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PurpleSpeedwell
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Mostly bedridden with #MyalgicEncephalomyelitis, a devastating illness with little funding and no treatment.
Toronto, Canada
Ally of #pwLC
#pwME #LongCovid #POTS #MCAS #MEcfs
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"I'm at a loss for words. We're dying at the hands of those who should be helping us, yet they face no accountability. I sometimes feel like we don’t matter in this world…" - Kornelia Paulsen
#MyalgicEncephalomyelitis #MEcfs
Meat grinder labeled "Health Care System". People being fed in at the top, one holding a sign saying "ME". Wooden coffins being ejected at the bottom. Text: copyright Kornelia Paulsen
August 15, 2024 at 9:44 PM
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Amy Hasbrouck

#PwD #CripTheVote #MAID #neisvoid
Wheelchair user looking at concrete steps leading to a door marked "Suicide Prevention Program". The other side of the building has a ramp leading to a door marked "Assisted Suicide".
February 10, 2024 at 5:27 PM
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1935: "A piano for playing in bed will be among the exhibits at the British Industry Fair to be held here in the latter half of February. The inventor of this instrument declares that it is ... to attempt to make the lives of the sick and bedridden happier." Great for musical bedbound #pwME & #pwLC
Woman in the 1930s, lying in bed under a lacy coverlet, playing a piano that folds out from a cabinet at the foot of the bed.
December 23, 2023 at 6:39 PM