*giving speech at son's wedding reception, 3 year old grandson wrestling to get microphone* Me: what do you want to say? Grandson: <grabbing mic> Me: <afraid> Grandson: 𝗣𝗟𝗔𝗬 𝗟𝗜𝗙𝗘 𝗜𝗦 𝗔 𝗛𝗜𝗚𝗛𝗪𝗔𝗬
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Med/Peds Critical Care MD. I raised 3 teenage boys to adulthood, so you don't scare me. Abortion is healthcare. https://instagram.com/omnintensivist?igshid=OGQ5ZDc2ODk2ZA==
Haahahhhhhhhaaaaaaaaaa He Was a MAGA Patriot. ICE Took His Wife Away. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/16/u...
He Was a MAGA Patriot. ICE Took His Wife Away. (Gift Article)
The case represents a new front in President Trump’s mass deportation drive: arrests at airports of people who have active immigration cases and no criminal history.
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I need to remember this day where I took two flights across the country and people were incredibly kind to each other. I love us sometimes.
Boy in the pillowcase is getting married this weekend. He asked me to give a lil speech. He made me submit it to him for review, didn't want me talking about what a smart baby he was. But he was a smart baby and I'm GOING OFF SCRIPT
Judgment Judgement They both look weird today and I can't remember which way I usually spell it so maybe this is the beginning of the end for me
Don't hate me because my PICU patient made me jewelry
Grandbebe pulls a bandaid off his finger and hands it to me GB: You can have this gramma Me: Oh, um, thanks Daughter: He's been watching "Stinky and Dirty", they re-use things from the trash GB: (finds an old piece of a shoe) Put this on me, it's bracelet now Me: Reduce Reuse Recycle BAYBEEEE
Mocktails shouldn’t cost as much as cocktails.
*CT surgery rounds in the PICU* Me: When my kids were infants, I cried every day for the first three months and they were healthy CT surgeon: I cried putting in a pacemaker today Nurse: I'll give you both something to cry about if you don't finish these rounds - Fin
This is Lightning and he wears his best shoes when he visits our PICU kids because he is a gentleman
Connecticut residents: In some towns in your state, data shows it takes more than 10 minutes for an ambulance to arrive. Was this similar to your experience? ProPublica and @ctmirror.org want to hear from you.
Connecticut: Have You Called 911 for Help? Tell Us About Your Experience.
If you or someone you know has firsthand experience seeking emergency care in Connecticut, ProPublica and The Connecticut Mirror want to hear your story.
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One reason i think everyone should take an archaeology class is to internalise with tangible examples that there is no pure, natural past utopia and that antibiotics and vaccines are what stand between us and a 50% child mortality rate and scores of women dying needlessly during pregn and birth
Shaun Lintern@shaunlintern.bsky.social · 2mo agoLeeds is now the subject of a major inquiry into maternity. I previously reported on its decade long pursuit of 'normal birth' ideology that saw it have the lowest number of caesareans while stillbirths and baby deaths soared to the worst nationally www.thetimes.com/article/f3af...
If you want to live dangerously, ask a PICU nurse who keeps paging you why they are so obsessed with you Then move away and create a new identity
That thing where we're all in a room to protect a PICU nurse from a combative adolescent is stress you can't adequately describe to an administrator.
When the going gets tough . . . I complain about it
Patient's family brought donuts Cookie Monster has a head injury
*PICU Night Shift* Me: you people need to stop gaslighting me Nurses: we only gaslight the docs we like Me: Nurses: Me: OMG YOU ARE GASLIGHTING ME RIGHT NOW
This was a hard story to report. Newborns who don’t get a vitamin K shot are 81 times more likely to develop a condition where they bleed uncontrollably. But more and more families are declining the shot. And babies are dying. www.propublica.org/article/more...
Babies Are Bleeding to Death as Parents Reject a Vitamin Shot Given at Birth
A lifesaving injection given at birth to prevent severe bleeding has become collateral damage of the anti-vaccine movement.
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One thing about me is that I was never a pleasure to have in class
A granddog gazing out the window, wishing for his real parents
There are lots of things wrong with me but a big one is that after I finish a run of heinous PICU shifts, I feel so awful I convince myself that I'm dying or have a serious chronic illness. Then I sleep for two nights and I feel good. It's been 20 years of this. I'm bad at pattern recognition.
I have a sworn enemy. Her name is Supraventricular Tachycardia and she picks on babies. I hate her so much. She a bitch.