Looking at RFK's recent moves, including an attack on the hepatitis B vaccine and on painkillers for pregnant women. The common theme: That all children's health problems are due to "bad" mothers. This isn't about making kids healthy. It's misogyny. www.salon.com/2025/09/22/r...

Writing a paper on heartbeat recordings and songs today, and opened this one from a couple of years ago. It's still so heartbreaking. A young mom died in our #ICU and her family requested that her heartbeat be integrated into a lullaby for the 1yr old she leaves behind. @3wishesprogram.bsky.social

Had dinner at a friend’s house and she gave us our first fall decoration. I love it so much.

Is this how doing abs exercises look for you too?

Bringing this rosemary garlic loaf to a friend’s house today and it smells divine

Saw a TikTok on Brazilian limeade and decided to give it a shot. It’s sooo refreshingly good!

More limes from my sister’s tree!

This amount of traffic in the weekend is driving me bananas.

Are we healthy again yet? www.nytimes.com/2025/09/14/m...

It’s 9am and I’ve baked two loaves of bread, boiled eggs to make deviled eggs later, cooked quinoa, started another sourdough loaf for tomorrow, roasted a red bell pepper, and smoking a bunch of salmon. Please clap!

Was talking to girlfriend whose daughter is applying to college. She has great grades, test scores, and extracurricular and applying to >20 colleges. I applied to 3 (what financial aid paid for) and hubs applied to 1. It's so crazy hard to get into college nowadays!

Went back to Little Ethiopia today and got 3 packs of injera. Brown and white! I’ve learned that freeze quite well!

Look at my pretty lasagna! #DoctorsWhoCook 🍽️ #goodlunch

Last week my team ordered so many units of blood to care for our patients in the #ICU. Today, I’m donating to that pool. #GiveBlood #SaveLives

I'm so exhausted after my nearly 80-hr ICU week that I've decided to take the day off today (it's a research day). Hubs: what are you going to do on day off? Me: go grocery shopping, go donate blood, catch up on charting, work on my research paper, review a manuscript Hubs: sounds relaxing

Gave a one hour talk today on Zoom. It was not meant to be interactive and recorded, but there were no questions at the end. When this happens, I can't help but wonder if I was just talking to myself the entire time. Sigh.

#Vaccines save lives.

Facing a proposed $1.2-billion fine and severe medical research grant cuts at UCLA, the University of California has not gone head-to-head with Trump in court. So on Tuesday, groups representing more than 100,000 of its employees did. www.latimes.com/california/s...

Targeting vulnerable communities makes no one safer. These aren’t demands — they’re acts of extortion against UCLA that endanger the entire university. We stand with UCLA. www.latimes.com/california/s...

Never thought this would cross my mind during my lifetime.

Munchkin said good morning at 5am this morning. #Pepper #CatsofSky

Hey Democdats in Congress, now would be an excellent time to do something.

Update on my trump-hands. One of my nurse friends dx'd it I think: phytophotodermatitis! It's caused by exposure to certain plant chemicals (i.e. citrus) & then exposure to UV! I was juicing giant bag of limes & was out sundrying stuff in 95F heat! I love that it's also called "margarita dermatis"

Love this

First, they came for Stephen Colbert. Then they came for Jimmy Kimmel. Pretty sure you and I are next for our social media posts. These are scary times.

Ask your insurance if you Koalify...

Off of ICU today and playing catch up on all my other duties. Just had meeting with my research coordinator. She had looked at my schedule today and wanted to say "good luck with that". LOL #AcademicMedicine

Was thinking about this the other day...whatever happened to all that rage about having to wear masks....

Me at the end of an #ICU week.

Leaving icu at 9pm and just spent 20 minutes deliriously looking for my car. Ugh.

A friend sent me this. Apparently, if you are a Koala, you can get a chlamydia vax. But if you are a citizen of the US, vaccines are getting taken away…

I get so sad when I learn that a family member has to continue to work 7 days a week to make ends meet, even while their loved ones are critically ill in the ICU.

One of the nurses said “Never a dull day in our ICU”. While this is probably true, I’d really like to have a boring day every now and then.

My hospital is offering doctors and nurses Active Shooter Training. I feel sick thinking about what our world has turned into.

My 10-week peloton streak will likely go to shit with this ICU week….

A volunteer artist created this painting for a family of a @3wishesprogram.bsky.social patient. The patient was a musician and physician, and the painting is perfect.

I do not know what that discoloration is (it’s itchy) but I’m not happy about having Trump hands.

My babies can be so cute when they’re not fighting. #CatsofSky #Pepper #Simba

It's amazing that ICE can use the color of your skin to profile for your arrest, but universities can't use it to understand the background that you grew up in.

this made me lol'd

Super excited that I will be speaking about the @3wishesprogram.bsky.social at this course next week. It's pretty cool that they've added workshops on "humanizing critical care".

The idea of increasing purchase of fruits & vegetables by giving SNAP beneficiaries discounts at farmer's market blows my mind. Growing up poor, I could never imagine shopping at farmer's markets. If I got a beautiful $10 tomato for $5, I probably would have tried to resell it at $7.50.

Reviewing pulmonary-critical care fellowship applications today and seriously don't know how I got this far. These applicants are amazing.

I just asked the hubs if he noticed that it’s a vegetarian meal tonight and he said “no wonder I feel faint”. 🤦🏻‍♀️

Chinese steamed eggs. So simple but so good. #DoctorsWhoCook 🍽️

Caprese salad with my sister’s homegrown tomatoes and basil never gets old. #DoctorsWhoCook 🍽️ #goodlunch

I can't help but feel some dread for this coming winter in the ICU. For the 1st time (as far as I know), our gov't (RFK, Jr in HHS) is spreading misinformation about the benefits of vaccines. I re-read an old essay I wrote and hope that I will be again, Brave Enough.

What I can't understand is how do FORTY-THREE PERCENT of those surveyed approve of this??? Am I living in alternative reality? Are THEY?

A corrupt court can only make a country more corrupt. Dissolve the Supreme Court.

WTAF