Pie-bringer, pet-talker, garden-tender, and big hair enthusiast. Frequently talking about health and wellness at H+K Strategies.
London, England
Joined April 2007
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Jessi Langsen-Gaston retweeted
Childcare has been broken by the Conservatives.
Labour will make lasting change to how we think about childcare, integrating it into our education system so parents have flexibility and children get the best start in life.
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Joining a lot of angry, disgusted customers in asking @PrimeVideo to cancel Clarkson’s Farm. Series 2 release date emerged just ahead of Jeremy Clarkson’s vile public abuse in The Sun and that is not a man that deserves a charming little platform.
Jessi Langsen-Gaston retweeted
The government has refused to add #sicklecell to the list of conditions exempt from prescription charges
Laurel needs at least five medications every month to keep her healthy - and has to pay full-price for each one:
stylist.co.uk/fitness-health…
#PrescriptionCharges
Jessi Langsen-Gaston retweeted
Additionally, new data from @GBT_news revealed that living with sickle cell disease reduces productivity and decreases potential future income by more than £500,000 over a lifetime
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Jessi Langsen-Gaston retweeted
For people with sickle cell, cold is a known risk factor for triggering a dangerous crisis episode:
"Sickle cell patients are urged to stay warm because that keeps your blood less ‘sticky’. The stickier your blood, the more acute the pain crisis will be.”
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Jessi Langsen-Gaston retweeted
For @StylistMagazine I wrote about how the cost of living crisis is disproportionately affecting people with sickle cell
People like Laurel who risk a life-threatening crisis if they don't put the heating on this winter:
stylist.co.uk/fitness-health……
#SickleCell #CostOfLivingCrisis
Jessi Langsen-Gaston retweeted
She’s ready for the middle school play…does that mean she’s ready for this?
Look, I was always going to buy this book. @designmom blew my mind when she first started talking about abortion this way. But especially if you have sons? Get this on your shelf and into the conversation.
Jessi Langsen-Gaston retweeted
A mutual friend of ours from college was also told her colon cancer symptoms were all in her head for months after she gave birth — her story is here: today.com/health/health/new-…
Jessi Langsen-Gaston retweeted
I didn't know if I should write that piece or not; it felt very basic. But I've heard from 100+ people who've told me it prompted them to schedule theirs, so that feels like actual service journalism somehow
Jessi Langsen-Gaston retweeted
But my friend read my piece about getting one at age 40 b/c of family history, and pushed back when her doctor told her that she didn't need one yet
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Jessi Langsen-Gaston retweeted
Most people, even many health care providers, don't know that the guidance on when you should get your first colonoscopy has changed: *all* people should be getting them by age 45
cancer.org/cancer/colon-rect…
Jessi Langsen-Gaston retweeted
A good friend just got a colonoscopy — had a medium polyp removed that the doctor thinks was pre-cancerous. It would've been cancerous by the time she went in, like most people do, at age 50
@British_Airways I've been waiting for a DM from the team about seating with a toddler for a flight in two days. What is the wait time?
Bumping this because it's been 5 hours since the original message and the closer the flight gets, the more nervous I am.
My husband, 2.5 year old and I are all booked @British_Airways Premium Economy on a long haul to Boston Friday. It appears we don't have seat assignments and there's only one seat left in the section. Odds other passengers will pay us not to be left alone with our toddler?
Lido swimming is one of@my favorite things about British summertime. Waiting for the @BrockwellLido / @fusion_ls site to load for 1-2 full minutes per page is one of my least favorite. How can a webpage in 2022 be this bad?
Jessi Langsen-Gaston retweeted
So this tweet is obviously the kind of bait that can only be produced by a person who desperately desires any sort of attention, even if at the expense of their own reputation…but this story is actually really interesting and mostly ignored because of how it’s…good.
Jessi Langsen-Gaston retweeted
It’s not that I don’t appreciate the gesture, but - as has been said many times before over the years - having a bunch of strangers vote on whether or not my marriage is valid is actually pretty insulting.
This is America. I was heartbroken to see it happen to @Syesha in Florida last year and admit to chalking some of it up to *Florida*. But abuse of power with few checks or common sense is happening in every corner. I cried reading this, a true nightmare.
Jessi Langsen-Gaston retweeted
It’s not SSRIs. Iceland: biggest user of antidepressants; low rates of gun violence.
It’s not video games. Japan: among the largest markets for video games; low rates of gun violence.
It’s not weed. Israel: biggest user of cannabis; low rates of gun violence.
It’s the guns.