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diatoma.bsky.social
María Richardson
@diatoma.bsky.social
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Ella/she/her. I write, I read, I draw plants. Chronically ill en la Ciudad de México. #ME #MECFS #POTS #LongCovid
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a) I loved ‘Task’ (story, characters, landscape, Rohr reference)
b) I loved Tom Brandis, played by @markruffalo.bsky.social
c) Might Ruffalo look into #GreatestMEdicalScandal @johnvsjonvsme.bsky.social ?
ps. Would love to chat with Inglesby about the impossible grief of #GreatestMEdicalScandal
picture of Mark Ruffalo’s character wearing a hat in a scene where he’s gardening. The Spanish subtitles read ‘Bien.’
October 20, 2025 at 5:02 AM
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A #JohnVsJonVsME @johnvsjonvsme.bsky.social #GreatestMEdicalScandal #Halloween MEme I made last year about this ignored horror (and how it’s my villain origin story) @juliadoubleday.bsky.social @ryankenacts.bsky.social @johngreensbluesky.bsky.social @markruffalo.bsky.social
My spirit is tired 😭
#JohnVsJonVsME MEme that shows a town on a cliff covered by a virus and people with Long Covid POTS ME etc rock climbing on the cliff
October 15, 2025 at 10:43 PM
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ps. distracted myself with emoji collages almost a week ago. Last night I was bouncing my knees and feet in full awful tight-chested wiredness from 12:30 to 6 am. Not fun. Really wishing I hadnt tried LDN (didnt seem to help much, and naltrexone is harder to get in Mexico now).
Green-tone image of a ceiling with a hanging lamp and shadow. It’s been edited to add lightning emojis, the word ‘akathisia’, and a cut out half-closed eye with an accidental green line crossing it.
August 9, 2025 at 8:48 PM
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Sharing my #MEAwarenessMonth poem. It's July, but the months, years, decades pass #pwME by, & the question remains.
#GreatestMEdicalScandal #MyalgicEncephalomyelitis
@johngreensbluesky.bsky.social @hankgreen.bsky.social @mehdirhasan.bsky.social @thrasherxy.bsky.social @gregggonsalves.bsky.social
First page of the poem titled 'Third persons' that reads: Third persons (a Myalgic Encephalomyelitis Awareness Month poem) Who are we waiting for? Who must we coax into zooming their attention on the facts of our broken bodies long enough for outrage to boil into full engagement: time, resources, voice. The third persons to tell the story we’ve been howling til our own cords tear, repair, then tear again, or whispering because our muscles cannot hold the volume of injustice. In the first person: our own details and in our third person: our friends’ details and the favorite birdsongs of those who’ve passed away after treading on quicksand, never to know the promise of acknowledgment (not even a cure, just less neglect), which seems sometimes in sight but perhaps a mirage. Sophia Mirza says “I don’t want to be a cautionary tale” Second page of the poem titled 'Third persons' that reads: in the 2011 documentary Voices from the Shadows. Sophia Mirza died of M.E. in 2005. She was 32 and an artist who’d loved camping, recycling, yoga, who suffered (a verb carefully chosen) Severe M.E. and critically deteriorated after being forced into a psychiatric ward in 2003. Her post-mortem revealed dorsal root ganglionitis. Her last words, spoken to her mother, who’d asked about sharing her story to keep others from the same end: “Then it will all have been worth it.” We carry her loss, two decades ago, and dozens of blue roses. We add our endangerment— bodies allergic to life, life yet erupting— and tally the thefts: work, family, the five senses. Our particular griefs, we’re told, can reach foreign hearts, but so many insist on calling lived-experience unreliable, Third page of the poem titled 'Third persons' that reads: as though the bias of inexperience didn’t permeate insidiously when fear and hubris lead. “Malingerers!” they print to keep non-nuanced viewers from knowing this too could be their cage. All suffering behooves us but furthermore: you too could turn into a heartsink patient, ruthlessly compared to buoyant peers. For media favors the feel-okay narration: individuals with promising new acts. If not recovery, then commendable adjustment: not training for triathlons but now a tai chi instructor in Tulum, forcibly retired but picks flowers with their labradoodle. And those of us still in the too-shrunk in-between (most verbs erased) with joys (sparrow at my window, cat who doesn’t mind my unwashed hair), remember the friends for whom a sunray or light kiss are torture, and wonder when our BED REST protests will attract beyond the fiends who insist: “Unalive yourself.” or less overtly: “Accept the wayside.” As if Fourth page of the poem 'Third persons' that reads: for the Just World Hypothesis. We know too much. We tag along with tenured researchers investigating viral persistence, mitochondrial dysfunction. We beg doctors to follow patient forum models: open communication, expedited pattern recognition, full logging of adverse reactions. We try another off-label drug (with the necessary medical disclaimers) and risk sinking further. But the radio waves ignore us because the call has always required action. We’re owed attention, investment, justice, care. So I ask again: how many lab coats and sports coats (with lived-experience or otherwise) are necessary to spell out the catastrophe? What threshold of status or number of third persons will it take for the public to shift from not caring to exclaiming (like with every health scandal, like with all human horrors) in the passive mood: how was this ignored for so long?
July 4, 2025 at 2:20 AM
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Dreaming of @naomiaklein.bsky.social & @mehdirhasan.bsky.social @zeteo.com chatting with @georgemonbiot.bsky.social about #GreatestMEdicalScandal, #MyalgicEncephalomyelitis & #LongCovid 🛟

Will you support the #MillionsMissing #pwME?

More at: www.johnvsjon.com @johnvsjonvsme.bsky.social
Alt. Text: A lifeguard safety MEme. At the top, “We need a whole team of lifeguards to sound the alarm” in black text.  Below the top, “#GreatestMEdicalScandal #MillionsMissing #DisabilitySOS” in red text.  On right side, “I nominate Naomi Klein for this” in red text. On left side, an image of Naomi Klein as a lifeguard holding a red and white safety floatation ring.  The background is a photograph of an enormous ocean wave crashing near the shoreline.  At the bottom, “#JohnVsJonVsME” in black text. Alt. Text: A lifeguard safety MEme. At the top, “We need a whole team of lifeguards to sound the alarm” in black text.  Below the top, “#GreatestMEdicalScandal #MillionsMissing #DisabilitySOS” in red text.  On right side, “I nominate Mehdi Hasan for this” in red text. On left side, an image of Mehdi Hasan as a lifeguard holding a red and white safety floatation ring.  The background is a photograph of an enormous ocean wave crashing near the shoreline.  At the bottom, “#JohnVsJonVsME” in black text.
May 20, 2025 at 11:17 PM
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I’m sending out a @johnvsjonvsme.bsky.social #MillionsMissing #DisabilitySOS to health justice leaders #EndTB - doctors, authors, and advocates whose work I appreciate immensely: @joiamukherjee.bsky.social @mariasmilios.bsky.social @johngreensbluesky.bsky.social @vidyakrishnan.bsky.social (1/8)
Alt. Text: A lifeguard safety MEme. At the top, “We need a whole team of lifeguards to sound the alarm” in black text.  Below the top, “#GreatestMEdicalScandal #MillionsMissing #DisabilitySOS” in red text.  On right side, “I nominate Vidya Krishnan for this” in red text. On left side, an image of Vidya Krishnan as a lifeguard holding a red and white safety floatation ring.  The background is a photograph of an enormous ocean wave crashing near the shoreline.  At the bottom, “#JohnVsJonVsME” in black text. Alt. Text: A lifeguard safety MEme. At the top, “We need a whole team of lifeguards to sound the alarm” in black text.  Below the top, “#GreatestMEdicalScandal #MillionsMissing #DisabilitySOS” in red text.  On right side, “I nominate Joia Mukherjee for this” in red text. On left side, an image of Joia Mukherjee as a lifeguard holding a red and white safety floatation ring.  The background is a photograph of an enormous ocean wave crashing near the shoreline.  At the bottom, “#JohnVsJonVsME” in black text. Alt. Text: A lifeguard safety MEme. At the top, “We need a whole team of lifeguards to sound the alarm” in black text.  Below the top, “#GreatestMEdicalScandal #MillionsMissing #DisabilitySOS” in red text.  On right side, “I nominate John Green for this” in red text. On left side, an image of John Green as a lifeguard holding a red and white safety floatation ring.  The background is a photograph of an enormous ocean wave crashing near the shoreline.  At the bottom, “#JohnVsJonVsME” in black text. Alt. Text: A lifeguard safety MEme. At the top, “We need a whole team of lifeguards to sound the alarm” in black text.  Below the top, “#GreatestMEdicalScandal #MillionsMissing #DisabilitySOS” in red text.  On right side, “I nominate Maria Smilios for this” in red text. On left side, an image of Maria Smilios as a lifeguard holding a red and white safety floatation ring.  The background is a photograph of an enormous ocean wave crashing near the shoreline.  At the bottom, “#JohnVsJonVsME” in black text.
May 14, 2025 at 10:10 PM
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For the folks asking "What can I do to help people with #MyalgicEncephalomyelitis?", here's an Action Bingo for #MEAwarenessMonth ❤️.

Comment below when you've covered one or many of these boxes so I can rejoice with you! (1/4)

#MillionsMissing #WorldMEDay #DisabilitySOS #GreatestMEdicalScandal
Bingo board titled #MEAwarenessMonth 2025 ACTION BINGO With an illustration of a diatom and a piñata There are 9 boxes that contain the messages: 1. AMPLIFY (like, comment, share) posts by #pwME with #MyalgicEncephalomyelitis #MillionsMissing #MEAwareness #WorldMEDay #MECFS #DisabilitySOS 2. SIGN the MEAction Network letter in support of the "ME/CFS Research Roadmap." 3. Learn more about #GreatestMEdicalScandal at www.johnvsjon.com 4. SEND the Mao Clinic Proceedings Concise Review #Diagnosis and Management of MyalgicEncephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome" to your doctors and friends in healthcare. 5. SEND the new Bateman Horne Center "Clinical Care Guide to Managing ME/CFS, Long Covid, and IACCs" to your doctors and friends in healthcare. 6. Follow the MEAction Network, the World ME Alliance, The Sick Times and other advocacy and news orgs to stay informed on ME, Long Covid, and IACCs news & campaigns. 7. FOLLOW and if possible DONATE to orgs advancing research, for example: Open Medicine Foundation, Polybio Foundation 8. DONATE to Mutual Aid #pwmE #MutualAid #MECFS #SevereME #DontLetMEDie 9. JOIN @johnvsjonvsme in tagging journalists, actors, scientists, and other professionals you want to see cover and champion #GreatestMEdicalSCandal
May 11, 2025 at 12:05 AM
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Financiamiento crítico para la investigación, cuidado y apoyo de #ME (logrado a través del enorme esfuerzo de personas enfermas, y aún lejos de ser proporcional a la carga de la enfermedad) está actualmente en peligro en EEUU. Por eso me uno a @meactnet.bsky.social y #DisabilitySOS. (5/6)
Póster rojo con el hashtag #MillionsMissing a mero arriba, seguido por las letras SOS creadas por 18 autoretratos de una mujer mexicana acostada, frecuentemente en la oscuridad, a veces acompañada de un gato anaranjado. El texto del póster lee: "La EncefalomielitisMiálgica es una de las enfermedades con menor calidad de vida. Existen CERO medicamentos aprobados por la FDA para tratarla. El financiamento de los NIH para esta enfermedad es bajísimo relativo a su carga de morbilidad. Incluso este financiamiento limitado está en riesgo. #DisabilitySOS
May 9, 2025 at 2:13 AM
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SIN EMBARGO,
la #EncefalomielitisMiálgica sigue siendo una de las enfermedades peor financiadas, y #LongCovid vuelve aún más urgente el desarrollar mejores tratamientos para las ahora estimadas 50 millones de personas en todo el mundo con #ME. (4/6)
Póster rojo con el hashtag #MillionsMissing a mero arriba, seguido por las letras SOS creadas por 18 autoretratos de una mujer mexicana acostada, frecuentemente en la oscuridad, a veces acompañada de un gato anaranjado. El texto del póster lee: "La EncefalomielitisMiálgica es una de las enfermedades con menor calidad de vida. Existen CERO medicamentos aprobados por la FDA para tratarla. El financiamento de los NIH para esta enfermedad es bajísimo relativo a su carga de morbilidad. Incluso este financiamiento limitado está en riesgo. #DisabilitySOS
May 9, 2025 at 2:13 AM
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Este es mi noveno año abogando por la #EncefalomielitisMiálgica #MyalgicEncephalomyelitis #MillionsMissing #MEAwarenessMonth.
Mi salud ha empeorado considerablemente desde entonces, pero siento esperanza porque (1/6)
Póster rojo con el hashtag #MillionsMissing a mero arriba, seguido por las letras SOS creadas por 18 autoretratos de una mujer mexicana acostada, frecuentemente en la oscuridad, a veces acompañada de un gato anaranjado. El texto del póster lee: "La EncefalomielitisMiálgica es una de las enfermedades con menor calidad de vida. Existen CERO medicamentos aprobados por la FDA para tratarla. El financiamento de los NIH para esta enfermedad es bajísimo relativo a su carga de morbilidad. Incluso este financiamiento limitado está en riesgo. #DisabilitySOS
May 9, 2025 at 2:13 AM
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Critical funding for #ME research, care, and support (achieved through immense labor by very ill people, and still far from commensurate to disease burden) is currently in danger in the U.S., so I'm joining @meactnet.bsky.social #MillionsMissing in putting out a #DisabilitySOS. (5/x)
A red poster with the hashtag #MillionsMissing at the top. Below that the letters SOS spelled out with 18 selfies of a white Mexican woman lying down, often in the dark and wearing an ice hat, sometimes with a beloved orange cat. Below that some key facts: - M.E. has one of the lowest Quality if Life measurements of any disease - There are zero FDA approved drugs for ME - NIH M.E. funding is extremely low relative to disease burden - Even this limited funding is currently at risk #DisabilitySOS #GreatestMEdicalScandal #MyalgicEncephalomyelitis #WorldMEDay
May 9, 2025 at 1:22 AM
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HOWEVER, #MyalgicEncephalomyelitis is still one of the most poorly funded diseases, and #LongCovid is making it more urgent than ever to develop better treatments for the now estimated 50 million people around the world with #ME. #DisabilitySOS (4/6)
A red poster with the hashtag #MillionsMissing at the top. Below that the letters SOS spelled out with 18 selfies of a white Mexican woman lying down, often in the dark and wearing an ice hat, sometimes with a beloved orange cat. Below that some key facts: - M.E. has one of the lowest Quality if Life measurements of any disease - There are zero FDA approved drugs for ME - NIH M.E. funding is extremely low relative to disease burden - Even this limited funding is currently at risk #DisabilitySOS #GreatestMEdicalScandal #MyalgicEncephalomyelitis #WorldMEDay
May 9, 2025 at 1:22 AM
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This is my 9th year advocating for #MyalgicEncephalomyelitis #MillionsMissing #MEAwarenessMonth.
My health has only worsened since then (9 years ago I was able to work FT! Now I can't even work PT and am mainly housebound), but I'm hopeful because: (1/6)
A red poster with the hashtag #MillionsMissing at the top. Below that the letters SOS spelled out with 18 selfies of a white Mexican woman lying down, often in the dark and wearing an ice hat, sometimes with a beloved orange cat. Below that some key facts: - M.E. has one of the lowest Quality if Life measurements of any disease - There are zero FDA approved drugs for ME - NIH M.E. funding is extremely low relative to disease burden - Even this limited funding is currently at risk #DisabilitySOS #GreatestMEdicalScandal #MyalgicEncephalomyelitis #WorldMEDay
May 9, 2025 at 1:22 AM
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Publicado en las redes de @sfcem_mexico (linktr.ee/millionsmiss...):

World ME Alliance nos invita a todas las personas con #EncefalomielitisMiálgica a participar en #WorldMEDay personalizando estos pósters informativos, ya sea (1/4)
Póster con fondo verde azulado que dice 'World ME Day' y'12 de mayo' arriba. El título es 'Mito vs. realidad' y el mensaje principal 'Realidad: La EM se define por el Malestar Post-Esfuerzo (PEM, por sus siglas en inglés), una reacción extrema en la que los síntomas empeoran después de un esfuerzo físico o mental mínimo.' Al centro la foto de una mujer con pelo oscuro acostada en cama con un cartel que dice '#millionsmissing México #millonesausentes' Póster con fondo verde azulado que dice 'World ME Day' y'12 de mayo' arriba. El título es 'Myth vs Fact' y el mensaje principal 'Fact: Many Long COVID patients have symptoms that match ME.' Al centro la foto de un torso sobre el cual se apoya la pata de un gato anaranjado. La palbra 'México' aparece sobre la foto.
May 3, 2025 at 10:19 PM
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¡Les invitamos a leer y compartir estas infografías para que fluya más información correcta sobre la #EncefalomielitisMiálgica #MillionsMissing en español!

Aquí encontrarán las infografías #WorldMEDay #Fact en una decena de otros idiomas: worldmealliance.org/2025/04/worl... (2/2)
Póster con el texto: Los médicos no pueden hacer nada para ayudar a las personas con Encefalomielitis Miálgica. ✅ Realidad: Aunque no hay una cura, los médicos pueden ayudar a los pacientes a manejar sus síntomas y mejorar su calidad de vida. Póster con el texto: Mito: Solo ciertos tipos de personas pueden desarrollar EM. ✅ Realidad: La Encefalomielitis Miálgica puede afectar a cualquier persona, sin importar su edad, género, raza o nivel socioeconómico. Póster con el texto: Mito: El COVID prolongado y la Encefalomielitis Miálgica son enfermedades completamente distintas. ✅ Realidad: Muchos pacientes con COVID Prolongado (Long Covid) cumplen los criterios diagnósticos de la EM.
May 3, 2025 at 7:43 PM
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Publicado en las redes de Millions Missing México (linktr.ee/millionsmiss...):

Mayo es el mes de concientización sobre la #EncefalomielitisMiálgica y el 12 de mayo #WorldMEDay. Este año la World ME Alliance nos invita a compartir 6 Mitos vs. realidades utilizando #WorldMEDay #Fact (realidad). (1/2)
Póster con el texto: Mito: El ejercicio ayuda a las personas a recuperarse de la Encefalomielitis Miálgica. ✅ Realidad: A diferencia de otras enfermedades crónicas, el ejercicio puede ser perjudicial para las personas con EM. Los programas de ejercicio estructurado, como la terapia de ejercicio gradual (GET, por sus siglas en inglés), solían recomendarse, pero investigaciones han demostrado que estos pueden empeorar los síntomas. Organizaciones de salud como NICE en el Reino Unido y los CDC en EE. UU. han retirado su apoyo a estos enfoques. Póster con el texto: Mito: La Encefalomielitis Miálgica es solo cansancio. ✅ Realidad: La EM se define por el Malestar Post-Esfuerzo (PEM, por sus siglas en inglés), una reacción extrema en la que los síntomas empeoran después de un esfuerzo físico o mental mínimo. Imagen de una mujer en cama con antifaz y audífonos para bloquear el sonido.Arriba 'WorldMEDay' y '12 de mayo.' El texto del póster lee: 1. Mito: La Encefalomielitis Miálgica es un problema de salud mental. ✅ Realidad: La EM es una enfermedad física que afecta el metabolismo, el cerebro, el sistema inmunológico y el sistema nervioso autónomo.
May 3, 2025 at 7:43 PM
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Join #pwME from all around the world by championing a #Fact for #WorldMEDay, friends! There are six of them to choose from 🔥.
worldmealliance.org/worldmeday/c...

Available in English y en español.
#MyalgicEncephalomyelitis #MECFS #MyalgicEncephalomyelitisAwareness
Poster con fondo verde azulado que tiene como título 'Mito vs. realidad'. En la parte de abajo, texto que lee "Realidad: Muchos pacientes con COVID Prolongado (Long Covid) cumplen los criterios diagnósticos de la EM." Al centro del poster una foto de un cuarto oscuro con una ventana que muestra enredaderas en la luz de días. Sobre la foto, la palabra 'México' en naranja.
May 1, 2025 at 6:05 PM
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I’m watching ‘United in Anger: a History of Act Up’ and thought this person looked familiar :). @gregggonsalves.bsky.social
So much admiration and gratitude for folks who’ve fearlessly advocated for health equity (and continue to do so).

www.unitedinanger.com
April 22, 2025 at 11:14 PM
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I made myself a mnemonic map of the book #EverythingIsTuberculosis by John Green and share it here to invite friends to read along . (Let me know what else you’d add to the map!)

I highly recommend the book, which, as all things @johngreensbluesky.bsky.social, involves... (1/x)
A collage of images that represent the book, including: an addirondack chair, cowboy hat, the state of New Mexico, the assassination of archduke Ferdinand, a portrait of John Keats, a portrait of Eliza Poe, books by Gale Perkins, a Kurt Vonnegut quotation, books on Koch and Conan Doyle, images showing TB diagnostics (spitum, xray, cartridges) and treatments (RIPE, bedaquiline), a photo of PIH in Sierra Leone, Henry Reider, TB statistics, the PIH logo, the TB Fighters logo, and Danaher it's time for 5.
April 15, 2025 at 12:00 AM
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Sigamos a @meactnet.bsky.social y otras organizaciones de #EncefalomielitisMiálgica #MyalgicEncephalomyelitis #MECFS #LongCovid #IACC para unirnos a #WorldMEDay #MillionsMissing en mayo ❤️.
Sobre un fondo rojo claro, el texto "Cuando hablo del abandono social de las personas con Encefalomielitis Miálgica, no me refiero a la pérdida de contacto y apoyo de amigos y familiares (aunque aquello también sea parte de la historia, como en quizá todas las enfermedades crónicas e incluso agudas.) Me refiero a que la Encefalomielitis Miálgica es una enfermedad neuroinmune devastadora y desatendida, sin un solo medicamento aprobado por la FDA y para la cual solo las personas más afectadas abogan por avances en investigación, tratamiento y cuidados. Las personas con ME no mueren velozmente, pero ME destruye millones de vidas, destruye la posibilidad de interactuar con el mundo, y ME también lleva a la muerte: #MEKills. ¿Te unirás a MEAction, World ME Alliance, y otras organizaciones de ME y enfermedades-crónicas- asociadas-a-la-infección en sus llamados a la acción este 12 de mayo, día mundial de la Encefalomielitis Miálgica #WorldMEDay? Los Millones Ausentes #MillionsMissing requerimos el apoyo de aliados informados sobre este escándalo de salud pública y derechos humanos."
April 14, 2025 at 5:53 PM
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Friends, please follow @meactnet.bsky.social and other #MyalgicEncephalomyelitis #MECFS #LongCovid #IACC orgs and join in #WorldMEDay #MillionsMissing actions in May and beyond ❤️.

#GreatestMEdicalScandal #TeachMETreatME #pwME #SevereME #MEKills #DontLetMEDie #JohnVsJonVsME
On a light red background, text that reads: "When I talk about social abandonment in M.E., I don’t mean the loss of contact and support from many friends and relatives (though that is also a part of the story, as with perhaps all chronic illnesses and even acute ones.) I mean that Myalgic Encephalomyelitis is a devastating and neglected neuroimmune illness with no FDA-approved treatments for which almost nobody but the most affected advocate for progress in research and care. People with M.E. don’t die quickly, but M.E. destroys lives, destroys the possibility of engaging with the world, and eventually #MEkills. Will you join MEAction, World ME Alliance, and other M.E. and IACC orgs in their calls for action on May 12, World M.E. Day? The #MillionsMissing need healthy allies to recognize this is a global health and human rights scandal and join the fight for change."
April 13, 2025 at 6:38 PM
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Every 2 weeks or so I can leave my house & enjoy the city and coffee with a friend. Symptomatic, #PEM-risking, but joyous. Jealous of my mild #ME self who could stroll & do much more. Also thinking of #SevereME friends who don’t get these glimpses of life. #GreatestMEdicalScandal
Photo of a corner in La Condesa neighborhood that shows a white art deco building, lots of greenery (including a jacaranda in bloom) and great light.
April 6, 2025 at 12:59 AM
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Act I: Left the house yesterday for a couple of hours to sign my 2020 poetry plaquettes & catch up with a beloved friend.

Act II: the #PEM is bad & I suspect more exacerbation is yet to come.

I’d paused #POTS treatment quest but really wanna be able to travel to see my grandma & mom 🥲. #pwME
A white Mexican woman with long dark hair sits on the floor of a patio signing piles of plaquettes that rest on a glass coffeetable. Selfie of a white Mexican woman resting her head on a flower cushion. She has tired eyes and is wearing an ice hat.
March 23, 2025 at 1:02 AM
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Feliz #WorldSparrowDay! Here’s a cutie in Mexico City, appreciated a month ago when I was able to sit in a cute café across the lab where I did medical testing. Moderate #MECFS #POTS #LongCovid has me almost housebound, so I get really excited to see birds I mainly only hear at home.
Photo of a sparrow in a coffeeshop patio near empty chairs and some colorful plants
March 20, 2025 at 8:30 PM
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Act I: sad that the cat isn’t in cuddle mode
Act II: happy to cuddle and look at the cat’s cute nose while I listen to #EverythingIsTuberculosis by @johngreensbluesky.bsky.social
#EndTB @tbfighters.org
Black and white selfie of a white Mexican woman with dark hair resting on a pillow. She looks at the camera and frowns. A cat is lying close by on a pile of books and papers. Full color picture of an orange tabby resting on a woman’s black pants (her legs resting high on a cushion in bed). A screenshot of the audiobook ‘Everything is Tuberculosis’ has been added to the pic.
March 20, 2025 at 2:34 AM