Laura Gillespie 💙

Chartered Accountant, Xero fan, mum, schnoodle owner, talk about mental health and tv a lot

[Piers Morgan @piersmorgan]

Why the hell was triple-killer Kyle Clifford allowed to duck appearing in court for sentencing, and to hear BBC racing commentator John Hunt’s excoriating statement about the monster who destroyed his family?
They should have dragged the snivelling coward there in chains.

[Aasmah Mir @AasmahMir]

As that woman-hating rat is sentenced to a whole life order, I won't use his name, I won't post anything with his picture. I only want to see the faces of these three women, the victims of pure misogyny and terror, cut off in their prime. Rest in peace Carol, Louise and Hannah.

[Laura Gillespie 💙 @pieaccounts]

Good for you Charlie, ignore the haters . Positivity wins every time ! Xx

[Charlie Smith @charliersmith1]

Since sharing this photo yesterday, I’ve been subject to some pretty horrible comments about my appearance and weight.

I contemplated deleting it. But instead, I’ve decided to post it again to show I’m not ashamed of my body!! 😃

[Mariella Frostrup @mariellaf1]

Don’t you have a place you consider home? These are people, just like you and me with lives and histories and grandparents and dreams that life will get better… not cattle to be shipped somewhere more convenient

[Laura Gillespie 💙 @pieaccounts]

Omg, every day another horror.

[Ed Krassenstein @EdKrassen]

Wow, this is just Nuts!

Moments ago, Trump's White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt , when asked about Trump potentially abolishing the Department of Education, seems to say that science, social studies, s3x education, physical education, history, spelling, and other subjects shouldn’t be taught in schools in America.

Seriously?

Specifically she says: “As a mother of a child, I want an education system that helps my child read and write, teaches him math. NOTHING ELSE IN THE CLASSROOM.”

[Saul Staniforth @SaulStaniforth]

"We need a total arms embargo on Israel.. we need to commit to holding Netanyahu & his govt to account for the war crimes they have perpetuated & you need to look at things like #BDS"

@AyoCaesar on #politicslive (her comments at the start were directed at the 2MPs on the panel)

[Nicky Clark @MrsNickyClark]

Dear All.

It’s 3.30am on Monday 27th January and I have some time as I’m awake currently.

I’m awake because I’m in hospital.

I’m in hospital because on Saturday morning at 4.30am I had a heart attack.

The paramedics saved my life for the first time and then the consultant in Stoke where I was taken in a blue light ambulance, saved it again.

The nursing teams, auxiliary staff and everyone involved is so brilliant and so kind.

(6.43am)

(Sorry bloods & blood pressure and a rest. )

The thing I want to highlight is that we aren’t very good at knowing the different presentations of symptoms of cardiac problems in women.

It doesn’t always start with left arm pain or jaw pain.

It ended up there believe me, and with a crushing burning pain in the centre of my breastbone radiating out over my back and shoulders but that’s not where it started.

It started weeks earlier with heartburn and as women can we honestly say that’s something we would take to a doctor?

No.

Most of us will brush it off and carry on. I know I did. Too trivial, they’re too busy, I’m too busy, “I can’t pitch up there with heartburn how embarrassing wasting their time”

But grumbling heartburn if you’ve never suffered from it before, shouldn’t be ignored. I ignored it for the last 6 weeks and here I am.

So what I was thinking was I’d post it here and then if any woman with no other symptoms suddenly get heartburn which wont go completely, she could offset her embarrassment at visiting the doctor with my post.
Then she can blame me.

10.27am

Like many people in my situation I have such love for the NHS.

The speed and efficiency of the paramedics, the A&E team at RSH who put two cannulas in my arms so that the hour long blue light trip to stoke was covered “just in case”.

The team in Stoke (led by Dr Karim Ratib) and the nurse, who told me gently that I’d had a heart attack and then told me I needed a stent fitted straight away.

The immediate procedure, the aftercare ,the time the patience and the dedication, all of it was beautiful and precious and irreplaceable.

10.56am

And that’s the word isnt it. Irreplaceable because the NHS is just like the people we all love, absolutely irreplaceable and always there for us when we need them.

💙

Tuesday 28th January. 8.30am

Morning all. I’m home again with lots of meds & lots of bruises and so much gratitude for our NHS. I need another stent fitted but this will be in 6-8 weeks.

There was mild to moderate damage to my heart from the heart attack but fortunately it wasn’t the part of my heart which carries the love I have for my children, my husband, my family and my friends.

I’m going to see Em today because she needs to know what happened from me, so she knows I’m ok, but obviously I’m only giving her enough info to inform not frighten her.

I will post this message to you all after that.

My big aim right now is to work towards making other women aware of how the symptoms of cardiac problems present so differently in men and women.

I’m hoping @wesstreeting as health secretary might help with that.

Women matter at every age and women’s health is too important to continue to put ourselves at the bottom of the list.

We are so often the glue holding everything together, we fight for those we love and share our concerns and worries with our friends & spouses/partners but not always with GPs in case we’re “being a bother”

But it’s time for women to have a “heart to heart” with their GP on that. Don’t leave too late like I did.

Huge love, from a moderately damaged heart.

Nik xx ❤️ xx

[Damien Lewis @authordlewis]

Brilliant from today's Express: "Justice for war hero Paddy Mayne. Blair 'Paddy' Mayne deserves a posthumous VC, that's a Victoria Cross not a Volatile Caricature."
The pressure's building, folks. Please share far and wide.🙏🙏🙏

https://t.co/BKWMgSMXiZ

[Laura Gillespie 💙 @pieaccounts]

@rickygervais Why not?

[becky🦋 @thenickjshow_]

Leanne: I’ve voted for Alexander
Alexander: It’s okay. I’ve voted for Leanne
Leanne: *eye roll* Of course🙄

WHY CAN YOU ACCUSE BUT YOU CANT BE ACCUSED, LEANNE, ITS THE GAME

#TheTraitors #TheTraitorsUK

[Laura Gillespie 💙 @pieaccounts]

@prodnose Out out

[Paul Merson @PaulMerse]

6 years sober today…thank u to everyone who as helped me along the way One day at a time 🙏

[Armando Iannucci @Aiannucci]

Jess Philips is a committed and caring minister, and you, sir, are a toxic gonad. The UK is not your plaything, wealth doesn’t exempt you from international law, and owning X doesn’t give you license to poison the discourse of any country whose government you disagree with.

[Laura Gillespie 💙 @pieaccounts]

@charliersmith1 So happy for you. X

[Damien @taxidamien]

So a young man got into taxi Christmas eve & said if I didn't mind he forgot his wallet so had to run in and get me the fare when we arrived at his destination which can sometimes ring alarm bells. We had a great chat & he told me he's from India and living & working here with Tesco doing nights & paying €800 PM for a room but says he's living the dream compared to where he's from. Anyway he ran up into the apartment block and true to his word arrived back, gave €20 for a €15 fare, insisted I keep the change & also gave me a bottle of Baileys which he said was given to him by someone & as he doesn't drink alcohol he would like me to have it
Lot of nice people out there

[London & UK Street News @CrimeLdn]

Boxing day at Westfield...

[GTAFICATION @gtaficationn]

Last year I spent Christmas alone, homeless, in a hostel, crying my eyes out because my life had been ripped away from me.

This Christmas I have my own flat and am a stronger person for all the shit I survived.

Merry Christmas, everyone. For those in pain, it gets easier 💜

[Sky News @SkyNews]

Gisele Pelicot has delivered a statement after her ex-husband was sentenced to 20 years in prison

She said she 'never regretted' opening the doors of the trial, 'so society could see what was happening'.

Read more: https://t.co/0wOCRCjSD1

[nazir afzal @nazirafzal]

All 51 men have been convicted of raping Gisele Pelicot

She heroically fought for this while her husband & each of these rapists felt sorry for themselves

We deal with the symptoms but ignore the sexism & misogyny that causes it

Today is Gisele’s day

[Jay Gray @Jamie_Gray4]

1/2 My dad unfortunately collapsed and passed away at the Wolves game last Monday night, he had to be carried up stairs from his seat in block 123 to be able to have CPR performed on him, his watch went missing when he was moved and we desperately want it back..