My inbox today, after I closed a thread and blocked 2 people for calling me fundamentalist and assuring me that I am oppressed even if I think I’m not:

“I thought you were more open minded. I thought you were different. But really how are you different than every other
religious fundamentalist? Your words said you have choice yet your actions proved otherwise when you decided to shut down the conversation and block all of us. You get to walk from this entire conversation on social media with zero repercussions yet those who have been shunned
by the community have to start from zero. I hope that one day you recognize the truth of what myself and so many others are telling you. Just a few months ago, you came clean on social media about how just a few years ago you were opposed to vaccines.
Maybe in a few years you'll loudly proclaim how religion is so oppressive.”

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19 Jul
Orthodox Judaism is magnificent for many people.

But it is primarily meaningful if you are part of a nuclear family and fit into a mold. This is where some of the the benefits and strengths of Orthodoxy shine in the form of communal acceptance, kinship, loving-kindness.
Where you break an arm & Hatzalah shows up, calls an orthopedist and segues you into the ED. Where you are hospitalized & receive package of hot meals. Where your nephew doesn’t have a father but 3 uncles show up to his siyum. Where your community holds you up when you’re broken.
But, it’s not always magnificent if you are divorced, single, childless, widowed, gay, irreligious, rebellious, struggling with mental illness.

This is where we abandon you. Where we don’t know what to make of you. Where you don’t fit our mold and now we’re confused & worried.
Read 5 tweets
15 Jun
Ok so hear me out. I know my Patreon is meant for medical necessities but this was important.

Tom is dying slowly of lung cancer and that’s our goal - to slow his death. He lost 80lb, and at 7 feet, he looks like a skeleton. Still, we treat him as long as he feels ok.
He lives at a homeless shelter and likes to visit me randomly at the clinic, even when it’s not a treatment day. “My Blima,” he calls me.

Today he came for chemo and we chatted. He fretted over an additional 4lb lost, but his eyes lit up as he recounted a good day last week:
“My brother came up from Alabama and took me to Applebees. Blima I ate a whole rack of ribs, mashed potatoes, broccoli and chocolate cake. I enjoyed it so much.

I don’t like the frozen dinners I usually get for meals.

So, this was a treat.”

I told him I was happy for him.
Read 5 tweets
9 Jun
Let’s talk about yesterday’s interaction with @OJPAC where we discussed differing rates of vaccination among NYS’s Hasidic neighborhoods.

Some might say to let it rest, but after ruminating over this for a bit, I think it’s important to review what happened, and why.
I am a part of the Chassidic community; I grew up in it, I live it it, my friends and family are chassidic. I love them and their culture and their unique way of life more than I can express, even if I don’t live it the same way.

As a nurse, I can also see the problems.
I’ve seen the healthcare barriers for years, and I’ve tried to take them on, one at a time.

For my doctorate thesis I received IRB approval to study high-risk frum women’s understanding of their risk of breast cancer, and the utility of genetic screening.
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30 May
So here’s my story of how I went from being an anti-vaccine, fearful mother who selectively vaccinated on an alternative schedule -> to a pro-vaccine advocate.

It’s not very dramatic, but these stories never are.

We start in 2008, where I am a new cancer survivor, age 23.
My chemotherapy regimen had me comatose & wheelchair bound. I don’t know why. Once I became a nurse I realize that it was an extreme reaction to the chemotherapy.

But, I survived.

A year later I was cleared to try to become pregnant. I was told I wouldn’t be able to.
Several months later, with a lot of help from God and science, on the day I graduated nursing school, I was expecting my daughter.

I enjoyed my time. I was still recovering my strength and my hair, and processing what I had been through.

Then my back started to hurt.
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27 May
He was on the phone, wailing: Blima every bone hurts, I can’t bear it.

I smacked myself mentally. He got an injection yesterday to increase white blood cell production. On occasion, it causes deep bone pain (it works in the bone marrow).

But most of my patients do fine.
Now he was in severe pain, which is complex because he’s on methadone and oxycodone to manage both his addiction and his cancer pain.

The trick for this kind of pain is Claritin - only partially supported by the evidence, but low risk, many patients swear it works.
“Josh,” I said urgently. “Can you get to a pharmacy?”

“No,” he moaned. “I can’t get out of bed.”

I went to the pharmacy next door and swiped my Patreon card for the $14 Claritin. I asked if they’d deliver it, but their driver had left for the day.
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8 Mar
@Ami_Magazine allowing scams to be advertised.... not cool.

In case you needed more proof that it’s a trashy rag.
The fact that is was developed by Binyamin Rothstein should be enough.

Who is he? A physician whose license was revoked several times in several states for malpractice, most notably for treating patients with intravenous hydrogen peroxide.

centerforinquiry.org/wp-content/upl…
Patient A has meningitis and Rothstein gives him IV hydrogen peroxide.

Patient B, a 2-month old “appears to be seizing” (per Rothstein’s notes) and is given a B12 injection and spinal manipulation.

Patient C has pneumonia and is treated with weekly IV hydrogen peroxide.
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