It was snuggly and warm :-))

Tonight will be my first night ever sleeping under a 15 (yes - FIFTEEN) tog duvet. I am expecting WARM things from tonight.

It’s 30 years since The Wannadies released the You & Me Song. I always loved it - still do. Zero regrets for choosing it as the quotes inside my engagement, and then both of our wedding rings.

It sucks extremely hard. Sorry.

So many of us took our own sweet time to get there (in my case depressingly long.) Hang in there!

Well, for the sake of complete honesty… we arrived with 10 minutes AND 24 hours to spare. I’m now calling today a dry run. A dress rehearsal, if you will.
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I am *winning* at parenting today. I remembered my son’s dentist appointment. Reminded him about it. Left work a little early, in good time to get him there. He brushed and flossed. We arrived with 10 minutes to spare.
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NB My children are not all still children. This stuff is never going to stop, is it?

My children are currently weighing bowls of ice cream, to make sure it’s shared out COMPLETELY fairly. #FourIsALotOfChildren

A pad of lined paper, with the word ‘FUCK’ stamped on it multiple times in greeny-blue ink, getting fainter as it goes down the page.

Which means I can now use my brand new stamp. Which is most excellent.

Two ink pads, sitting on top of a pad of paper. The ink colours are Pacific (a greeny-blue,) and Magenta.

I’ve ordered myself some excellent ink colours, and they’ve arrived now.

Someone I very much like saw something, thought of me an purchased it as a gift.

📌

Good palliative care can alleviate the pain of dying – this bill means Labour must fund it | Rachel Clarke Making dying easier is not the solution when NHS, social and palliative care are simply not there for patients

Good palliative care can alleviate the pain of dying – this bill means Labour must fund it
@doctoroxford.bsky.social

NHS can’t fund assisted deaths but expect charity to fund palliative care

This must be funded
www.theguardian.com/society/2024...

Completely agree with @doctoroxford.bsky.social
Palliative care should not have to rely on charity donations. We need a well funded palliative, NHS and social care system so that people don’t have to see this as their only choice.
Please sort this urgently @rthonwesstreeting.bsky.social

Love this.

I’ve had a day at work which really reminded me that I love getting to do a job a love, in a place I love, with amazing people. Even on the harder days - I’m still glad.

Come on #AnSky !

Join us in London for a few days of everything #AirwaySky at the @dasairway.bsky.social ASM

It'll be fun

Getting a smidge excited :-)

Congratulations! At 46 now, I do worry that I wasn’t paying enough attention 4 years ago… If you come up with the question, do let the rest of us know!

Obviously, you should follow the WHO. Far from perfect, but pretty darn decent given the size of their budget (way smaller than CDC) & a mandate to cater to 196 countries.

Trump will likely exit the US from the world's health agency, again.

As I’ve become older I’ve realised more how experience can be different as a female in any “career track” particularly when it comes to family planning, and would have such different advice for young women wanting families and a career now!

The opportunity for shared leave, Dads to work LTFT for childcare, etc., etc. needs to be there - but alongside culture shift in society - and medicine (which seems to lag behind) - that it’s GOOD for men to also do these things, not just acceptable.

to abandon my kids to study enough to finally pass the FRCA… Supportive female role models in a speciality which has always had female consultants ahead of me. But probably most importantly - insane (and at times self-destructive) stubbornness, and desperation to make it to being a consultant.

I managed it through having a genuinely brilliant husband - who although I was the one who worked LTFT, has NEVER thought the kids weren’t equally his. Brilliant parents - who supported in the near-impossible 2 acute speciality trainees times, on the worse rotas 15+ years ago (and to allow me

Yeah. I lost count. Should say 4/4 😉

BUT remain ever-grateful for having our family when worked for us. And forcing (at effort which almost broke me) medicine to work around it.

Am passionate about supporting the next generations better. We can and must make it more compatible to have a family and a career in medicine.
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He became a consultant > 10 years before me. Has had an extensive clinical and non-clinical consultant career (TPD, college tutor, royal college rep, HOS, divisional manager, DMD, etc.)

We have the same fantastic family. Are both dedicated and good doctors. But my career and his don’t compare.
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her that she should have kids if/when works for her, and make medicine work around her life.

My husband and I were in the same year at med school. Same 4 kiddos. I took maternity leave, did a lot of working part time, made the FRCA look pretty hard to pass with 4 kids under 10 at home.
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I am 46, and a consultant anaesthetist. My eldest kid (of 4,) is a 22-year-old 4th year med student; and I had her at the end of my house jobs. I tell her what I believe - in all honesty, there is still no good time in a medical career for a woman to have kids. Talk about pros and cons, but tell
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