Carolyn Thomas 🇨🇦
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Author of "A Woman's Guide to Living With Heart Disease" published by @HopkinsPress.bsky.social Speaker. Jargon translator. Narrator. Mayo Clinic-trained patient activist. www.myheartsisters.org Zack & Rosie's Baba & BreastCancer oh joy! Slava Ukraini!
This is the letter kids got at the end of Dolly’s Imagination Library. I defy you to read this and not cry.
This is so bizarre. A politician telling you her vision for America is that you’ll have to work when you’re sick and die young, orphaning your kids. Please vote for @drannieandrews.com
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2w agothese people booing sound like literal sheep as Darline Graham criticizes Dr. Annie Andrews for supporting "government-run healthcare" before bragging of her parents that "if they were sick, they had to get up and go to work...my mother passed away when I was 11 and my father just over a year later"
Ups, downs, and going with the flow of diagnosis myheartsisters.org/2024/11/17/k... Karen Salmansohn is the author of many books, including (2nd best title ever!) “HOW TO BE HAPPY, DAMMIT!”
Ups, downs, and going with the flow of diagnosis
The ebbs and flows of diagnosis: ‘Learning you have a serious medical condition might qualify as an immediate crushing ebb, but oddly enough, I felt instead an overwhelming flow of reliefR…
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I agree with @drsandman11.medsky.social: If you didn't look like this & doing everything you can to prevent people from dying during the pandemic, maybe think twice before judging Dr. Fauci.
France calls out the U.S. at a UN meeting: “The US used to be a beacon of human rights. Not anymore. Today, it stands alongside North Korea, Nicaragua, Mali and Russia. Isolated. And the world no longer listens to it.” U.S. representatives stormed out of the meeting. Well said France! 👏🏼🇫🇷👏🏼
Constructive wallowing after a serious diagnosis myheartsisters.org/2025/03/16/c... Aren’t we supposed to keep smiling and think positive and just get over it? “NO!” advises Dr. Tina Gilbertson in her Psychology Today column called "Three Good Reasons to Wallow in Despair"
Constructive wallowing after a serious diagnosis
“There is one thing even worse than wallowing in despair – and that is NOT wallowing in it ” – Dr. Tina Gilbertson
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The giant white sturgeon of the Fraser River in Canada
The C.D.C.’s parasite-surveillance team, which was instrumental in tracing the origin of the 2013 cyclospora outbreak, had 11 scientists before DOGE began gutting federal agencies. Now it has three. www.newyorker.com/culture/prog...
Grocery Shopping in the Age of Explosive Diarrhea
The cyclospora outbreak lays bare our underfunded and overwhelmed public-health system.
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Constructive wallowing after a serious diagnosis myheartsisters.org/2025/03/16/c... Aren’t we supposed to keep smiling and think positive and just get over it? “NO!” advises Dr. Tina Gilbertson in her Psychology Today column called "Three Good Reasons to Wallow in Despair"
Constructive wallowing after a serious diagnosis
“There is one thing even worse than wallowing in despair – and that is NOT wallowing in it ” – Dr. Tina Gilbertson
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📝 JAMA Patient Page: #Cyclosporiasis is an infection of the small bowel caused by the #parasite Cyclospora cayetanensis, primarily acquired by ingesting #contaminated food or water—most often fresh produce with crevices, such as leafy #greens, #herbs, and #berries. 🔗 ja.ma/4b69SCM
It was a moment for #Spain’s #WorldCup football team to receive accolades well earned. As players crossed the stage for trophies and medals, they received congratulatory hand shakes and applause from #PMCarney, #PresidentScheinbaum, #PresidentTrump. Some more enthusiastic than others. #cdnpoli
Where are you on the Distress Thermometer? myheartsisters.org/2025/05/25/w...
Where are you on the Distress Thermometer?
I’m struggling to make sense out of this new diagnosis – through the unique lens of a person who has first-hand experience with distress – first in cardiac care and now in cancer …
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The New Orleans Five and the ADA's Worst Week https//www..com/the-new-orleans-five-and-the-adas-worst-week/
The New Orleans Five and the ADA's Worst Week
Five scientists were escorted out of a diabetes conference by police for handing out a scientific paper — published in the host's own journal. By the time the Ameri…
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Study: Protected bike lanes = safer roads for people on bikes, in cars and on foot: usa.streetsblog.org/2019/05/29/p...
Separated Bike Lanes Means Safer Streets, Study Says — Streetsblog USA
Cities that build protected lanes for cyclists end up with safer roads for people on bikes and people in cars and on foot, a new study of 12 large metropolises revealed Wednesday.
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The good news: Chemotherapy drugs are very effective at killing off fast-growing cancer cells. The bad news: These drugs are also very effective at killing off our fast-growing healthy cells. What about that 'First Do No Harm' rule? myheartsisters.org/2026/03/22/a...
A patient’s dilemma: to cry or not to cry
by Carolyn Thomas ♥ Heart Sisters (on Blue Sky) Crying is a natural and effective way to relieve stress by releasing stress hormones like cortisol, triggering feel-good endorphins and oxytocin, ac…
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Daughter & I were just talking last night about how car centric cities ruin so much community. Cities that are rideable & walkable create vibrant areas with lots of things to do.
Brent Toderian@brenttoderian.bsky.social · 2mo agoDoes replacing parking with bike-lanes hurt restaurant business? Of course not, as this new peer-reviewed STUDY of 15 years of Montreal data showed. ACTUALLY, downtown experienced significant restaurant growth after bike lanes were installed. @momentummag.bsky.social momentummag.com/do-bike-lane...
Two ways to portray heart failure. One of them works. myheartsisters.org/2016/03/13/t...
Two ways to portray heart failure. One of them works.
Which of these two heart failure awareness campaigns would you find most compelling? Which poster would you put up on your staff room bulletin board? Which non-profit organization would you be more…
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Yesterday was my final Chemotherapy Day, so I brought some treats into the Chemo Room with this note for my nurses: "Lovely to meet all of you this past year - but I hope I'll never meet you again!"💕 P.S. my total bill to cover medical procedures/tests/scans/surgeries was zero. Happy Canada Day! 🇨🇦
Post-Traumatic Growth: how a crisis makes life better - or does it? #BrenéBrown argues that we live in 'a Gilded Age of Failure,' where we fetishize recovery stories for redemptive endings, glossing over large swaths of darkness and struggle preceding it..." myheartsisters.org/2015/03/15/p...
Post-Traumatic Growth: how a crisis makes life better – or NOT
There’s an ancient tradition that claims great good can come from great suffering – or does it? Here’s why I just don’t buy it . . .
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Welcome back to #StatsSunday — your statistical fix, pulled from this week’s stories. Read the story behind this stat here: https://reasonstobecheerful.world/yellow-means-creepy-the-color-coded-anti-harassment-system-used-by-restaurant-workers/
