Mtr. Caitlyn Keith ✨

YSPH scientists show how rapid sequencing could transform tuberculosis care An international team of scientists led by researchers at the Yale School of Public Health is applying technology used during the COVID-19 pandemic to more

@johngreensbluesky.bsky.social I hope I’m the 6000th person to send this to you

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esp. after a second doc covered one of their shifts and immediately dx major sepsis and rushed off to same day surgery, removing palliative. I guess I’m glad to hear it’s not systemic, just a coincidence of my peoples needs. Was top of mind bc older pt was readmitted today. Thank you for replying

This is really helpful thank you. In the case of the pt with the suspected uti she did go to ED with other presenting symptoms so I could see how infection would slip through if not wanting to over diagnose. In the young septic pt, it seems discrimination abt being trans meant the doc under treated

Always advent but never the end of the world. Sigh.

I’ll also add this was the kind of pt decline where I was called in for last rites so, it’s not nothing.

In both cases antibiotics were not administered for 5 days while pt declined. Both pts improved dramatically once they were. Have guidelines changed or something? Is this just priest-visit confirmation bias? It doesn’t feel coincidental to me. #emergencyroom #doctors

Is medical Bluesky here somewhere? I have a question.

I’ve had two parishioners recently end up in different ED’s and ICU’s in town exhibiting what I’ve felt were clearly bacterial infections. One was post-op sepsis and the other a likely elderly UTI. ⚓️

I spoke too soon. It appears the chiggers and the clover mites are beginning to wake up.

Also the internet has lied to you. Clover mites absolutely DO bite I’ve watched them do it. Little jerks.

I LOVE JESUS AND YOU AND MY PEOPLE AND HUSBAND AND MY DOGS AND DOLLY AND HOCKEY AND

I bought little canned espresso martini drinks at Trader Joe’s a couple of weeks ago that are still in my fridge because I can’t figure out when the right time to drink them is without exploding

Are your parents boomers or Xers?

I have lots of social commentary thoughts but it’s primarily drowned out by “my god these days I’d die if I had soda at night”

😮 I can’t imagine. We have them from March to…November sometimes?

It is the blesséd two weeks in South Carolina between when the warm weather arrives and when the pine pollen and mosquitoes arrive. It is a precious thing not to be wasted.

It was fire to hear it live. Amazing energy

CAN I PUT YOU ON MY INSTAGRAM

The moral of today’s story is:

Give more women knives to strap to our feet

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Our numbers were up too. We ran out of bulletins even after printing extra over last year's number.

didnt you see that lent is about giving up lol

Today's a good day for imprecating "the tyranny of the [prince] and all his detestable enormities."

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Good lord deliver us from them all, and sparest thou thy victims.

Happy to screenshot the song choices! Stupid capitalism.

A Holy Lent: for loud lamenters

It’s that time again!!!

Penitential season playlist! No worship music, but all vibes. This one is not for the quiet and meek. ⚓️

As always I’m open to suggestions!
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After my ICE arrest, I learned one crucial way to respond to trauma. We can all take part | Rümeysa Öztürk I was detained for co-writing a op-ed about Gaza as a student at Tufts. My experience has only made me feel more connected to others facing oppression

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The fasting is not about flogging ourselves. It’s like NFL players doing Pilates. It’s about training ourselves in a different way for the race that is set before us, so we can continue to run it well. Hope something in all that was helpful

Even doing the prescribed “almsgiving and reading and meditating on Gods holy word” is a giving up of our possessions and time (plus I’ve known people to give “alms” of gratitude-literal thank you notes and compliments -to people they know).

Final thought. Sometimes the giving up of something too can be a symbol for something else. One year I gave up makeup, which was a sign of me giving up hating myself. I know someone who gave up jewelry which was a sign of giving up false security.

Not every year is a life changing lent practice- for me it’s like, once every five years something hits me good. But the four years in between are always worthwhile too. I also totally ate dessert and drank my beers that year too, because i didn’t need to do 17 fasts at once. my joy is greater now

So what’s the opposite of looking down? Looking up. The fast was limiting social media time (not totally off! Just limited, which is also a prescribed way of fasting!) And instead I would look up every day, find a bird, figure out what kind, and write it down. It ended up changing my life lowkey

e.g. I joke that all my friends live in my phone. It gives me real joy to talk to them here. And also I noticed a couple of years ago that in doing it I was also getting addicted to the dopamine of notifications and the reels scroll waiting for notifications. I was looking down anxiously all thetime

that we don’t need to be attached to things to find joy and peace. It’s not about giving up every good thing, just a thing, and for a relatively short time. There is a real
gift of grace’s freedom that can be unlocked.

I also think there’s are some things that do indeed give joy AND steal it