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1/6 Tomorrow my brother and SIL fly to CA from VA. They both just had (like, last week). They haven’t gotten their bivalent boosters. They’re starting the trip in Death Valley, which is dangerous for them and also not great for the community in that entire region, as B+SIL have no experience with the current weather/disaster conditions. No one needs to worry about tourists right now. They’re then driving down to San Diego.

2/6 No way they’re keeping masks on and tight throughout all aspects of travel. I don’t know if they have masks at all. They will 100% eat in at least 1 restaurant. I don’t even know when they stopped testing positive, or via what type of test, or if they’re still testing. No one will give me details. The last time I tried to talk about it, I was met with a very exasperated “well what do YOU want them to do?” As if I make The Rules, and The Rules are unreasonable.

3/6 What I do know, is that this is unbelievably irresponsible and unsafe on multiple levels. My father and I are both and . This time last year he was in and out of the hospital for infections following a month long ICU stay for an aortic dissection. He has . His chances with are not good. Mine are a little bit better. He will definitely die. I will only probably die. But for some reason I am the only one with concerns.

4/6 It doesn’t matter what materials or resources I send. My entire family is extremely science minded, but when it comes to this it’s like they can look at the science, recognize the reality, and then have absolutely no concept of how that reality affects them. Or maybe they do get it, they just don’t care. The reality gets in the way of things they want, so it just doesn’t exist sometimes. My mother never stopped going to happy hour with her coworkers.

5/6 I’m just so, so tired of making so many sacrifices, of being the sole source of Covid info for the entire family, and of being made to feel unreasonable and tyrannical. They want me to give them info, and then they make me feel awful about giving them info. I’m going up to Long Beach today to be with my partner, and I’m going to stay there for quite awhile. I can’t do this. I’m not going to put myself in danger to ease conflict.

Kathleen Burnard :BP_cuff:

6/6 None of this is helped by the fact that I’m still healing from last week’s colposcopy/biopsies. My family doesn’t know that happened (my partner does). Navigating medical events in this family is a minefield (although seemingly only for me). If it turns out to be something, then I’ll tell them. But for now, I’m just exhausted and scared and sore and bleeding and healing, and my fuse is just a little bit shorter than it normally is. So I’m struggling.