In our thousands, in our millions

/ Tracy Abell

Note: I’m still feeling the affects of general anesthesia and pain medication, and ask that you excuse any typos and/or poorly stated thoughts in the following.

On Tuesday, I had some major dental work done. I’d known it was needed for a couple months and experienced quite a bit of anxiety in advance. However, that anxiety was greatly lessened by the knowledge that I’d be under general anesthesia. I recognize my privilege in all this, which boils down to: (A) me being able to afford that additional expense and (B) anesthesia being widely available in my community which isn’t under siege from an occupying power.

I cannot imagine having that work done without all that medication. As the nurse anesthesiologist prepped me Tuesday morning, I thought about Palestinians in Gaza forced to have limbs amputated without pain medication as the neighborhood around them is blown up by bombs the U.S. sends to Israel. I thought about Palestinian women giving birth while buried beneath rubble and others delivering their babies via cesarean without pain medication. I thought about how frightened I was to have my procedure, despite the calm circumstances

I won’t go into specific horrors inflicted on Gaza and the West Bank right now.  What I will say is that none of us are separate from what’s happening. The genocide, ethnic cleansing, displacement, starvation, rampant diseases, the Israeli settlers who devote their days to blocking humanitarian aid (some setting up a bouncy castle and others throwing a dance party), the plundering of Palestinian homes and possessions, etc. None of us are insulated against that brutality.

In our thousands, in our millions, we are all Palestinians!

Ehab of DIRECT AID FOR GAZA

The powerful elites aren’t listening to our calls for an immediate and permanent ceasefire, but we can still alleviate a little pain and trauma. PLEASE, as you can:

  • UNRWA donation
  • Donate esims which allow people in Gaza to communicate with family, friends, and the outside world. Go to gazaesims.com to learn how to purchase and donate esims OR donate money HERE for the purchase and distribution of esims. NOTE: there are discount codes at both links.
  • Direct Aid to Gaza: donate via PayPal for mutual aid efforts in Gaza

I’ll stop here as I need to apply ice to my swollen face, but I thank you if you’ve read this far. Solidarity!

12 thoughts on “In our thousands, in our millions”

      • Oh, yeah.

        The towhee in the shrub outside our door is beginning to call, too. And the flicker is beginning to pound on the side of the house! Actually, I could do without the last one.

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  5. Sending many healing thoughts your way! I have terrible dental anxiety, so the privilege of having general anesthesia available was very relatable to me. I also want to express my great appreciation to you for speaking up on behalf of the Palestinians and the unbearable and unimaginable horrors perpetrated upon an entire populace of unarmed and defenseless Palestinian women, children, babies and families. I’m an anti-Zionist Jew precisely because of it. I write about it on my private blog, which I would like to invite you to read. I only have a few people invited thus far.

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