Rev. Ellen

Shoutout to @rheumcat.bsky.social for her coverage. Much appreciated!

#ASBH2025 overlapping with the #ACR25 presentation on sJIA/Stills/HLH/MAS feels specifically inconvenient for me, a Pediatric Ethics Fellow with sJIA, PID, and a history of undifferentiated HLH/MAS. However, I fear that I may be the only person encountering this problem. 😂

Got to sit next to Prof. Goldberg in this talk.
1. It’s so cool as a student/fellow to meet people you admire on BlueSky and in Academia in real life.
2. Dr. Stramondo, Dr. Cupples, and Dr. Diaz all had insanely amazing presentations. Please go read these skeets.
#ASBH2025

Everyone who left their hotel room wearing their shirt inside out, also raise your hand. 🙋‍♀️

Took my lunch outside onto balcony. Ate half my salad before a bird pooped on my head and down my back. Showered in PICU locker room, threw on a donated tshirt. Somehow I wouldn't mind if this happened and it was patient related, but a BIRD?! #Yuck

The Trump regime wants us to forget that the Kent State massacre happened — that pitting the National Guard against American citizens is a recipe for disaster.

Transitioning from the thousand yard stare back to being able to cry is a thing

There have been a lot of long hard nights at work lately. I've been feeling worn thin. Then last night I got told that a patient's mother remembered me - specifically because I give "the best hugs." Sometimes the little moments make the big ones survivable.

We will continue showing up. We will continue peacefully resisting. We will
will continue caring for each other. We will continue having empathy, compassion, and mercy for one another. We will continue to do the hard work, with our hands, bodies, and hearts. We keep loving anyway.

Everyone I know who works in a public or rural hospital is saying the same thing.

i specifically requested for only les BON temps to be Laissezed to rouler

A photo of the cast of Sesame Street from the mid 1990s.

If my tax dollars aren’t funding Muppets, I’m not paying taxes.

Saturday cookie dough is chilling. Lemon sugar cookies and jam thumbprints are the order of the day. Thankful for the simple joys.

There's a lot of pseudoscience, a lot of pop psych vocab around it, a lot of spiritualization, and a lot of snake oil salesmen peddling cures and fixes.
There's also very real science on how dysregulation can affect our physical and mental health.

Yes and no. In my experience of how it is used in common culture/parlance/understanding these days - absolutely.
In origin - it comes out of talking about Sympathetic NS vs Parasympathetic NS and the somatization of symptoms as a result of perpetual heightened arousal due to fear/anxiety/etc.

Sometimes I am struck by the grief of our terrible human ability to look at one another and see anything other than wonder.

So far this is working well for me. Will report in next quarter.

Good morning, beloved.

If you do not stand with and fight for others, you will lose your soul.

Today is a great day to overcome evil with good.

Love this trend.
5 things that have drastically improved my quality of life:
- Being prescribed oral potassium supplements and baclofen
- Nightlights
- Gatorlyte
- A quilt sewn into a hoodie
- Bombas socks

Chaplain/Ethicist here to endorse this. I will ALWAYS come debrief with you/the team. Any. Freakin. Time. Day or night. Make that pager buzz, babe.

A Caucasian woman’s hand holds an antique postcard with a black and white picture of a Maine Coon cat looking alert and surprised. Scripted pencil handwriting is along the left hand side.

Purchased because he’s the spitting image of my own dear boy - An undated postcard, probably early 1900’s. Captioned by hand: “This is Horton trying to get Dickins.” Photo captioned, “Ah another bird!” Addressed to someone in Des Moines, IA.

@catsofyore.bsky.social thought you would appreciate.

Absolutely love this. Thank you for sharing!

Getting ready to transition back into the hospital/inpatient setting after two years doing parish/community work. Is it bad that I'm looking forward to cute and comfy scrub pants again?

I'm going to keep repeating it if for no reason other than it helps me to do so:

They have trashed the healthcare service and delivery system. It is incredibly hard to get competent care if you're medically complex.

Two Russell Stover marshmallow eggs, half a Pepsi, and a small bowl of plain granola.

Really excited to share that I’ve signed the paperwork and I’ll be a Fellow in Pediatric Clinical Ethics come July. #MedEthics #MedSky #ClinicalEthics

Just FYI: if you advocate violence against anyone, at all, it’s an instant block.

A small grey tiger striped cat huddles in a carrier on top of blue and green towels

A small grey tiger striped cat eagerly devours a churu held in outstretched hands.

Kitty Watch Update!!!
We caught him! He surprised us by being a boy! Only 8-10 months old!
He’s the sweetest tempered little baby. Neuter is scheduled and first vaccines done.
On that note - anyone in Southern Wisconsin need a cat?

A small and young grey tiger striped cat stares at the camera from behind and air conditioning unit.

A small and young grey tiger striped cat peers in through a foggy window.

Kitty Watch Update: She tripped the trap without getting caught in it, and then came and stared in the windows before running away. She’s far too smart for her own good. Best news is that she still appears to not be pregnant. We’re gonna keep trying to catch her.

Looking out of a white trimmed screen door we see a small grey striped kitty staring back in at us.

Kitty Watch Update!
She’s miraculously back! The poor baby seems to be in heat again, and she’s starving, but she’s back! After that cold snap I thought we were too late. Trap will be re-rented tomorrow morning.