Silent Sunlight

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[sunshineforeveryone]

How do I get through life when I’m all alone?

[sunshineforeveryone]

My patients inspire me. They teach me how regular exercise and healthy food really does make a difference in the long run. I want to be that 90 year old that is still healthy and independent. Well, the only reason I would want to live that long would be if my spouse also lives that long.

I am now all about incorporating vegetables and resistance training into my life. Here is to living my healthy 30s!

[sunshineforeveryone]

It’s not easy being a working mom. Your every moment is calculated. Even when you’re off you’re thinking of what to do next so your future self can thank you later for it.

[thoughtkick]

“You must tell yourself, ‘No matter how hard it is, or how hard it gets, I’m going to make it.”

— Les Brown

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Glory to the Palestinian resistance forever and always

[sunshineforeveryone]

There is mental exhaustion, there is physical exhaustion, and then there is you being sick and your body totally giving up on you.

I’m sick right now. My whole body hurts. Tylenol is not doing its thing. Trying to break apart, the body sweats. Trying to fix itself but in vain, it aches.

I am not very familiar with this version of me. I’m a mom and a south Asian wife. I have a million errands to do on the weekend. And this is how my body is behaving this weekend. I don’t have the time to be sick yet I’m sick and I don’t know what to do.

My boy is only eating cookies today as I don’t have the mental and physical energy to feed him real food.

I couldn’t work out because my body said no.

I am unable to do a single task.

I think what I’m having is fatigue.

If people say they have fatigue everyday they can’t be real because no way is anyone getting anything done with fatigue.

[skygenders]

There is something sooo deeply American going on with Seattle Children’s Hospital that I think would brick the minds of everyone outside of the United States.

[skygenders]

The CHILDRENS hospital has to restrict helipad landings because of noise complaints from the wealthy home owners living next to it. Only the most urgent patients can land directly at the hospital. While the other kids have to land a mile away and are taken to the hospital via ambulance. Which is an unnecessary risk to the child’s life and also makes the families pay for the helicopter AND ambulance.

[skygenders]

Seattle Children’s says Laurelhurst noise concerns burdens lifesaving care for children

The hospital says some limits on helipad access add pressure when children need lifesaving care.

Apparently this has been going on for decades and is only getting traction because a pilot complained on Twitter.

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[balzog]

[thoughtkick]

“You must tell yourself, ‘No matter how hard it is, or how hard it gets, I’m going to make it.”

— Les Brown

[sunshineforeveryone]

Taking care of a 3 year old toddler is super overwhelming. I am taking care of this child all alone without a village.

I would cry everyday but I mask it most days. Today I did though.

Why is life is freaking hard. Why are others are so freaking mean?

If you are mean to me, no amount of presents or gifts or being nice to me later is going to fix it.

[fahadaccount]

a calm mind is true luxury

[myislamicmuseum]

Hope this brings you as much peace as it brings me

[sunshineforeveryone]

Why the F did I choose this lifestyle? Of hard work and no rest. Of anxiety and continued anxiety. Why did I believe that my self worth is tied to my profession and how well I do in it. Every part of my body hurts. I am sick. I am tired.

[sunshineforeveryone]

I am so grateful there is one part of life I can control on my own. If my family or social life is giving me a hard time, I know at least i have control over my professional life.

If I can’t excel in one, I can try my best to excel in the other.

[sunshineforeveryone]

How do you react to something you don’t like? How do you say no?

[sunshineforeveryone]

A patient was telling me how he is a loner and hates being bothered in the hospital and he would hate being in a skilled nursing facility. I concur, my friend.

I hate hate hate people. I hate small talk with people I don’t care about. I do like patient care and talking to the patients is the only favourite part of my job.

They think I’m a doctor so I must be brilliant and smart. Nope. I suck at talking. I am not street smart. Talking to the patients is the only talking I can do.