One of Alex Pretti's final ICU patients says terrorism accusations "broke my heart"

https://www.cbsnews.com/minnesota/news/alex-pretti-final-icu-patient-minneapolis-va-hospital/

Alex Pretti, the man fatally shot Saturday by Border Patrol officers​, was a nurse at the Minneapolis VA hospital, where he worked with the sickest of the sick in the ICU…

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One of Alex Pretti's final ICU patients says terrorism accusations "broke my heart"

Alex Pretti, the man fatally shot Saturday by Border Patrol officers​, was a nurse at the Minneapolis VA hospital, where he worked with the sickest of the sick in the ICU.

We all #grieve at a different pace. Rather than getting rid of #grief, we may be called to carry it with us while we work harder & with expanded #imagination. "#Hope is a verb w/ the sleeves rolled up.” #PrayfortheDead+WorkForTheLiving https://bit.ly/4qibcrU
Stardate: 2025.11.4 - "Grieve"

Deny it, then enrage it before you bargain with it and then wallow in it but above all, accept it. πŸ™
#FuneralBlues #WHAuden #Grieve #Poetry #TheFiveStages #PoetryCommunity #PoetryLover #PoetryAddict #PoetryOfTheHeart #PoetryOfTheDay #5StagesOfGrief #FiveStagesOfGrief #Denial #Anger #Bargaining #Depression #Acceptance

#PennedPossibilities 824 β€” What superstitions pertaining to the dead exist in-universe for your WIP?

One by one each took a drink served by Medb who would say β€œGo with strength to carry on,” to which they replied β€œWith every breath, they are remembered," before shifting back into a wolf and leaving to trek home.
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Medb's people drink the ashes of their dead so the spirits of the dead know they are still a part of the pack, cherished and loved. It is believed that if someone dies and some of their ashes aren't consumed, that the spirit has a harder time moving on because they don't have a living person carrying them inside too guide them along the way.
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It's a background thing, likely a topic that will show up in #ShapeshiftHeir , but Medb carries an anxiety around from the loss of her universe. There's a part of her frozen from the #trauma of literally all of her people except her being wiped out. She doesn't have any means of mourning because there are no bodies to cremate and make the /broth/ to drink so all the spirits (if they still exist somewhere) will know they are remembered. She's lost everything, and can't even #grieve properly

#SanguineDreams #RidersOfTheDream #Death #Writing #FuneraryCustoms #FuneraryCannibalism

Yes, I #grieve like a normal person. Just today I spent a great deal of time going through the New York Times archives to find my friend's mom's birth and wedding announcements. And for completion, her grandparents' obits. #neurodivergent
Facing hard realities. Saw this yesterday and can’t get it out of my system. This hurts me, leaving me feeling powerless to the extended amount of impact we, humans have on nature and the climate.

#roadkill #loveallanimals #respectnature #sustainability #grieve
On the way home and the marks left behind - On a train - 08.2024
35 mm - ISO 200
#filmphotography #analogphotography #film #analog #photography #streetphotography #trainphotography #snapshot #grieve #mourning #sunset