Earlier this week we saw a man who was in distress who thought he was having a heart attack in a parking lot. We helped him out, called his ex wife & waited with him for the ambulance. Firefighters arrived first & almost immediately judged him as a drug user.
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- Replying to @realdocvHe could have died if the first responders continued to treat him like a drug addict, unworthy of compassion. At least three people saw him in distress & ignored him instead of helping him. We are such a broken society.
- Schrödingers potus: he needs to be elected as only he can protect our reproductive rights but he also can’t do anything to protect reproductive rights as an elected officialTo protect reproductive rights, the American people need to reelect @JoeBiden as president of the United States.
- Replying to @realdocvTurns out, he’s still in the hospital awaiting a diagnosis because they have been running tests all week. He’s definitely sick, but they don’t know what it is yet. He had no drugs in his system.
- Nurse comes in Me: can you please put a mask on? Her: sure, I’m just checking to see what you need (while standing in the room) Me: ok, please put a mask on Her: I will when… Me: you’re standing in the room now without it. Please put one on. Her: annoyed face *gets mask*
- Replying to @realdocvThey were brisk & at times, unkind. At one point, their hostility was escalating him so I got on the ground with him, asked him to breathe with me & walked him through a breathing exercise. His heart rate went from 150 to 120 in just a few minutes.
- Replying to @realdocvHe eventually got into an ambulance & was taken away. The firefighters thought he was strung out or faking & made it clear they did. Today, his sister called us to ask some follow up questions (we called his ex wife with our phones so they had our number).
- It's hella naive to think that racism is only in racial slurs. It's in HR offices when resumes with ethnic names are tossed. It's in banks when loans are denied to Juan but given to John even though the qualifications match. It's in cutting in line b/c Karen is in a rush.
- Instead of shaming adult children who are estranged from their parents, ask yourself how much pain a person has to have suffered in order to willingly choose to orphan themselves
- My sons health teacher was just talking about BMI and my son was like “it’s racist and not a measure of health and was created by insurance companies and there’s no real medical purpose” and his teacher was gagged …man was literally silent for at least a minute ✊🏽✊🏽😂
- Replying to @realdocvMIND YOU. Gabe just got out of ICU due to pneumonia from a respiratory virus. He could literally DIE from an airborne virus and people act like it’s an inconvenience. Fuck everyone who minimized COVID & politicized mask usage
- Betrayal can trigger a trauma response, especially in those who have PTSD or CPTSD. When a person discovers that someone they loved & trusted has been lying, it is disorienting. It's never as benign as people like to pretend. Betrayal can have serious emotional consequences.
- This was an email sent to me by my sons last therapist. He was in active heart failure which she knew about. We had just gotten back from a hospital stay where he had a heart transplant offer that fell through. Less than a week later she sent this:I’m a licensed psychotherapist and will likely never seek therapy again because of the harm my family and I have experienced due to the carceral nature of the system and culturally incompetent therapists




