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Saw a patient today with a hemoglobin of 1.9 g/dL. For context, a level that low is almost incompatible with normal consciousness, but she walked right into the clinic on her own feet. For three long years, she lived with crushing weakness and since last 6 months breathlessness from just walking across a room. Why didn’t she get help sooner? At first, it was because the kids had crucial school exams and later her husband was reluctant to deal with the hassle of a hospital admission. Her health was treated as a background inconvenience. When we dug deeper, it got worse. A year ago, her Hb was 6.4 g/dL. A doctor explicitly told them she needed immediate admission. The family refused, walked out with a basic strip of iron tablets, she took them for two weeks, forgot about them, and nobody in the house ever bothered to check on her or remind her. She didn't even come to the hospital today because of the air hunger. She came because her periods had completely stopped for months. Her body was so profoundly starved of iron and oxygen that it literally shut down her reproductive axis just to divert what little blood she had left to her heart and brain. It’s completely heartbreaking. A woman will literally bleed her body dry, gasp for air for years and keep working silently, only to be brought to a doctor when her normal functioning stops. Please check on the women in your homes. Stop letting them normalize chronic exhaustion.

The more i think about it, the angrier i get.

Dil ki baatain kis se karain

Why are influencers trying to make jeans and kurti a thing? Didn’t we get over it in 2000s?

If you want to dim out a girl and suck all the happiness out of her, just get her married. Doesn’t matter who she marries, 90% of the times she would become only a shadow of what she used to be. An empty lifeless shell.

No one talks about how humbling it is to lose all your academic potential because of your mental health.

People generally think being selfish is the easiest thing to do. Thinking of yourself before anyone else should come naturally, right? How is it that i find it the most difficult thing to do.

@apkiammi Praying for your mothers recovery.

If you are praying in the last 10 nights of ramadan, please pray for my mother. Every mother deserves the world but my mom is all I have ever known. She raised me all on her own. I am because she is. Things are finally looking better for her but recovery is such a long process

A year ago, my life changed completely. Last ramadan me and my family were getting ready to celebrate eid together just before my mom’s knee replacement which should have taken 3 months to heal. The healing never happened and I spent a year with her in and out of hospital,

@sugarmontings 🤐

@rainbowanddaisy who are u 👀 what was ur previous handle

still true. disgusting stuff.

Marriage is a scam. And having kids is a bigger scam.

@sugarmontings Same. But have people realized it?

had sized up and seen right through the owner of a certain large female-only FB group when she'd started, but it took years for others to realise the same.

I am non Punjabi and i don’t get why everyone is literally going crazy. They are talking about getting 400-500 guddas at my place. Its beyond me.

Tolerating always turns to resentment. At first, you call it patience, then love. But what it really is, is self-abandonment. Every time you swallow a boundary, excuse a pattern, or silence your discomfort, something inside you keeps score. And eventually, the bill comes due.

As usual, they gonna fuck me up.

Salons make me feel the worst.

In my toxic workplace era

The most tiring thing about adulting to me is how CONSTANT it is. There is ALWAYS some shit to sort out. you're chilling means you're probably just ignoring the million things on your to-do list.

But the truth is he is going through tough time himself. He is probably ignored while i am in office. A new baby has arrived in the house. He is sick. I get home and don’t have any energy to spend time with him. Why would he love me?

He is being nasty to me. And i cannot control my anger and feel no love towards him. Thats how it is.

I am turning into such a terrible terrible mom and i am doing it deliberately. Being terrible with my child.