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[feral-ballad]

Maya C. Popa, from Wound is the Origin of Wonder: Poems: “Not the wound, but what the wound implies”

[liahleeh]

Maktub é uma palavra que significa " já estava escrito " ou " tinha que acontecer ". 

[maihonhassan]

Remembering Faiz on his 40th Death Anniversary!

The pain Faiz suffered through is heart wrenching to us; “kahin to karwan-e-dard ki manzil thahar jaye, kinare aa lage umr-e-rawan ya dil thahar jaye.”

[peco5bi11]

while i still hate all politicians it has to be said: true believers are terrible for politics. while your regular run-of-the-mill politicians may be scumbags with no real beliefs, they at least understand compromise and know when to back track or turn around.

a true believer will never compromise or allow anything but total obedience and submission to the cause and get crazier over time.

[how-much-for-a-whump]

Kuruluş Osman 171. Bölüm

Prompt: "Captured & Tortured"

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[whumpdaydreamerx]

Whumpee and Caretaker ambushed in their home. Caretaker tied to a chair as Whumpee is attacked. Maybe shot or stabbed before the Whumper and their men leave.

Whumpee left sprawled on the floor writhing in pain as they clutch their abdomen. Neck arching as their mouth falls open with a silent cry. Caretaker watching helplessly from their chair. Begging Whumpee to get up — try to untie them so Caretaker can tend to Whumpee.

Whumpee’s upside down vision of Caretaker blurring as they try their best to pull themself together and gather their strength.

[letthewhumpbegin]

Moon Knight, s1e5

[unsolicited-opinions]

Unfortunately, such failures are not limited to Canada.

In the US, we arguably don't have a healthcare system. Instead, we have a profit-driven "wealthcare" system which fails people even more consistently.

Canadians, as a result, have longer life expectancy and lower infant mortality than USAmericans. Health equity is far better in Canada than in the US. I'm not saying Canada's system is anywhere near what it *should* be - only that it is several steps ahead of its neighbor to the south and several steps behind Australia, the Netherlands, and the UK.

Sexism, though? That's a problem in medicine which knows no national borders. That's in Australia, the Netherlands, and the UK, too.

The data is pretty clear that women and men presenting with the same symptoms are not consistently given the same evidence based care at the same rates. Much of our evidence base did/does not control for sex/gender in clinical trials, and that has real consequences for health outcomes in women.

What's most distressing to me is the way pain is regarded differently in female patients. Compared to men, women are not as consistently held as credible reporters of their own symptoms, including pain. If they report pain, they're less likely to receive analgesics/anesthetics than men reporting the same symptoms.

I've worked in healthcare for 20 years, so when my 14yo said she'd like to wait longer to see a female doctor, I agreed immediately. I would not fault any afab person for preferring to be treated by afab providers.

I don't think most providers are knowingly sexist. I don't think they're malicious, and I don't think they are consciously, deliberately dismissing pain in women. I think their sexism is implicit, deeply embedded, and mostly unexamined.

I don't think regulatory mechanisms can address this, but education, perhaps, could.

Healthcare in the US is in shambles. It is a direct result of bad policy. It is infuriating.

"Joy Spence, 21, said she visited emergency departments at two hospitals in St. John's over the course of nearly two weeks this May.

What began as weakness and abdominal pain on her right side quickly deteriorated into blacking out from the agony in her torso.

But no matter how dire her symptoms got, doctors kept sending her home.

"They would just tell me, 'Your bloodwork's normal, there's nothing we can do.' They would send me home, then same thing again," she said. "I would go back again. They would get me to do the bloodwork, say everything's normal."

Ultrasound and CT scans apparently turned up nothing, but Spence, in such severe pain, says she had no option but to keep returning to the hospital, where she says she was eventually left screaming in a waiting room, ignored by hospital staff.

"If somebody doesn't help me, I'm going to die," she recalls wailing, watching doctors and nurses pass her by.

At one point, she was dismissed outright by a walk-in clinic nurse, she adds.

"Somebody said to me, 'I don't know what you expect me to do,'" she said. "'You're a healthy 21-year-old young female.'"

One night, she says, her boyfriend had to help her into an ambulance. Spence was in so much pain she couldn't stay conscious and stand on her own.

"I remember the man in the ambulance telling me … how often he sees other young women going into the hospital and seeing them be misdiagnosed and not taken seriously," she said, speaking through tears.

"He said that he would do his best to … get things going for me."

Spence says she went to an ER at the Health Sciences Centre or St. Clare's Mercy Hospital about 10 times over a 12-day period, beginning on May 21. She also visited her family doctor, who could do little except tell her to speak directly to the surgeon at Health Sciences Centre, she said.

Each time she saw a doctor, she says, she was sent home and told to dance around her living room or do yoga to cure what physicians believed was anxiety or sluggish bowels.

"I had so many laxatives," Spence recalls. "I would tell them … nothing's even coming out anymore. It's not just this, I don't think. But no, they were dead set on the constipation and only constipation. Like, it can only be that."

...

Spence says doctors only began to take her seriously once she began vomiting in a Health Sciences Centre hallway. The contents of her stomach were green and black.

An older doctor walking past her happened to notice, stopping in his tracks. Spence says he immediately identified the issue as appendicitis.

At that doctor's urging, Spence was finally wheeled into an operating room, where she says her burst appendix — now gangrenous — was removed.

"I think when I walked into the room and they seen a 21-year-old young girl, they immediately dismissed me and thought that there couldn't be anything wrong with me," Spence said.

"I was not on their minds and not on their radar. And if they didn't have that preconceived idea of me, those thoughts wouldn't have been formed and maybe I would have gotten the proper care that I should have."

...

Spence is still struggling to recover from her ordeal. Physically, she's now fine: her appendix was removed and her stitches have healed.

But she's lost an alarming amount of weight, she says, wakes up gasping in the middle of the night and can't stop herself from crying whenever she remembers the hospital.

"I've been losing a lot of hair," she said. "Mentally, it's just been a struggle."

Spence only received an apology from the health authority after CBC News requested comment and confirmed that Spence had done an interview — a move she says felt hollow and frustrating, since the manager who called her didn't give her an explanation about why she was repeatedly ignored while waiting to be admitted.

The ripple effect from her illness, and how she says she was treated when seeking care, has uprooted her life. She's taken a year off her studies in Memorial University's social work program and has lost her job. She's looking for trauma therapy, but now doesn't have the money to pay for it, she says.

"I think as young women we're always told what we're supposed to do, how we're supposed to think, and not to trust our instincts," she said.

"But most of the time … the gut instinct is right. I knew I was sick. I knew what was happening wasn't right, and I could have died if I didn't keep going back to the hospital.

"If I had listened to those doctors and went back home — what could have really happened?""

[jolly7899]

gonna crash out if these two don’t hug or SOMETHIN’

[feral-ballad]

Maya C. Popa, from Wound is the Origin of Wonder: Poems: “Dear Life”

[voidic3ntity]

my presence is unwanted within these thickets; strident thorns.

[peco5bi11]

not too long ago i went and looked at some modern lego sets for fun... and my God the prices are insane nowadays. the big sets back in the day weren't cheap mind you, but they weren't this bad.

Lego is releasing a very nice model of the Endurance on 29.11 but my goodness why for 260€?

[negiwave2000]

uhhhh so a couple hours ago i decided to try & go outside n get soe food on my electric scooter cuz i was hungry.(it's night mind u)..i went to safeway and got nothing....then it started raining rlly hard when i went back outside....then i tried going back out anyways even tho my scooter isnt waterproof....theeeen i waited at a busstop for half an hour and it didnt stop raining .so then i went back out on the streets, didnt watch where i was going & fell over on the road, face hit the road and got a big rash on my chin, lost a tooth, got 3 rashes on my right knee. then i went back home n cried. now im sitting here typing this now that ive cared for all the injuries & had took a shower and cleansed it all off. with there now being bandages all over my knee n face. im okay now

im traumatized cuz of that now so im never going on my scooter at night aagain

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[boghermit]

People complaining about Veilguard's art style are so funny. You wouldn't last a minute in the asylum where they raised me.