Michele Hollis

[Michele Hollis @withonelmichele]

Maybe evidence that randomness is lumpy?

[Michele Hollis @withonelmichele]

Three punctures in five days! The car, cargo bike, and a regular bike simultaneously need puncture repairs. Christchurch roads are always littered with debris from construction (screws, staples, metal filings) and broken glass (worst on recycling day).

[Michele Hollis @withonelmichele]

@jamespeshaw Thank you for the Zero Carbon Act. Should have said that sooner, as strains of Big Yellow Taxi ring in the ears.

[Michele Hollis @withonelmichele]

@CoastalCeleste @JennyTweetsThis Disappointing to see prospect of east's cycleways being pushed back again. Rational argument, cost : benefit evidence, is not winning the day. What else can we do?

[Professor Mark Maslin 👋 𝕏 @ProfMarkMaslin]

#ClimateChange is about consumption of richest people in our global society

50% of global life style emissions are emitted by richest 10% of the population.

90% of global emissions by richest 50% of the population.

We need #ClimateJustice to deal with the #ClimateCrisis fairly

[Te Pūtahi @Te_Putahi]

Join our first Chch Conversations event for 2023 when we welcome @sophiehowe the first Future Generations Commissioner for Wales. Talking about creating intergenerational wellbeing.
🗓️ 25 July 5.30-7pm
🆓 Free
⛪ In person
💻 online
Bookings required
https://t.co/9irYcrZPNd

[Eugene Kibets @eugenehmg]

I will save this photo from today’s Kherson and will look at it every time I hear “why support animals? support people” please don’t tell me that they do not understand anything

[Michele Hollis @withonelmichele]

@Number10cat @Number10cat, lest war erupts, make it clear to your followers that idea came up at one local school and did not happen. Not official. Not government. Also, my cat announces he is sporting a natty lime green collar with bell, and is going out.

[Michele Hollis @withonelmichele]

Update: she is dying again. If she gets a move on with the dying, she gets to stay in hospice. If she stabilises on the way down, we'll be looking for a hospital-level rest home bed. Two person assist 24/7 for an indeterminate period isn't possible at home.

[Michele Hollis @withonelmichele]

Observations as my Mum spends time in hospital and hospice: there are magic thresholds, you must collect special tokens via birth, luck and advocacy to cross. Eg in ED waiting room you are total scum, in ED your needs are valid even if you must still wait.

[Michele Hollis @withonelmichele]

Because Mum is now not dying our next move is likely to be back to hospital. Health system thresholds are not there by accident - they are designed in, with all their biases embedded like the rebar in their concrete.

[Michele Hollis @withonelmichele]

New Zealand government regards patient transfers by ambulance as 'private hire' so doesn't pay anything towards the cost. Someone in the Ministry of Health thinks Mum could just call an Uber?

[Michele Hollis @withonelmichele]

$200 bill arrived today for the ambulance transfer to get Mum from her house to the hospice. We'll pay it. Of course we will. But how cruel.

[Michele Hollis @withonelmichele]

Look Aotearoa, other strung-out countries like us have trains, nice trains, nice trains with nice views. We have nice views.

[Dara Ó Briain @daraobriain]

Nice touch on Norwegian trains: a special seat and huge window to watch the mountains and lakes go by.

[Michele Hollis @withonelmichele]

Hospice focus on quality of life enabled the doctors to look at Mum's situation differently and they concluded that she is not actually dying right now.

[Michele Hollis @withonelmichele]

In hospice, a nurse will put a cover over your catheter bag to preserve your dignity. The hospice threshold is hard to cross.

[Michele Hollis @withonelmichele]

In hospital, it is handy if your medical team changes as that might prompt a fresh look at the evidence, but patients and their families have zero control over that.

[Michele Hollis @withonelmichele]

In hospital a SMO will tell you to hurry up and finish what you are saying because he has 4 other patients still to see. In hospice every staff member will listen to your story.

[Michele Hollis @withonelmichele]

@NZStuff Again and again and again: paint is not protection.

[Michele Hollis @withonelmichele]

People in Otautahi, tell me who catered your favourite function locally. Putting plans in place for an imminent wake. Looking for fresh, fun deliciousness.