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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 25/08/2026

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Kelly Edwards ⚕️🚑 @lime.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Thanks for the books when I was a child. Dolly, you were really one of the best of us.

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Gravel Influencer @gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Today's TPS decision is so fucking cruel because Haitians and Syrians followed all the rules that they were supposed to follow and now they're all of a sudden here "illegally" because a bunch of racists said so. I'm feeling so much fury on behalf of the many Haitians I know.

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Kelly Edwards ⚕️🚑 @lime.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

Antidepressants quite likely saved my life. Definitely saved my ability to work and function.

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Kelly Edwards ⚕️🚑 @lime.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

Yeah. I have heard that my whole life as well. At this point I just presume they will never lose power or influence.

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Kelly Edwards ⚕️🚑 @lime.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

Day 12 of hitting “report phishing attempt” on every email in my work account. I’m tired of the bullshit emails from IT trying to fool people. So now I just label everything as phishing including email from admin.

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Kelly Edwards ⚕️🚑 @lime.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

Some days in the ER have you asking wtf. If I had a nickel for every patient I’ve ever seen with a sodium greater than 180, I’d only have two nickels. But it’s jacked up that it happened in one shift.

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Kelly Edwards ⚕️🚑 @lime.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

Six years ago I took care of a very sick teenager in Haiti and we got him eventually to Cuba to see a pediatric cardiologist. Today I found out he is doing well and has been accepted to med school. I’m not crying, you’re crying.

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Kelly Edwards ⚕️🚑 @lime.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

The number of times that i was asked by coworkers to take a patient (especially to place a urinary catheter) because the patient was saying creepy things is surprisingly high. Even now as a provider, I do it because so many men get creepy to female healthcare providers.

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Kelly Edwards ⚕️🚑 @lime.bsky.social · 21/02/2026

A pretty good read, and tracks pretty well with what those of us working in healthcare in the area know about Phoebe and other hospitals like it here.

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Kelly Edwards ⚕️🚑 @lime.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

Same pretty much. Though I still go 10 day for bad tooth abscess. The meth mouth around here is bad.

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Kelly Edwards ⚕️🚑 @lime.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

Yeah. I would say around 20 percent of patients I see in the er admit to taking some “leftover” amox they had or a friend gave them. I’ve really embraced the recommendations for the shorter durations because if you write a 10 day course, they will stop at day 7 and hoard the rest.

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Kelly Edwards ⚕️🚑 @lime.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

I am determined to deplete the area supply of bromfed. So many kiddos with the flu in the last few days. But I’ve been pretty hardcore on the no antibiotics position with the parents.

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Kelly Edwards ⚕️🚑 @lime.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

One of the small rural hospitals has decided to stop stocking liquid amoxicillin because it is “too expensive”. This is the second dumbest thing I have heard today after a parent said they don’t vaccinate because it causes autism and they trust RFK.

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Kelly Edwards ⚕️🚑 @lime.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

This years flu vaccine is an imperfect match for the dominant variant, subclade K. The shot gives some protection, just reduced effectiveness. But you can’t convince most people of that, the vast majority of patients I have seen are saying they either didn’t get the shot or won’t get it next year. 🙄

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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 10/01/2026

@kamalaharris.com told us exactly what would happen.

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Kelly Edwards ⚕️🚑 @lime.bsky.social · 30/12/2025

Every year the holiday period makes me question my decision to work in rural emergency medicine. So many people flooding the ER with cold and flu or stomach issues.

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Kelly Edwards ⚕️🚑 @lime.bsky.social · 29/11/2025

Yeah I am really enjoying it. Rhea Seehorn is wonderful.

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Kelly Edwards ⚕️🚑 @lime.bsky.social · 28/11/2025

4 hours into the ED shift and I’ve already seen three dental complaints, two ortho, one assault, one burn, two URI, and two abdominal pain with V/D. Definitely the day after Thanksgiving here.

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Kelly Edwards ⚕️🚑 @lime.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

Well this is either gonna be the best idea I had or the worst idea. Training starts Monday.

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Kelly Edwards ⚕️🚑 @lime.bsky.social · 16/11/2025

My therapist has been discussing with me that I need to set new fitness goals now that elite bike racing is off the table. I miss racing cyclocross and MTB so much. So I’m trying to shift into a mentality of doing events for fun and fitness only. So I entered the lottery for Unbound to have a goal.

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Kelly Edwards ⚕️🚑 @lime.bsky.social · 16/11/2025

I feel that those of us outside the perimeter in deeper rural south GA are just generally screwed. The state has a long history of gerrymandering type shit, that’s why there’s 159 counties - to help dilute the power of Atlanta in state politics.

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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 14/11/2025

Car Size xkcd.com/3167/

4-panel vertical comic. (1) 100 Years Ago [two people standing next to bicycle with small car nearby] PERSON 1: It’s too dangerous riding a bike with these cars around. I should get a car, too. (2) 50 Years Ago [two people between smaller car and bigger car] PERSON 2 with short hair: Small cars are less safe in collisions with larger vehicles, so I should get a bigger one. (3) Today [two people between big car and even bigger car] PERSON 1: Everyone has huge SUVs now. If I don’t get the biggest one, I’m putting my family at risk. (4) Soon [two people next to large armored car with spiked clubs attached] PERSON 2: If I don’t install more whirling spike clubs, I’ll be destroyed by all the other drivers who...

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Kelly Edwards ⚕️🚑 @lime.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

I’m disgusted, but not surprised, by the USA Cycling decision to change rules to prevent trans athletes from participating fully. The decision to enforce a “sex at birth” rule for categories is just bending the knee to the current administration and is opposite of the UCI position.

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Kelly Edwards ⚕️🚑 @lime.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

100 helicopter flights to date delivering aid and medical flights in Jamaica since the start of ops on Oct 30.

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Kelly Edwards ⚕️🚑 @lime.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

Here we go. www.instagram.com/operationone...

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Kelly Edwards ⚕️🚑 @lime.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

Made it to the Air Medical Transport Conference in Omaha. It will be interesting to see how my presentation on the rise of vaccine preventable diseases and managing these patients in transport will be received.

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Kelly Edwards ⚕️🚑 @lime.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

I’ve only seen a few complete Simpsons episodes and none of the Treehouse of Terror ones. I just never got the appeal of the show.

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Kelly Edwards ⚕️🚑 @lime.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

I’m gonna try Halloween Horror Nights for my poor mood and burnout.

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Kelly Edwards ⚕️🚑 @lime.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

Made the trek to New Orleans to participate in the legislative general assembly of ENA. Once again advocating that membership and classes are unaffordable for nurses in developing nations.

Banner at the Emergency Nurse Association conference. It says “Tenacity - emergency nursing 2025” with the ENA in tenacity highlighted.

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Kelly Edwards ⚕️🚑 @lime.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

Well it happened. Yesterday a patient insisted on being admitted for URI symptoms because he was convinced he had the covid variant that kills you he read about on Facebook. He wouldn’t listen to my explanations and left AMA to go to another hospital that “isn’t a liberal shithole.” I can’t even.

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Kelly Edwards ⚕️🚑 @lime.bsky.social · 25/08/2025

And there’s a comma in the troponin

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Cliff Reid @cliffreid.bsky.social · 25/08/2025

Here's my full review of the cheapo Temu manikin. Spoiler: It's pretty good youtu.be/1MwPOu0wG8M

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REVIEW: An Airway Manikin You Can Actually Afford?

YouTube video by Cliff Reid

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Kelly Edwards ⚕️🚑 @lime.bsky.social · 24/08/2025

Can confirm that the vast majority of Covid patients I am seeing in the ER complain of sore throat, either “razors” or “ground glass” as the descriptor.

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Kelly Edwards ⚕️🚑 @lime.bsky.social · 20/07/2025

Over the last few days, the RN manager for the ED resigned and 1/3 of the staff ED nurses have also resigned. This is not good.

The classic “I’m in danger” Simpsons meme.

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Kelly Edwards ⚕️🚑 @lime.bsky.social · 13/07/2025

What my colleagues still in Haiti are facing. I wish we could get the operation fully back up and running so I could be there to help.

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Inside one of the last hospitals standing in Haiti’s war zone | Fault Lines Documentary

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Kelly Edwards ⚕️🚑 @lime.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

This is nuts. Send them back to what is basically a failed state where their lives will be at great risk.

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Kelly Edwards ⚕️🚑 @lime.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

We have to be in a simulation or alien reality tv show.

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Kelly Edwards ⚕️🚑 @lime.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

Feel that. I’ve put that in Epic twice in the last week. Ridiculous.

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Solomon @solomonrmissouri.com · 17/06/2025

When Black people told you that it is a normal occurrence for police to lie about protest and assaulting officers now you see ... the test run for the justification of authoritarianism always begins in communities of color

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Kelly Edwards ⚕️🚑 @lime.bsky.social · 15/06/2025

I submitted a proposal for a medical conference presentation on measles, diphtheria, and similar vaccine preventable diseases and it got accepted. I was warned to “not get political”. We’re far past that and I’ll be sure to offend any anti-vax attendees with some blunt messages.

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Kelly Edwards ⚕️🚑 @lime.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

wtf is going on? The last three ER shifts, over half of my patients have been abdominal pain or N/V. Anyone else seeing a surge in abdominal complaints? #MedSky

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Kelly Edwards ⚕️🚑 @lime.bsky.social · 26/05/2025

Ugh. Every time I order a dimer, I feel a sense of dread.

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Kelly Edwards ⚕️🚑 @lime.bsky.social · 26/05/2025

Blah. I saw so many diffuse general abdominal pains yesterday and we didn’t have ultrasound coverage. I could hear the CT tech crying at one point.

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Kelly Edwards ⚕️🚑 @lime.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

I see so many dental patients in the ED in the south. So many of them are repeat visits that can’t afford or find dental care to fix it. So they keep coming back every so often for more antibiotics. Not all of them are from meth either.

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Kelly Edwards ⚕️🚑 @lime.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

Always take a RN with you when it’s time to have the hard conversations with family of patients. When they need to, few in healthcare can provide such a compassionate presence. Although look closely at which ER nurse you pick, they can fool you.

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