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Rima Med 🇺🇸🇱🇹🇺🇦

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Medic in the Armed Forces of Ukraine/combat medicine (CMC/CPP) certified/NAEMT certified tacmed instructor in Ukraine #USAforUkraine

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Rima Med 🇺🇸🇱🇹🇺🇦 @rimamedua.bsky.social · 7d

Hello my friends ❤️

My name is Rima, I am a tac med instructor and medic in the Armed Forces of Ukraine from the United States here in Ukraine supporting and working since 2022, starting as a volunteer before I enlisted.

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Ukraine Front Line @ukrainefrontline.bsky.social · 6h

We just got requests from two teams for about $9K worth of tacmed. Robin has a holiday mule run coming up, so

LET'S DO THIS!

givebutter.com/UFL_Tacmed_F...
PayPal (lower fees): paypal.com/ncp/payment/...

(The kitten pic is from one of the teams. I'll do my best to get more. You deserve that.)

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Ile @ilefella.bsky.social · 11h

This one is for Pokrovsk and quite big 💙

bsky.app/profile/rima...

Rima 🇺🇦 The Red Queen of Donbas @rimafellaria.bsky.social · 1d

❗️❗️❗️CRITICAL POKROVSK FUNDRAISER ❗️❗️❗️
for ATEY Battalion @SKIF_A_S_G

REMAINING: $8,721.43
COLLECTED: $4,278.57 (32.91%)
🎯 GOAL: $13,000

DONATE NOW❤️
👉🏻 501(c)(3): www.zeffy.com/en-US/donati...

👉🏻Other ways to support:
PayPal.me/RimaFellaria
buymeacoffee.com/rimafellaria
revolut.me/rimanikogosian

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Chris Winters 🇩🇪 🇺🇦 🇬🇪 @cwinters.bsky.social · 13h

The bosses were having gigglefits the entire weekend.

So, yeah.. today "MacGuyver" does fundraisers for the 93rd Brigade Alcatraz on the side. 😁

And we need more reach, too. Been pretty stuck.
bsky.app/profile/cwin...

Chris Winters 🇩🇪 🇺🇦 🇬🇪 @cwinters.bsky.social · 13h

We're still stuck. HELP!

$ 19.670 / 36.000

Has been around there the entire week.
There's prizes, too! (See reply!)

PLEASE help spread the word! 🙏

Chris Winters 🇩🇪 🇺🇦 🇬🇪 @cwinters.bsky.social · 11d

Friends, please help 93rd Brigade Alcatraz!

How? Buggies!
Caolan Robertson & SpiritofUkraine are collecting!

On the frontline in Donetsk Oblast, the Alcatraz Battalion of the 93rd Brigade faces daily bombardment and relentless combat.

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#NAFO #FNDRUA #StandWithUkraine #DonateToUkraine #Ukraine

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Rima Med 🇺🇸🇱🇹🇺🇦 @rimamedua.bsky.social · 18h

Good morning my friends,

Let's shake off some of this gloomy. Please share your fundraisers and fun stories. I haven't seen any although I think my visibility is low here. Remember to donate, share, like, etc.

Tell me, what are we doing for Ukraine today?

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Rima Med 🇺🇸🇱🇹🇺🇦 @rimamedua.bsky.social · 1d

Grief is a b*tch. My friends are in pain from loss and I am too. The problem is that the only thing that helps grief is time. Otherwise we live with being numb and feeling the sharp pain of loss all at the same time unable to really comfort each other.

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Rima Med 🇺🇸🇱🇹🇺🇦 @rimamedua.bsky.social · 1d

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Rima Med 🇺🇸🇱🇹🇺🇦 @rimamedua.bsky.social · 1d

"Why did you decide to go to Ukraine?"

I get this question a lot. The simple answer is that I wanted to help Ukraine fight for its freedom and do the right thing.

The right thing looks different for everyone, this is how I chose to do the right thing my way.

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Rima Med 🇺🇸🇱🇹🇺🇦 @rimamedua.bsky.social · 2d

Practically skipped to the post office knowing this DONATED pneumothorax trainer was on its way.

I am SO grateful for the connections that brings these things to me so I can train my students with the best materials possible. Those of you who helped make this happen, THANK YOU!!!

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Rima Med 🇺🇸🇱🇹🇺🇦 @rimamedua.bsky.social · 3d

We teach the approved curriculum and then adapt it to Ukraine. Its a lot of adapt and overcome.

What are we doing for Ukraine, my friends?

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Rima Med 🇺🇸🇱🇹🇺🇦 @rimamedua.bsky.social · 3d

One of the big challenges we face as TCCC instructors is adapting current curriculum to how things are in Ukraine.

For example gaining "fire superiority" over FPVs vs close quarter combat or how we don't have a golden hour or air support or enough medical supplies the same way NATO militaries do.

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Rima Med 🇺🇸🇱🇹🇺🇦 @rimamedua.bsky.social · 4d

Today has been absolutely awful. Hug your loved ones and help people where you can.

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Rima Med 🇺🇸🇱🇹🇺🇦 @rimamedua.bsky.social · 5d

We get him stabilized for transport to the hospital and make some coffee or tea.

Nights at the stabilization point.

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Rima Med 🇺🇸🇱🇹🇺🇦 @rimamedua.bsky.social · 5d

Flatline.

Start CPR.

After what felt like hours but really was just a few minutes: sinus rhythm.

The silence while we do this is similar to being under water. Time feels like it moves in slow motion. But the minute we get him back, all sound rushes back and we get back to work.

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Rima Med 🇺🇸🇱🇹🇺🇦 @rimamedua.bsky.social · 5d

TBI moderate/severe, battle signs, massive hemorrhage, blast wave trauma and tension pneumothorax. Interventions are begun. Dual chest tubes, blood, intubation, eFAST. So much air, we can't see nearly anything on the ultrasound.

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Rima Med 🇺🇸🇱🇹🇺🇦 @rimamedua.bsky.social · 5d

The longest minutes

It's after midnight when two red casualties are brought in. The doctors get the warning that we having incoming. The rest of us are woken up and we get up and go.

One team takes one red and we take the other.

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Rima Med 🇺🇸🇱🇹🇺🇦 @rimamedua.bsky.social · 5d

For the longest period of my life I was a Lithuanian folk dancer. Some of my greatest memories come from this participation. It is part of what makes me who I am.

Rima Med 🇺🇸🇱🇹🇺🇦 @rimamedua.bsky.social · 5d

With russian occupation comes only darkness. The fight for preservation by those who made it out was a hard one.

Participating in our cultural heritage is a form of resistance. We must continue in memory of those who worked so hard to keep it alive and safe when russia tried to take it from us.

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Rima Med 🇺🇸🇱🇹🇺🇦 @rimamedua.bsky.social · 5d

Our heritage was carried to other countries by our great grandparents and grandparents so future generations wouldn't forget their music, dances, art, culture, national costumes and identity that russia tried to stomp out of those who remained, as these were forbidden during occupation.

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Rima Med 🇺🇸🇱🇹🇺🇦 @rimamedua.bsky.social · 5d

This brought up a lot of rage considering that russia has been doing this to Ukraine and other countries like mine, Lithuania for decades.

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Rima Med 🇺🇸🇱🇹🇺🇦 @rimamedua.bsky.social · 5d

I saw a reel recently of a Ukrainian woman showing how russians are trying to once again steal and rebrand the cultural heritage of the Ukrainian Donestk region as their own all the way down to their national costumes.

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Rima Med 🇺🇸🇱🇹🇺🇦 @rimamedua.bsky.social · 6d

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Ukraine Front Line @ukrainefrontline.bsky.social · 6d

🌟It's the Tuesday raffle!🌟

This week, we offer Ukraine swag including .50 cal casing keychains, plus patches and a flag!

Get your tickets here! givebutter.com/zcmNRg

Thank you, and good luck!

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Rima Med 🇺🇸🇱🇹🇺🇦 @rimamedua.bsky.social · 6d

No light? No problem thanks to @midwest-farm.bsky.social !! Thank you for the luminaid lanterns, Nathan ♥️🫂 and thanks to everyone who donated for a couple more! They are lifesavers.

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Rima Med 🇺🇸🇱🇹🇺🇦 @rimamedua.bsky.social · 6d

Primary care is often a large part of our work as medics. We have to fill the gaps when primary care isn't readily available.

It helps provide soldiers with security knowing they will get the help they need even for the little stuff.

What are we doing for Ukraine today, my friends?

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Rima Med 🇺🇸🇱🇹🇺🇦 @rimamedua.bsky.social · 7d

If you would like to support my journey, you may do so here:

buymeacoffee.com/rimaz

Buy Me a Coffee:

buymeacoffee.com/rimaziuraitis

Paypal:

paypal.me/rimaziuraitis

Amazon wishlist (updated once every other week or so):

www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/...

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