jen curran

Wanna hear a crazy story? I’m a new mom & I had protein in my urine during and after pregnancy, which is bad. A doctor told me to “lose weight” & it would go away. Didn’t want me to see me back for months. So I got a second opinion. Turns out I have bone marrow cancer. THREAD: 1/

@LibbyMbc I’m so sorry Libby

Being told i have weeks to months to live has been hard on my pshyche and my soul. I wish so badly things could be different. I want so badly to see my baby girl grow up, but its not possible. The last 4 years have been hard but this last cliff my health has fallen off has been a surprise. I really didnt know i was doing as poorly as i was. Now i have been dealt the final card in the deck. No more treatments. No more hope. I will try enhertu a little longer just in case the liver mets and leg mets we saw were from fhe time when i didn't recieve treatment but if that isnt the case i will be on hospice. My dreams of seeing my little girl grow up shattered when i found out the news and i cant stop crying since.

@jsweeenz Yes!!!

Hi @chrissyteigen big swing here but can I borrow $95k for surrogacy? I can’t carry because I got cancer right after my 1st was born but we really wanna have one more. There aren’t fertility loans and it’s too steep on our own. Mom to Mom - help me out and I’ll pay you back?💕💕

I think I’m gonna start my war on Christmas early this year. Retweet to enlist

@meaghano That’s exactly it, the harder you try, the more suspicious or something (?) they become. Humbling

@jencurran trying to do this for my mom and it’s such a mindfuck to worry that the more I try the more likely I’ll be seen as drug seeking or whatever, denying pain meds to people who need them is so so cruel I’m so sorry

Me: I’m just trying to advocate for myself Pharm: I have 5 other patients holding right now I don’t have time Me: I’m a patient. Can you please make time? Pharm: Fine I’ll call you back Me: Okay thank you so much. You said your name is Kim? Pharm: >hangs up<

At some point a drugstore has to be able to manage people’s real needs. There’s a lack of empathy, a lack of basic kindness. An accusatory vibe. People begin to question their pain. My doctor was able to help move things ahead but not everyone is so lucky. How is that safe?

I just got out of rehab after having 2 femurs replaced. And yesterday they found my foot broken in 2 places. PT, a walker, a boot, follow-ups. I’m doing it! But the pharmacy run around to get pain meds has been humbling and scary. There has to be a better way to help everyone

@__eshani Thrilling and upsetting that’s exactly it

a few months ago my doctor literally said “i agree with your assessment, the reasons behind it, and the dosage change you suggested” it was both thrilling and upsetting??

If you’re in a group of people watching the sunset and nobody yells “There it goes!” as the sun dips below the horizon then you’re probably with vampires who are already plotting so get the heck outta there

There should 2 ways to become a doctor in America: 1. The usual way, or 2. You are a regular and storied patient with complex stuff going on (professional patients, I call us) being treated by the health care industry for a minimum of 4 years. Come at me.

@carlykimmel Me too! And I always hunker down to read those memes about the signs, so excited to explore, and then I get to Scorpio and it’s like “this is an ass person, next!”

All the other zodiac signs are so complex and multi-layered, interesting, weird, dynamic, and then there’s Scorpio where everyone’s just like “what a murderer.”

Nurse: Get this. Our patient broke his foot, brought his walker too far into the MRI room and it got sucked into the machine! Me: Omg! Nurse: It gets worse. He’s a cop and had his loaded gun in the little caddy of that walker. Me: WHAT?! Nurse: They had to call the fire dept

Me: Did you make a mistake? 4yo: It wasn’t a mistake, it was on purpose for no reason

My Multiple Myeloma is “well-controlled” but I’m not in remission. Going on 4 years of chemo. And I’ll always have to have treatment. I have an appointment this Thursday! I actually don’t mind. Love the nurses, love my doctor. Now if only they had a childcare option 🤔

@rabennett77 😮

@jencurran I’m a peds hemeonc RN. I was in the room when a provider declined to Rx marinol to a kid who needed it bc “you’re already too big.” I see it all the time but that day I had real, hulking rage.

Remember how 4 years ago I was diagnosed with cancer after my first opinion said I just needed to “lose the baby weight.” Not much has changed since then. Recently I asked the bone surgeon about recovery time. He said, “Well I know you have a little extra meat on those thighs.”

@clhubes That was honestly one of the biggest red flags for me! I couldn’t make sense of it. And she’d actually just given birth to her 4th baby and hadn’t lost HER “baby weight” (whatever the hell that means) but was having Papa John’s pizza delivered to her office while we met 🙃

@ehme I don’t know what that is but no thank you! 🩷🩷🩷🩷

@jencurran want a bluesky invite?

I’m back. Lost my blue check mark and not even sure what I’m doing here but I’m back. Thank you in advance for the 12 likes this will get. I’m lit on pain meds after a bilateral thigh replacement. Just got out of acute rehab 2 days ago. What better time to do my little remarks 💞