@TragicDarling

Papercutting artist | #GraphicMedicine comic creator | Premed Postbac at Columbia University | Cubanita#HeartTransplant in 1992 & #Retransplant in 2021 🫀🫀🫀

 Nashville, TN
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Joined October 2008
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Listening to Krysta Walter and Tiffany Kaiser talk about immunosuppressant nonadherence in transplant and new tools being used to help solve this issue #WTC2025 #organtransplant
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Got my badge and updated it so there’s no confusion about why I’m here. If you want to see #WTC2025 through the eyes of a 2 time heart transplant patient of over 32 years, follow me! #hearttransplant #organttansplant #donatelife
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Good morning, San Francisco #WTC2025
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I’m headed to SF for the #WorldTransplantCongress this weekend! Are you? Let’s meet! 2x heart transplant recipient who makes graphic medicine and MedEd comics for adults, founder of a Young Adult transplant support group. Want to collab on a comic together?
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Sometimes just meaning well doesn’t land the way we intend. @tragicdarling is back to help us reflect and stay thoughtful: 〰️ Some classic phrases you hear when you’ve got a transplant that are not always the most helpful. When you take the time to really think about it, what are they saying? Transplant life is a mystery to most, but I love shedding light on some of the things we hear fairly often that leave us scratching our heads. Celebrating Donate Life Month by showing you what runs through my head when I hear these. 💚💙 〰️ #donatelifemonth
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“Thing about yourself as cartographers. You’re a mapping the object and using angles to determine distance” drawing advice from @inksplattery #GraphMed2024
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Found out #graphicmedicine existed during the pandemic and used comics as a way to leave a record of my life when I was dying. Now I’m in Ireland at #GraphMed meeting people I’ve only known through a computer screen or kept their books in my library
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Thrilled to kick off #GradMed2024 in Ireland. The conference hasn’t even started and I’ve already met incredible people, heard the coolest ideas for comics from scientists, and found collaborators for disability comics. That’s only two hours into Day 1
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Starting off the week with a workshop led by @TheBadDr in a room filled with people working in healthcare who love comics. Reminder that people like that exist all over the world and are using comics in fun ways within medicine #GraphMed2024
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Prepping for #graphmed2024 to start here in Ireland. Dreaming of all the books and comics I’ll get to bring back with me. Anyone have suggestions for favorite new books/comics to check out? #graphicmedicine #comics
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Ready to head to Dublin for the first time and meet some medical comic people from all over the world! Anyone else going to get there tomorrow? #GraphMed2024 @GraphicMedicine
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“I teach it [comics] because that’s what it is. Don’t be apologetic for it” “no justification needed” @JeremyDauber in a panel with @klg19 @AubreyGabelCU at @Columbia_SPS #graphicnovel #comics – at Manhattan, NY
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Anyone else going to the @NYPCUCVI Heart Transplant Summit on Friday? I’ll be there ready to talk comics and medicine! – at Manhattan, NY
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Listen to my pt 2 interview about getting a 2nd transplant. Life ticking away, accepting major illness & consequences due to the immunosuppressants in order to get an organ, & then not feeling worthy of a 2nd heart bc I stopped taking my meds as a teen tinyurl.com/3vbv67n5 – at Manhattan, NY
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Can’t wait for this! Looking forward to the discussion I’ll be moderating with all of these incredible people – at Bronx, NY
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Book gifts are always the best to open. Another addition to my medical narratives bookshelf: Who Says You’re Dead. Thanks to Jacob Appel MD for sending! #narrativemedicine #bioethics – at Bronx, NY
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TO THOSE WHO STILL WANT TO AVOID COVID: We’re in a one-way masking world now. Therefore, it’s time to upgrade your respirators. Cloth and surgical masks (and even some KN95s and N95) simply won’t suffice. Here’s a 🧵 on some of the best masks you can get:
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The dating scene didn’t happen at bars in Oakland. It happened in the produce section of the Berkeley Bowl – at Manhattan, NY
Aubrey Hirsch@aubreyhirsch26 Sep 2022
Now that it’s cooling off in NY people keep asking me if I miss the weather in California. I guess so, but what I REALLY miss is walking into a Berkeley Bowl and thinking “I would fuck every single person in this grocery store. No skips.” You don’t get that in New York!
I’m at a loss for words at this decision. The efforts we take as #immunocompromised or #disabled people when it comes to trying to live life at our “normal” baseline of wellness aren’t just ignored anymore. They’re crumpled up and trampled on – at Bronx, NY
Peter Morley
@morethanmySLE25 Sep 2022
The CDC's decision to no longer require masks in health care settings except in high transmission is heartbreaking for those of us like me in the immunocompromised and disability communities. Does our health care matter? Are we disposable? This is truly disgusting & infuriating.
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Just bought this at @KinokuniyaUSA and excited to read a #manga with a major character with a disability. It’s not something we get to see often & has been popping up more often in newer titles. Especially romances & shoujo. Would love to see it normalized in side characters too – at Bronx, NY
Yen Press @ London Comic Con S2100
@yenpress22 Sep 2022
The heartwarming tale of Josee has returned once again in a beautiful manga adaptation. Prepare the tissues as you read what happens when two worlds literally collide 🤧 🐯🐟 Order your copy of Josee, the Tiger, and the Fish today: buff.ly/3yg5ZH8
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