![]() Valentine's Day! ❤️) for Canadian immigrants in general and specifically Black Canadians on a day as this by amplifying my voice through your platform. You are elegantly demonstrating love (happy St. Thanks, Windmill Microlending for the shout out. #womenshistorymonth #accesstomedicinesforeveryone #sundayreflections #dancealways Take care of yourself access medicines that work for your body. Share with your healthcare provider to customize medications for you. This post is not a prescription for Iron and Vitamin D. The post is not intended to be professional advice. Note: This post contains my speculation on supplements and medical conditions. I am also able to make some Iron lollipops! Because, we also know that half of prescription medications dispensed are not taken by patients.įor example, I have a Vitamin D cream from kemnet.ca and make a toothpaste with my Iron & vitamin D in it to apply daily - woven in my usual daily activities on kemnet.ca If the first woman God ever made was strong enough to turn the world upside down all alone, these women together ought to be able to turn it back, and get it right side up again!”įor now before our collaborations turn the world right side up :-), I customize my supplement dosing into daily habits. KemNet is working in collaborations to reformulate medications for access to medicines for everyone. Where is the body of evidence based medicine for Black Women? Where does this place roughly half of the African population who identify as women? Vitamin D deficiency and Iron deficiency are public health concerns for many reasons including reduced work capacity of individuals and entire populations, with serious consequences for the economy and national development. That story for another day.įibroids are associated with Vitamin D deficiency in turn associated with Iron deficiency.īlack women are also more likely to have Iron deficiency anemia.įibroids increases bleeding which increases odds of Iron deficiency anemia. Working in a sick body as an outcome of massive gender research gaps, I also contended with such breath taking oppression being a Black Woman in STEM. While recovering from open abdominal surgery which was completed on April 26th, 2021 and against all odds, I self funded, built and launched my lab on July 1st, 2021. Though we all know this in the world of Medicine, we do not put much research effort into thoroughly understanding or resolving health issues that disproportionately affect women.especially not BLACK women. ![]() Turns out my Black womanness also places me at much higher odds of having fibroids. I was lucky, because the day after my surgery, elective surgery was shut down across the province due to the COVID 19 pandemic. My beautiful melanated skin reduces Vitamin D production.Ģ3 months ago, after having been hospitalized twice in health crises in the preceding 4 months, I had open abdominal surgery to remove 5 rather large fibroids. I have a story to share about my Blackness and 'Womanness'.īeing a Black woman means I am at higher odds of vitamin D deficiency. Look at all that beautiful melanated skin ! Join Nextdoor, an app for neighbourhoods where you can get local tips, buy and sell items, and more You can even do business there if you want.ĭownload Nextdoor app to connect with your local community. Join #nextdoor to know your neighbors, to know your community, to receive help and to offer help. Just like Hanna testified above.īe Canadian. It is where I have found newly landed Ukrainians receiving help and Canadians rallying round them like never before. Through the app, you can offer help to whoever needs it and you will be glad you did. If you are not aware, please download the app, register and connect with your neighbors. ![]() I even have a little group that I created for residents of my neighborhood. Through Nextdoor, you will find amazing opportunities to develop trusting relationships with people in your community, your neighbors. In the last few years, I have been on Nextdoor ( ca./) and found it very useful as a rich source of information in my local community. It is what Canadians do and we are happy to do it. Over the last two months, I have been very observant in one of my virtual community hang outs and I can speak of very many stories like this. Hanna's experience is not an isolated one. That was Hanna, a recently landed immigrant from Ukraine leveraging the #nextdoor community app. We never planned to immigrate from Ukraine, but the war forced us to do it. I want to thank everyone who gave their furniture. And in the evening, there were already two beds and three mattresses. On Monday morning, we arrived at an empty rented apartment and we had nowhere to sleep. It is one of the things that attracted me to Canada and is why I live my life the way I do. It is a way of thinking and a way of living.
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