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Melissa Challenor

@picklemelissa.bsky.social
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Ex-twit *urbanmel* MEAW 🐾 🇦🇺 Former International trade & investment; Thailand 🇹🇭 Board of Investment expert #ME #LC #LongCOVID #CRPS #PEM_PENE_Sucks

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Melissa Challenor @picklemelissa.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
It’s SARS2. It’s always SARS2 now.
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Melissa Challenor @picklemelissa.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
I rather enjoy existential dread
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Melissa Challenor @picklemelissa.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
SARS-CoV-2 is in your brain. Yes, you. It’s in your brain 🧠 #WeAreNotMakingThisShitUp
Article in the Western Australian talking about SARS-CoV-2 in the brain. I’m the meninges. Crosses the blood brain barrier. It’s everywhere. 
I said, “people like me, we are not making this shit up…”.
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Melissa Challenor @picklemelissa.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
IKR?! Nuts!
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Melissa Challenor @picklemelissa.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
There’s also that thing about needing to fit in. If peer pressure turns your brain to mush and you risk the lives of your family, you get what’s coming to you.
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Melissa Challenor @picklemelissa.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Yes, thankfully we are living in times where adaptation is necessary. If we don’t adapt we die. That’s what will happen to those who don’t adapt. And it’s not our responsibility ❤️‍🩹
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Melissa Challenor @picklemelissa.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Don’t be sorry, Raindrops. You didn’t do anything wrong. This is the life we have to put up with when most of the world lives in abject denial. Let them all get Long COVID and see how far they get asking for help 🤷🏼‍♀️
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Melissa Challenor @picklemelissa.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Laugh I’ll do. If I prayed, they certainly wouldn’t deserve my words to a god 😈
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Melissa Challenor @picklemelissa.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Nutcases everywhere. What can you do 🤷🏼‍♀️
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Melissa Challenor @picklemelissa.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Not a word in reply. How can you be a scientist, be presented with 433,000+ peer reviewed articles, 7,000+ of which are about paeds (while your wife is pregnant), and not say a single word? Fscking loser. I’m done with him.
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Melissa Challenor @picklemelissa.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Hi Peter!!
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Melissa Challenor @picklemelissa.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
🤣❤️‍🩹
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Melissa Challenor @picklemelissa.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
If I close my eyes I can’t see him, so I guess he’s not real either. What are you all worried about, Australia 🇦🇺 Join me in closing my eyes and not looking at anything coming from the US election. It’s time to invoke our NIMBY.
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Melissa Challenor @picklemelissa.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
You’re not trying hard enough 🤣
Random man asks in my private messages, without any punctuation “Hi How are you doing your photo looks really cool What actor/actress would play you in the movie of your life”

My reply, “Bwahahaha if your life is so boring you need to think about it being a movie, there is no place in my life for you”.
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Melissa Challenor @picklemelissa.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
If I had the option of not being reliant on my Dad for a roof over my head…I might still stay. Even if we have a few good words every now and then, it’s better than nothing and he won’t be around forever. As for the particular sibling who needs a punch in the face, I can avoid him. Thank goodness!
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Melissa Challenor @picklemelissa.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
Fairly average? You’re being very generous, Alison 🤣
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Melissa Challenor @picklemelissa.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
It is, Raindrops! I have so much more compassion and empathy for people who have lived their lives like this. Not that I didn’t in the first place, but with experience comes all the extra horrible stuff people do to each other. It’s good to know awesome people like you ❤️‍🩹
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Melissa Challenor @picklemelissa.bsky.social · 11/11/2024
You have a medical condition?! Don’t tell me, you reach out to random women in your sleep 😴 It’s ok, I shop in my sleep. We all have something interesting going on with us 😹
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Melissa Challenor @picklemelissa.bsky.social · 11/11/2024
That’s a lot! Looks like the problem is still not in hand. He’s doing a great job 👏🏻
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Melissa Challenor @picklemelissa.bsky.social · 11/11/2024
This is good 👇🏻 and it’s helpful. I like muting. It blocks at the same time and I don’t have to press anymore buttons 🫰🏻
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Melissa Challenor @picklemelissa.bsky.social · 11/11/2024
And the words, “what are you doing to protect your family from potential death and/or disability from the consequences of the ongoing COVID pandemic?” And now I’m stuck in my bedroom not knowing what I’ll face if I go outside. This is not right.
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Melissa Challenor @picklemelissa.bsky.social · 11/11/2024
Selection of articles that talk about your children and the risks of pregnancy: zotero.org/groups/5006109…
zotero.org
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Melissa Challenor @picklemelissa.bsky.social · 11/11/2024
433,679 peer reviewed articles: www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/research/cor...
ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
LitCovid
LitCovid is a curated literature hub for tracking up-to-date scientific information about the 2019 novel Coronavirus.
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Melissa Challenor @picklemelissa.bsky.social · 11/11/2024
These ones for reference: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Melissa Challenor @picklemelissa.bsky.social · 11/11/2024
It’s not easy being the mostly bedridden person in the family who is silenced from talking about COVID and what it did to me. It’s about to impact my siblings and their kids and I’ve had enough of being silent. Bro just got some links to the peer reviewed studies. I can’t 🤐
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Melissa Challenor @picklemelissa.bsky.social · 11/11/2024
Bwahahaha how do you manage that, Alison 🤣
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Melissa Challenor @picklemelissa.bsky.social · 10/11/2024
Why do I get all the dipshit men desperate for attention in my private msgs? Women are too busy being awesome 😎
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Melissa Challenor @picklemelissa.bsky.social · 10/11/2024
Thanks Tom
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Melissa Challenor @picklemelissa.bsky.social · 10/11/2024
Ha! How very true.
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Melissa Challenor @picklemelissa.bsky.social · 10/11/2024
Gross 🤢
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Melissa Challenor @picklemelissa.bsky.social · 10/11/2024
I’m dedicating my day in bed to you, Amanda 😎
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Melissa Challenor @picklemelissa.bsky.social · 10/11/2024
media.tenor.com
a cartoon cat wearing sunglasses is dancing and saying yeah !
ALT: a cartoon cat wearing sunglasses is dancing and saying yeah !
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Melissa Challenor @picklemelissa.bsky.social · 10/11/2024
Man, that’s a lot of hours when you’re disabled ❤️‍🩹
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Melissa Challenor @picklemelissa.bsky.social · 10/11/2024
To be clear, desperate men are sending me private msgs and it’s so damn boring. They’ve got no clue and no chance.
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Melissa Challenor @picklemelissa.bsky.social · 10/11/2024
Got something to say? Say it here, in public. Want my attention? Don’t send me boring private msgs. You look desperate.
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Melissa Challenor @picklemelissa.bsky.social · 10/11/2024
Got some, thanks Mark. Now to get some tape for the N95s that have the smallest gap. Not wasting them!
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Guiness Pig @guinesspig.bsky.social · 08/11/2024
Start here with 1st episode! ❤️https://guinesspig.ghost.io/wayside-a-serial-novel/
guinesspig.ghost.io
Wayside: A Serial Novel
This is a work of fiction. Unless otherwise indicated, all the names, characters, businesses, places, events and incidents in this book are either the product of the author's imagination or used in a ...
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Melissa Challenor @picklemelissa.bsky.social · 08/11/2024
How can it be mysterious? We all know what a two wheeled cart looks like 😉
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COVID-19 Long-Haulers Discussion Group @covidlonghaulers.bsky.social · 08/11/2024
Please help build this starter pack for people in the #LongCOVID community who might not be on other lists. go.bsky.app/5b18oZg
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Melissa Challenor @picklemelissa.bsky.social · 08/11/2024
It’s the first night I haven’t thrown up my dinner since hospital. Not having dinner is the key 🤣
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Melissa Challenor @picklemelissa.bsky.social · 08/11/2024
Guiness! Yay 🥳
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Melissa Challenor @picklemelissa.bsky.social · 08/11/2024
Sister and BIL *WOWED* by my Drager as I popped into the kitchen to give them COVID Safe Schools and co2radical brochures. “Hardcore mask!” They know nothing 😉 Niece (5) tries to out-ignore me, but I’ve been doing this a long time 🤣
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Melissa Challenor @picklemelissa.bsky.social · 16/12/2023
#ProtectTheHeartOfTheArts @DonmarWarehouse for Macbeth starring #DavidTennant COVID safe performances and venues for punters and players 😷 London 🇬🇧 and the world 🗺️
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Denis - The COVID Info Guy @thecovidinfoguy.bsky.social · 24/11/2023
🇦🇺Australia's weekly reported COVID numbers: 24 November 2023 Jurisdiction / Cases / Deaths 🔹SA: 2,065 / NR 🔹TAS: 969 / 4 🔹ACT: 488 / 1 🔹VIC: (No data) / 43 🔹WA: (No data) 🔹NSW: (No data) 🔹QLD: (No data) 🔹NT: (No data) NR = Not Reported #COVID19AUS
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Melissa Challenor @picklemelissa.bsky.social · 16/11/2023
Protect 😷 the heart ❤️ of the arts 🎭 #SaveDavidTennant #CleanAir #COVIDisAirborne #SaveOurArtists #SaveOurActors x.com/waltz_tales/... @neilhimself.neilgaiman.com
x.com
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Melissa Challenor @picklemelissa.bsky.social · 16/11/2023
Good friend died yesterday with voluntary assisted suicide. He had LC badly and a short fight with pancreatic cancer made him check out. Friend’s Nan died from a C-19 infection and her funeral was today. The C-19 funeral season has begun. Try not to join it. #WearAMask
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Melissa Challenor @picklemelissa.bsky.social · 15/11/2023
New profile pic Because she’s a blonde YEAH YEAH YEAH!
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Melissa Challenor @picklemelissa.bsky.social · 02/11/2023
I should also add that Australia’s health insurance industry is very different to other countries. It’s highly regulated and it has been made almost impossible for them to exclude various conditions. Universal healthcare here looks after everyone. Private health gives you more chances.
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Melissa Challenor @picklemelissa.bsky.social · 02/11/2023
Hahahaha I am the influential bin lady! Not sure if that’s better or worse than angry covid lady 🤣
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Melissa Challenor @picklemelissa.bsky.social · 02/11/2023
Asked Dad if it was Thursday yesterday because I’d just put the bins out. Nope, it was still Wednesday. Interestingly, my forward thinking has influenced people up and down the street who put their bins out a day early too 😉
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