shelse.bsky.social
Not nice, fat, disabled, queer, immunocompromised woman. Outlander and fiber arts geek. #CelineDion stan forever #NoPatienceForTheAbleds
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People are delusional. The law doesn't matter. I don't understand how they think the checks and balances will work with someone who doesn't fucking care? He's a fascist, he doesn't gaf what the law says. Also lololol at the military not shooting citizens. Tell me you're unfamiliar with history.
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Journalism died with the abandonment of public good with the refusal of the vast majority of media to cover that covid is 1. Airborne, and govts knew in 2020 and 2. It's really fucking bad for us??? And they knew that in 2020 too. @popnb.bsky.social has all the RTI docs and no one acted
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Criminal in 2025 to continue to deny how this illness and others truly spread. Intentional ignorance on Covid goes against everything hospitals and healthcare claim to be about. Keep calling out the harmful lies. Model better. Fight for better.
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@ipaccanada.bsky.social needs to stop pretending covid is not predominantly airborne. IPAC must acknowledge facts and reality: majority of transmission is airborne. We need respirators. We need HEPA in hospital. Stop killing patients! Stop harming workers!
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Hospitals are the only place still doing any kind of individual testing that gets reported anywhere for Covid. They’re in total control of the testing. No testing? No sequences. No variant monitoring. No data. No problem. Misaslignment of incentives.
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Executives frame this internally as a recruitment/retention issue; giving employees a “break” from PPE. But the hazard remains; a risk for both staff and patients as well as visitors and contractors. We don’t do “seasonal” helmets or steel toe/shank boots.
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Adorable 😍😍😍
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They're adorable 🥰 I could probably knit myself one but I desperately need a real one.
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I'll never stop. I will have one one day.
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I can't convince my husband our dogs need one.
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Please stay away from this. Do anything and everything you are able to prevent it from becoming a chapter in your story.
That spark you feel within yourself is far too precious and far too fragile.
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I want to be disciplined in my hope.
I want to choose the optimistic calm over the sardonic restlessness.
However, the energy for such faith feels like something I read in a book, in another life.
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Long covid brought with it a pernicious grief and has made a coward out of me; afraid to say these things out loud… afraid to admit they’re real… afraid they’ll never improve.
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Anyway. Covid sucks. Long COVID sucks. Happy Saturday. (End)
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But it’s just so violating to make your decision and have it not matter because reality doesn’t work the way we want it to. I still mask. I will always. It is important to me, and the values I hold. But that doesn’t keep me safe everywhere. (13)
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Mostly pain related. My joints ache. My old breaks hurt. My head hurts almost always. Everything just hurts. It sucks and it most certainly didn’t have to be this way. I hold a lot of resentment about the way we were infected. It’s damaged relationships. (12)
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Clawed my way back from that and I had to start an SSRI. My stress tolerance was so low. My emotional state was making my physical health worse. Something had to give. This actually helped a lot. It even changed the way my palpitations feel. (10)
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Things were fine again until July when I accidentally was taking reactine complete instead of regular reactine. The complete version has a stimulant. That put me back in bed and I missed a trip to meet one of my oldest and dearest friends for the first time. (9)
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In January I was eating sourdough bread and drinking kombucha daily. As it turns out, fermented foods are absolutely the enemy and I landed myself back in bed for two weeks after another trip to the ER because my tachycardia was extreme even through my beta blockers. (8)
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But my heart being more under control let me sleep and I started to get my life back pretty steadily. I got a couple of doses of novavax and they helped tremendously. Life was better. The summer was great. (7)
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Finally one Friday night I get a call at like 4:30 from my doctor and he’s like “lol how soon can you go to the pharmacy”. I started beta blockers the next day.
Starting beta blockers was life changing. I was still unwell. I still had POTS. I still had head pressure. (6)
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It was months of parenting and homeschooling between naps. S would have to make us food for the day because I could not stand to cook. I couldn’t stand to make a peanut butter sandwich.
Months of this. (5)