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Lucy Kalanithi
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Clinical Associate Professor @StanfordMed. Still writing epilogue to When Breath Becomes Air ❤️
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“First, we are all still here.” cupofjo.com/2025/01/21/t...
A Big Hug, Plus Four Things | Cup of Jo
Last night, my sister texted me...
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January 22, 2025 at 8:23 AM
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“Let me show you how I cried when you were born.”
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Words Whispered to a Child Under Siege a poem by Joseph Fasano No, we are not going to die.
The sounds you hear
knocking the windows and chipping the paint
from the ceiling, that is a game
the world is playing.
Our task is to crouch in the dark as long as we can
and count the beats of our own hearts.
Good. Like that. Lay your hand
on my heart and I’ll lay mine on yours.
Which one of us wins
is the one who loves the game the most
while it lasts.
Yes, it is going to last.
You can use your ear instead of your hand.
Here, on my heart.
Why is it beating faster? For you. That’s all.
I always wanted you to be born
and so did the world.
No, those aren’t a stranger’s bootsteps in the house.
Yes, I’m here. We’re safe.
Remember chess? Remember
hide-and-seek?
The song your mother sang? Let’s sing that one.
She’s still with us, yes. But you have to sing
without making a sound. She’d like that.
No, those aren’t bootsteps.
Sing. Sing louder.
Those aren’t bootsteps.
Let me show you how I cried when you were born.
Those aren’t bootsteps.
Those aren’t sirens.
Those aren’t flames.
Close your eyes. Like chess. Like hide-and-seek.
When the game is done you get another life.
December 11, 2024 at 8:55 PM
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Spent some time Sunday hopping across tree stumps with these 7-year-olds. I got a little scared of shinning myself at one point and hesitated, to which one of them yelled, "USE ALL YOUR BRAVERY!!" which is really the best pep talk I've ever received. Sending it out to you💚
December 5, 2024 at 9:45 PM
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.@StanfordMedMuse announces 7th Annual Kalanithi Writing Award—for essays, poems & stories about illness—deadline 1/8/23, open to all💗 https://stan.md/3rkNEpl
December 5, 2024 at 9:44 PM
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Can't wait to chat with @RebeccaSoffer about the immortality of love 💗💗 and her latest, the interactive "Modern Loss Handbook"! Bay Area, join us 6/20: @bookpassage @Ferry_Building...
December 5, 2024 at 9:44 PM
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Seven years is so long and so short. 💚
December 5, 2024 at 9:44 PM
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“Caring for an individual and protecting a population require different priorities, practices and ways of thinking. While it may sound counterintuitive…. we need to think less like doctors.” 👏🏼
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/14/opinion/covid-america.html @aaronecarroll
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December 5, 2024 at 9:45 PM
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“The government could fix the paid-leave issue—it showed in 2020 that it is capable of doing so. Instead, it issues ‘guidelines’ and watches people spread COVID because they can’t afford not...
December 5, 2024 at 9:45 PM
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Just so beautiful. @reallyalexronan via @joannagoddard
https://cupofjo.com/2022/01/on-losing-my-brother/
On Losing My Brother | Cup of Jo
Alex Ronan shares the meaningful tattoo she got after her...
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December 5, 2024 at 9:45 PM
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“It’s great that people are paying so much attention to long Covid, but I think that too much research is starting from the beginning as if this is a new phenomenon. It isn’t.” https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/could-this-scientist-have-the-answer-to-long-covid-5sszbxpz9
Could this scientist have the answer to long Covid?
The Stanford biochemist Ron Davis’s mission to cure his s...
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December 5, 2024 at 9:45 PM
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.@StanfordMedMuse announces 6th Annual Kalanithi Writing Award—for essays, stories, poems about illness—deadline 2/1/22, open to all 💗 https://stan.md/3pfJHRf
December 5, 2024 at 9:45 PM
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Spent some time Sunday hopping across tree stumps with these 7-year-olds. I got a little scared of shinning myself at one point and hesitated, to which one of them yelled, "USE ALL YOUR BRAVERY!!" which is really the best pep talk I've ever received. Sending it out to you💚
December 5, 2024 at 9:45 PM
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“What if we were driven by some sense of moral obligation as a nation?” @donberwick 🙏🏼
December 5, 2024 at 9:50 PM
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This shirt! This question! Just arrived in a surprise package from my twin sis @joannagoddard 🌸🌸

In case you need this today —
December 5, 2024 at 9:50 PM
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Now 💚✅
December 5, 2024 at 9:50 PM
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“Long-term romance is such a sweet adventure precisely because it is not destiny.” Love this @arthurbrooks ❤️❤️❤️
https://www.theatlantic.com/family/archive/2021/09/soul-mates-love-destiny/620014/
Stop Waiting for Your Soul Mate
Love isn’t destiny. That’s what makes it so sweet.
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December 5, 2024 at 9:50 PM
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15 years today. Ditto.❤️
lucykalanithi.bsky.social Lucy Kalanithi @lucykalanithi.bsky.social · Sep 3
married paul kalanithi 9 yrs ago today. it was-always will be-one of the best things that's ever happened to me.#LCSM http://t.co/uz37BcYSuY
December 6, 2024 at 8:48 AM
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"To have a movement that breathes, you must build a movement with the capacity to grieve." @culturejedi https://inthesetimes.com/article/freedom-grief-healing-death-liberation-movements h/t @courtwrites
Grief Belongs in Social Movements. Can We Embrace It?
A Black activist reflects on intergenerational trauma, co...
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December 5, 2024 at 9:50 PM
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“By locating responsibility for care squarely on the family unit, it also continues to limit or excuse greater society — which is to say, the government — from the responsibility of providing care to the most vulnerable members of society.” @annehelen...
December 5, 2024 at 9:50 PM
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"'Why do you need to be positive?... 'I’ve seen some of the biggest bitches come in, and they’re still alive.'" @CaitlinPacific 💖
https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2021/08/caitlin-flanagan-secret-of-surviving-cancer/619844/
I’ll Tell You the Secret of Cancer
It’s been almost 20 years since my diagnosis, and I’ve le...
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December 5, 2024 at 9:50 PM
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“Maybe these things sound completely unrelated—climate change, mental health care, childcare—but to me they are all layers to the same uniquely American issue: the idea that each of us can and should solve systemic problems on our own” @amywestervelt...
December 5, 2024 at 9:50 PM
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"We have this idea that we should direct people away from their suffering, that that's the whole role of compassion: to remove people's suffering. It's not my experience that that's so..." @fostaseski (13:50)...
December 5, 2024 at 9:55 PM
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Medicine is so lucky to have @ESilvermanMD ❤️✨ https://tinkmedia.co/interviews/emily-silverman @thenocturnists
December 5, 2024 at 9:55 PM
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So glad to interview my brilliant friend @drjessigold about mental health and emotions theeeese dayyyyss ❤️ Hear her wise words: 🙏🏼🙏🏼 https://apple.co/3jnbso5 @cwclub @wmnmedia
December 5, 2024 at 9:55 PM
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I really loved going back in time to make this episode — hope you’ll take a listen ✨
lucykalanithi.bsky.social Lucy Kalanithi @lucykalanithi.bsky.social · Jul 1
This week’s episode of Gravity is about mortality & meaning, featuring the person whose words I’ll always turn to — Dr. Paul Kalanithi ❤️❤️✨ Listen: https://apple.co/3dyd3p9
December 5, 2024 at 10:11 PM