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Thanh Neville, MD, MSHS @thanhneville.medsky.social · 16h

This picture of the frontline of the Portland warzone is priceless.

Carolyn Thomas 🇨🇦 @heart-sisters.bsky.social · 15h

Ups, downs, and going with the flow of diagnosis:
"Life has many ebbs and flows. Unfortunately, life can sometimes feel like ebb, ebb, ebb, brief flash of flow, more ebb, ebb, ebb…” #KarenSalmansohn

#KarenSalmansohn
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Ups, downs, and going with the flow of diagnosis

The ebbs and flows of diagnosis: ‘Learning you have a serious medical condition might qualify as an immediate crushing ebb, but oddly enough, I felt instead an overwhelming flow of relief&#82…

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Carolyn Thomas 🇨🇦 @heart-sisters.bsky.social · 17h

Hello pacers! A little Q&A about your pacemaker

"To learn what real life with a pacemaker is like, there’s no more practical Q&A overview than what is freely available from patients who live with one themselves...
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Hello pacers! A little Q&A about your pacemaker

From painful backpack straps to how soon it’s safe to have sex again, some basic practical questions about life with a pacemaker – and practical answers from other “pacers” …

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 1d

#WarRavagedPortland

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Carolyn Thomas 🇨🇦 @heart-sisters.bsky.social · 20h

A cardiologist's advice on how to use this "wonder drug"

What you need to know (but likely weren't told) about how to use nitroglycerin for the chest pain of angina. . .

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A cardiologist’s advice on how to use this “wonder drug”

Cardiologist Dr. Bernard Lown was absolutely right! Over the past few years, I’ve spent countless hours foolishly suffering needlessly while trying to postpone taking a dose of this cardiac m…

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Carolyn Thomas 🇨🇦 @heart-sisters.bsky.social · 1d

Preeclampsia is a serious pregnancy complication that is also strongly linked to a higher risk of a future cardiovascular diagnosis...

Preeclampsia Foundation @preeclampsia.org · 1d

Check out our new educational resource about #preeclampsiatests

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#preeclampsia #preeclampsiaawareness

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Carolyn Thomas 🇨🇦 @heart-sisters.bsky.social · 1d

Research funding opportunity: Apply by November 13, 2025.

"Advanced Clinical Research Award in Breast Cancer" #ASCO

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a fountain pen is sitting on top of a spiral notebook

ALT: a fountain pen is sitting on top of a spiral notebook

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Carolyn Thomas 🇨🇦 @heart-sisters.bsky.social · 1d

The sudden death of an ex-spouse:

Is it “appropriate” to offer condolences to the ex-spouse of the deceased? Do ex-spouses grieve for long-ago relationships that may barely even exist anymore? myheartsisters.org/2020/09/06/t...

The sudden death of an ex-spouse

Is it “appropriate” to offer condolences to the ex-spouse of someone who has just died? Here’s what I learned when my ex died…

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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 2d

My quote of the day

In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

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Carolyn Thomas 🇨🇦 @heart-sisters.bsky.social · 1d

1992 Jays vs Braves #TorontoStar

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Canadian Resistance 🇨🇦 @cdnresistance.bsky.social · 1d

So Pierre Poilievre thinks he knows better than a prime minister with a PhD in economics from Oxford who was the governor of both the Bank of Canada and Bank of England? Gimme a break.

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Daniel Dvorkin @danielmedic.bsky.social · 2d

Bioinformaticists need a set of Greek theater masks. 🧪 🧬 🖥️

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Carolyn Thomas 🇨🇦 @heart-sisters.bsky.social · 1d

Learning to love your open heart surgery scar:

"Women who have survived open heart surgery sometimes have mixed emotions about whether “to hide or not to hide” this evidence of their cardiac history....

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Learning to love your open heart surgery scar

The external scars that run up the chests of those who have undergone open heart surgery tell a dramatic story. Here’s what goes on during that procedure and here’s what women think abo…

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Carolyn Thomas 🇨🇦 @heart-sisters.bsky.social · 2d

When thyroid problems masquerade as heart disease:
I was told to ‘put my affairs in order’, that I likely had less than 12 months to live. My heart rate was down to 43, my blood pressure only 75/45, and I was fainting from hypotension every time I stood up.”

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When thyroid problems masquerade as heart disease

At age 45, she began developing cardiac symptoms so debilitating that she became what she called a “couch girl” for almost four years – suffering with ever-worsening symptoms of c…

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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 2d

“The Blue Jays’ 23 runs are the most by any team through the first 2 games of the postseason in MLB history and at one point they scored 20 consecutive runs between Yankee runs -- the first time a team has done that in a postseason series.”

“We play for the city.”

And the country too.

Go Jays go.

'We play for the city': Vladdy hungry for more after hitting Toronto's 1st postseason grand slam

TORONTO -- Vladimir Guerrero Jr. owns this city. Now, he owns this series. Guerrero launched a grand slam in the Blue Jays’ 13-7 win over the Yankees on Sunday in Game 2 of the American League Divisio...

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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 2d

“Portland is burning to the ground. Insurrection is all over the place.”— Trump today.

So is he just the most unhinged pathological liar in history, or is he actually suffering from hallucinations? Both?

Attacking your own cities over a fake, made up “crisis” is a really good way to kill a nation.

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Carolyn Thomas 🇨🇦 @heart-sisters.bsky.social · 2d

When thyroid problems masquerade as heart disease:

"I was told to ‘put my affairs in order’, that I likely had less than 12 months to live. My heart rate was down to 43, my blood pressure only 75/45, and I was fainting from hypotension every time I stood up...”

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When thyroid problems masquerade as heart disease

At age 45, she began developing cardiac symptoms so debilitating that she became what she called a “couch girl” for almost four years – suffering with ever-worsening symptoms of c…

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Carolyn Thomas 🇨🇦 @heart-sisters.bsky.social · 4d

Why are women (still!) under-represented in medical research?

"How are these kinds of research results still being submitted, peer-reviewed, accepted and published in medical journals when they continue to ignore females – over half of the population?"
#Nature

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Why are women (still!) under-represented in medical research?

by Carolyn Thomas ♥ Heart Sisters (on Blue Sky) An article published in the journal Nature (September 15, 2025) takes a hard look at why so few women are included in medical research – …

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Felicity Hannah @felicityhannah.bsky.social · 6d

This article manages to name her husband before it names… her.

Article reads:
Woman named as Archbishop of Canterbury in historic first

The 63-year-old archbishop-designate is married to Eamonn Mullally, with whom she has two children. Originally from Woking in Surrey, she was the UK's chief nursing officer from 1999 to 2004.

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Carolyn Thomas 🇨🇦 @heart-sisters.bsky.social · 10d

11th edition of LIFE IN HEARTS e-magazine will be out Oct 1! Created by Jackie Ratz with help from #HeartLifeCanada, this issue's packed with compelling heart patient narratives, heart-smart recipes from #CherylStrachan, free printable 1-page patient education info & so much more! ❤️ LifeInHearts.ca

LIFE IN HEARTS

ISSUE #11 E-Magazine

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Carolyn Thomas 🇨🇦 @heart-sisters.bsky.social · 5d

Newborn dies of measles in Alberta 🇨🇦 after her pregnant mother was exposed to the highly contagious virus.

Congenital measles can result in severe complications, including encephalitis and death

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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 10d

“In 2023, cars and their drivers killed 8,820 American pedestrians and bicyclists — 7,314 pedestrians and 1,166 cyclists. They injured another 136,281, an increase of over 5,300 injuries from 2022.”

Put the responsibility where it belongs. Via @jalopnik.bsky.social www.jalopnik.com/1979666/defe...

No, Defensive Walking Isn't The Solution For Road Deaths - Jalopnik

It's victim-blaming, it's bull, and it's not the solution we need.

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Carolyn Thomas 🇨🇦 @heart-sisters.bsky.social · 10d

I was stunned by the difference between the Breast Imaging Clinic waiting room and the “oppressive silence” of cardiology waiting rooms I’ve spent time in. I’m now on a one-woman mission to create “micro-moments of connectivity” with other patients. Results so far: myheartsisters.org/2025/05/18/c...

Connection instead of isolation: my waiting room experiment

After being shocked by the difference between the Breast Imaging Clinic waiting room and the “oppressive silence” of cardiology waiting rooms I’ve spent time in, I’m now on …

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Carolyn Thomas 🇨🇦 @heart-sisters.bsky.social · 10d

11th edition of LIFE IN HEARTS e-magazine will be out Oct 1! Created by Jackie Ratz with help from #HeartLifeCanada, this issue's packed with compelling heart patient narratives, heart-smart recipes from #CherylStrachan, free printable 1-page patient education info & so much more! ❤️ LifeInHearts.ca

LIFE IN HEARTS

ISSUE #11 E-Magazine

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auntyr.bsky.social @auntyr.bsky.social · 10d

The best part is: You can get syrup from all of them, but sugar maples make it easy!
*Note... The leaves and keys are edible as well.

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