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Andrea Barrett

@andreabarrett.bsky.social

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Campaigner, Patient Advocate & Artist. Volunteer w/ NHSBT CTAG, CVF, PTHOTA. Founder: Clean Air Hampshire. Posts on: Disability Justice, gardening, Transplant Life, Clinical Vulnerability, cats, #CleanAir, Long Covid & Neurodivergence (AuDHD).😷💊🎗💗💜💙🇬🇧🇦🇹🇮🇪🐈🌱🍂

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Andrea Barrett @andreabarrett.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

Thank the NHS this festive season Swap baggy blues for fitted FFP2/3s & help the NHS bring in #CleanAirInHealthcare ⬇️ ✍️Sign & Forward this petition to others. Enable the NHS be upgraded with the best tools to fight Winter sickness: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...

Festive colourful lights, baggy blue masks, Thank You NHS stones on NHS outpatients ward, December 2024

Protect The Hearts Of the Arts flyers, Save The NHS Masks I'm Healthcare from the May 2024 Nye campaign and the We Wish Thee Safe Gatherings Masked Macbeth festive campaign, December 2024. Plus ffp2 mask in frame.

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Andrea Barrett @andreabarrett.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

At my happy place #gardening #communityfarm

Row of purslane AKA claytonia, with ehote id tag, a leafy green vegetable in polytunnel

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Andrea Barrett @andreabarrett.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

Thank you!!! 💕😷🎗 Merry Maskmas to you too. May we one day hear of a masked showing of Macbeth; a Maskbeth if you will (credit to @salwitcher.bsky.social for the pun). On way to London. Switching to more festive outfit once there. #ProtectTheHeartOfTheArts

Andrea on train in fitted basic white ffp2, black coat, her dark blonde hair visible, dark orangey red beanie hat and red tartan scarf.

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Andrea Barrett @andreabarrett.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

We urgently need #CleanAirInHealthcare. At a recent hospital visit I was horrified that the TB clinic was on route (shared air) to Newborn health screening (& Oncology)! Opened windows but not enough. These high risk settings require FFP2+ masking, esp for the clinically vulnerable.

Andrea in ffp2 mask in hospital in front of window she opened

Signs that mention tb clinic and Newborn hearing screening clinic

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Andrea Barrett @andreabarrett.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

Time to get serious (about resting)

Casper the cat looking serious, surrounded by blankets and an armchair

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Andrea Barrett @andreabarrett.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

Liking how your solution to me getting distracted by Bluesky is to join along with me 😅😂

Modern problems require modern solutions meme

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Andrea Barrett @andreabarrett.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

Meeting old triggers feeling supported by surroundings

Casper alert at the henry hoover but still mostly folded loaf, perching his head on the chair for moral support

Casper the cat looking at his nemesis, the Henry hoover, from a safe distance, with support from his current nest of choice (the underside of a boxy chair)

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Andrea Barrett @andreabarrett.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

At a routine hospital appt & making use of being here to take pics for next Wednesday's #CleanAirInHealthcare petition bsky-athon. Just saw this display on Mary Seacole (1805-81) who had great skill as an epidemic physician & who had to find loopholes in the system to do her work (due to racism).

NHS display on Mary Seacole & welcome to Mary Seacole ward. A few paragraphs about her life, slightly sanitised version of turbulence and barriers she faced due to systemic racism in UK, her Scottish father, Jamaican mother and heritage as a healer, contemporary of Florence Nightingale, how she had to fundraise to fund business enterprises as mediums for practicing medicine, such as in the Crimean War. The retirement benefit, a precursor to modern mutual aid, was attended by thousands in London, where she lived out her days following workplace acquired chronic ill health.

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Andrea Barrett @andreabarrett.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

Happy St Nicholas Day to all who celebrate! (Hopefully Krampus hasn't brought you coal)

6 December postcard with a white Santa Dumbledore figure with a papal hat smiling at a red chained devil. Black and gold contrasts too, the 4 alchemical colours and movements.

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Andrea Barrett @andreabarrett.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

The fact there are 12 step instructions for handwashing, yet zero airborne mitigation education for Covid in the NHS, 5yrs in, shows a troubling learning implementation delay at work. A #CleanAirInHealthcare revolution is urgently needed! ⬇️ petition.parliament.uk/petitions/7003…

NHS poster saying NHS prepared to deal with Covid and that handwashing best way to protect yourself and others. Photographed in England hospital in autumn 2024.

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Andrea Barrett @andreabarrett.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

✍️UK gov petition: Bring in #CleanAirInHealthcare ASAP Right now healthcare harms patients by lack of air-care. Hospitals across the UK need best practice air quality mitigation updates, to actually end nosocomial infection. Plz sign & share! petition.parliament.uk/petitions/7003…

Andrea in mask, hospital mirror selfie next to a 12 step best practice handwashing instructions image

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Andrea Barrett @andreabarrett.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

Definitely feels like Winter, very cold in Hampshire today! 😷❄️🌲

Andrea in turquoise mask, wearing hoods from two hoody jumpers, black and brown, brown glasses, green eyes, white skin, indoors.

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Andrea Barrett @andreabarrett.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

Glad to be be adding the community farm back to my routine #Gardening #Greens

Sign that says Trespassers will be composted

Lettuce in polytunnel, dark green watering can and tools

Picked Green & Red Pak Choi (that I planted and grew from seed) on ornate green metal table

Row of red and green pak choose in ground with two sets of feet and blue glove for picking

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Andrea Barrett @andreabarrett.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

My favourite method of pacing energy (necessary with #ME/CFS, #LongCovid, #TransplantLife) is when Casper sits nearby and looks so cute it delays me doing stuff. Cats have a talent for tricking us into resting. 🤍

Andrea reaching out to Caspers outstretched paw. He is on a grey blanket.

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Andrea Barrett @andreabarrett.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

Blue does seem to be the new black 💙

Andrea wearing a navy blue mask on a blue train carriage ,long dark blonde hair, glasses

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Andrea Barrett @andreabarrett.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

Yes, change is tough but you will adjust. Telling myself and Casper this today.

White cat with downcast expression on lavender purple towel atop a printer. Orange armchair to bottom, blue butterfly taxidermy above the cat.

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