Watching #Hoarders and I understand not being able to let go of family heirlooms or books, but this hoarding garbage thing is so hard to comprehend. I mean how do people live with the stench?
This grandma had 60,000 pounds of stuff removed from her house. And her granddaughter CiCi who she raised had to grow up in this hellhole. She's now in high school and just "wants a real home." Hoarding really hurts these kids. This girl slept on boxes. It's so sad.
This other family, the mom is the hoarder and the dad is a fireman.There are five kids and nowhere for them to sleep because of all the stuff. How could you put your kids through this? The trauma is so much. #Hoarders
The oldest son in this family threatened to call CPS if his mother didn't get help. And she said that would teach her kids.
OMG. The hoarder doc was stunned. (So was I.) She blames the kids (it's obviously not the kids).
NINE TONS out of this one house. This family spent all this money on a bunch of crap and now it all has to be thrown away because mice and bugs have gotten into it. It's so tragic to see how this family has been made so dysfunctional.
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I've been writing about this for a few weeks--and, as an immuno-compromised person--living it throughout the pandemic. This piece has open access. Read it.
"Physician Kristen Solana Walkinshaw told The Washington Post last week that her team had four patients who needed continuous kidney dialysis and only two machines available." washingtonpost.com/health/2021/09…
"The resource crunch could also force healthcare workers to give beds or ventilators to those most likely to recover. If resources become tight, they can consider universal DNR orders for hospitalized adult patients who go into cardiac arrest." washingtonpost.com/health/2021/09…
So Monday I was informed that a PT would be coming today. I ceased being able to get in-home PT at the end of March 2020 when the country locked down. I was not allowed to change the day (Tuesday is a deadline day for me).I asked for late afternoon and was told no.
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I was told the latest visit would be 2pm and that the PT would be here then. I organized my work day around that time, which was very difficult, and rescheduled some work for Wednesday morning. It has been stressful and energy-depleting.
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It is now nearly 4pm. The PT has not arrived nor called. I have been in stasis for two hours, unable to do work that involved interviewing because what if the PT shows up? Also, their day ends at 5pm, so the "two hour intake and session"won't be happening, either.
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THREAD:
If 1 in 500 people have died of COVID, close friends and family members *of someone* *have* died of it. This is a shockingly off-key comment from Ross Douthat, who had COVID himself. Yet the quote in the piece is much worse than this as he says no one*he*knows died.
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This is a badly--even bizarrely--argued piece that contends that the number of dead is a Goldilocks number: just right. Not as many as some predicted, but enough to be a big number. Douthat--who is much smarter than this piece--says that mostly people in nursing homes died.
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And while Douthat says it's not good that so many people (he forgets about disabled people) died in nursing homes, but...well...shrug. Douthat seems not to know any POC. POC--young folks--have died disproportionately. And even though he had it,he also shrugs off #LongCovid.
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AOC is doing a good job of supporting Democrats and Biden's expansive bill that includes the #GND, while also calling out "fossil fuel lobbyists who brag about having members of Congress on speed dial." She is calling out Manchin by his actions. "We have to choose the science."
AOC says members of her community have had to remove bodies of people who died in basement apartments during flash floods and that this cannot continue. She cites the stats on how the overwhelming majority of Americans are ready to.address #ClimateCrisis.
Asked about Greg Abbott's comments on rape, AOC says she finds his comments "disgusting," and that "he doesn't understand biology 101," that it's six weeks before a menstruating person knows they have missed a period. @AC360
#THREAD
This disgraceful headline is evocative of the inhumanity many Americans have adopted during the pandemic. Politicizing grief, be it Biden's for his beloved son, or that of the 640k families who lost someone--including young children--to #COVID, is itself pandemic.
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Too many are bored by grief and impatient with suffering. We call it "empathy fatigue," but how have we come to a point where we tire of being compassionate? After 4yrs of a self-absorbed narcissist who felt nothing for anyone else, shouldn't Biden's raw humanity be welcome?
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Trump could not have cared less when Americans died. He famously was shocked to discover from Bob Woodward that it was the thousands of dead that mattered in the COVID crisis, not the stock market. Biden was gutted by the Kabul massacre and what it meant for the families.
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