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Patricia Ann

2 years

I had a woman today tell me she had no idea that being pregnant can permanently harm your body and I can’t help wondering which part of this is personal ignorance or a societal lie and glorification of pregnancy.

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Patricia Ann

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1 year

A girl died in one of my allergy groups yesterday because after a reaction at school, no staff had access to the locked up epipen as the nurse wasn’t there that day. Epi-pens are meant to be on someone’s person at all times, not locked away. I hope they’re sued into oblivion.

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Patricia Ann

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2 months

Becoming a parent and learning about car seat safety has made me very aware that a lot of adults, mostly women, do not meet the weight and height requirement to not have a booster seat.

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Patricia Ann

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2 years

I’ll say it again: Don’t use euphemisms like “hospital beds” when what you actually mean is nursing staff. The hospitals have not run out of furniture.

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Patricia Ann

@Patricia_Ann_E

4 years

This is what being a millennial is like. “Please get 12 years worth of certifications. Also, we’ll only pay you minimum wage.” Also, “why haven’t you bought a house yet??”

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4 years

I’d make more money being a cone-dipper down at the Dairy Queen!

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Patricia Ann

@Patricia_Ann_E

2 months

@Grchcanoe @anniegirl1138 Which should be changed, as the safety is about height and weight and not age

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Patricia Ann

@Patricia_Ann_E

4 months

Man the ratio on this. My view of adoption changed entirely when I found out that most birth mothers would keep their babies if given only about $4000 and resources. This company and others charges rich prospective parents $50,000 for this baby, and the mother usually isn’t paid.

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Patricia Ann

@Patricia_Ann_E

3 years

Just in case many didn’t realize this “Canadian Frontline Nurses” is not a real nursing organization, does not speak for 99.9% of nurses, & frankly is a hate group. It is started by 2 nurses who participated in the US insurrection & were FIRED for their antimask demonstrations.

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Patricia Ann

@Patricia_Ann_E

2 months

I’ve known and seen short women driving, but a woman who was driving behind me today could only see over the steering wheel by tilting her head almost completely back.

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Patricia Ann

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25 days

I wish our culture was more open or realistic about death & dying. I follow a woman who is dying of cancer, and anytime she says “I am dying of cancer” people get veryyy upset in her comments.

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Patricia Ann

@Patricia_Ann_E

1 year

@PNW_PAC So much grief and rage. This didn’t need to happen and it is entirely the school’s fault.

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Patricia Ann

@Patricia_Ann_E

2 years

It is a myth that Canadians don’t have access to guns. We do. We just don’t have a culture, and quite frankly cult, based on it.

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Patricia Ann

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2 months

She had no idea where the front of her car was in relation to mine and was tailgating very closely during the bumper to bumper traffic and she probably didn’t even know how close she was given her line of sight

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Patricia Ann

@Patricia_Ann_E

3 years

PPC signs are an excellent way to tell neighbours which house to avoid

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Patricia Ann

@Patricia_Ann_E

4 years

It needs to be said again. If you as an employer cannot compete with a $2000/month government assistance program, you are not an employer. You are a poverty exploiter.

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Patricia Ann

@Patricia_Ann_E

3 years

FYI: An ICU bed without ICU nurses is just a bed.

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Patricia Ann

@Patricia_Ann_E

5 months

Simone Biles’ husband trying to downplay his wife’s achievements while none of us actually know his name is something else

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Patricia Ann

@Patricia_Ann_E

4 years

Congratulations to the BC nurses who just got a 2% wage increase and are getting an extra $5 an hour danger pay for the month of April 2020. It’s nice to see that nurses are valued in other provinces.

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Patricia Ann

@Patricia_Ann_E

2 years

@Barreto8P I’m concerned he thought it was appropriate to tell everyone he just watched as his 37 week pregnant wife was doing endless cleaning

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Patricia Ann

@Patricia_Ann_E

2 years

No average person likes to see excessive police or military presence in a country that is a democracy. I think the vast majority of us agree though, that Canada is a democracy, and a group with a written agenda that says “to overthrow the Prime Minister” should be dealt with.

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Patricia Ann

@Patricia_Ann_E

2 years

I’m confused, are Albertan’s happy the price of oil is up or not? Seems like ya’ll want it both ways, good oil & gas money and low prices at the pumps.

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Patricia Ann

@Patricia_Ann_E

3 years

Just reiterating what healthcare workers have been saying for over a year now: Nurses are specialized to their areas. You cannot replace ICU nurses just by “redeploying them” from other areas. The skills required to run machines like ECMO, CRRT etc are very advanced.

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Patricia Ann

@Patricia_Ann_E

2 months

@DrJenGunter He was the producer, who also coincidently hired un-unionized safety staff that had already walked off the set once before due to safety issues

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Patricia Ann

@Patricia_Ann_E

2 years

“I like law and order, I just don’t like when laws apply to me” - The white people convoy

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Patricia Ann

@Patricia_Ann_E

4 years

I am absolutely sick of other healthcare professionals outright stating their distain for nurses, insulting our intelligence, or contributing to misogyny. I worked hard for my degree and I have a very specialized skill set and I am worthy of respect from other HCWs.

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Patricia Ann

@Patricia_Ann_E

2 years

Controversial opinions from an obstetrics nurse of 11 years: Your best labour support person may not be the father of the baby. It also probably isn’t your mother in law.

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Patricia Ann

@Patricia_Ann_E

3 years

Men who say they aren’t interested in women over 30, around the age when most women develop self-esteem, standards, and boundaries, are really telling on themselves.

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Patricia Ann

@Patricia_Ann_E

2 years

And since a lot of you are being pedantic, I never said hospitals can’t run out of physical space as well; However, the majority of times politicians promise hospital beds, space, and capacity, it isn’t about the literal physical space rather the staffing it needs.

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Patricia Ann

@Patricia_Ann_E

25 days

Whenever she says “I am dying,” which is true, people freak out and comment things like “you’re giving up!” And “don’t use the word dying!” Which honestly is disrespectful to her experience. Why are people so upset by that word, especially by someone who has accepted this?

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Patricia Ann

@Patricia_Ann_E

3 years

If I die of a respiratory virus I caught at work while the health employer insists I don’t need N95s in positive patient rooms, consider this an advanced directive to my family to please sue their asses. I deserve to be safe at work, including from infectious diseases.

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Patricia Ann

@Patricia_Ann_E

5 years

My favourite part is the baby being in the moms legs.

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Is that diagram… accurate??

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Patricia Ann

@Patricia_Ann_E

3 years

There’s this TikTok trend of women describing the worst thing their (usually now ex) husband’s did while they were in labour & most of it is just so sad to me. I see it. Every. Single. Day. At my job. I’d say 60-70% of women settle for shitty men & it’s incredibly heartbreaking

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Patricia Ann

@Patricia_Ann_E

4 years

My favourite thing to do lately when I am told a sexist, racist, homophobic (etc) joke is to reply with “I don’t get it..” and make them explain why they think it’s funny.

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Patricia Ann

@Patricia_Ann_E

2 years

You realize with all these distraction convoys in Ottawa, Canberra, and LA, Russia is going to invade Ukraine with no one paying attention, right?

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Patricia Ann

@Patricia_Ann_E

1 year

@BursonGrace @sarahradz_ @KiwordsKira There are people who will literally glare at you for just having a child near them. My 1yo was talking to himself in the grocery cart at the store and a woman next to us glared and said “for f*cks sake” There are very angry adults in this world and children are easy targets.

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Patricia Ann

@Patricia_Ann_E

2 years

@redbirdcarpent1 Bodily harm doesn’t mean you die, although childbirth is the leading cause of death for women in many countries still. Maybe research pregnancy related osteoperosis, spinal fractures, pregnancy related tooth decay, hair loss, symphysis pubic dysfunction, pelvic floor collapse

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Patricia Ann

@Patricia_Ann_E

3 years

I had to prove my immunization status for my nursing jobs and my nursing degree. Requiring another vaccination for employment should be an expectation for healthcare workers, and I think I speak for most of us: We are fine with anti-vax healthcare workers leaving the profession.

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Patricia Ann

@Patricia_Ann_E

3 years

This organization is bankrolled by white nationalist hate groups. These people have insulted healthcare workers, patients, and inhibited care. If you protest at a hospital you are not “advocating for freedom”, you are a piece of shit.

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Patricia Ann

@Patricia_Ann_E

2 years

So Boris Johnston has resigned, but not really, because he wants to get married at Downing Street; and Jason Kenney has resigned, but not really, because he wants to meet the pope. Got it.

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Patricia Ann

@Patricia_Ann_E

3 years

Do fathers ever get asked who’s watching their children when they do something by themselves?

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Patricia Ann

@Patricia_Ann_E

2 years

No one is saying she didn’t make an egregious error. She deserved to have her nursing license taken & be responsible in a malpractice trial. But to make medical errors a criminal offence with threatened prison time affects all healthcare workers in a chilling way #RaDondaVaught

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Patricia Ann

@Patricia_Ann_E

3 years

I’ve been noticing the last few days that the only people claiming nurses or teachers are paid too much money are men. Supporting female-dominated professions is a feminist issue. This gov’t & their supporters on cutting public sector wage jobs have their misogyny showing.

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Patricia Ann

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4 years

@2HRD4THEYRD @LibyaLiberty

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Patricia Ann

@Patricia_Ann_E

3 years

@doxiepowder @hayche_pylori @Incognito_Emily My friend had to redo a whole year of nursing because they wouldn’t let her participate in an OBSERVATION ONLY clinical with a cast on her arm.

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Patricia Ann

@Patricia_Ann_E

1 year

You just watched an interaction that every single hospital healthcare worker has experienced in the last 3 years.

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1 year

What did I just watch? 😳

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Patricia Ann

@Patricia_Ann_E

4 years

Not even 2 weeks ago I was being called greedy, lazy, & entitled by Albertans on this platform who support the UCP. Today everything is “Thank you nurses! We appreciate you!” You can’t have it both ways. If Im supposed to bow & thank Shandro for delaying laying off nurses I’m not

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Patricia Ann

@Patricia_Ann_E

3 years

Our medical system would collapse without nurses. No one else is technically qualified to do most of the tasks, roles & responsibilities that nurses do, and physicians would be the first to tell you that. Don’t pit healthcare workers against one another, we’re on the same team

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Patricia Ann

@Patricia_Ann_E

3 years

Kenney now says “people with a government paycheque should think about other industries” He doesn’t even hide his disdain for public sector workers. Ironic given that is the only paycheque he’s gotten almost all his life.

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Patricia Ann

@Patricia_Ann_E

3 years

So we all agree that bars are actually safe consumption sites for the drug that is the highest detriment to society, and we’re ok with it, right?

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Patricia Ann

@Patricia_Ann_E

10 months

I think the Canadian ban on single use plastics such as grocery bags was fine in principle, but I think has caused far more waste in execution. Cloth bags are more carbon intensive to create, and if every household is like mine we have probably upwards of 50 bags now.

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Patricia Ann

@Patricia_Ann_E

3 years

Purity intermission: Best DIY project thus far #NoLongerPregnant

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2 years

There’s so many things in Alberta named after Elizabeth II and Kenney picked the one thing that was named after another Elizabeth to mention. Classic.

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Patricia Ann

@Patricia_Ann_E

3 years

I wonder if Premier Kenney thinks if you don’t take a pregnancy test, you’re not pregnant?

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Patricia Ann

@Patricia_Ann_E

4 years

I feel like I’ve been a broken record about this topic lately— but I can’t help but be discouraged. My husband and I are a physician and nurse in our early 30s. My husband is looking for the best place to have a practice. Given what is happening in Alberta I don’t see us staying.

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Patricia Ann

@Patricia_Ann_E

2 years

Quite interesting coming from Toronto where mask compliance is about 70% to Calgary where it’s probably 20%

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Patricia Ann

@Patricia_Ann_E

3 years

It should not have to happen to you for it to matter to you.

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Patricia Ann

@Patricia_Ann_E

2 years

I’m very curious where Poilievre is getting his ideas from. The conservative oil rig workers go on EI probably 2-3 times a year. Anyone over the age of 40 (again more of a conservative base) has at least some concern about receiving their Canada pension plan.

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Patricia Ann

@Patricia_Ann_E

2 years

“I’m shocked that 8 male hockey players gang raped a woman” Said no one, ever.

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Patricia Ann

@Patricia_Ann_E

4 years

I wish people knew how incredibly sad the L&D floor can be. And if I tried to explain, I’m sure many would be horrified.

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Patricia Ann

@Patricia_Ann_E

3 years

I do not want to repost their advertisement, but they are named as organizers for hospital protests that are planned again for this week. Know that if you see these demonstrations by hospitals, they do not speak for healthcare workers.

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Patricia Ann

@Patricia_Ann_E

2 years

Good morning! It is 10am and I have blocked over 100 accounts threatening Canadian parents who are excited that Moderna is now approved for children under age 5.

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Patricia Ann

@Patricia_Ann_E

3 years

This is outrageous. @TravisToewsUCP you claim you can’t afford Alberta nurses making $36-48/hour and now you’re hiring contract nurses to replace us at $55-75/hour? Happy to chat with all the lovely people telling me that I deserve a wage reduction because of “fiscal restraint”

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Patricia Ann

@Patricia_Ann_E

1 year

I love when people who have one child who sits quietly and is easily entertained by a book think that’s a reflection of their parenting and not just that little person’s temperament — and then give parenting advice to those of us that have to lock & bolt everything in the house

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Patricia Ann

@Patricia_Ann_E

2 years

The Ottawa hospital is offering med students to work on units for $170-$200/h to be supervised by RNs, the top wage of which in Ontario is $49/h. Tell me you hate and disrespect nurses, without telling me you hate and disrespect nurses. @OttawaHospital

Hospital calls for doctors, medical students to fill nursing shortages

ottawacitizen.com

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Patricia Ann

@Patricia_Ann_E

3 years

I’m actually really enjoying the vaccine rules at restaraunts. I don’t even have to ask people if they’re immunized, I just invite them to a restaraunt.

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Patricia Ann

@Patricia_Ann_E

7 months

Sooo are we getting rid of bars in Alberta?

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UCP members have voted in favour of Resolution 22: "End provincial funding for supervised consumption sites."

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Patricia Ann

@Patricia_Ann_E

4 years

I once saw a husband telling his wife in labour that she needed to think about how hard this was on him. That wasn’t even the worst thing I’ve seen men tell women during birth.

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Patricia Ann

@Patricia_Ann_E

3 years

Why people need a million dollar lottery to incentivize them to be a good person and get vaccinated is beyond me.

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Patricia Ann

@Patricia_Ann_E

3 years

My colleague got called “a communist” when informing an Albertan they were positive for covid19 and they needed to isolate. My contact tracing friend was sworn at by business managers for informing them they were on outbreak status. This is not ok.

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Patricia Ann

@Patricia_Ann_E

4 months

So when people call infant adoption human trafficking, it usually is.

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Patricia Ann

@Patricia_Ann_E

25 days

All of us are going to die unless you believe your faith will take you off this earth a different way. And as the saying goes: Nothing is certain except death and taxes.

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Patricia Ann

@Patricia_Ann_E

4 years

Remember: You are much closer to becoming homeless than you will ever be to becoming a billionaire.

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Patricia Ann

@Patricia_Ann_E

3 years

What goes through the mind of someone who believes hospitals are faking numbers, who believe that doctors would forge death certificates, and that millions of healthcare workers are all “in on it”? How could anyone actually believe that is true?

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Patricia Ann

@Patricia_Ann_E

3 years

Two of my brothers are being redeployed to ICU this week in Alberta due to Covid surges and my Instagram is full of people in images with their friends breaking current public health orders. I don’t remember a time I’ve ever been this discouraged as a healthcare worker.

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Patricia Ann

@Patricia_Ann_E

2 years

@PKSidhu @Madiii03 Yup many people don’t realize that work emails are property of the employer and they can search it, use it, or revoke access

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Patricia Ann

@Patricia_Ann_E

2 years

Breastfeeding is only free if you view a mother’s time as worthless.

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Patricia Ann

@Patricia_Ann_E

2 years

I hate everytime there is some “feel good” story of parents who pass out earplugs to 200 passengers on a flight when they are travelling. It sets a ridiculous standard & normalizes people being intolerant of infants in public. No one owes you a baby-less society.

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@emilykmay Or people who parented small children a million years ago and have a very distorted memory of the fact. Apparently their children all walked at 7 months, potty trained at 8 months, and never, ever, cried.

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2 years

@embasic @skeletalrad @emily_fri This. I had an X-ray tech try and refuse me a hand xray because I didn’t know the date of my last menstrual period. Even if I was pregnant YOU STILL FIX BROKEN BONES. I’ve never had a good experience with the radiology department as a female patient.

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Patricia Ann

@Patricia_Ann_E

5 months

I don’t know how to phrase this delicately, because people always want someone to blame, but the hospital *cannot* stop your miscarriage.

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Patricia Ann

@Patricia_Ann_E

3 years

Does anyone feel like adults were adultier when we were younger? I’m in my 30s, married with a kid and I say I’m an adult very loosely..

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I think when you see the circle of life more around you, there is a better understanding and acceptance of it. I went to probably 1-2 funerals a year growing up at church. Many of my adult friends now attend a funeral for the first time when it is an immediate family member.

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Patricia Ann

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3 years

Kind of interesting watching people say “The Lord is my shepherd” on Sundays, and then call people “sheep” on the internet on Tuesday as a pejorative.

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Patricia Ann

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4 years

If nurses would stop promoting essential oil companies that would be great. Thanks.

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@Patricia_Ann_E

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My family is Mennonite. My dead aunts, uncles and grandparents who were still in the culture had their bodies preserved by the family on ice inside the house. My parents even have morbid pictures of this process. The community also made their own coffins and dug their own graves.

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@drPLeach @alandrummond2 My husband is a Canadian radiologist who has worked at 5 major trauma centers. He’s seen 1 gunshot trauma in 7 years.

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4 years

I don’t think there is any sound more heartbreaking on this earth than the cries of a mother that has lost her child.

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@Patricia_Ann_E

4 years

Today our premier was seen wearing an N95 mask to visit hope mission. The premier has also stood behind AHS saying that COVID-19 is droplet spread & that an N95 is only needed for procedures that may generate aerosol particles. What’s good for you isn’t good for me apparently.

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4 years

I heard someone today again stating what has been repeated many times over and over on social media and in person, that the percentage of people who die of covid are “all old or sick”. And I wept. Where did our compassion go? How did we get here?

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@jsparkblog @bethechange1682 Based on the shock in these comments I sometimes forget that people who don’t work in healthcare don’t realize how callous many humans are, and how extreme some people feel grief and attempt to avoid it. I have seen similar behaviour like this in my nursing career as well.

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4 years

I hope fragile masculinity goes out of style soon. I have a female friend who makes 4X as much as her minimum wage husband, yet he wants her to take days off work when he’s working to take care of their kids. People claiming we’ve reached equality as women are very mistaken.

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One of the first things I learned in my healthcare career is that if a test or procedure is *not* going to change anything, and not going to change management— you don’t do that test. Apparently saying this makes me a terrible person on the internet today.

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2 years

Cringe at many adults and parents saying that they and their kids “caught a nasty cold going around” and aren’t getting covid tested.

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2 years

@redbirdcarpent1 — and that’s all with normal pregnancies and deliveries. I know women who have needed lifelong dialysis after pregnancy, liver failure, heart failure and death post pregnancy due to blood clots and eclampsia. Pregnancy increases your chance of death from baseline substantially

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2 years

Why is it that many dog owners insist on having their pets off leash in areas where it’s prohibited? I don’t care that your dog is “friendly”

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1 year

@RNSuperHero It makes me concerned that nurses are this uncomfortable with the function of breasts. I’m fairly certain said coworker also was covered while doing it

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I had an old friend from Switzerland share a video on social media about how Jason Kenney has been suppressing protester rights in Alberta with Bill 1 — just so you all know what Alberta is known for around the world right now.

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1 year

@StandingHannah I’ve only ever heard single men using that phrase. Definitely privileged to be able to have the time to go to the gym.

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2 years

It’s interesting how female dominated professions are the ones usually asked to take pay cuts or zero pay raises to “take one for the team” or because of the economy.

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And he has a sold out show in Calgary going for $700 per ticket for resale and can’t get tickets to even sell for $80 in Toronto. It sounds like Calgary has a toxic masculinity problem.

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@cathmckenna Peterson is a misogynist and a homophobe. He’s a pedant who dishes noxious bromides that incels find comfort in. He should be accountable for the harm he causes.

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