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Living w Disability
🔹I don’t know what you’re going through
🔹Is every day a struggle?
🔹Greg suffers #DownSyndrome, Alz Dz, Depression, Catatonia
🔹 Yet today he said, “Sunday’s donut day, but let’s have ‘chockle’ anyway & I’ll be ok.”
Be inspired‼️
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#Recovery
🔹I don’t know what you’re going through
🔹Is every day a struggle?
🔹Greg suffers #DownSyndrome, Alz Dz, Depression, Catatonia
🔹 Yet today he said, “Sunday’s donut day, but let’s have ‘chockle’ anyway & I’ll be ok.”
Be inspired‼️
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#Recovery
1/🧵 Real-World Long COVID
🔹She got COVID Oct 2020
🔹59 y/o walked 5mi 4x /wk
w no prior cognitive problems
🔹“I got better but 4 mo later my memory faded. I struggled.
🔹HR came after me, ‘You can’t do your job.’”
Husband: “I want my wife back!”
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🔹She got COVID Oct 2020
🔹59 y/o walked 5mi 4x /wk
w no prior cognitive problems
🔹“I got better but 4 mo later my memory faded. I struggled.
🔹HR came after me, ‘You can’t do your job.’”
Husband: “I want my wife back!”
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2/ Could her new #dementia be unrelated to COVID?
Maybe, but…
Her excellent neurologist feels her negative work-up, young age, speed of demise, temporal onset in relation to COVID all fit LongCOVID-related brain dysfunction & not a pattern of Alzheimers.
They want to share
Maybe, but…
Her excellent neurologist feels her negative work-up, young age, speed of demise, temporal onset in relation to COVID all fit LongCOVID-related brain dysfunction & not a pattern of Alzheimers.
They want to share
3/ Husband through tears: “I want my wife back.”
Her Description – “I walk down the hall & see pictures of family & trips. I feel like a ghost because I don’t remember. My husband cries because I seem gone to him.”
“I’m trying to figure out who Barbara 2.0 is going to be.”
Her Description – “I walk down the hall & see pictures of family & trips. I feel like a ghost because I don’t remember. My husband cries because I seem gone to him.”
“I’m trying to figure out who Barbara 2.0 is going to be.”
1/🧵Gratitude is Pain’s big brother
▪️Prof Greg teaches me to accept life on life’s terms
▪️ICU pts teach me how to traverse pain
▪️Gratitude is their close companion
▪️Gratitude is not just a tenet of etiquette – it’s an essential quality of well-being
#UpSyndrome
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▪️Prof Greg teaches me to accept life on life’s terms
▪️ICU pts teach me how to traverse pain
▪️Gratitude is their close companion
▪️Gratitude is not just a tenet of etiquette – it’s an essential quality of well-being
#UpSyndrome
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2/ I can’t pay gratitude w a checkbook, only from the ❤️
📍My Gratitude Ledger is in deficit because I don’t nurture #Wisdom
📍I underutilize this superpower of recovery
📍Gratitude is Greg’s antidote to victimhood
📍It helps him rise above any situation
#TheLuckyFew
📍My Gratitude Ledger is in deficit because I don’t nurture #Wisdom
📍I underutilize this superpower of recovery
📍Gratitude is Greg’s antidote to victimhood
📍It helps him rise above any situation
#TheLuckyFew
3/ Gratitude can’t be reduced to verbal or written acknowledgment of a gift 🎁
Greg has a deep sense of awareness of his interdependency on others, you & me, his sisters & brothers.
He’s gracious in heartfelt appreciation despite living w great disabilities.
#FindYourTribe
Greg has a deep sense of awareness of his interdependency on others, you & me, his sisters & brothers.
He’s gracious in heartfelt appreciation despite living w great disabilities.
#FindYourTribe
#GITwitter
The 4th🗞️of the #GenderEquity series I had the privilege to lead w ⭐️#WomenInGI⭐️ is out
@LancetGastroHep doi.org/10.1016/S2468-…
🎯Closing the #GenderGap in #GILeadership: The need for effective & comprehensive #Allyship @SiwanTG @AmyOxentenkoMD
A🧵& a 📣to action
The 4th🗞️of the #GenderEquity series I had the privilege to lead w ⭐️#WomenInGI⭐️ is out
@LancetGastroHep doi.org/10.1016/S2468-…
🎯Closing the #GenderGap in #GILeadership: The need for effective & comprehensive #Allyship @SiwanTG @AmyOxentenkoMD
A🧵& a 📣to action
1/ Let’s talk numbers #GenderDisparity in #GILeadership
#WomenInGI make up
⚠️19% of fellowship PD or Division chair
⚠️20% of Editorial boards of journals
⚠️5 or less Presidents of 🇺🇸 #GI societies founded >70 yrs; @BritSocGastro founded in 1937 had 2 & @my_ueg (‘1992) one
#WomenInGI make up
⚠️19% of fellowship PD or Division chair
⚠️20% of Editorial boards of journals
⚠️5 or less Presidents of 🇺🇸 #GI societies founded >70 yrs; @BritSocGastro founded in 1937 had 2 & @my_ueg (‘1992) one
2/#GenderDisparity in #GILeadership
It’s not a pipeline🚰 issue
🧑🏼⚕️👩🏽⚕️Make up
🔺50% med students
🔺33% #GIFellows
🔺40% of graduating🧑🏼⚕️👩🏽⚕️ enter academia
⬆️ # of women in GI is not enough to close the gap
💎#Allyship from women leaders,men, institutions & self-promotion is needed
It’s not a pipeline🚰 issue
🧑🏼⚕️👩🏽⚕️Make up
🔺50% med students
🔺33% #GIFellows
🔺40% of graduating🧑🏼⚕️👩🏽⚕️ enter academia
⬆️ # of women in GI is not enough to close the gap
💎#Allyship from women leaders,men, institutions & self-promotion is needed
1/🧵 Beauty in the Now…
While normally Greg doesn’t #worry, in this case, he succumbed to fear of change.
He was screaming and Crying in Fear - see tweet below.
How did he get through it?
What did he teach me?
#NothingDownAboutIt #DownRightPerfect #UpSyndrome #Tribe321
While normally Greg doesn’t #worry, in this case, he succumbed to fear of change.
He was screaming and Crying in Fear - see tweet below.
How did he get through it?
What did he teach me?
#NothingDownAboutIt #DownRightPerfect #UpSyndrome #Tribe321
2/ Greg held his head in his hands and trembled with worry.
We were disrupting his usual Saturday of watching “I Love Lucy.”
Think Rain Man type of dependence on routine &
that’s Greg.
So when Kim and I took him to the mountains, it totally messed him up.
What happened?
#T21
We were disrupting his usual Saturday of watching “I Love Lucy.”
Think Rain Man type of dependence on routine &
that’s Greg.
So when Kim and I took him to the mountains, it totally messed him up.
What happened?
#T21
3/ At first Greg got angry with us for taking him on this trip.
I mean, REALLY angry.
And we know that #ANGER is just one letter away from #DANGER.
He was heading in a dangerous path of rejecting something that could be healing & good in his life.
#TheLuckyFew #FindYourTribe
I mean, REALLY angry.
And we know that #ANGER is just one letter away from #DANGER.
He was heading in a dangerous path of rejecting something that could be healing & good in his life.
#TheLuckyFew #FindYourTribe
1/🧵 Are you happy?
My brother w #DownSyndrome is teaching me tons of life lessons.
In medicine & in life, I make big decisions based on guesstimates of other’s Quality of Life #QOL.
I often GET IT WRONG!
What do adults w #disability teach me about TRUTH?
Can I learn?
My brother w #DownSyndrome is teaching me tons of life lessons.
In medicine & in life, I make big decisions based on guesstimates of other’s Quality of Life #QOL.
I often GET IT WRONG!
What do adults w #disability teach me about TRUTH?
Can I learn?
2/🎥 How do we “calculate” someone’s #QOL?
#Confession: I get it all wrong when I impose MY judgment onto THEIR life.
Greg, my 57 y/o brother-in-law with Down Syndrome, has a better QOL than I do.
Why?
Digest this…read on…
#DownSyndromeLove
#Confession: I get it all wrong when I impose MY judgment onto THEIR life.
Greg, my 57 y/o brother-in-law with Down Syndrome, has a better QOL than I do.
Why?
Digest this…read on…
#DownSyndromeLove
3/ My working definition of QOL is “the ability to give & receive love.”
REREAD THAT👆
Greg understands the Law of the Gift: Treasures GROW when we give them away.
It’s the opposite of hoarding.
Yet, giving ourselves to others can be SCARY. Greg ponders deeply these emotions.
REREAD THAT👆
Greg understands the Law of the Gift: Treasures GROW when we give them away.
It’s the opposite of hoarding.
Yet, giving ourselves to others can be SCARY. Greg ponders deeply these emotions.
#MindsetMatters #DreamBigWorkHard #DreamBigWorkHard #GrowThroughIt #WriteYourOwnStory #YouArePowerful #FindYourTribe #DotItAnyway #GetOutofYourComfortZone #Crowdfire #motivational #motivation #inspiration #success #motivationalquotes #quotes #mindset #entrepreneur #lifestyle
Matthew Alfieri Melbourne Florida #art
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