Ruth A+
@ruthea.bsky.social
Junior doctor (starting 01/01/2026), dog enthusiast, aspiring runner. Also interested in right to repair, various crafts (mostly fibre/textile related), and improving public transit.
Wild that they get away with skirting their editorial authority in the first place!
December 5, 2025 at 12:10 PM
Wild that they get away with skirting their editorial authority in the first place!
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If you are in the Western Cape the library also has access to Overdrive and you can rent ebooks via the Libby app! You need to visit a library in person to get a library card first then set up your Libby account 😬
November 26, 2025 at 3:29 PM
If you are in the Western Cape the library also has access to Overdrive and you can rent ebooks via the Libby app! You need to visit a library in person to get a library card first then set up your Libby account 😬
I’ve assumed based on the flag in your bio and the purple profile pic that RSA is the country you mean
November 26, 2025 at 2:02 PM
I’ve assumed based on the flag in your bio and the purple profile pic that RSA is the country you mean
South Africa very much does have public libraries. Not enough and they aren’t as well used or as well funded as they should be but they do exist.
November 26, 2025 at 2:00 PM
South Africa very much does have public libraries. Not enough and they aren’t as well used or as well funded as they should be but they do exist.
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Free Birth Society shows how disordered discourse fills gaps left by institutional failure. When people feel harmed or unseen by formal systems, parallel worlds of knowledge become compelling, even when dangerous.
November 22, 2025 at 11:59 AM
Free Birth Society shows how disordered discourse fills gaps left by institutional failure. When people feel harmed or unseen by formal systems, parallel worlds of knowledge become compelling, even when dangerous.
@princessanna.bsky.social flew out to visit and provided so much love and support to me and my family when things were getting rough ❤️
November 14, 2025 at 10:28 AM
@princessanna.bsky.social flew out to visit and provided so much love and support to me and my family when things were getting rough ❤️
She had decided some time before that on her death she would donate her body to the local medical school (something both her parents had done back in Belfast) so in a strange moment of circularity while I am now leaving UCT my mom will be staying on to teach the next class of medical students.
November 14, 2025 at 10:15 AM
She had decided some time before that on her death she would donate her body to the local medical school (something both her parents had done back in Belfast) so in a strange moment of circularity while I am now leaving UCT my mom will be staying on to teach the next class of medical students.
Her cancer had come back roaring and was incredibly aggressive. She had incredible medical care including excellent palliative care that meant she never had to be admitted to hospital and was able to die at home, pain free surrounded by her family on 19 December 2024.
November 14, 2025 at 10:15 AM
Her cancer had come back roaring and was incredibly aggressive. She had incredible medical care including excellent palliative care that meant she never had to be admitted to hospital and was able to die at home, pain free surrounded by her family on 19 December 2024.
2024 was the hardest year of my life but also one that showed me how much love and support surrounded us. My mom had two rounds of palliative radiation - one to prevent further destruction of her hip and the second when she developed mets in her orbital socket.
November 14, 2025 at 10:15 AM
2024 was the hardest year of my life but also one that showed me how much love and support surrounded us. My mom had two rounds of palliative radiation - one to prevent further destruction of her hip and the second when she developed mets in her orbital socket.
Unfortunately the start of 2024 saw a niggling hip pain she had developed over the last few months of 2023 turn out to be advanced bone metastasizes that was busy destroying her femur head. As we had learnt when she was first diagnosed with Breast Ca bone mets meant her cancer was now incurable.
November 14, 2025 at 10:15 AM
Unfortunately the start of 2024 saw a niggling hip pain she had developed over the last few months of 2023 turn out to be advanced bone metastasizes that was busy destroying her femur head. As we had learnt when she was first diagnosed with Breast Ca bone mets meant her cancer was now incurable.
My mom braved her way through a mastectomy, 6 months of chemotherapy and 5 weeks of radiation all while battling a severe needle phobia that made every IV or blood draw a potential trauma. Somehow she came out the other side and in mid-2023 was back on the golf course.
November 14, 2025 at 10:15 AM
My mom braved her way through a mastectomy, 6 months of chemotherapy and 5 weeks of radiation all while battling a severe needle phobia that made every IV or blood draw a potential trauma. Somehow she came out the other side and in mid-2023 was back on the golf course.
It also prepared me so well for some of the hardest parts of medical school - and the hardest parts of life. In my 3rd year of MBChB my mom was diagnosed with Breast Cancer. Suddenly I was a medical student, my parent’s medical interpreter, a scared daughter all at once.
November 14, 2025 at 10:15 AM
It also prepared me so well for some of the hardest parts of medical school - and the hardest parts of life. In my 3rd year of MBChB my mom was diagnosed with Breast Cancer. Suddenly I was a medical student, my parent’s medical interpreter, a scared daughter all at once.
That detour taught me so much - I got to spend time volunteering and interning with Paedspal (and met Metal Enthusiast @alastairmca30.bsky.social whose book you should all read) and discovered that working with patients was exactly where I wanted to be.
November 14, 2025 at 10:15 AM
That detour taught me so much - I got to spend time volunteering and interning with Paedspal (and met Metal Enthusiast @alastairmca30.bsky.social whose book you should all read) and discovered that working with patients was exactly where I wanted to be.
As I started treating my depression I discovered that all my emotions and feelings had been blunted for some time and as I hauled my way out I found myself drawn back to medicine. Getting into med school the second time around was more challenging and involved a detour through a PG Dip in Pal Med.
November 14, 2025 at 10:15 AM
As I started treating my depression I discovered that all my emotions and feelings had been blunted for some time and as I hauled my way out I found myself drawn back to medicine. Getting into med school the second time around was more challenging and involved a detour through a PG Dip in Pal Med.