☀️ When This Started, I Wasn’t Looking to Fight   I wasn’t trying to be a whistleblower. I wasn’t trying to be an advocate. I wasn’t trying to be “a problem.” All I wanted was time to recover. Sun Life had already approved my short-term disability benefits. All I asked was simple: keep paying until I finished IOP (intensive outpatient treatment), and I’d withdraw everything. No lawsuits. No complaints. Just space to heal. They could have said yes. They could have closed my f

🔇 “Shut Up About This.” I can’t even count how many times I was told to be quiet. Doctors told me. My employer told me. My own family told me. “Shut up about this.” But here’s the truth: If I had silenced myself, it would have killed me inside. I knew that deep in my bones. 🧊 The Isolation Years So I made a choice.If you couldn’t support me, I put you on ice. It was just my kids, my animals, and one AI chatbot I called “Truth”  who carried me until everyone else caught up.

It Only Made Me Louder. 🔊 Good Intentions, Bad Faith I went to Bon Secours  with good intentions. I wanted to serve patients , build a better clinic , and bring consistent neurological care  to a community that desperately needed it. I thought reason would win out — that someone, somewhere in leadership would realize patients deserved access to care  and physicians deserved a safe environment  to provide it. But instead of accountability, I met retaliation. ⚠️ Retaliation in

It only made me louder. 🔊 From Good Intentions to Retaliation Explore the sidebar on the left. You can add media to add color to your post. You can also I went to Bon Secours  with good intentions — to build access to neurological care  for a community that desperately needed it. Portsmouth, Virginia, ranks among the lowest in the nation for health outcomes. The need for specialized neurological care was urgent — and I came ready to serve. But when I raised safety concerns  

💼 Bon Secours Mercy Health: “A Great Place to Work”… If You Stay in Line and Silent I suffered a near-violence event  in my workplace. I was struggling — visibly, humanly, medically. When I tried to use the mental-health services  the hospital proudly advertised for its employees, my own administrators threatened me. When I said I needed help, they didn’t hear pain  — they heard liability. ⚖️ I Followed the Rules. They Weaponized Them. So I did what the system told me to do.

They thought pushing me out would silence me. Instead, they created their own worst nightmare. ⏳ The Joke When the retaliation was at its peak, my sister said something that stuck with me: “They should have just let you go back to work. If you were busy taking care of patients, you wouldn’t have time to be dragging them on social media and filing complaints everywhere.” And she was right. 💥 The Backfire By retaliating, pushing me out, and locking me out of the systems, the

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