Genetic counselor. Disability. Politics. Adoption. Writer. She/her. My views are my own.

Joined April 2009
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Two sisters having fun competing at the summer Special Olympics @sokentucky ! One soccer game down, one to go!
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Miss E found out she needs glasses today thanks to the healthy athletes screening at @sokentucky ! You can tell she loves her new frames!
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Maya Brown-Zimmerman, MPH retweeted
Despicable. As families grieve, Trump should be leading, not lying. We put safety first, drove down close calls, grew Air Traffic Control, and had zero commercial airline crash fatalities out of millions of flights on our watch. President Trump now oversees the military and the FAA. One of his first acts was to fire and suspend some of the key personnel who helped keep our skies safe. Time for the President to show actual leadership and explain what he will do to prevent this from happening again.
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Where did #GeneChat move to? The social that begins with T? With B? Or is it just gone?
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Replying to @Macys
@Macys I reached out to customer service 35 minutes after placing an order that I sent to the wrong address and they said nothing can be done because it's more than 30 minutes. Is it true? 5 minutes makes that big a difference?
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The representative told me I can get my money back or have it reshipped once it's marked as delivered. Is that true? It's a big order. We don't live in that house anymore and I have no way of reaching out to the people who do.
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Maya Brown-Zimmerman, MPH retweeted
As we all await the outcome of what feels like a make-or-break election, I want to offer some perspective, if you’ll hand a fellow with eight-plus decades the mic for a moment.
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Daycare slime is all fun and games until it gets in someone's hair. 😑 And then I dropped the pizza we got for dinner all over the kitchen floor.
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One of the fun parts of working in peds is dressing up for Halloween. My department had a Disney theme and I'm Belle from Beauty and the Beast, complete with a library! Anyone else dress up today, #GeneChat? Let's see your costumes!
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I was trying to work when I heard this woman keep repeating "no touch!" I looked out my window & a (presumably) mom, grandma, & small child are in my yard. The mom wasn't actually preventing her child from grabbing my Halloween decorations. 😒 Now I'm trying to fix what he broke.
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You know it's IEP re-evaluation time when you're sent 5 questionnaires to fill out and they're all very similar and achingly long (you can see I'm on question 48 of 114 questions with this one). 😭
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Omg I love my nieces 😂
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my kids just said "mom says you're a little famous on the internet but we googled you downstairs and all we saw were pictures of a boxer guy who we KNOW isnt you. Guess mom was lying." Its too early for this behavior
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Had to explain to our young neighbor that while I sympathize that she doesn't feel like she gets "alone time" at home, she can't come to our house and declare that she wants to be left alone, either. Like, she told my kid that it's her time to be alone in OUR backyard 😂
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Maya Brown-Zimmerman, MPH retweeted
Today marks Aortic Dissection Awareness Day and the start of Aortic Dissection Awareness Week. Share the signs, save lives. #marfan #loeysdietz #VEDS #THINKAORTA #ThinkAorta#ThinkFamily #AortaEd #aorticdissectionawareness
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NSGC folks: can I kindly request that your bags not take up front row and table seats that your disabled colleagues who can't do stairs need? #GeneChat #Accessibility
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One flight down, one more to go! #NOLAbound #NSGC2024
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Maya Brown-Zimmerman, MPH retweeted
🧬NEW: Genetic counselors have a new CPT® Code: 96041 launching 2025! This is a positive step for our profession, ensuring we can serve as vital healthcare partners for providers and patients. 🧵(1/4)
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Are the variant classification guidelines changing soon or am I thinking of something else? #GeneChat
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Kind of rude of my hair dryer to insist I plug it in before it'll work. 🙄
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...and yet I made the same mistake again.
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