Kathryn LifeLearner

@PronouncedHare An ambulance man advised my sister to get our mother to sign a DNR because resuscitation wouldn't have worked on her so she'd have sustained painful injuries for nothing... IF she'd needed resuscitating The doctor refused, and our mother recovered (from dehydration) in hospital.

When my grandmother was 99 she had a pacemaker fitted. They flew her to Wellington for the operation. Before they went the guy asked her if she wanted to be resuscitated. She said yes. The guy then asked her again, explaining that it can cause quite painful injuries. She was a completely capable woman of full mental capacity and said yes she understood and please resuscitate her if she needed it. He then asked her a third time, telling her that her quality of life might be different. At that point, my grandmother turned to my father and asked “What does he want me to say?” and Dad then intervened telling the now very defensive guy to knock it off. That kind of low level pressure happens in the health system every day.

@PronouncedHare I knew he wasn't ready because he wouldn't have cried. I knew he wanted to go home.

@PronouncedHare A nun told my dad it was time to let go, it was time to die. He started crying and I said dad she's wrong you don't have to die now you don't have to die here in the hospital. We can take you home. We did and he died several days later in his bed.

@cour_michelle I am very sure that nobody sets out to create this kind of pressure in a systematic way. But that’s the trouble with systems. They evolve to protect the system not to optimise individual judgment.

It depends, seen people persevere even after being told their multiple medical problems meant they wouldn’t survive any attempts. People don’t realise that survival rates are pretty low. Our local hospital has the policy of asking everyone, even if it’s only remotely possible. But that extra discussion in context of their overall health condition doesn’t seem to have happened and there shouldn’t need to be repeated questioning. Patients have that right to chose what care they want or not as the case may be.

@1goodtern They will also say that there is increased illness during waves because just before waves governments offer to vaccine to the elderly.

@1goodtern People like that also claim Long Covid is vax injury, yet, so many of us developed LC in the 1st year, before vax were available.

@1goodtern @morgfair I get every vax offered and I'm never sick. Never got Covid, flu, pneumonia, shingles. I know it could all just be coincidence or I'm a freak of nature but as a kid who lived through measles and chicken pox before vaccines, I'm grateful.

@suehere6 I'm not a doctor, and my expertise is in hazard awareness and risk reduction, so I'm not in a position to give advice on vaccines. Generally I think the recommendation is for people who are vulnerable to get vaccinated against flu each year. If in doubt, ask your doctor.

@1goodtern Hi! I really respect and appreciate your work on Covid, thank you 🙏🏻 Do you recommend people - esp with compromised immune systems - get the annual flu vaccine? Or can you point to helpful on this please?

@1goodtern Oh that must be why I fractured my shoulder. Not me splatting onto the patio

I had a conversation with a guy who said that all the increased illness is because we all took the covid vaccines. I then asked him when all the illness comes, and he said it comes during the covid waves and afterwards. So I asked him whether people should do anything to stop catching Covid and he didn't know what to say.

#BenefitSanctions With 2.1 million claimants in conditionality regimes where sanctions can be applied, this means approximately 123,900 people were undergoing a sanction in November 2025 alone. morningstaronline.co.uk/article/compas… #morningstaronline

This is heartbreaking. 😢👇 25-year-old Noelia Castillo from Spain died yesterday by legal euthanasia after becoming paraplegic in a 2022 suicide attempt. She endured chronic pain, trauma, and psychiatric issues. Doctors approved it, courts upheld her right to choose - but her father and critics say the state failed her by offering death instead of real support. ⚖️ This case has ignited fierce debate about euthanasia, mental health care, and whether unbearable suffering justifies assisted dying. What’s your honest take❓ Should people in chronic, incurable suffering have the right to end their life with medical help - even with mental health involved? Or must society prioritise better care and protection❓ Reply below. Be respectful. 🗣️ Poll below 👇

Govt minister Matthew Pennycook yesterday : "I have never once suggested we'd abolish leasehold outright" Govt minister Matthew Pennycook on the 27th Jan 2026: "This package as a whole, as I have said, will end the leasehold system in its entirety and in a single Parliament"

@orwellvalley Poor communication between flat management companies and leaseholders is a serious problem. Communication breaks down entirely in the end because they treat us as ‘punters’ instead as customers.

I went to bed. That outburst of emotion was a huge relief and draining at the same time. He said that people that balance the books have little concept of the real consequences. I now have agoraphobia as I go out so little. Busy bars will find me tearing up. So yes. I get it. Walking round with a mask of normality when internally you're falling to bits is a heavy burden. x

Today, by pure chance, I met a housing association representative in the car park. No emails. No scripted replies. No “we understand your concerns.” Just a person. I showed him photos - not of defects or spreadsheets - but of how I’m actually living. What prolonged stress does. What it looks like when your home stops feeling like your own. The toll of over 5 years spent in fight or flight, trying to navigate a system that takes a considerable mental and physical toll. And I broke down. Not planned. Not performative. Just what happens when someone finally sees it. What it feels like to live under the weight of the legal system - camping out in what’s supposed to be your own home. Mortgage paid off years ago, but still struggling to keep up with service charges and a Section 20 major works bill. To his credit, he didn’t deflect. He didn’t hide behind process. For the first time in all of this, someone on that side acknowledged the lived reality... not just the liability. He replied honestly. Nothing’s fixed. The numbers haven’t changed. The pressure is still there. But being seen - even briefly - matters more than the system realises. Because behind every “case”, every “leaseholder”, every screen, every line item… there’s a person trying to hold it together in a place they once called home.

We are only just uncovering the tip of the iceberg in terms of what harm non-medically trained healthcare workers have been inflicting on UK patients This is a ‘clinical endoscopist’ acting way outside any acceptable scope of practice 8mg midazolam & 175mcg of fentanyl FFS