Doctor Beverly Crusher
@SpaceDocMom
When I get a patient who has a condition I'm not familiar with, I'm eager to find time to research it further. Too many doctors in your era deny, blame, or otherwise chastise patients instead when they're embarrassed by their own lack of knowledge. Appalling. emojis: black heart, blue heart, masked, spoon
4:06 PM · Apr 16, 2024
March 23, 2024 - “I’m feeding the ones who are not eating.”
In a video posted online, a Palestinian boy in Gaza was seen feeding stray cats. When asked if he had food for himself, the boy said “no.” [video]
James Harrison is known as the “Man with the Golden Arm.” He has a rare plasma composition that has been used to create a treatment for Rhesus disease. When he turned 18, he made a pledge to always donate blood. Since then. He has donated blood 1173 times. When he turned 81 on 11 May, 2018, he donated blood for the very last time. Australian policy prohibits anybody over the age of 81 donating blood. Due to James’ donations, he has saved over 2.4 Million unborn babies from the condition. The photograph above shows just some of the babies he saved.
clouds and how they look different throughout the day
the different colors the mornings can have. sometimes it's an orange hue and sometimes pink and sometimes it's too misty to tell
pretty color schemes in random places (the trees and your neighbors wooden patio and the color of their car)
the states of the vehicles passing you by, dents and scratches and the different trinkets suspended from their rearview mirrors
the sound of silence
the shadows the lights cast in your home, like how sunset looks different than sunrise, and the shadows the sun casts look different than those of your lamps and candles
pretty details in buildings and houses like certain types of windows or doorknobs or archways
the movement of things in the wind. flags, leaves, flowers, people's hair and coats
honestly, normalize quitting. it's so okay to drop a course, quit a job 3 weeks in, leave a relationship when it isn't giving you what you need. quitting isn't a sign of weakness, isn't a sign that you're not trying enough. a lot of the time, it's a sign that you are prioritizing yourself and your values, and that should be honoured.
Doctor Beverly Crusher
@SpaceDocMom
One of the trickiest parts of my job is to convince health-privileged people that the things they imagine as "healthy living" and are thus "keeping them healthy" are more steeped in that privilege than in actual health science. Correlation is not causation. emojis: black heart, blue heart, masked x5
1:44 PM · Apr 15, 2024
if you're a recovering addict, i want you to know you're doing good.
you didn't use today? you're doing good. you used recently and you're still recovering? you're doing good. you sought support today? you're doing good. you practiced harm reduction? you're doing good. you want to relapse and haven't? you're doing good. you're getting involved, even if others are doing more? you're doing good. you're resting today? you're doing good. you're alive? you're doing good.
this shit takes time. you have spent a considerable amount of time doing harmful things to yourself, or others. you're not going to change overnight. all you can reasonably do is get through the day, adding as much good to your life/the lives of others as you can. it doesn't matter what happened yesterday, or what's going to happen tomorrow.
all you have is this moment, and if you're on the path of recovery... you're doing good. this is your story. not someone else's. not some idealized version of yourself. it's yours, just as you exist, right now. that's all you have, and all you need.
keep going. you got this. i'm glad you're here (and so is everyone else who interacted with this post).