Just want to say that when I send 💚💚💚 to anyone, what I mean is: “I see you, I love you, I’m glad you’re here, and Twitter wouldn’t be the same without you, thank you for being in my life.
Ok twitter fam, this little gal needs all the prayers, good vibes, healing energy and everything else you can muster. She’s having kidney surgery at Primary Children’s on Friday and we need all the healing vibes she can get. Thanks in advance from Junebug and her worrying dad.
@GovCox
My son brought Covid home from school. Both of my children are too young to be vaccinated. I’m diabetic but vaccinated. My daughter has kidney issues (we were supposed to meet with a specialist at primary children’s on Tuesday) but can’t now since we have Covid in our…
@rudygobert27
is an incredible human. Thank you, Rudy. It means more than you know. I wish I could DM you. I hope you see this. That was an incredible gift. 🥺🥺🥺 You have us all in tears.
Ok so this might be dumb, but
@rudygobert27
with everything you have put up with and been through, I just want to say it’s a privilege and honor to have you on the Jazz. With the community work with Rudy’s Kids and the personal cancer stuff. Thanks for being a decent person.
To be clear, one of my best friends was raped by a seminary teachers’ son, it was swept under the rug, I was a survivors advocate when the BYU football players gang raped a young woman, I was working part time at the daily universe and the editor was let go for wanting to tell
Trump: Masks don’t really work
Utah Mormons: They take away my freedumbs.
The Church: Please protect others and wear a mask.
BYU: Here’s a compiled list of science and data that supports mask wearing to slow/stop the spread of the virus.
Utah Mormons: Nah
… home. I’ve been wondering what to say without seeming completely unhinged because of how angry I am at the state of our state and its continued disregard and abdication of responsibility for the health and safety of its children. Last night as I listened to my 8 year old son
… at the county council, at the school boards, at church? Having been, it just seems like nobody in power wants to listen to people that have a different opinion than them. I feel totally helpless… I sobbed last night thinking that the collective failure of our society is …
Cough like a chain smoker, as I ran him a bath, I couldn’t help but feel helpless and wonder as a father what I could have done to keep all of us more safe. Should I have kept him home? The district had no local options for home school this year, should I have been more vocal…
… voices are the ones that are being listened to and legislated for. I plead with you as a father who is in bed sick, with a sick kid, please use your influence and bully pulpit to do something. PLEASE? Put the onus on the legislature… make sure the local governments know that
Actually killing us. That the impossible choice that we reluctantly made to send our child to school could have horrible ramifications for our family and others. My wife’s mom, who is in remission from lung cancer and is homebound, the plumbers that helped me with our septic …
Suns are gonna lose game 2 at home to the 8 seed. Naturally they should get rid of all the players and fire the coach, that’s how it works, right?
#TakeNote
If we lose ONE MORE CHILD, the blood is on their hands. Make the difficult choices and spend some political capital. Be the leader you were elected to be, please? You came to my town, we fixed sprinklers together and I know that you try to do the right thing. You lead all of us,
@gopTODD
So… we’re ok with them dying from Covid, but not ok with abortion, but want to be called “Pro-life?” How many is too many? Also, what’s your point? If something killed over a half million people and it was now harming kids at greater rates wouldn’t you want to stop/prevent it?
Not just the extremists. I’m so disheartened by certain members of the legislature who are minimizing the infection and deaths of our fellow Utahns, it is callous and disgusting, and it just feels like these are the people that are running the state.
She’s sleeping. She will need to drink some contrast dye for her CT scan. Ultrasound found something on her left kidney. It’s been a long night and is looking to be a long day.
@spidadmitchell
This is why your voice and example is so important here. I can’t think of a more important time for someone like you to be here in Utah. We have so much work to do and I’m proud to stand beside you in fighting this scourge of racism in our society.
I don’t know what else to do or say, I know I’m not alone here even though by the response of our elected officials, it’s starting to feel like it. As a father, as our governor, I implore you to act, to lead, and to fight for our kids. We already sacrificed our grandparents…
Disaster, our church congregation, and many more. How many serious complications or deaths are on our heads now because we got two negative rapid tests and weren’t as careful as we should be? I know you are trying to balance a fine line but it seems like some really extreme…
I wish I was sleeping too… results are in, no abscess, no cyst, and no tumor, just a very infected kidney and some badly backed up bowels. 🤦🏼♂️ Headed home soon with a bowel cleaning kit (laxative and stool softeners) and more antibiotics. More relieved than anything.
If you were a Utah Jazz player, and saw some of the things that were said about you by the fans, would you want to go out and play hard/win for said fans? Would you still have joy in playing in front of people that hate you? Just some morning thoughts…
#TakeNote
On this “Super Tuesday” I want to give a big shoutout to the Utah republicans who decided that instead of open primaries to have caucuses that restrict attendance to those who can get out of whatever they do in life rather than having a simple primary ballot that one can fill out
She is done, she did great… she is very tired and all she wants is to go back to the hotel. 😂😂😂 Again, we so appreciate ALL of the support. I am overwhelmed at the response to this. Thank you all so much.
My bishop came over today… I had sent him the article and laid bare some of my concerns/experiences. He validated me, expressed his love, acknowledged things should change and was just very understanding. I appreciated that from him. I wish that was the institutional response.
Hey Twitter fam, I start my new job tomorrow. Could use some seriously good vibes, prayers, thoughts, or whatever you can send me that I will succeed and they will be glad they hired me.
Waiting for the doctors and loopy with pre-op meds. She’s in surgery now… I am overwhelmed by the response to this and can’t thank you all enough for your love and support. 💚💚💚
Can we do away with the caucuses and have regular normal open primaries now? PLEASE? Just give me a ballot as a registered voter and put ALL of the options on it. Let us choose who we REALLY want.
At primary children’s tonight trying to get my baby girl some help. Fever of 104 and just not feeling very well… hoping they can get us some answers/help. Prayers, good vibes, etc are all welcome and needed.
My son does not want to go back to school. He’s worried about being sick again. This is the kid that loves his friends and being social. That’s how much he hates having Covid. My boss is letting me WFH for 2 days a week to help out. What a complete clustercuss.
While I can never understand what it feels like to be trapped in the wrong body, I absolutely understand being bullied and wanting to change something about myself. Growing up, being a ginger was not cool. As soon as I could, I was going to the salon and bleaching my hair blonde.
Grandpa had a stroke this morning… in the ICU. All I know so far is that they didn’t get him in, in time to give him the reversing drug. 😞 could use whatever prayers, positivity, good vibes you can muster. Please and thank you.
CT scan completed. More waiting commences. All things considered she’s in pretty good spirits. Had to drink what seemed like a gallon of grape juice mixed with contrast. It’s been a struggle, but she’s a good kid and has been a real trooper. Thanks for all the love.
She is home, medicated and sleeping. Hopefully her next ultrasound will indicate that the issue is resolved and she won’t have any more kidney reflux/infections.
She is exhausted but still wanted to ride in the unicorn car. She is snacking between naps and we should have her home this evening. Once again… thank you so much for your love and kindness. It has been felt thousands of times over. I’ve never had so many notifications.
Today I made an appointment with my PCP to see if any anti-depressant meds would be appropriate, I also contacted 5 mental health professionals about a consultation to begin therapy. Gotta start somewhere. I'm tired of pursuing happiness and not catching and enjoying it.
For all the difficulties I’ve had in marriage, my in-laws were never one of them. My sweet mother-in-law fell and passed away tonight. She was always good to me, and loved the kids. Just super sad. 🥺🥺🥺😭😭😭
Got a 12.5% raise today… and although because of surgery I likely won’t feel it’s effects until Sept or so, I’m incredibly thankful. It was/is much needed.
Can we like just stop shooting each other? What the hell? Go to therapy, touch grass, smoke weed, get some ketamine, find Jesus… do something else besides think it’s okay to take another life… damn our country/culture is sick.
The neighborly church members that used to rush over and plow our driveway with their tractors have not been seen this weekend (at our house) apparently guys that don’t go to church don’t get their driveways plowed out. 🤷🏼♂️
@andrewreed_
At what point does
@byu
kick him and his ilk out? They will boot you for sex, but knowingly endangering the lives of at-risk students, faculty and staff, it’s like nah... carry on. Makes me sick.
This is not a new problem, I truly hope that the light is the best disinfectant, but for me, I cannot continue to financially support an institution that is paying lawyers to fight survivors of abuse. I can’t square it. I have long tried to be a moderate voice in a world
@GovCox
@LGHendersonUtah
Waiting for you to apologize for your part in this… that pen of yours has done some real damage and this is only the beginning.
The whole story… not sugarcoat it. He lost his job over it. The only players that were prosecuted were the ones that didn’t play much and were minors. Again the church/university swept it under the rug. I listened to so many survivors over the course of my years as an advocate
… for everything told him goodbye and as I did he reached his arm around me to pull me closer to the bed… I gave him the best hug I could and without saying anything, he gently patted my back. It was everything I needed. So glad I was able to see him. 😭😭
Came home early so mom could take our daughter to instacare. Yesterday her fever was 102, today it’s 103. 🥺🥺😭😭. Please send prayers, vibes, positivity.
I’ve said it before but post-procedure pain management in this country is a joke. Treating everyone like addicts and telling people to treat with Tylenol/ibuprofen is downright barbaric. I hate that everything has to be so extreme. 😖😖😖
PSA: THE RAPID COVID TESTS ARE NOT DETECTING THE DELTA VARIANT. If you need to get tested, do the PCR. This is going to get worse before it gets better and the rapid tests are giving us a very false sense of security. Our health department recommended the PCR test to us.
Got another positive Covid test for my son today, he is pretty much feeling better except for his sense of smell. The rest of us are negative. I called the health dept and they said we were good to leave quarantine. I’m so relieved. Thanks to all who reached out. I love you! 💚💚
Talked to my dad this morning, it sounds like insurance will cover it all. We’ve hired the cleaning/restoration out. I want to say thanks for all of the offers for help. I was in a dark place last night so many of you reached out. Thank you.
I swear the next anti-vax family member that posts on my Facebook is going to get a side of me they didn’t know existed. I have about .5 f*cks left to give.
@SpencerJCox
Having lost three family members, it’s a bit difficult for some of us to take it less seriously. Some of my cousins lost both of their parents, should they take it less seriously? These comments make a mockery of those that have lost loved ones. It’s gross and disappointing.
Just got done with back to school night. Judging by what I’ve seen, there’s a very small chance all of these unvaccinated kids won’t get Covid this year. Thanks
#Utleg
for putting parents in impossible situations. I hope every parent that loses a child knows where the blame lies
So that I don’t focus on all of my money being used up by vehicle repairs… This has been 2 years in the making. Still some minor stuff to do, but this is a win. We gutted the ENTIRE THING. Down to the studs. Replaced EVERYTHING. Lots of expense but it’s a joy to cook in.
Losing two teammates at work to better paying jobs, so of course we have a meeting for upper management to tell us all how Lucky we are to be there and how well compensated we are. One college left for 50% more pay. Today is just weird.
Today people from twitter:
1. Messaged to check on me
2. Sent a book that helped them in their grief
3. Had dinner/dessert sent to my home.
Say what you will about this place, but I’ve found more kindness here than anywhere else the past few years. I love my twitter family. 💚
As I was leaving the hospital, I realized I left my beanie in grandpa’s room. I went back to get it, as I entered, I told him I forgot my hat. He groggily leaned towards the doorway. I went over to his bed again to say a final goodbye, I leaned down and thanked him…
@ali_safa10
@wojespn
@caa_sports
Come on man... we are trying to purge these attitudes from our fan base... Donovan has been an excellent person in the community in helping to combat it. Comments like this don’t help.
Hey everyone... could use some good vibes/prayers/hope for my sister. She’s had seizures (non-epileptic) for the last few years and has been doing pretty well... working and driving. Over the last 2 days she’s had around 24 seizures and is really not doing well. Thanks much.
Resigned to the fact that I’ll be paying some sort of payment plan to intermountain health for the rest of my life. Healthcare in this country is broken.
I haven’t said a lot about the Enoch killings… it hits really close to home. Do any of you remember the guy that crashed his jet into the house in Payson? That was my cousin (through marriage) his intent was to kill his wife with the jet. It just all makes me sick.
Look, I know I’m not a “big account” or whatever, but I really miss what this app used to be. The community of incredible people I have been fortunate enough to meet has been a life saver. Elon screwed up a pretty good thing, I rarely even see my friends tweets. Makes me sad.
Going on private… apparently hit a nerve with the tractor post today. I’m tired. No one tells you that losing your faith and community is one of the hardest things to do. Anyway, love you all, thanks for being here.
Grandpa failed the food test, he can’t swallow. Feeding tube is going in sometime today. Dad is not encouraged and it feels like the beginning of the end… 🥺😞😭
Of extremes… frankly it’s exhausting. Why we can’t look ourselves in the mirror and make changes rather than disparaging the story or the survivors is just beyond me. I’m lucky to have a good bishop, many aren’t. I want us all to do better, to be kinder, have more empathy.
Down in Utah county today, in a better world, this chair would have been occupied by my grandpa and we’d be talking about life while having lunch, and I would be asking him what I can help him with at home. But he’s gone… so I’m just sitting here with my burger and emotions.