Thinking about things to do, in addition to the scholarship and Girls Who Code, I saw this article at my uni's website, about a movement to address racial disparities in health care management, starting with both formal education and retreats and teach-ins for doctors and medical students.

They already had their first retreat a couple of weeks ago, on the weekend that ita passed, but they've got plans to keep pushing the organization forward. Some of the names mentioned in the article are people I at least know to say hello to in the halls, some are friends of faculty members who know me and might be willing to help make connections, and the student organizers are on campus and actively seeking more participants.

So I'm wondering about, if ita's family thought it was a windmill worth tilting at, maybe making a project of gathering all her Natter updates about being bounced from doctor's office to ER to other ER to inpatient treatment, back to ERs, to home care, to inexplicable cancellation of everything -- anonymizing if her family prefers that -- and arranging them into a narrative that could be passed on to one of these people (I imagine the student organizers would be the most approachable). Pain management is mostly complete shit in the US anyway, but POC are even more likely to get the short end of what's already a short and splintery stick. If there's an activist group wanting to attack medical racial disparities from inside the industry, maybe her story and what she faced is something they need to know.

Yea? Nay? Thoughts?

Yea.

Yeah, JZ.

There's a crapload of politics behind why pain management is so mishandled, but the change needs to start somewhere...

Allyson, Burrell, Polgara and all: you are all possessed of fabulous hair. You have done so much, in such straits, it honors me to know you. And the obituary is fabulous, just perfect.

Yea.

Yea, big time.

I say Yea, JZ.

Oh, yes, this desperately needs doing.

So, attacking it practically - maybe threadsuck and scan for the appropriate posts, then copy 'em and send them in to one collector, or post to a Dropbox account so people can drop in and out and do a bit at a time as they have the spoons? We could divide up the Natters and everyone who wants to tackle the task do one or two threads to start and see how onerous or not it is?

gathering all her Natter updates about being bounced

JZ, if we go with this idea, I can at least help with the gathering. Finally, something I can help with.

t back to catching up

[Edit: no, wait. First: thank you, all of you, for all you've been doing. Especially the LA crew, Now, back to catching up.]

That is a very core sense of ita that I have from my interactions with her.

Which is exactly why you should have it.

I like many of the things posted, but I want them to go to someone for whom they have greater meaning than "something owned by someone I loved".