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melindaiscomplex.bsky.social
melinda_is_done
@melindaiscomplex.bsky.social
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My body has given up but I haven't...
ME/CFS Patient Leader & Complex-Chronic Disease Advocate (on hiatus). Co-founder #MEAction Maryland. Bed-tethered disabled by severe ME & LC & comorbids.
Orioles/Ravens/Caps fan. She/her
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Got a new tee from @berlin-buyers-club.bsky.social for #DisabilityPrideMonth
#AbleismLooksGoodOnNoOne
Selfie of a white woman with a dark gray shirt laying over her torso. The multi-color text in magazine lettering reads: Ableism looks good on no one
July 20, 2025 at 9:20 AM
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In calendar, click on settings then click on holidays, then add religious holidays
The holidays menu in Google calendar The menu option to add religious holidays
February 11, 2025 at 5:41 AM
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Today in person #EarlyVoting begins in Maryland! Find an early voting center elections.maryland.gov/elections/Vo...
My ballot has officially been counted. I voted via mail-in ballot/drop box and am thankful being bed-bound disabled I have accessible voting in #Maryland. #VoteEarly
A circular Maryland I voted sticker above an email in a black rectangle from the Maryland Election Board stating: Dear Melinda, Congratulations! Your ballot has been counted by your local board of elections. E background is a cream square with black squiggly lines.
October 24, 2024 at 10:38 AM
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Millions of people with ME, including me, in the U.S. do not have access to a specialist who can care for their complex disease. Teach ME, Treat ME so that we can educate the next generation of ME specialists. #MillionsMissing2024 #MEcfs #MEawarenessmonth #PwME #PwLC #MedEd #MEAction #severeME
An advocacy poster for the #TeachMETreatME campaign that has a white background with red text. The top is the #MEAction Teach M.E Treat M.E. logo and text that reads: so that I can live. The lower left is a picture of Melinda, a white woman with dark hair wearing a red Teach ME Treat ME shirt holding a piece of paper that reads - my name is Melinda, I have severe ME.
May 9, 2024 at 2:54 PM
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I am joining #MEAction's #TeachMETreatME campaign so that I can get the care I and the millions like me deserve. Please share this @meactnet.bsky.social CME with your healthcare provider: bit.ly/MayoCME8 #MillionsMissing #MEcfs #PwME #PwLC #MedEd
A white background with red text. The top reads: Teach M.E. Treat M.E. so that providers understand... M.E. kills. In the middle is a picture of the MEAction Teach M.E. Treat M.E. logo with a Lego blue rose underneath. Text at the bottom reads: the blue rose is used in the M.E. community as a symbol of remembrance when one of us dies
May 7, 2024 at 10:50 PM
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Found it!
A torso selfie of Melinda, a white woman, wearing a black short sleeve shirt that has a picture of Goose, the flerken from Captain Marvel laying on its back diagonally. Around the flerken are the words to "Soft Kitty" from The Big Bang Theory.
February 17, 2024 at 7:01 AM
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No, I'm not acutely ill or have a fever. This is what #PEM can look like.
What did I do for this you ask? Had a telehealth appt with my headache specialist earlier that day...

Sheldon is good at comfort 😻

#MEcfs #MyalgicEncephalomyelitis #ComplexChronicIllness #LongCovid #IACC
Melinda, a pale white woman with dark hair, is in a PEM crash, propped up in bed on a blue pillow. Her cheeks, lips and nose are red, her brow is furrowed. Sheldon, a brown and black tabby kitty is sleeping on her chest with his head on her shoulder facing the camera.
October 6, 2023 at 2:49 PM
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Sunday Selfies
Melinda (a pale white woman with short auburn hair) is wearing a purple baseball jersey with Baltimore in white outlined in gold script. She is laying on her bed, her face partially out of the frame.
September 10, 2023 at 8:17 PM
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Here it is 2023. We are years into a pandemic & the CDC is rolling out its ME playbook from 1990.
Join the Read ME book club to read & discuss Hillary Johnson's The Why: The Historic ME/CFS Call to Arms on Sept. 9th
bookclubs.com/clubs/596855...
Please excuse alt text, limited capacity today.
August 28, 2023 at 5:34 PM
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This is how we do this, right? I didn't see the movie not because I don't want to, but because I'm bedridden by #SevereME.
About Severe ME youtu.be/CTxwlf7LSrA?...
a blue Barbie poster with Melinda, a white woman with disheveled dark hair wearing a black tank top in the center. Over her head is the text: This Barbie is bedridden by #SevereME. The Barbie text logo is under her face.
August 27, 2023 at 9:44 PM