Physiology and vetsci grad: former clinical RA, medical illustrator. Passionate whiteboard animations, plants/gardens, koi and German shorthaired pointers.
Suffolk, UK
Joined March 2017
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A brief return here to share the arrival of 12wo Flora who is taking extreme liberties with 8yo Dottie! Cute as heck tho ...
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Vicki Martin *still wearing a mask* (FFP2) retweeted
May is #LymeDiseaseAwarenessMonth!
Bell’s palsy is a common symptom of Lyme disease, especially in children.
More information is available on our website:
lymeresourcecentre.com/about… – at Grangemouth, Scotland
Chuffed to have done the 100mile @RideLondon yesterday for @TOFS ... I only started training on 30th April and I'm the wrong side of 55 (born with OA/TOF, surgery at @GOSH) so my average 13.6mph was pleasing. Short on fundraising, you know what to do :-) peoplesfundraising.com/fundr…
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Oops looks like the tags are @GreatOrmondSt and @NEWSFORTOFS
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The sign language lass has properly taken over, she is no longer in the corner 🤣😭 #Coronation #CoronationConcert #TakeThat @takethat
The NHS staff in blue scrubs who were on stage with Take That just now? You know who you are. I am so jealous ... spectacular!
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Well now, this is v worrying…
Part of the triage process for unwell kids presenting to secondary care includes a ‘#COVID section’.
That’s good obvs, but wait till you hear what the questions are.
#CovidIsNotOver
@IndependentSage @RCPCHtweets @UKHSA @NHSEngland @DHSCgovuk
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This photo is amazing. Here are the forms that nursing teams need to fill out for each patient on admission. Ask Joe Public what they want their nurses doing and it defo won’t be this! NUTS
My @KiaUK EV6 and dealer are utterly driving me nuts. Aaaargh. Effing thing. Lovely to drive but bl&&dy annoying to live with. Sometimes you gotta go to social! @bobbyllew @Carpervert
Time lapse of concrete pour today, to form the base of a filtration hut for a new koi pond. Enjoy!
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Given the mass disruption to education as a result of rampant spread of COVID-19 through schools, education unions have asked @JamesCleverly the education minister to implement basic public health mitigations in schools ahead of Sept. Will the govt act?
unison.org.uk/news/2022/07/g…
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Stark warning from @jlamber55605930 on the impact of repeated covid infections. "This is not the flu. We need to get the message out there that we still need to be careful in terms of catching covid". He describes how many now appear to be immunocompromised due to #LongCovid
Vicki Martin *still wearing a mask* (FFP2) retweeted
EVERYONE STOP AND WATCH—This is what it looks like to live with #longCOVID.
“Everything tastes like dog shit”
“I can’t swallow”
“My hair is falling out”
“My food tastes like it comes from a dumpster housing a dead raccoon🦝”
HT @WesElyMD & @brutamerica
Vicki Martin *still wearing a mask* (FFP2) retweeted
Sigh. 🧵
* Viruses don't automatically or inevitably evolve to become milder. Transmissibility and immune escape can be under strong selection but virulence may not be, especially if there are lots of hosts, transmission is easy, and infectiousness precedes symptoms.
Vicki Martin *still wearing a mask* (FFP2) retweeted
Better to not be able to get emergency care than wear a mask
Better to have children off sick from school than wear a mask
Better to risk chronic multi-system disease than wear a mask
Better to have your flights cancelled, than wear a mask
Worth it for 'freedoms' - am I right?
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Vicki Martin *still wearing a mask* (FFP2) retweeted
Frontline staff felt like lambs to slaughter due to lack of #PPE in the pandemic. Our colleagues died and the least they are owed is an enquiry. Why hasn’t it started?
DAUK co-chair @wanderingwelch on @LBC Breakfast show. youtu.be/5yX43GKUv0k #NHS
I enjoyed creating this from @IndependentSage's BMJ article. Many replies claim no need for Covid measures, but all of the points at ~1min will, by definition, be invisible to us all. This is why we need scientists to advise. It won't be invisible if you or a loved one suffers.
🔴 We can’t go on like this. #COVID is causing massive disruptions to the NHS, schools, workplaces and travel.
The @IndependentSAGE '7 point plan' offers an alternative. Thanks to @VIckiGSP for this great animation.
#7pointplan #FreedomDay
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After he saw Emma he started having trouble walking. He received an MRI and neurologists found 2 areas in his brain which were under attack by his immune system. Why? It turned out Vittorio had COVID-19 recently and his immune system went into overdrive.
Vicki Martin *still wearing a mask* (FFP2) retweeted
👁Long Covid can disable you for life
👁Long Covid can happen after a mild infection
👁Long Covid risk increases after each reinfection
👁Post viral illnesses have one of the lowest quality of life scores of any disease
👁There are no effective treatments
Sound scary? It is
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THREAD 1. ‘What the hell just happened?’ - My partner (a 999 Fire Control supervisor) and I both used exactly the same phrase as we got home from work today. The true story of today will not become clear until incidents are debriefed, call and incident numbers are reconciled, and