3. The unvaccinated people still streaming into hospitals every day with symptoms as serious as those that killed hundreds of thousands during the third wave. Source: the ED I work in, which treats and admits at least one unvaccinated person every day for COVID.

The distance between loving me as long as I stay silent and at a remove and preferring I do not exist at all is rhetorical, not actual.

Thank you.

Thank you. ❤️🤗

It was truly overwhelming.

News flash, Mr. Gaines: We can’t all get along when your demographic doesn’t want my demographic to exist. 

The GI Bill specifically excluded Black Americans from any of its benefits, as did the New Deal legislation that created the FHA and its government-backed loans. Most communities were built specifically to exclude any non-White families from moving in, and those that weren’t segregated by design were segregated in…

Thank you.

I have been fully vaccinated since mid-February. (As a healthcare worker based in the emergency department, I was eligible within the first two weeks that my hospital started giving them. My last shot was February 1.)

Insurance should cover it if your plan meets ACA requirements. Preventive care is one of the categories that the ACA added.

There’s been a new development:

My health system is the first in our area to use tomosynthesis, which is a digtal mammogram technology that produces 3D images and sharper detail, documented to allow earlier detection over conventional methods and reducing the need for callbacks. They also allow same day turnaround if results are abnormal, depending…

Here are the recommendations from the American Cancer Society:

I doubt this is a blocked milk duct, just because of where it is and that it is positioned from left to right, but my hope is that the ultrasound will be helpful in clarifying whether it is something to be concerned about. The second mammogram is just because I haven’t had one before, so there is nothing to compare it…

I had 50s in mind, too, which is still a little over 8 years away for me, but I have good insurance as a health system employee and my doctor thought it would be a good idea. I hadn't been to a primary care doctor in about four years, and was playing catch up with a lot of labs and scans. This was just the last thing.

I'm doing my best. Work is a good distraction, and TV and movies are my go-to relaxers, and also I will be visiting my parents and their temporary cats tomorrow. So I'm trying.

As you well know.

Thank you. It was my first mammogram ever, due to age and not having a history. Not the best first I could ask for.

I knew there was cause for concern as soon as I saw the spot on the scans (more like a line, kind of skinny and going from left to right for at least 4 cm, from what I could see). Getting the results less than an hour later when I was told it could be Monday before I heard anything was all the confirmation I needed. I…

Yesterday, at the scheduled start of my shift, I had a mammogram that was supposed to be a routine part of my annual wellness visit. However, there was an opacity (the results call it a focal asymmetry) on the left side that was quite obvious. A second mammogram and an ultrasound have been scheduled, and now I am just…