Ash Hickey آشلي

Māori/AoNZ health academics and interested people.

Does anyone happen to have a pdf copy of the report "He Kohikohinga: A Maori Health Knowledge Base: A Report on a Research Project for the Department of Health" (1989) by any chance?

I often think about how bizarre mum's funeral must have seemed to the funeral director. Not many people have people from literally every walk of life attend their funeral, from a former prime minister to her friends on the methadone program with long lists of convictions.

He was my mum's uncle through marriage. It's telling that, despite being on the dpb in the 90s and citing this experience every election after as a reason to never vote national, I never heard her say a bad thing about him. She kept his early election flyers until her death.

Even just a few years ago you'd see other young families, 20-something aged friend groups having brunch etc. Now I pretty much only see wealthy people in their 50s and 60s eating out socially and professionals combining work meetings with coffee-no food.

We used to go out regularly for a coffee and cake type thing, bowl of fries maybe. Dinners out to celebrate birthdays and achievements. Almost never now. And when I do go into a restaurant it's very obvious other young (ish) people are in the same boat.

Some symptoms have been going on for 12 years and the intensification started 7 years ago so not a covid thing, probably not helping things in general that I've had it twice now though

Idk, maybe. There's something autoimmune happening. The health system really doesn't seem set up for these kinds of mystery, full system illnesses. I keep getting bumped between or rejected by specialists and no one takes in the full picture 🫩

Probably because I've been wearing pants and exercising my right to vote too much 🥲

Yes...but my derm was kind of useless. My biggest skin problem (among MANY) was all he looked at and he seemed extremely offput because it's on my vulva and bum. I also have to drive an hour to see him and he stood me up once and I eventually got sick of feeling like a gross fatty with a broken vag

Luckily he did order blood and stool test so I'll be in a slightly better position when I see the doctor I rebooked with at the end of the month.

Honestly IMMEDIATELY. I barely spoke to this dude and he didn't ask a single clarifying question about my symptoms. He's just like "fatigue you say? All in your head. Next!" Only a slight exaggeration 🙃🙃🙃

God knows how anyone who does have ongoing mental health stuff happening AND some sort of mystery chronic illness is supposed to get help 😩.

I swear they see on my records that I was diagnosed with depression and anxiety 20 years ago (during a period where there were clear situational factors including my home being repeatedly home invaded) and, despite having no further mental health history, they think "case closed."

Considering contacting the practice. I've written up notes.

It was EGREGIOUS 😂😂. Like a OTT parody skit. Luckily he's just a locum filling in while they find someone to replace my recently retired doctor.

I mean, it's kind of freeing in a way. I've been putting off going for ages, partly because I was scared this would happen. It was so blatant and he had zero right to be that confident based on our interaction. It's so obvious it's a him problem, I shouldn't have been so worried.

Very explicitly and firmly said psychological several times. No referral just a very patronising look and rolled yes. Pretty much the worst possible scenario as played out in my imagination when I was putting off going to the doctor and asking for help 😂😭

There's a counselling service at my university but I'd rather not clog up a free service that others need when I don't need it.

Ironically, to go to this appointment I took time out from writing about how quacks often appealed to women because doctors characterised them as credulous & vulnerable to the power of suggestion & dismissed their symptoms as "functional illnesses" (i.e., hysterical/psychosomatic)...Aarrrgghh!!!

I have health insurance which should mostly cover it *I think*. I've rebooked with another doctor but it would be nice to be able to counter this if it happens again.

Oh, I just remembered telehealth is a thing so I guess that broadens the location. Any of my AoNZ mutuals with chronic illness experienced something like this or have recommendations for a suitable psychiatrist?

Mind you, this is on my first consultation with him and after barely saying ten sentences to the man about why I was there. He did not ask me about my symptoms or medical history. I'm absolutely certain my symptoms aren't psychological but I'm open to ruling it out definitively I guess.

This is kind of an odd request but does anyone know of a good private psychiatrist in Wairarapa or Wellington with a short wait time? I just got told by a GP that the debilitating fatigue, skin, pain and digestive system symptoms I've been experiencing for many years are psychological 😒

This was a syphilis treatment too. We don't give nearly enough credit to just how miraculous a shift there was between the pre- and post-antibiotics eras.

Small grey chicken sitting on a piece of cardboard inside a cage

I found a young chicken at the train station and picked it up because it was trying to take shelter under a bus and brought it home to keep it safe. Won't be too upset if I can't find it's home tbh. It's very very cute.

Fucking hell. This wasn’t on my radar. #nzpol thank you Emily Writes

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This amendment makes it an offense to protest *near residential areas.

This is fascist suppression of free speech 101.

www3.parliament.nz/en/pb/sc/mak...

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REALLY hard to resist going down this rabbithole because my partner has just become obsessed with fishing kites and he's networking with a bunch of kite nerds and now we seem to be accumulating kites (I very much approve of this hobby).

Screenshot of an old newspaper. Text reads: Three lads, named John Baggest, Joseph Baggest, and Thomas Wadsworth, were charged at the Resident Magistrate's Court yesterday morning, with unlawfully flying kites m George street. His Worship, tho Resident Magistrate, severely cautioned the lads and discharged them. Other small boys who are m the habit of indulging m tbe sport named should take warning, as flying all kinds of kites is a dangerous game.

I can't go down this rabbithole right now but seemingly there was a moral panic in 1887 about the youth *checks notes* flying kites 😒