Bailey Bodywork & Massage

11/04/2024

CW / Trigger warning: miscarriage, birth trauma
One of my “long-time friends” told me recently that he remembered me saying that I could never vote for a pro-choice candidate.
You may be surprised. I wasn’t.
There was a time when I felt that way.
I was raised Catholic. And was pretty devout until my early / mid-twenties.
But even then I was taught, and believed, that there should always be exceptions for r**e, in**st, and for the life of the mother.
With the fall of Roe and no federal protections for reproductive rights, some of the most draconian state laws criminalize abortion even under those circumstances.
And women - and girls - are dying.
Most elective abortions are going to happen within the first trimester - 91% per the CDC; 98.7% of abortions are performed within the first 20 weeks.
That remaining 1.3%?
Those are not “radical liberals” carrying into the later weeks of their pregnancy because they want to have an abortion but they want to be pregnant for 7-9 months first.
And there is no state in which it is legal to kill a baby after it’s born. Trump has repeated this lie ad nauseam. That’s not an abortion. It’s infanticide. It’s a crime. And it’s not a reproductive right anyone is fighting for.
Do you believe that’s true? Are there women in your life - relatives, friends, coworkers, even just…fellow humans, who you think would do that?
Those are relatively rare - and often tragic cases. Sometimes the fetus is found to be suffering from conditions that will be “incompatible with life.”
And sometimes it’s a miscarriage.
And medical help to complete that miscarriage is still classified as an abortion. If the baby inside her is no longer alive, sending her home to “let nature take its course” is risking the mother’s life. Criminalizing doctors by forbidding them to prescribe drugs to induce labor or to perform a D&C until the woman - or girl, let’s be frank here, and theoretically that could also include non-binary folx and trans men - is already septic or profusely bleeding - is risking their life.
And maternal mortality is on the rise - mostly in red states.
Vote accordingly.
For me - the choice is clear.

10/25/2024

I’ve had a couple of cancellations for this weekend, and since Kathy’s doing a bit better, I’m trying to work a bit more frequently! And I need to be busier over the next week, lol. PM me - whether you just need to relax or you need a more clinical, ther**eutic approach. Do yourself a favor!

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08/12/2024

This is why I try to remember to tell new clients to cover themselves back up with the top sheet and blanket 😭

02/28/2024

So far we have sent / allocated about $74.3 billion dollars to Ukraine over the past 2 years. In terms of one’s personal wealth? Obscene. In terms of our government’s budget for overall spending? Not much at all. Much of the allocations were to send older equipment and munitions from our own stockpiles, which then are replaced with newer weapons and technology.
Meanwhile our chief adversary has lost an estimated 300,000 invaders and an awful lot of military equipment. Including several warships - to a country without a navy. A country who is fighting the fight - putting their bodies on the line - to keep Putin from invading other sovereign nations. If he decides he wants to try it with Poland or another NATO country then we *will* be at war.
Time to start demonstrating outside GOP Reps offices. I don’t live in Joe Wilson’s district, but I’ll join a picket line. Please call your Representatives, especially if you live in a Republican district.

12/14/2021

If you’ve lost your card 👇

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10/14/2021

I had a cancellation Saturday afternoon; if you’re vaccinated I’m doing home visits! I’m remaining masked during appointments; it’s up to your level of comfort if you want to be masked or not. For those who are still more comfortable outside or semi-outdoors, e.g. a screened in porch, I’m happy to accommodate (especially during daylight hours, it’s pretty lovely this time of year; not too cold to have your back or a leg dr**ed, but not so hot that we’d both be miserable 😅)

Send me a PM if you’d like to schedule - and offering $20 off additional massages on the same visit for family or friends in your quarantine bubble. Vaccinated clients only, please.

09/03/2021

Thank you to all who voted for me recently in the Free Times Poll - I may not have won, but I was incredibly honored to be nominated and get an honorable mention two years in a row. It’s a really weird time to be a massage therapist, but I love what I do, and I’m incredibly grateful to have such wonderful clients. 🙏🙏🙏

07/15/2021

Hello, everyone!

I hope this post finds you all well - and vaccinated against COVID-19. With the Delta variant on the rise, it is more crucial than ever to get vaccinated if you haven’t already. Please, please get your shot.

For those who are not yet vaccinated - misinformation has run rampant for several years about vaccines in general. And to be honest with you, it was once easier for me to shrug off issues like vaccinating your children because, well, I don’t have any. Didn’t really feel like I had a proverbial dog in that fight, and sure, an outbreak of measles might be possible - but it didn’t really *feel* like a threat.

Covid is a threat.

And while there may be a very small number of breakthrough infections, or complications outside of anticipated immune reactions (which are normal and to be expected) - please remember these are a minuscule percentage of the number of fully or partially vaccinated people in the US.

Per World of Data, as of July 11:
Fully vaccinated - 159,266,536 (43.5%)
Partly vaccinated - 184,132,768 (56.1%)

You may hear about a handful - literally, single digit numbers in headlines re: breakthrough infections or major complications - and sure, we need that information. But please keep it in perspective with the total number vaccinated, the approximately 34,000,000 cases we’ve had…

and the over 600,000 people here in the US who have died already.

Vaccines may not completely prevent infection - but they will almost certainly protect you from severe illness and death. Folks that medical personnel are treating in hospitals now are almost all unvaccinated (or possibly partly vaccinated.)

Covid deaths are almost exclusively unvaccinated people.

Please get your shot. I have been very quiet on this page, still - it still feels very strange, to be honest, trying to build my practice during a pandemic. And the early part of this year was a really rough time - I needed to take a break. And I’ll be honest - and this is not easy to put out there - my energy is still kind of flickering at times. And I’m not renting an office space until this is over and done with - so I’m still doing home visits. I am vaccinated; if you are, too, then you don’t have to wear a mask. I still will be, to be honest, but after wearing two masks and a face shield through the fall, I feel positively carefree 😅

If you aren’t vaccinated…for now I will still see you, but I require you to wear a mask. Not negotiable. At all. If you’re nervous about getting the shot, I’d love to persuade you. But the longer these variants run rampant, the more likely they will continue to mutate. Delta is more contagious, and more likely to be lethal or cause severe illness in younger people.
Please get your shot(s).