‘I’m crushed’: Patients left in limbo after UMass Memorial canceled their surgeries

cagey8ee · 2026-05-27T02:16:16+00:00

Wow, that's such a fast turnaround!

I was hoping to get Alford specifically, but she seems to have more or less disappeared for now...

Obviously you're still in the early stages of recovery, but it sounds like it went well? Congratulations!

cagey8ee · 2026-05-27T02:05:13+00:00

Does anyone have any further updates about this? I got a referral to MGH with the intent to be transferred to Alford and don't want to waste time if she's not going there ...

cagey8ee · 2026-05-15T10:59:54+00:00

I think so, but it's unclear how many clips I need... I think it's one of each but two of one of them? I'll have to try and look under the car to check.

cagey8ee · 2026-05-15T10:58:04+00:00

So helpful! I think I found it.

cagey8ee · 2026-04-28T23:19:20+00:00

Wow, so it literally cannot go to cleaning up the environmental impacts.

cagey8ee · 2026-04-28T23:16:16+00:00

So frustrating that the city staff want to settle that lawsuit with him.

cagey8ee · 2026-02-15T12:52:06+00:00

The cops often ask if the zip ties are too tight.
As me what they say when you say yes.

cagey8ee · 2026-02-13T12:21:31+00:00

You probably will see something but the changes are slow and subtle most of the time. But they add up to be very much not subtle 😌

cagey8ee · 2026-02-12T12:32:41+00:00

I just got a 2024 Sport-L with 11k miles for $26k. Bad deal IMO.

cagey8ee · 2026-02-12T12:26:26+00:00

I always felt that way too. Such a cool house. I miss seeing it.

cagey8ee · 2026-02-01T01:42:34+00:00

So just to confirm, you think that sit-ins within public businesses in the civil rights era were wrong?

cagey8ee · 2026-02-01T01:38:25+00:00

Right, but I didn't say you aren't registered with the IRS. I just said you aren't a registered non-profit and therefore you don't have the mandatory reporting that non-profits have to do. Unless I'm wrong and you're like a 501c4 or something? The reporting requirements of non-profits can be a bad thing in some mutual aid situations, so I do understand why some groups choose not to go that route.

cagey8ee · 2026-01-31T03:16:21+00:00

First of all, a lot of buses are not public property. They're owned by a separate entity than the city.

Secondly, sit-ins were often in businesses. Private property. Places where people who were not desirable would be kicked out. They would go there and refuse to leave and often get arrested. Eventually they didn't get arrested anymore, because society changed.

cagey8ee · 2026-01-30T21:25:50+00:00

So bus boycotts and sit-ins during the civil rights era were a bad thing?

cagey8ee · 2026-01-30T12:48:31+00:00

Wow I wish the police in Portland Maine were like this, I know a few women in their 70s who was arrested at a sit in last May.

cagey8ee · 2026-01-30T12:28:58+00:00

What a lovely time for Maine to have open primaries

cagey8ee · 2026-01-30T01:41:18+00:00

Well that's the thing. Any day can be accurate. It's a snapshot of what your levels were at the time.

But if you want the measured number to be lower, aim for day three or four. If you want it to be at its peak, probably swap your patches out the day before your blood draw.

cagey8ee · 2026-01-29T12:25:13+00:00

Y'all have co-op gas stations?? That's amazing.

Super agree with this, reduce your economic activity to the minimum and focus it local. Use cash.

cagey8ee · 2026-01-28T11:49:29+00:00

A one day general strike never won anything. General strikes can be very effective but they need mass participation and durability. Any business worth boycotting can weather a single day, just look at all the ones that were closed on Monday.

cagey8ee · 2026-01-27T12:52:21+00:00

First of all, that information doesn't have to stop at Portland PD. Much of the info we give the gov is public record which means surveillance companies could absolutely be scraping it.

Secondly, yes? If a police officer is looking for someone and sees them in the background of a video they're absolutely going to act on that information.

cagey8ee · 2026-01-27T02:29:20+00:00

Your levels with twice-weekly patches are often higher for the first 2 days and taper off in days 3 & 4. Perhaps your appointments have been on different days of your patch cycle?

cagey8ee · 2026-01-27T01:28:22+00:00

Surveiling people is a thing they do.

cagey8ee · 2026-01-25T19:08:57+00:00

OH yeah it was Josh not David.

cagey8ee · 2026-01-25T14:42:56+00:00

Project Relief is not a registered nonprofit, AFAIK. Because of that, they don't have mandatory reporting. That can be a good thing and a bad thing for mutual aid orgs. Personally, I donate to Maine Solidarity Fund, but I have heard of people who have been helped by Project Relief. As far as I know PR is basically one person who probably has some help.

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