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@ConEdison thank you! I appreciate the help. Just DMd. Hope we can get this resolved.

@cannontekstar Good evening, please DM your full Con Edison account number, and service address, so we may further assist. ~ DG

@ConEdison I'd like to understand why my dashboard says that you're going to auto-bill me $2k in 14 days when my auto-pay says $446.

@Uber hi. I'm unable to tip or rate an Uber Eats person who went far above & beyond the norm on a horrifically rainy day. The app has no way for me to apply a tip, and he truly deserves a big one. Can you help me?

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@JeromeAdamsMD thank you for continuing to advocate for masking in public spaces. the more people who mask, the less chance an airborne illness has to spread.

“The dose makes the poison” is a long accepted scientific axiom. One drop in a glass of water won’t kill you, 10 might, 100 definitely will. The same is true for masking. No mask stops 100% of particles from getting through. But the more we can lower the dose, the safer we are!

Some style lessons from Gerard Basquiat, a Haitian immigrant whose son helped define the New York art scene and neo-expressionism. 🧵

A few months ago a high-impact journal rejected my paper on #LongCovid by saying that I went into advocacy and the need for funding too much. 🙄 If they had told me to revise and resubmit, I would've done that, but their rejection told me that they just "don't want to talk about #LongCovid, no, no, no." 😥🤣

It’s wild that patients fear for their lives because their medical providers won’t practice basic public safety measures. And fate doesn’t have to be death. You can be terrified of a lifetime of chronic illness & medical complications. That’s absolutely terrifying.

@dysclinic I was only patient at the infusion center who wore a mask during the three days I was there. One nurse wore a surgical mask. And my friend who visited wore N95. They asked me about Covid. There were signs everywhere about hand-washing. How are the pieces not fitting together?

If it were up to me, I would make masking at medical facilities a requirement. Went to Quest lab today: full waiting room, 2 people are coughing, nobody is masked, except me and my ugly N95 mask. 🤣😷 It's the biggest summer #Covid surge; #CovidIsntOver #MaskUp

@karine_hsu And she’s just pretending Tabitha Simmons and Manolo Blahnik, arbiters of the comfortable high heel, never existed. (sadly Tabitha no longer has her shoe line but her goal always was to design a heel she could wear while on set)

omg SPANX founder Sara Blakely is launching Sneex, a comfy high-heel "We put a man on the moon," she said. "Somebody needs to invent a comfortable high heel."

Incredibly disheartening that it took 4 years and countless dashed #Olympics dreams to achieve global recognition that: -Covid IS more than just a cold -Even the "young and healthy" can be impacted -Basic infection control measures should be embraced in high-risk settings 😞

@MediumSizeMeech Is she still styling herself?

I’m speechless. Denim. Leather. And a cardigan

@beth_morton Working full-time throughout severe MUMS flares. So long as my fingers can type and I can relatively see, I will plug onward.

Q6. In what event would you win gold if there were #migraine or chronic illness Olympics? #MigraineChat

@beth_morton Oh beth. I'm so sorry. You both have fought for so long and so hard. sending you hugs.

[pet loss] I said goodbye to my best friend last night and I am just absolutely, totally, and completely gutted. We were inseparable for 16 years and I don’t know how to imagine a future without her right now.

Hey 👋🏻 @williambyoung59 so @CSWhiteMD and i want to FMRI the heck out of the noggin so we can figure out what in the proprioception is going on, for research. Because MUMS does need more research. And this is a really fun topic. 🤣🙏 instagram.com/reel/C950xShuO…

Symptoms overlap but there are clear signs to help a provider encourage a patient to seek diagnosis. Took my rheum less than 2min: saw my patient history, my consistently flagged high HR & low BP, & asked if I ever saw stars when I stood. Then referred me to a POTS specialist.

Wish every headache specialist knew how to identify dysautonomia because migraine & POTS love to hold hands, esp after Covid. So many migraine patients w POTS will go for years before they receive a diagnosis, wondering if their weird symptoms are migraine or something else.

@dysclinic Dr Blitshteyn I’m getting closer to booking an appt. these breakdowns are the reasons why. More providers need to understand how complex these things are and how they feed into one another, how they complicate one another, and how covid can make it so much worse

I was working this morning (due to an overflow of patients) and saw a woman in her early 40s who's had multiple medical and neurologic problems over the past few years. Aside from interstitial cystitis, her past medical history "appeared" unremarkable. In the middle of her health problems, she developed some type of twitching that a well-meaning neurologist at a good academic institution diagnosed as FND. The neurologist explained what FND was and how to treat it, but the patient didn't think that she had a software problem and never went back to that neurologist. The neurologist seemed dismissive of the burning pain in her legs, tachycardia, flushing and GI symptoms, but was adamant that the patient had FND. Complicating this story was the patient's current stress from a divorce, which was also rooted in the fact that the patient didn't feel well for years and was no longer able to keep up with lifestyle and fun activities that the spouse wanted to pursue. After several questions, I had no doubts that the patient had a hypermobility spectrum disorder (HSD), mast cell activation syndrome, #dysautonomia and other common complications of a connective tissue disorder. However, she has never heard these diagnoses from her doctors - after circulating in our healthcare system for years! Case in point: you cannot look at a patient with multisystemic symptoms with a "pick-and-choose" approach. If all you see is FND because the patient also had weird-looking twitching, but fail to see neuropathic pain, dysautonomia and connective tissue disorder that are at the core of the patient's suffering and disability, then I am sorry, but you're not doing a good job, and I don't care what specialty you come from. All specialists should learn how to recognize #HSD/#EDS and #Dysautonomia in their patients. #MedTwitter #NeuroTwitter #PatientCare #BrainHealth

@svershbow You know at least an hour meeting and MANY group chat conversations were had about this

Would have done anything to be in the meeting where they brainstormed what emoji reaction Jill Biden should post in response to her husband dropping out of the presidential race.

@beth_morton Oh hunny. sending you a big hug.

Today was a really shitty day for a very specific reason and it's not even remotely the worst of what's to come. Just hug your pet(s), if you have one.