Anne Vroegindeweij

The way people -leaders- won't look at Gaza, the same way they refuse to lay eyes on us, let alone help us. And we're all supposed to accept and integrate that into our psyche somehow? How?

I hate hate hate it that doctors are still trying to make our lives worse at every turn they can. Whyyyyyy. How hard is it to listen to patients?

Not trying off label treatment on severe ME patients equals not believing them imo.

ME can be hell.
Severe ME is living death.
People are dying in rapid succession.

Yet fear of side effects and reputational damage prevail.

I wonder why everyone is more concerned about courageous doctors prescribing off label treatments for long covid than about how we as patients are gaslit and left to rot in our beds. 1/

Photo of a banner reading, “LONG COVID KILLS,” in front of the Lincoln Memorial. The text reads, “The Sick Times. Half a decade of Long COVID. By Miles W. Griffis.” The following slides feature quotes from the story at The Sick Times.

Black text with a turquoise highlight on a white background reads, "I am inspired by the bravery of people with Long COVID who have shared their stories and led the way in the face of so much willful indifference and cruelty. We will face these new challenges fueled by the courage and knowledge we have gained over the past five years. - Miles W. Griffis"

Over the coming weeks and months, first-wavers around the world will observe five years with Long COVID. Many already have. Read more from @mileswgriffis.bsky.social: bit.ly/4ictDdi

Leidt long covid tot de broodnodige erkenning van vergelijkbare onbegrepen ziekten, zoals ME/CVS? Vijf jaar na de coronapandemie hebben nog altijd honderdduizenden mensen long covid. Wacht hun hetzelfde lot als ME/CVS-patiënten, die al jaren soortgelijke klachten hebben en veel onbegrip ontmoeten?...

De CGT en fysiotherapie die Knoop, van der Meer en Rosmalen propageerden heeft bij patiënten tot verbolgenheid geleid. ‘Vele patiënten zijn enorm achteruitgegaan door deze opgelegde methode. Nu de biomedische kant door long covid oprukt, lijkt het of deze wetenschappers plots hun mening nuanceren.’

😸hehe spot on

Dismissed and Disbelieved, Some Long COVID Patients Are Pushed Into Psychiatric Wards The chronic illnesses that make doctors doubt their patients often start after what “should” be a short-lived sickness—like COVID-19.

Not only an important and shocking article. Also props for selecting a great image. I never truely understood the immense value of representation until I became ill (and the standard image of this illness was a pouting girl with head in hand).

time.com/7206080/long...

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A black and white image. The author of the post is laying in bed, he’s a man in his 30s. He has a beard and a moustache. You can see his head and part of the shoulders. His head is turned sideways and his looking at the distance. The picture is dark, the harsh light is hitting his head and lighting his facial features, like his Roman nose. He is positioned in the left side of the photo and is looking at that direction. Behind his head is a lot of negative space, there is a part of his pillow, that is under is head, and part of the bed is shown.

I feel numb all the time. You have to detach yourself from the reality because it’s too painful to live like this. ME/CFS does this to you—it makes you feel empty. 1/9

#MECFS #pwME #photography #selfdocumentary

My cat deposited a craftily murdered, fat pigeon on my doorstep this morning and danced and sang in circles around my bed until I got up to look at my prize.

It's the ONLY thing I don't like about living with a cat.

I didn't know this!

PAIS community! I need your knowledge. You don't have tachycardia but you do get unwell when getting upright. So OI without tachycardia. Question: can beta blockers cause OI type symptoms by preventing hart from working harder to pump blood to brain?
#longcovid #mecfs #pots

hard not to think about this a lot.

My mom is asking for a group she can donate to who helps disabled people in emergencies. (She’s upset about people dying bc they couldn’t evacuate in time 💔). Centers for independent living, maybe? Mutual aid groups? I honestly have no idea who does the best work in LA or the Bay or elsewhere

Just the thought of having to evacuate with my disability (severe PEM) is so frightening. My thoughts go out to everyone in this position in California right now.

When you have severe ME, it's quite depressing to have the most ambitious new years resolutions, but non of them involve better pacing and more rest. #longcovid

ik neem de tweede :)

My current mindset and illness believes. #longcovid #mecfs

Every single person living with M.E. is struggling.

We’re facing a system, globally, that doesn’t support us.

We all cope in different ways.

Many of us are just looking for a little light in the darkness. Be kind.

#pwME #MECFS

“This is not about not trying hard enough” A glimpse into daily life with very severe ME

We’ve got a hard hitting #ThereForME substack out today from Karen Galpin, writing about caring for her daughter Sophia, who has very severe ME.

Karen describes their daily reality, responding to narratives that downplay the impact of #ME

www.thereforme.uk/p/this-is-no...

Postviral Ethics - RCPS & PCNN | Radboud University Workshop for Post-COVID patients and organisations concerned with Post-COVID.

ANNOUNCEMENT: international (hybrid) workshop on POSTVIRAL ETHICS
Date: 3 February 2025
Place: Radboud University

Workshop details and the programme can be found here:
www.ru.nl/en/about-us/...

Registration here:
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#LongCovid #AIDS #MECFS #Lyme #Qfever #HIV #Ethics

zo ontmoedigend deze history repeat. en wordt uiteraard niet gecorrigeerd

About the BC007 'placebo effect' - how many times do we need to keep saying that iv saline is NOT a good comperator in studies like these? Iv saline is an active treatment for POTS! When the protocol was released, many patients raised their voices but no one listed, and now 'placebo effect'. 😭😭😭

🚨Looking to help a #pwME recently made homeless in Canada, currently in Vancouver. If you’re knowledgeable about support services in city or province, could you DM me? #MECFS #LongCovid

Ik wacht al 13 maanden op een eerlijke beoordeling. Hoe ik in de tussentijd mijn huur betaal is geen zorg van het UWV.

i fully agree. it's a manoeuvre that distracts from what's really going on: our physical health. It's maddening

A world that looks away from Gaza is psychotic imo. And it should not surprise us that the same majority is not caring much about people with #longcovid either. As long as they made it out of the pandemic okay, and as long they don't have to fear bombs and gunfire themselves.

I wish people cared a lot more about our physical than our mental health. #longcovid

De invloed van buitenlandse miljardairs die hun social media platforms met hun volle gewicht in de strijd gooien om de uitkomsten van verkiezingen te beïnvloeden ten gunste van radicaal-rechtse populisten, is misschien wel het grootste en meest urgente probleem waar we het te weinig over hebben.