"The sad truth is evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil". Waysider. 605
Feb 24, 2024 • 12 tweets • 1 min read
This is a thread of paraphrased Facebook posts from people describing new health problems (but not mentioning Covid or Long Covid).
01. “Does anyone have joint pain all over their body?”
Feb 2, 2024 • 8 tweets • 2 min read
I think my “problem” is this: while I accept that my life is now completely different because of (Long) Covid, I don’t think it’s okay that this happened to me in the first place. I don’t think it’s okay I was treated appallingly by my local A&E in 2020, I don’t think it’s…
…okay that my own family refused to believe me when I said how ill I was (I thought I was dying and wrote farewell notes), I don’t think it’s okay society chooses to turn a blind eye to what has happened to millions like me, I don’t think it’s “just one of those things”….
Sep 10, 2023 • 9 tweets • 1 min read
In a menopause online support group, some entries from minimal scrolling, paraphrased to protect identities:
🔴Fed up with having a bad stomach, what can I do?
🔴 I am in my mid forties and am having to give up work. My colleague doesn’t believe it’s the menopause.
May 21, 2023 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
Chest pain: panic attack
Elevated heart rate: anxiety
Numbness: anxiety
Difficulty breathing: stress
Pins and needles: anxiety
Headache: stress
Exhaustion: depression
Diarrhoea: anxiety
Stomach pains: stress
Migraine: stress
Vomiting: stress
Tinnitus: stress
Neck pain: stress
Not wanting to be infected by Covid: anxiety
Not wanting to see people who don’t mask: anxiety
Feeling too ill to go out: depression
Not wanting to go to crowded places: anxiety
Forgetting things; stress
Not wanting friends and family to get Covid: anxiety
May 20, 2023 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
A thread on banana bread 🧵
“Bananas appeared in the US in the 1870s but it took a while for them to appear as ingredients in desserts. Banana bread recipes began to appear in cookbooks across North America when baking powder became available in grocery stores in the 1930s….1/
…..Some food historians believe banana bread was a byproduct of the Great Depression as resourceful housewives did not wish to throw away overripe bananas. Others believe that banana bread was developed in corporate kitchens to promote flour and baking soda products. 2/