Meaghan Landrigan-Buttle (she/her)

How do I change my PhD research to this?

Comp exam prep...

6PM: Organized. Bridgerton fireplace music in the background courtesy of Netflix.

10PM: Chaos. Wine. Screen timed out. Notorious B.I.G. on my headphones.

(15/?) Lots of love to the Concordia Health Clinic team and Dr. Hallman, who immediately sent me where I needed to be, and the team of doctors and nurses I saw at the JGH. Even though Quebec's bureaucracies are shit (& way underfunded) - our doctors and nurses are good.

(14/?) Now, I have another round of antibiotics and anti-inflammatories to go through. (These antibiotics were brutal and the side effects so strong. They depleted all of the healthy bacteria in my system, as well.)

(13/?) I'm sent back to the ER for IV steroids, high dose antibiotics, and fluids because I haven't eaten in 24hrs. At this point, I haven't slept since Monday night. The nurse promises me she is going to get me out of there and back to my own bed before the rain starts to freeze. She kept her word.

(12/?) By 415pm, an ENT specialist is cutting my throat open from the inside, draining the infection, and cutting the abscess out of my throat. Yes, friends, I went from a sore throat a month ago to having a doctor take a scalpel and needles to my throat.

(11/?) I'm informed the abscess is growing quickly and I'm losing the ability to even open my mouth, there’s fear that the infection is in the muscle, and I’m losing my airway. I didn’t even make it to the nurse’s chair to get the IV before I’m sent upstairs.

(10/?) I get to the JGH around 245pm, and by 4pm, I've seen a lovely doctor who immediately tells me she’s going to give me IV steroids, tramadol for pain, and IV fluids, and will send me up to the ENT.

(9/?) (She does this after I tell her that another hospital sent me home and told me to get an appointment with Clic Santé or wait 12-16 hours for a doctor because I wasn't "sick enough" for the ER.)

(8/?) She takes the time to explain everything to me, writes me a VIP must-be-seen immediately note for the hospital ER, gives me a free taxi coupon, and sends me to the Jewish General Hospital.

(7/?) I go back at the appointed time, and the Concordia doctor sees me and immediately says, "You need to go to the ER you have an abscess that's starting to close up your throat. You'll either need IV antibiotics or surgical intervention.”

(5/?) As I'm the next person to be called they announce they have no walk-in spaces left. The receptionist calls me & sees the absolute look of desperation in my eyes. I tell her I’ve been trying to see a doctor anywhere & I couldn’t sleep Tuesday night because I was choking on mucus if I laid down.

(4/?) My sore throat clears up—or does it? I finished the antibiotics on Saturday, and on Tuesday morning, I woke up with a tickle in my throat. By Tuesday night, my throat is swelling shut. Yesterday morning (Wednesday), I go to the walk-in clinic at Concordia, thinking I need more antibiotics.

(3/?) A few days later, my sore throat returns & within a day, my throat is completely swollen and feels like I’m swallowing razor blades. I go to the doctor and get diagnosed with strep throat. I get a round of steroids for the swelling & 10days of antibiotics, and I took everything as prescribed.

(2/?) How does a sore throat end up in hospitalization? I got home from my holiday thinking I had a cold. I treated it with over the counter meds (Cepacol&Strepsil drops. My cold cleared up—or did it? Jump forward a week, I’m still tired, but I pass that off as fibromyalgia—I’m used to fatigue.

Hey friends and new followers!

As a newbie to @jprstudies.bsky.social and romance studies, will you please share with me a fun fact about your journey with romance novels?

Looking forward to knowing this wonderful community! 💖🎉

I see no imposters!

Thank you so much!!

I'm doing my PhD on the history of Irish masculinities in popular romance (1970s-2024). Just submitted my first funding applications!

I have an article in Oh Reader magazine coming out this month entitled 'Safe in the Dark' where I contend dark romance is a safe space for women's sexual desires.

You are a gem! (I'm citing you in something I'm writing for one of my reading courses right now.)

Thank you for this. :)

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Also appreciate that you spelled it potts... like Mrs. Potts, one of the Beauty and the Beast MVPs.

I've not been using X, but am making an effort to be over here in the sky more often, and can't wait to follow what you've been up to! :) Hope you and the fam are well.

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I am going to try to be more active over here as my research is getting super exciting, and I'm looking to discover what other @jprstudies.bsky.social researchers are up to! :)

Who do I need to follow?

Well... hasn't this whole "let's circle back in the new year" thing come back to bite me in the ass. 😂

Thank you! These are amazing.

Thank you!!

Desire for wealth perhaps influences how they navigate the world? The whole poor working class vs the unemployed narrative - if our desire/need for money leads us to fight each other, we won't have time to fight those with the actual wealth. Random thoughts from my couch.

I think wealth makes them terrible. I'm convinced half of them don't believe the stuff they say but know it will make them money, and we've been taught that money is all that matters.

The Journal of Popular Romance Studies is closing out the year with one final book review: Hispanicisms in Romance Fiction: An Annotated Glossary, by María-Isabel González-Cruz. Click to read more about this book's approach to the linguistics of category romance! www.jprstudies.org/2023/12/revi...

If you were doing a reading course on nationalism and violence, what are must-reads you'd include?