So folks an update on my situation with @MattressFirm and it really sucks. The catchup. Thursday a week ago Juan was sick so for dinner we raised the bed into the full upright position for him to eat dinner. The bed would not lower. The head motor apparently died. So we had to move into the guest room since the bed does not lower. Friday I searched product manual and googled for solutions. Then I called the 800 number which turned out to be for the manufacturer. They had me take multiple photos that required me to crawl under the bed to retrieve labels

Yesterday our news in Pima County was already bad enough that the library was going to stop disturbing free Covid test kits in the public at its branches and everyone would be forced to go the county health department to get the kits. Today it became more bizarre. — The health department announced they are only giving out the kits in a one day event - today. Apparently we are not going to be able to get the free Covid test kits after today. WTF are they thinking? At least I have resources to buy kits for us if they ever get stocked again —-

@Crof @DrJudyStone I got my introduction into the horror influenza could be when I was about 9 or 10 and staying with my grandmother one summer. We were looking at a box of old photos in drawer and I was fascinated to see my aunts and my grandparents as young children and I found two photos - @Crof @DrJudyStone The first was this very striking young woman> When I asked my grandmother who she was she told me, "that was my sister Lillie". I had never heard my grandmother had a sister, and I asked where she was and my grandmother told she died in that bad flu.

The fact that Trump has encouraged his MAGAts to watch polls us already producing the expected results most of us thought they would. Yesterday when Juan went to cast his early vote in Pima County he was accosted and harassed by Trump supporters at the polling site. They followed him from his car to the building sneering questions are him including - are you legal? Is that why you are voting?
- are you voting to help our country or where you come from?
- do you like the police?
These questions were being shouted at him by MAGA hat and Trump Pence shirt

I am just so sad and frustrated at this point in the pandemic. It has decimated my friends who work in critical care. We threw a large party at our house a few years ago. Of the attendees, 2 are dead, two fighting for life on ventilators, 3 are altered from brain damage - and are unlikely to ever work in medicine again. These people are all two to three decades younger than me. It is shocking. Instead of working hard to stop the slaughter of our first line healthcare workers, our leaders are determined to create a new front line: teachers

@Uber_Support my app still shows “pick up soon” but the driver does not show enroute? Uber was supposed to be here 6 mins ago

I always enjoy when I get to meet one of my Twitter pals in real life, and tonight I had an opportunity to drive down to South Beach to meet Sonya Winterberg, AKA @experimentdays, who was in Miami Beach for the Jewish Film Festival. Sonia kindly invited my friend and I to attend the Southeast US premier of the film she directed "Made in Auschwitz" that tells the story of over 400 women who were subjected to gynecological medical experimentation in Auschwitz in the infamous Block 10 of the camp.

I just couldn’t get my head into the game of live tweeting effectively this week so I thought i would pause and catch up and share some of my highlights from our writing and communication this week at #AMWA2019 My 1st session was the update of AMA Manuel of Style from the JAMA editors. Lots of useful update info shared and I appreciate the arrangement to get AMWA members a discount for the 11th edition. I loved the guidance for SM referencing, the space in temps (37 °F) not so much.😉

Okay, story time @MidwestVetPath @rovingpencil - my embarrassing miscalculation as a human counterweight. When I moved from Dallas, TX to South Florida I took my small Ficus plant that had been 3 feet tall and in a pot in my TX bedroom for 10 years and planted it in my FL yard, Within a few years it had become a good 25-30 tall monster. I knew it needed to be taken down. It still seemed rather skinny for a tree but I could tell it was a problem and I felt confident I could handle it with my saw. I stood on the 6ft tall wall and began cutting it.

The 1960 election is the first of my memory. I was only 5 so I understood very little of what it meant except someone was going to be in charge of us, that was the way my mom explained it to me. President Eisenhower had to stop being president and we needed to pick a new one. I also realized my dad and my Aunt Flora (his older sister) were going to vote differently. My dad was going to vote for this exciting Kennedy man & my aunt Flora was going to vote for the man who seemed so grumpy to me. I didn’t know his name but of course now realize was Nixon

@ctuckerprof Cynthia, this piece was is so important. Thank you for writing it, and I am so glad those elderly black folk were willing to share their memories. I grew up witnessing inequalities in Monroe County that as a small child, I could believe what I was seeing. Yes, you and I are - @ctuckerprof - same age. But I witness these from the perspective of a white kid. There is no way I could feel the true impact, but even as a kid I saw the behaviors as justly unequal. I grew up in Mobile, but spent much time in Monroe County where my dad’s family was from. In Mobile I saw -