedsICU that provides #ECMO, or full heart lung bypass. They are attached to machines that take over all their body functions.

But it’s too late. Their hands and feet turn black because they can’t perfuse their bodies. Their faces turn grey/green. They won’t stop seizing from the brain injury.

They are attached to too many machines to hold while alive and parents lay their bodies on top of them and cry until they fall asleep then cry again.

There is nothing to do but stop the machines. Antibiotics to treat pertussis were given but were no match for the infections effects on a newborn baby.

Parents finally hold their baby after the machines have turned off and their baby is cold and lifeless.

Is this what you want? This is what RFK Jr will bring to American families.

[Zulfi Sheikh @zulfi_sheikh]

For the last three summers, @jesswaatt and I have taken a week off to volunteer at @Campfirecircle_

And it’s truly become a yearly highlight for me. From acting like a silly camper to learning some truly amazing stories. Every second of it is special.

[jess ✨ @jesswaatt]

@zulfi_sheikh It’s fine, you don’t have to mention me in your thank you speech

[Zulfi Sheikh @zulfi_sheikh]

Entire Toronto Raptors fan base tonight:

[Zulfi Sheikh @zulfi_sheikh]

What an unreal experience, up close.

Shoutout @thepwhlofficial for providing another example of how this city is ready for women’s sports at the biggest stages!

[Zulfi Sheikh @zulfi_sheikh]

OG Anunoby gets "OG" chants from the MSG crowd after 26 pts, 6 stls, and +38 in win

Pascal Siakam gets his first win with Pacers and records 6th career triple-double (26, 13, 10)

[Zulfi Sheikh @zulfi_sheikh]

Me to my dog: let’s go inside, I’m cold.

My dog: Stop complaining, you could be colder.

Me:

[Zulfi Sheikh @zulfi_sheikh]

Lost in all the chaos of yesterday and today was myself having the privilege to experience a lot of it up close for the first time.

First Raptors game as credentialed media, grateful for the opportunity. More work ahead! 🙏🏽

[Zulfi Sheikh @zulfi_sheikh]

I’m working during this Rams vs Lions game but @jesswaatt is giving me VERY descriptive play by play so it’s like I’m watching it anyways 👏🏽

Don’t settle for anything less my kings 😤

[Zulfi Sheikh @zulfi_sheikh]

23 years old, averaging 18 ppg, making avg annual salary of $26.75 million.

Players making around the same or more?

John Collins, Gordon Hayward, Tyler Herro, and DeAndre Ayton…I think RJ Barrett’s contract is fine lolol

[Zulfi Sheikh @zulfi_sheikh]

On a side note, seeing my name/story on the home page and as the main story on the UFC page for Sportsnet feels amazing! My first byline on the site.

Grateful for every opportunity to this point and look forward to keep growing in this industry 🙏

[jess ✨ @jesswaatt]

@zulfi_sheikh @CanBball @Shydw4 @MiamiHurricanes Very well written Zulfi! Great to see men supporting women in sports 👍🏻

[Zulfi Sheikh @zulfi_sheikh]

Ahead of the start of NCAA hoops, I spoke to @CanBball star @Shydw4.

The Canadian and former ACC Freshman of the Year is playing her first season with the @MiamiHurricanes and has her sights set on a 🏆
https://t.co/wHXKesY2ls

[jess ✨ @jesswaatt]

@zulfi_sheikh These are whack

[💥 Nurse D, RN/1L @TakeThatNurses]

My job, as the 6’3” male nurse, is to be available when some creepy pervert patient tries telling the cute new grad nurses and aides that he can wash every part of himself except his privates.

“Hello sir, I hear you’ve requested assistance getting washed up”