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Cake day: September 23rd, 2023

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  • Reba McEntire! Love me some Reba
    Alabama are another favorite of mine

    Mary Chapin Carpenter is great too
    The Judds
    Loretta Lynn
    Hank Williams Sr.
    Kenny Rogers
    Rosanne Cash
    Waylon & Willie, baby (Waylon Jennings & Willie Nelson)
    Brooks & Dunn
    Charlie Daniels Band

    In a more modern iteration, I’ve been really enjoying The Dead South recently




  • I’m one of these patients. I was successfully treated for an autoimmune brain condition of some sort. To this day, none of our clinical testing has ever showed any abnormality. I was treated based on detailed medical history and my insistence that my self-reported symptoms be taken seriously.

    It took months to find a physician willing to treat me, and I still to this day don’t understand what they were so afraid of. My self-reports of symptoms, patterns of exacerbations, and positive response to corticosteroids were consistent and unequivocal.

    I was in nursing school at the time, and I don’t know if that helped or hindered me. But I finally figured out how to speak the language that my physicians could understand, even though I was the patient. That shouldn’t be necessary.




  • This was very much my experience with the trans girl I grew up with 35 years ago. From the instant she was able to express preferences (I’m talking like age 18 months to 2 years), it was all princesses and dolls and makeup and trying on mom’s high heels. We all just assumed she was a gay boy because we had never heard of a transgender person before.

    We encouraged her to just keep that behavior at home because she was bullied mercilessly for appearing to be an effeminate boy. But nothing would stop her; she was completely irrepressible.

    When in high school, she told us she was really a girl, it was like the most face-palmingly obvious thing. Of COURSE that’s what we’d been seeing her entire life. It just made sense. That’s just who she is.






  • It’s based on likelihood to succeed and remaining useful life. I’ve had a patient in their 70s receive a kidney transplant. Ability to attend medical appointments and adhere to prescription drug regimens play a large role in approval for transplant. And I’ve personally witnessed major transplant teams go out of their way to help patients overcome obstacles like transport to medical appointments, affording meds, in an effort to get them ready for transplant approval.

    Honestly, I wish all medical care could be as hands on and holistic as transplant is.