May-Thurner/blood clot survivor, patient advocate, painter, news junkie, Speech Language Pathologist, 🏃♂️🐢🌹she/her
Joined April 2014
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Caitlin Ann Thurston retweeted
Dear @BrunoMars
Both my son Eli, and husband Brian, recently died. You were my son's favorite musician.
A friend of mine is taking me to #Vegas to see you live on Friday 13th to cheer me up.
I have a HUGE ask.
Could you PLEASE do "just the way you are" and dedicate it to Eli? – at Mandeville, LA
Caitlin Ann Thurston retweeted
IT ONLY TAKES A SECOND TO SHARE: 3-month-old Brandon Cuellar was kidnapped from his San Jose home by a stranger, police say. Police released a video clip that shows the suspect walking down the sidewalk holding a baby carrier covered by a white blanket.
abc7.la/3y94dt9
Caitlin Ann Thurston retweeted
Melissa Lucio faces execution in less than 90 days in Texas for a crime that never occurred. Read more about her case, and add your name to the #SaveMelissaLucio petition to join @innocence in preventing an irreversible injustice.
bit.ly/3ACBNH3
Air raid sirens in multiple European cities today as I put my son to bed on the other side of the world, my heart is breaking. Tonight as he's falling asleep he tells me he never wants "Mommy or Daddy or me to die" Somehow he knows something big is happening 💔😥
Or "I'm doing ok" or even "Feeling a little better" can mean this too.
When someone asks how your are feeling today while in blood clot recovery, and you say, "I'm functioning", tell them this is what you mean.
#sharetostoptheclot #bloodclotbuddha
Caitlin Ann Thurston retweeted
I can't be a mermaid in a nursing home... gofund.me/031a7726
youtu.be/Tmuu7Llv2TM
Caitlin Ann Thurston retweeted
Someone invited me to do something cool. I gathered deets and agreed, but then learned it req regular meetings from 4-5pm. I have a 1.3yo and from 330-7p, I am mom. I emailed, shared my boundaries, and offered to step back.
If you need a template, this might help, it felt good.
Caitlin Ann Thurston retweeted
People living with diseases are often as knowledgeable, if not more knowledgeable, then the doctors caring for them. Please, doctors, stop patronizing us and instead treat us as peers and partners in the fight. We can change the world together.
Caitlin Ann Thurston retweeted
My sweet older neighbor just trudged through the snow to tell me that our other neighbor died suddenly at home yesterday. Just had covid. Lived alone. Was in his 50s. His boys play basketball on my street.
#Covid19 can cause clots 😔
My neighbor said she had no idea. #NotMild
7/ And yes, #COVID19 is a pan-body disease that can result in death, severe illness and long/short term disability of unknown duration after even mild initial illness. There is still so much we don't know and truthfully, what we *DO* know up to this point is concerning. Stay safe
Caitlin Ann Thurston retweeted
Vaccinated kids are 10x less likely to be hospitalized for #COVID19 than unvaccinated kids.
TEN TIMES.
If that isn’t a miracle of science, I don’t know what is.
Double masked at urgent care for a stomach ach. We tested at home before we came in and are sitting next to the air purifier. Say a prayer. The vaccine for under 5 needs to happen soon!
#covid #vaccine #MedTwitter
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Testing before going to family gathering today. Negative x3...we are good to go. #knowbeforeyougo
#covid #Christmas2021
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There are good leg days and bad leg days. Today has been a bad leg day. Sometimes I can pinpoint why it is a bad leg day, not today. But there were lots of things on my to do list today so pushed through and got them all done.
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Falling asleep in the chair in my son's room I remembered the pants I want to wear tomorrow haven't been seen in a while and while I could wear some different ones, now I need to find them. The drive to exhaust every possible place they could be 2, 3, 4 times won't stop...
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One of the changes from my medical trauma of 3 DVTs is that new level of anxiety that wasn't there before and that let's itself out in random, weird ways at unexpected times. Now that I've found them I'm amped up from the search and can't fall asleep.
#DVTSURVIVOR #PTSD #VTE