#Simba was in my dream last night. 😔

This adorable bunny rabbit, with a recording of the patient's final heartbeats, is going out to the family today. @3wishesprogram.bsky.social

So proud to have been included on this paper to emphasize the importance of primary palliative care in the practice of pulmonary and critical care! @anandiyermd.bsky.social @donsullivan.bsky.social @erinkkross.bsky.social @annalsats.bsky.social @atsblueeditor.bsky.social @lekshmimd.bsky.social

Home made lox so good….

btw, was i the only one waiting for tree/bush people break out into dance during last night's superbowl halftime show?

The children of a patient who was brought in cardiac arrest wished to clean their mom as part of @3wishesprogram.bsky.social and this just made me so sad.

Happy Green Day and Bad Bunny Day

The best part of this game is my Japanese fried chicken

The Super Bowl spread! #DoctorsWhoCook

Chef John’s candied salmon cream cheese dip, ready for the game! Let’s go SeaHawks! #DoctorsWhoCook

My new pellot smoker tubes seem to be working out quite well for a cold smoke!

Last night, we cried remembering our loss. But we did agree, #Simba had the best life, a life that we were often jealous of. Our most frequent question to him was "Why are you always so damn happy?" bc he literally purrs as soon as we're about to pet him. So content with life.

The beginnings of the viral smoked candied salmon…let’s see how this goes. #DoctorsWhoCook

It's really hard to understand why MAGA is more upset with the selection of Bad Bunny for the halftime show than the shooting of innocent Americans on the streets of Minneapolis.

gosh darnit, i think i accidentally used all-purpose flour instead of bread flour to make sourdough breads The loaf is now in bulk fermentation. should i even bother proceeding or should i just throw it out?

Two friends made donations to my favorite kitty rescue and another did this. #Simba lives on. Happy #Caturday.

Saw this dry mushroom mix at Costco last week and decided to give it a try. Made a delicious mushroom pasta tonight! I am quite pleased with the purchase! #DoctorsWhoCook 🍽️ #goodlunch

Check out the amazing job our volunteer artist did for our latest @3wishesprogram.bsky.social fingerprint painting. The patient liked American muscle cars, baseball, and fishing. I had to google what an "American muscle car" meant, but glad that our artist knew!

Everything has been so bleak lately, I missed this piece of good news! jm-aq.com/congress-rej...

I couldn’t sleep and was up at 4:30am this morning and made breakfast for the hubs and I. Crab eggs Benedict. Crab meat was leftover from a crab fest we had last weekend. It was amazeballs. #DoctorsWhoCook 🍽️

Yep.

This happened yesterday at a 99 Ranch Market right down the street from our #UCLA campus. It's horrific and heartbreaking. They are still investigating the cause, but please if you have elderly family members, please assess whether it is safe for them to drive. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Shameful. wapo.st/3LXnwyR

Today, I saw in clinic a patient who was on life support for months in our ICU. Walking, talking, eating, LIVING. Wins in the #ICU are often so few and far in between, I couldn’t help but cry. I can’t tell you how much I needed this.

Walked through the hall of the medical school today. Can you find me? @dgsomucla.bsky.social

I essentially used yesterday wallowing in the pits of despair. I will be better today. Chin up. (yes, i'm talking to myself)

Honey lemon chicken wings and lemon arugula pasta salad. #DoctorsWhoCook #goodlunch 🍽️

One of our #ICU nurses (who is NOT Chinese) went above and beyond to create this EKG frame with Chinese characters that say "Father's Heart" for a grieving family. I am so grateful for all those who have shared our @3wishesprogram.bsky.social mission.

Every day these days are either filled with anger or grief, and I am struggling to see the good in this life and world.

Apparently we can't always offer life-saving care to undocumented patients, but we can always ask the family to consent to organ donation when they die. My heart hurts so much, I think I'm going to throw up.

We just got a request for a @3wishesprogram.bsky.social "Celebration of Life" luncheon for a dying patient. We take so many things for granted every day. I am reminded of the gentlemen who we did a "reverse funeral" for a few years ago. He was so happy that day (pic shared with permission).

My first book, In Shock, is on sale for only $2.99 the month of February. Given…(gestures vaguely) all of this… it’s a great time to read about the essential role of compassion in healing and also get ready for After Shock, coming in June. #medsky

It's good to know what you want to do.

I am happy to report that we bought tickets to the next Trevor Noah show.

#Pepper thinks she’s being helpful but what she typed made no sense.

Last week, we took an #ICU ventilator-dependent patient outside for some fresh air (yes, we have the weather to support this!). He had been in the hospital for weeks and was so happy he cried. I wish it wasn't so hard to make moments like these possible.

LOL

My younger sister started working at UCLA too a little over a year ago. The other day, I called an oncologist who has met her and he said to me "Do you know your sister? I know her!" Hmmmm...

Friends are dropping things for me…it’s so incredibly considerate, I feel loved and burdensome at the same time.

"We care for our patients because they are human beings. Our patients are being harmed. People are dying unnecessarily." We took an oath. Our own country is preventing us from keeping it. #Medsky

I cried myself to sleep last night. I seriously don't know how parents survive the loss of a real child. There are so many reasons to cry for the world we live in now.

Green papaya salad and Thai-style Chinese duck. This is the first big meal I’ve cooked since Simba died. Up next: exercise. Little steps.

These folks reached out to me in 2024 and now there's a @3wishesprogram.bsky.social in CT! #Kindness is spreading. www.ctpost.com/news/article...

This was our family. Hold your 2 legged and 4 legged loved ones tight. Happy #Caturday. I miss you so much #Simba.

I’ve gone down the rabbit hole of thinking about all the signs that #Simba showed that something was wrong…and can’t stop crying. Maybe I wasn’t such a great cat mom.

the hypocrisy.

Oh no. RIP Catherine O'Hara wapo.st/45HL2q5