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PurpleSpeedwell

@purplespeedwell.bsky.social

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Mostly bedridden with #MyalgicEncephalomyelitis, a devastating illness with little funding and no treatment. Toronto, Canada Ally of #pwLC #pwME #LongCovid #POTS #MCAS #MEcfs

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PurpleSpeedwell @purplespeedwell.bsky.social · 15/08/2024

"I'm at a loss for words. We're dying at the hands of those who should be helping us, yet they face no accountability. I sometimes feel like we don’t matter in this world…" - Kornelia Paulsen #MyalgicEncephalomyelitis #MEcfs

Meat grinder labeled "Health Care System".
People being fed in at the top, one holding a sign saying "ME".
Wooden coffins being ejected at the bottom.
Text: copyright Kornelia Paulsen

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PurpleSpeedwell @purplespeedwell.bsky.social · 10/02/2024

Cartoon by Amy Hasbrouck #PwD #CripTheVote #MAID #neisvoid

Wheelchair user looking at concrete steps leading to a door marked "Suicide Prevention Program". The other side of the building has a ramp leading to a door marked "Assisted Suicide".

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PurpleSpeedwell @purplespeedwell.bsky.social · 23/12/2023

1935: "A piano for playing in bed will be among the exhibits at the British Industry Fair to be held here in the latter half of February. The inventor of this instrument declares that it is ... to attempt to make the lives of the sick and bedridden happier." Great for musical bedbound #pwME & #pwLC

Woman in the 1930s, lying in bed under a lacy coverlet, playing a piano that folds out from a cabinet at the foot of the bed.

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