I've been thinking about financial strain during graduation.I may not be attending my own graduation but I can do my bit to help & so can you💫 This will be a thread for anyone who has shoes or outfits they would like to give to someone for their graduation #DressAGraduate

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In 1935, two American doctors examined seven women's ovaries and saw small lumps. They called them cysts and named the disease after them. They were wrong. It took 91 years to fix. What we called PCOS is now Polyendocrine Metabolic Ovarian Syndrome (PMOS), announced today in The Lancet by an international panel of doctors and patients. The renaming followed more than a decade of consensus work and 22,000 patient and clinician survey responses. The lumps Stein and Leventhal saw were never cysts. Modern imaging shows they were follicles, the tiny sacs inside the ovary that grow and release an egg each month, frozen partway through by a hormonal imbalance. PMOS is a multi-system disorder centered in the endocrine system, the body's network of glands that produces hormones like insulin (controls blood sugar), cortisol (the stress hormone), and thyroid hormones (set the body's metabolism). The ovary trouble flows downstream from there. The naming choice is not academic. When doctors hear "ovary" in a diagnosis, they look at the ovary. "Metabolic" and "endocrine" send them to the whole body. PMOS affects roughly 1 in 8 women worldwide, more than 170 million people. The WHO estimates 70% have never been diagnosed. Among those who do, 1 in 3 wait more than 2 years, and nearly half see 3 or more doctors first. The CDC reports more than half of women with PMOS develop type 2 diabetes by age 40, a risk 5 to 10 times higher than women without the condition. Around 37% have clinically significant depression, compared with 14% in women without it. Anxiety runs at 42% versus 8.5%. A label born from a 1935 look at seven ovaries is finally going away. The new diagnostic guidelines roll out fully in 2028. By then, a woman walking into a clinic with these symptoms should hear questions about her blood sugar and her mood alongside her cycle. Those are the parts of the disease the old name hid for 91 years.

One step closer to being a JUDGING judge at the Cannes Lion Festival of Creativity 🌟❤️🙏 but for now, I join an incredible Jury that will be shortlisting entries from the best of the best creatives around the world in the Social and Creator category. About me: canneslions.com/awards/jury/… About the Category: canneslions.com/awards/lions… More on the Jurors: canneslions.com/awards/jury?… Looking forward to reviewing the work and putting a spotlight on the work that is setting the standard for global creative excellence 🌟 What an honor.

I'm a big believer of not going to work on your birthday!

Okay but the potholes are getting scary…our tires, our safety at night. @MyJRA @CityofJoburgZA ???

Durand accepted his Grammy as only he could!! 😂😂😂 CONGRATULATIONS!!

Books make great company - honestly, one of the best. They keep you occupied, keep you thinking, and just help you get going. I highly recommend reading.🤍

i really miss those days when people use to write long paragraphs for your birthday and waited until 12:00 tryna be the first one to send you.

I love what books do to me. I love being undone by a book. I love laughing—truly laughing—because of a book. I love getting lost in its pages and forgetting, for a while, that reality exists. I love being riled up by a book, ranting about it, thinking because of it.❤️

printing photos & storing them in a photo album

Guys… sorry for this very unsolicited advice but having recently lost my mom and now having to consolidate all of her affairs, (lucky for me, sis was quite organised but there are still some gaps we’re filling because we didn’t know), I have some tips for those who have a chance to try to get organised. If your parents are still alive, here’s what you can TRY to do (cos I know some of them are very untrusting about stuff and will think you’re trying to come for ilefa prematurely 🥺🫣) but honestly, the peace I’m yearning for right now will be worth the effort I’m advising you to employ. 1. Prepare a file that has the following: - Parents’ ID copies - Parents’ Marriage Certificate (even the one from the lobola meeting) - Parents’ Divorce Decree if divorced - All title deeds reflecting their names and car ownership papers - Municipal bills for the properties and logins to the e-portals for the municipal accounts (this is one of the most stressful things to sort out when the owner is no longer alive…YOH!) - Bank statements (you can locate debit orders) - Their pension fund administrators details - Any business registration certificates and shareholders certificates - Copies of all their latest policy schedules - If your parents trust you and you won’t scam them, A list of their logins to their email addresses - A list of their financial advisors and lawyers and doctors and their contact details - A list of their creditors and contact details - A list of their debtors and contact details - An asset registry with a list of all their assets - A list of their monthly bills (Dstv, telkom etc and the statements) 2. If this is at all possible, it will save a lot of headache - Have a meeting with your parents and your siblings to allocate roles and responsibilities in the event of death and record it (written usually or visually if they’re okay with that) - Write down what their wishes are for their send offs (where do they want to be buried, do they want cremation, singing on singing, which church must conduct etc etc and where the money for all this is coming from). Yea, they won’t be here to dictate to you (🫩) but, it will save you a lot of stress just doing what umufi asked for and everyone (especially the aunts and uncles) know it to be true 3. When your parent does pass away, have the following in the “deceased file” - Death certificate (and certified copies) - Hospital or Coroners report or notice of death - Updated ID with stamp saying Deceased - Burial notice - Undertaker Notice Lastly… get your parents to draft a will with a lawyer and nominate an executor whilst they are still alive 😭🥺😮‍💨 if you can invest in this, it will ease the administrative burden on you guys who have to take over when they are no longer alive. Losing a parent you are close to is one of the most painful things you’ll ever experience in your existence… help yourself by not having to be in pain and highly frustrated because things weren’t organised when you had the chance. * I know this is a very difficult subject to tackle at home…and it’s even more difficult to accept the reality of death… but if you do have the privilege of a good relationship with your parents, just try. For everyone else who doesn’t get to do this, I’m really sorry 🫂 I wish things could be better for you ❤️‍🩹 I hope this helps many people.

being a reader and an adult with a full-time job is hard

#PressRelease 🗞📰 DJ, SINGER-SONGWRITER AND ABANTU LABEL OWNER CHARISSE C, RELEASES NEW 3-STEP SINGLE ‘5 EK'SENI’ OUT NOW EK'SENI (5AM) is the first single from Abantu's inaugural recording camp, featuring 10 African artists in the British Diaspora, handpicked by @CharisseeC herself, supported by Baltic Studio’s and Nando’s. Produced by longtime collaborator, Kwamzy, this 3-Step Dance record mixes English, Zulu and Shona lyrics to tell an infectious story about the hedonistic pleasures of a ladies night out. Link: mailchi.mp/sapr.africa/chari…

#GRYND2025 Thank you for having me✨ @Yfm #CreativeEconomy

We liveeeeeeeee! Heard the UK needed a song of the Summer... this one's a brilliant contender if I do say so myself 🧚🏽‍♂️ abantu.lnk.to/5ekseni

Wished I was an adult.

Unpopular position, but this is the best way you can help in the kitchen. Just be present and gist. People who like to cook, do not want interference.

life’s so enjoyable when you have trips planned, packages on the way, dates with lovers/friends, & blessings flowing.

Imagine how many people have missed out on check ups because of how pricey gynaes are? If you do have an affordable gynae, please do drop their details, we shouldn’t have to worry about our reproductive health. 😢 🩸