Despina Karras
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🌪️Certified weather geek | Award-winning contemporary romance writer | Disability rights advocate | @pitchdis.com founder | 🐶 & 🐱 mom | Coffee addict | ♊️ Repped by @evascalzo.bsky.social www.despinakarras.com www.medium.com/@despinakarras
@rosephile.bsky.social Weirdly enough, today >I< got an invite to an Effy trunk show on the 11th at the same mall, but a different store (Macy's v Belk). I wish I had time to go to both to see if Macy's offers champagne and cookies too 😂
Barring any surprises, my two weeks of medical appointments are now complete. Now I need to recover.
@rosephile.bsky.social Effy trunk show here next week. Anything you want me to look out for?
Medical and medical-ish appointments update: Today's appointment was rescheduled by the provider (🙌🏼) so I kinda sorta have the day off, but I'm too exhausted to do anything productive. Just three more days to go.
MDA's 2025 tax returns have been posted - just not on their site. Read more in my latest on @medium.com #nonprofit #mda #musculardystrophy I just published The Muscular Dystrophy Association’s 2025 Taxes: Disappointing, But Not Surprising medium.com/p/the-muscul...
The Muscular Dystrophy Association’s 2025 Taxes: Disappointing, But Not Surprising
As many of you know, I have had issues with the dishonest way the Muscular Dystrophy Association has conducted business in the last few…
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Welp, I just had to schedule another medical-ish appointment for tomorrow because the joystick broke off my wheelchair this morning 🙃
1) Go see if Mitch is alive. 2)Someone has emails and texts from Elon saying he rigged the election. Check it. 3)Presidents don’t make $2B while in office. Stop him 4) It’s illegal not to releaseThe Epstein Files. Do it. It’s not rocket science. Also don’t go where Lord Dampnut is doing stand up.
Day 4 of medical stuff is over, and I want to talk about it in hopes of helping others. I went to the dermatologist 2weeks ago because I noticed an old mole/birthmark I've had for as long as I can remember recently got darker They did a biopsy. It came back as basal cell carcinoma - skin cancer.
I'm so excited to share that GUARDED (Ava and Leo's story) is a Stiletto finalist in the Unpublished Long category! Many thanks to @contemporaryrom.bsky.social and the Stiletto judges for this honor 💜
Day 3 of medical appointments this week. Just some simple lab work, but I think the last three days caught up with me because I'm beyond exhausted. One major appointment tomorrow and then I can (hopefully) rest for two days.
This week has been very rough, but I just got some news that made things slightly better 👀
Devastated to report that getting up very early actually made me more productive today.
Day 1 of 9 days of medical appointments complete. Today was lab work and an x-ray. It doesn't seem like a lot, but I'm exhausted 😴 I'm basically useless for the rest of the day.
Tropical Storm Bertha has formed in the northeastern Gulf and is expected to hit portions of the Gulf Coast from Florida to Louisiana, and possibly as far west as Texas. https://cnn.it/44ZkfVH
11 am EDT - Tropical Depression Two has formed off the west coast of Florida. Here are the Key Messages. Visit t.co/tW4KeGdBFb for details. 🔗 hurricanes.gov
I just looked at my planner and I literally have a medical/medical-related appointment every day for the next two weeks.
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An Air Quality Alert is in effect for Mecklenburg County until 8pm. #cltwx
Someone compared me to Olivia Pope yesterday and said it was complimentary. I never watched Scandal so can anyone confirm that it was indeed complimentary? 😂
I have to admit, today is one of those days when I have to wonder if my books would have been published by now if my heroines weren't disabled.
Preparing some stuff for #PitchDis and y'all...I suck at using Canva.
This week we lost -Bonnie Tyler 😢 -Mitch McConnell (probably) -Randolph Mantooth 😢 -Lindsey Graham Talk about emotional rollercoaster.
My mom this morning: Did you hear who died overnight? Me: No? Mom: Lindsey Graham. Me: You mean Mitch McConnell. Mom: No. I mean Lindsey Graham. Me: ... Mom: ... Me: ...Oh.