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Paulina (they/them)
@wheelimm.bsky.social
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Immunology PhD and multidisciplinary artist.
Queer, non-binary, multiply disabled person living in unceded Treaty 13 territory (Tkaronto).
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Do you access virtual healthcare for persisting symptoms after a COVID infection? Researchers (I'm a patient partner on the Steering Committee) from Long COVID Web are interested in hearing from you. Self-paced survey is available in 5 languages! Fill out by July 1. #LongCOVID
bit.ly/longcovid2025
ID: A white poster with the Long COVID Web logo (a dark blue through light blue to green circle around white silhouettes backed by a blue and red maple leaf, at the top centre, with LONG COVID WEB to its right. In the top right corner in light blue REB #30003000 is written, referring to the research ethics board number for this study. Then, Long COVID SURVEY is written in dark navy bold text, with the last word being just outlined in dark navy, with a light blue amorphous blob behind the word survey. In a yellow oblong bubble smaller navy blue text reads "Are you experiencing long-term symptoms after COVID-19 infection?" On the white background again more navy text reads "Our research team wants to learn about your experiences with virtual healthcare to strengthen Long COVID supports". More navy text on the left side of the page reads: Requirements: • Identify as having persisting symptoms after COVID-19 (Longhauler) for at least 3 months • Be at least 16 years of age • Be based in Canada Our web survey can save your progress for later! Study contact: sfu-longcovid@sfu.ca To its right, in a light blue bubble with a blue and yellow outline is a QR code with "Participate at: bit.ly/longcovid2025" At the very bottom of the page is the SFU Faculty of Health Sciences logo as well as the logo for POST-COVID-19 Interdisciplinary Clinical Care Network Provincial Health Services Authority. The other four languages are on one image, and have the same layout, but the text is in French, Spanish, Chinese (Simplified) and Punjabi (Gurmukhi script). Accessing Long COVID Virtual Healthcare SURVEYMONKEY.CA Four posters for the survey in French, Spanish, Chinese (Simplified) and Punjabi (Gurmukhi script)
June 4, 2025 at 6:04 PM
wheelimm.bsky.social
This sums up my mood for the last half decade or so as a trans, non-binary, multiply disabled, Ukrainian Canadian.

Though wow has the тяжко жити, шкода вмерти rapidly intensified since the last provincial election.
Tumblr post by hooveringthemotherland, first in a series of three reads: One of the biggest issues of moving to England as a person who is Ukrainian AND neurodivergent is not knowing how to answer the small talk question of "how are you", but today I was reminded that Ukrainian blessed me with the phrase that roughly translates as "living is hard but dying would be a pity" and can we please naturalise it so I can use it all day every day Second post reads:Okay so this post breached containment I think so I feel the need to clarify, because the vibes in the notes seem to suggest that people see this as an inspirational quote bestowed onto someone to help them soldier on. That's not how Ukrainians do it. Rather, imagine a person that looks like they haven't slept in three days and also hiked up a mountain. They are asked "Hey how you doing buddy", and in response they let out the deepest, most done with this shit sigh you can imagine, mutter their favourite curse word and THEN they say the phrase (which, by the way, is four words in Ukrainian - тяжко жити, шкода вмерти/tyazhko zhyty, shkoda vmerty). It's said as if they're trying to convince themselves that dying would, indeed, he a pity. The other person looks at them, their eyes full of understanding, sigh also and then say "well at least we're not russians". Third post starts with a photo of a mug with the phrase 《тяжко жити, шкода вмерти》 in pastel rainbow comic sans on a white mug with smiling flowers surrounding it. The post then reads: Okay so uh this double breached containment and I'm really really scared because this was my second post on Tumblr dot com out of the two I made in total and now it has like 650 notes so I hope it'll make you guys happy to see my flatmate's mug that has The Phrase on it. Bonus: the other side that says "what did I do to deserve this". The next photo is the back of the mug, with a frog with a very resigned face, riding a rocking horse with 《за шо мені це все》 written in tiny comic sans above the horse's head.
April 9, 2025 at 12:26 PM
wheelimm.bsky.social
The US is still at "take normal precautions" wrt to travel advisories, even with the rampant disappearing of non-US citizens, I doubt most Canadians care about the Safe Third Party agreement, let alone are interested in allowing immigrants, despite how most of us got here in the first place. Sigh.
Screen shot from the Canadian government page for Travel advice and advisories for travel to the US. The title is a semicircular dial beside Risk level, with a line, and then a large green check on the left, and United States - Take normal security precautions in bold, followed by Take normal security precautions [as a hyperlink] in the United States.
March 31, 2025 at 10:08 PM
wheelimm.bsky.social
Curing pancreatic cancer, which is lethal and none of the current therapies come anywhere close. This is glaringly obvious, in the first figure of the relevant paper they look at the recurrence free survival and overall survival between responders and non-responders and it is a huge difference.
Figure 1 from https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-08508-4, where 1a is the biomarker-evaluable cohort, where responders (top line, red) do not have median because that point was not reached for either recurrence free or overall survival, in contrast to non-responders who reached RFS at 13.4 months, and OS not reached. The bottom two graphs are from the safety-evaluable cohort, where RFS is 18.0 months, and median OS not reached. All four charts have a table of the number of people at risk at each year mark, with the biomarker-evaluable cohort having 8 people each per responder and non-responders, and the safety-evaulable cohort having 19.
March 17, 2025 at 2:20 AM
wheelimm.bsky.social
Though I understand using Trump's Russified term "Fentanyl Czar" to a degree in news releases, like today's by Health Canada: www.canada.ca/en/health-ca..., as a Ukrainian Canadian, it rubs me the wrong way, because my ancestors immigrated to here to in search of democracy, not czars.
Kevin Brosseau Canada's Fentanyl Czar
March 5, 2025 at 12:36 AM
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First snow last night. After three winters with Lou, we have finally found the compromise that works with her "must be barefoot at all times" sensibilities.
Lou, a potcake (predominantly terrier/Labrador retriever cross), who is light tan in colour, stands in fresh snow, looking right. For weather reasons (-1C, -7C with windchill), she is wearing a pyjama with a dark blue ground with white stars and multicolour planets and light blue cuffs, under a teal fleece coat, and teal fuzzy leg warmers, one of which has scrunched down on her right foreleg. She is also wearing a teal harness, to which an orange leash is clipped.
December 5, 2024 at 7:47 PM
wheelimm.bsky.social
Ми також маємо перший сніг тут.
Лю не любить чоботи, а була досіт тепла так одягна:
Lou, a potcake (predominantly terrier/Labrador retriever cross), who is light tan in colour, stands in fresh snow, looking right. For weather reasons (-1C, -7C with windchill), she is wearing a pyjama with a dark blue ground with white stars and multicolour planets and light blue cuffs, under a teal fleece coat, and teal fuzzy leg warmers, one of which has scrunched down on her right foreleg. She is also wearing a teal harness, to which an orange leash is clipped.
December 5, 2024 at 7:37 PM
wheelimm.bsky.social
This was not part of my Sunday plans. I'm safe, but still no word about getting my powerchair out. 🙃
The glass door of a lift based on a forklift, with a black powerchair (Permobil M3 Corpus) stuck inside.
November 24, 2024 at 9:01 PM
wheelimm.bsky.social
Such a mood, I have to go out without this goblin (affectionate) in a few hours and it is a much harder decision than many would anticipate.
A potcake (primarily terrier and lab cross), wearing a plaid yellow and black hoodie, and a teal harness, stares into the camera with brown eyes, beseeching you for snugs or treats.
May 10, 2024 at 4:55 PM
wheelimm.bsky.social
Also, the influenza data:
Section of the second table from the paper, looking at orthomyxoviridae (influenza) and showing signifcant reduction in culturable virus post-pasteurization.
April 25, 2024 at 12:34 AM