My husband was detained by ICE today Juan Muñoz, an American citizen, father of 2, and local government official, was peacefully protesting w. other elected officials. He was assaulted and taken away I have had zero contact or updates since #SOS @duckworth.senate.gov @durbin.senate.gov

If you’re recommending primary care follow up on age appropriate cancer screenings in a 90 year old patient, you really are just clicking unnecessary boxes. Calm down, yall. 😂

Every day I both marvel and regret how smart reading to my 7 year old son has made him.

In Memphis today to see my neurosurgeon and the national guard ain’t fixed a dang thing. The car that parked next to me while I was inside parked too close to the line and I almost couldn’t get back inside. I’m starting to doubt that they’ll make Memphis great at all.

I asked him this morning what happened last night. I thought he was nocturnal, but he feel asleep. “I’m both,” he says.

My 3 year old tells me he cannot go to sleep because he is nocturnal. Making me regret all these books we’ve read him. 😒

Today I was fussing at my husband about something. He deserved it. Pickles ran over out of nowhere, bit his leg and ran away. She’s a good cat.

I was back at 26 Federal Plaza today, where an ICE agent violently threw this bereft woman to the ground in front of her kids. She had not touched him. She did not pose any threat. She had to be taken to the hospital. (🎥: Elias Eliahu)

Taking an FAFO attitude toward small farmers plays right into the hands of corporations who can and will buy family farms when they go bankrupt.

I just want yall to pretty please understand that family farmers aren’t getting rich. They’re just not. They take on huge amounts of risk every year with zero assurances that they’ll make anything. I’ve been married to my farmer for nearly ten years.

Didn’t have “Agreeing with Ted Cruz on something” on my bingo card, but here we are.

I’m here for a Kimmel/Colbert podcast.

I’M LOSING MY MIND

They really made a “Magic School Bus Rides Again” series in which they disrespectfully tamed Mrs. Frizzle’s hair. It went out of production four years ago and im only just learning that it ever existed, but I am offended.

Yall… if the patient is hypotensive despite no blood pressure medications, please don’t recommend a low sodium diet to control their blood pressure. Unnecessary dietary restrictions do legitimate harm.

That sweet moment when your exhausted child is just about to drift off to sleep and you hear their sweet little voice say, “Mommy…? What is Velcro?”

Hot take. If it’s an important enough drug that an insurance company will send me a message if it looks like the patient isn’t filling it on time, that med is probably saving the insurer money and the patient shouldn’t have to pay for it.

Points to the editor who decided to have the spinosaurus depicted as eating a modern largemouth bass.

Ive said it before. I’ll say it again. The Frozen 2 soundtrack is solid.

Yall. If a patient in their 80s has an A1c of 6.1 and their blood sugar is high while they’re hospitalized and on steroids that will not be continued in the long term, you don’t need to send them home on a new SGLT2 AND DPP4 medication.

I played volleyball this weekend. My almost 40 year old body says that was a bad idea.

The insurance company sent me a letter suggesting I change a patient’s xigduo to dapaliflozin-metformin. For this, they make the big bucks.

Am I in another starter pack or something? I’ve gotten like 200 new followers overnight and I wasn’t expecting that.

Along this line of thought, when I was a student and got my first “champagne tap”, my whole team celebrated with me. Curious what skills in other medical professions are similarly celebrated.

My MA student just did a TB skin test for one of my patients and got the prettiest little bubble. 🥹

Physicians need to be freed to document what matters without counting bullet points and checking boxes for billing purposes. Case in point. Multiple physicians documented on one of my patients that he had a colostomy during a recent hospital stay. Problem? He’s never had one. Ever.

My kid is almost four. He’s only ever stayed with relatives. We’ve never even had a babysitter. He’s starting Mother’s Day out tomorrow and yall… 🥹

This is not an institution worthy of Dorothy’s ruby red slippers.

My child just asked me to see pictures of his umbilical cord. 😂

My child got out of his bed last night, came to my bedroom, crawled into my bed, snuggled up next to me while I was dead asleep, and says “Mommy, let’s talk about mammals.”

I am saying this with all the love and honesty in my heart: I don’t care if you had a boob job. Good for you, if you wanted to do it. I see so often that people leave this off their surgical history and I find out when I read a mammogram report. I’m sure people worry about judgment. I get it.

I’d like to apologize to all those of Indian heritage. I remember when the town I grew up in got their first Chinese and Mexican restaurants. We still have no Indian food and, as I moved back to the town where I grew up, I am woefully underexposed to your cuisine.

My peeve today is offices with loud hood music and soft spoken receptionists. It’s an assault upon my auditory system.

There is no week in a primary care physician’s year worse than the week after vacation. (I would add a TGIF to the end of this, but I’m certain it would cement my status as an outdated millennial.)

When the super duper specialist at the ivory tower sees your patient and recommends continuing the same treatment you, the lowly rural family doc, already had them on. 🤭

We were working our way through the security line today and a guy behind me ducks under all the ribbons to cut in line right in front of me. Had to stop and wait because he cut me off. Imagine my delight when he was selected for a pat down.

It’s official. I want a girls trip to a national park whee we will all collectively work toward becoming real junior park rangers.

Ban congressional stock and crypto trading. Ban congressional stock and crypto trading. Ban congressional stock and crypto trading.

Vacationing with a toddler in a national park is fantastic, but I swear he’s tried to unalive himself at least a dozen times today.

The Beartooth Pass may be the most beautiful place I’ve ever seen in my life, even if i thought I would vomit at least sixteen times going through it.

I’m leaving for a nine day trip tomorrow morning at 8. I have packed basically zero things. I do this every single time I go anywhere and I do not need to be this person. 🤦🏻‍♀️

My girl went to the hair salon today. You don’t have to tell me. I already know she’s a pretty girl.

Of course it’s Vinay…

I regret to report that I have again failed at self tanner.

Toddlers, because who wouldn’t want to hear about the latest episode of Dino Ranch while they poop?

I’m really good at parallel parking. Like, excellent.

There’s no reason that Fresca isn’t a top selling soft drink. It’s absolutely delightful.

Wild to me that the folks who wouldn’t take Covid vaccines because they feared they were being microchipped for tracking purposes has no problem with RFK suggesting that everyone should wear monitoring devices “for their health”.

I do not like imagination play. I said it. I meant it.