Andy Radde-Gallwitz

I post on: 1. Research & advocacy on Long Covid and ME/CFS, cursed conditions in need of treatment and of greater public awareness. 2. Things related to my (former) career of research & teaching in the history of theology, philosophy, and literature. 3. Poetry & jokes 4. Politics

Throbbing, last night, from nauseous Deep, Power inbroke my arterial Keep. (by me) #poetry #poetrysky #pwME #LongCovid

Who just punched me in the forehead?

This is the best article I've ever read describing the LC experience. It was helpful when I needed my family to understand what I was experiencingand couldnt find the words

But one day, in the fullness of time, I shall be forced to kneel before Pat Deneen’s office door and confess, “I am a Globalist who found my bride outside the Township.”

Making fun of things is still undefeated.

ME/CFS is widely misunderstood, and those misconceptions can have real consequences for people living with the disease. Swipe through as we separate some of the most common myths about ME/CFS from the facts. ➡️ #MEAwarenessHour #MECFS

On ESPN Uimited, you get the whole experience, including the pregame human sacrifice

A crow pecking a pine branch. Huh. 🤔 You see something new all the time.

Made a little video about my reporting on “Tommy” from the viral @abdulelsayed.bsky.social town hall

In case you hadn't seen it, yet: #CDC has created a new survey that removed #LongCOVID and #MECFS, both of which have previously been measured. There are other disability- and chronic-illness-related questions missing, too. You can leave a comment here: 🧵 www.regulations.gov/commenton/CD...

a cop murdered a baby because he suspected his mom shoplifted some diapers

Gratitude to Beth for telling her story with such grace. She speaks for me. I, too, am mostly confined to bed and housebound. I left my house 3 times this summer. Haven't been out at all in September or October. This is no way to live. #frailandfurious #MECFS www.bbc.com/sport/athlet...

Her illness started with Covid, and despite her incredible, international-competition level fitness at the time. I don’t know who exactly would have to get this for healthy people to understand that when they get Covid, which they will continue to get, they are spinning a chamber and firing the gun.

The impulse to deify anything that makes you high — wine, weed, caffeine, peyote, etc. — the concept of god changes significantly when this impulse is suppressed and wine is just something Noah invented to deal with it all and God is something entirely indifferent to the experience of being drunk

Still true.

Spotlight on Issue 9: Agency vs. Determinism EARLY SIGNS OF LIFE - #CNF by Mary Ann McGuigan epistemiclit.com/past-issues/...

Why do people with ME claim to know more about the medical aspects of their disease than their doctors? Because the mechanisms that usually ensure doctors' knowledge fail in the case of ME, and sick people have created mechanisms of knowledge production and dissemination to pick up the slack.

Ok, as a recovering philosophically inclined theologian, I have this bad habit of speaking like this: why *we* must create, generalizing, when what I should say is why *I* must create. My little poem arose when I was wondering if a person without a headache sees the same backyard I was looking at.

Today’s activity

Ohio Dems should lean in to the caricature of Dr Amy Acton as a total drunk ass druggie, as painted in Repub attack ads. Run campaign event ads like “Get High with Dr Acton” Or “Smoke a J with Dr A” or “Chug a six pack-ton with Amy Acton” or “She’s a Doctor, duh. She can write you prescriptions.”

Hullo #owl #artsky #kleineKunstklasse #birds

Yes, truly this type of reasoning is undeserving of any response. But I will mention that it omits that school transmission has caused who knows how many cases of Long Covid, taking people out of schools, jobs, etc. (Guess how I know).

A novel is one side of an imagined conversation between the narrator (and thus the author) and the reader about a story told within the conversation. True?

Since I’ve stepped away from my job as a Professor — you wouldn’t believe the time I save not saying “in a certain sense” so often.

Example of absent mindedness: pulling out your phone, calling your mom to ask When Did Stalin die?

“Into Vagueness” (Poem) On blankness aka “brain fog”. Maybe it speaks to your experience.

h/t @vox-magica.bsky.social

That is, the various things likened to lions being indiscernible or indistinguishable.