marcia doherty AKA Madeline

I AM MADELINE

Society EN ↓ 153 episodes

A performer (actress, singer), leader, mentor, & community volunteer with her hands on a number of projects, Madeline(now fully public as Marcia)is a joy to know. She loves gardening & The Sound of Music. Her friends describe her as "effervescent." She's one of more than 600,000 Canadians living with family of diseases twice as common as Multiple Sclerosis, little doctor education, strong correlation to viral infections, esp COVID-19. She & others face painful deadly deterioration without more government supports. Petition https://bit.ly/Marcia_petitionGoFundMe https://gofund.me/6d981312

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marcia doherty AKA Madeline

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Jul 11, 2026

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Heat/Air/PESE Update 22.06.2025

some of the links I talk about today Canary UK follow-up article June 2025 https://www.thecanary.co/long-read/2025/06/17/assisted-dying-chronic-fatigue/ Transcript of my bullet points for the BC budget presentation https://docs.google.com/document/d/1CLWh9vDEkw19LwB5JMlFmQyRRl6hXNiZOc-13cSRJfI/edit?usp=drivesdk My audio recording of my BC budget presentation 2026 https://open.spotify.com/show/0oNL...

Everyone Breaks Under Torture Eventually 20.06.2025

I think that sums it up. everyone breaks under torture eventually. these are the two articles I mentione in the podcast Maid chemical sensitivities application https://toronto.ctvnews.ca/toronto-woman-in-final-stages-of-maid-application-after-nearly-a-decade-long-search-for-housing-1.6145487 Maid chemical sensitivities death https://www.ctvnews.ca/health/woman-with-chemical-sensitivities-chose-med...

My recording of my BC budget presentation 17.06.2025

So this is my phone recording my end of the BC budget presentation. here's the link where I hope eventually we can find the transcription. Don't notice that I pick up ahead of steam part way through. I was going a little bit too slow in the beginning as it turns out so I hope they can understand what the heck I was trying to say. The minister asked great question so fingers crossed https://www.leg...

BC budget a presentation 1:50 pm June 17th 16.06.2025

they're supposed to be a transcription and a way to listen to it later. I don't really know what's the what with all that yet. I'm going to try to record my section so I can at least post it up here. But in the meantime these are the links I was able to find to be able to listen to BC budget things including mine on June 17th at 1:50 p.m. for 10 minutes (Just so you have it the GoFundMe is where I...

BC Millions Missing protest May 10th 2025 10.05.2025

In today's episode I talk about despair. But also by its very nature I also talk about hope. Because that's how I navigate it I also talk about today's ME awareness month protest that happened in downtown Vancouver both in person and virtually hosted by BC millions missing. I sent along a speech that somebody else read out for me. Which was a brilliant accessibility option Millions missing BC Face...

BLOSSOM HUNT to cheer me (and hopefully you) after residential tenancy board hearing 04.04.2025

Air quality/residential tenancy board hearing today update. Blossoms are helping me stay positive so I thought you might like to see some as well. I'm too tired to really have gone out to seen them but I'm too stressed to have not gone out to find some blossoms to cheer me up 1,203 worldwide petition signatures now! Every share helps! https://bit.ly/Marcia_petition GfM$only for sure last until Apr...

Cherry Blossoms Vs Torture Feels 30.03.2025

Prospect of running out of #GoFundMe $ soon is freaking me out. Esp as bad air situation in my apt has been devouring energy so I can't focus on petition or gfm properly. Residential tenancy board hearing Thurs(1:00 p.m. PST if you want to send positive energy), but even if they rule in my favor how long does it take to fix the bad air? I feel tortured Petition definitely still open for signers an...

Double Rainbow 05.03.2025

I was originally going to call this episode hell, cuz it woke up this morning thinking maybe I'm actually in hell. But then things took a bit of a turn as I was recording which you will hear. an update on air quality issues, speaking to my MLA's office, running out of money in April, and trying to navigate getting the bad air in my apartment situation dealt with and the ongoing a horror of survivi...

Air Quality Saga worsens (directly relates to previous episode) 20.02.2025

a continuation of the previous episode with an unexpected need to update that arrived at 8:30 in this evening in the forum of a wildly inappropriate timed visit by my property portfolio manager dropping off a document that should have been sent to my advocate. so bizarre. bad just keeps getting worse

Paradox 20.02.2025

where I talk about the paradox of needing my story to be told by legacy Media and the health compromise that that will represent which is worsened by the air quality issues in my BC housing apartment. also the paradox with the air quality in my apt where I needed the air quality be bad but the paradox of that it makes me super sick and could fatally capsize me especially as I had to close the wind...

Over 1,000 Signatures On Petition! 01.02.2025

1,154 signatures now! Every share helps! https://bit.ly/Marcia_petition every signature helps! International and across Canada signatures definitely welcome! if you want to help me you directly can find me on FB and Instagram @Madelinenerdfighter, on YouTube and Twitter @iammadelinepod Video I did for journalists relating to the petition (Link in petition) https://youtu.be/KIT1S7sTl4A?si=21WjZwpW6...

petition related pain/energy crash (YouTube audio) 06.01.2025

this is the audio from a Recent YouTube I made https://youtu.be/NNjcNI9y2l8?si=Yf9V3G-o2SHRYy5C Important links you can share: Petition(International and across Canada signatures encouraged and welcomed!) https://bit.ly/Marcia_petition Canary UK article https://x.com/TheCanaryUK/status/1870202754200940686?t=kEDZ1y5rkulir29j8zdlEg&s=19 https://www.thecanary.co/global/world-analysis/2024/12/20/m...

The Canary & The Rollercoaster 22.12.2024

The rollercoaster of more things going wrong and some things going right and looking promising and trying to temper hope Good things, over 260 signatures in first week Petition please sign and share https://bit.ly/Marcia_petition Canary UK article was published(Twitter so you can share on Instagram and Facebook) https://x.com/TheCanaryUK/status/1870202754200940686?t=kEDZ1y5rkulir29j8zdlEg&s=19...

Petition Please Sign 12.12.2024

the petition is up. it would mean the world to me if you would share it and sign it. Petition 2024 https://bit.ly/Marcia_petition there's an intro to the petition to explain its format and contents a little more youtube video https://youtu.be/bCqRXCyBFRI?si=tTyKOHD0RLjV47ZT also a video that I made for the press release because I don't see how I'm going to have enough energy to do interviews. I'm...

I'm not ok, Nov 29 29.11.2024

hard night of hardness just wanted document what I feel like. cuz I don't feel very hopeful about survival and that's definitely eating my brain on top of Christmas is coming and my birthday is coming in both of those are shaping up to be alone for me I hate to be so gloomy but it's what's happening. I don't know if anybody will care but I figure I should document it. I feel a bit like when I firs...

I Need A Christmas Miracle🤞🎄 29.11.2024

this episode I update you on the ongoing stink fiasco, running out of money, how both are negatively affecting my health and my head and how, as I'm running out of money very quickly, how I'm going to need to go fully public but how do I pull together the energy and time that it will take to prepare and organize that. how do I get comfortable with the idea that that going fully public for me has a...

what's the what re STINK, friendsgiving, pumpkin prowl, gfm 16.11.2024

where I talk about what's going on with getting the stink sorted, trying to get next constituency appointment with my mla, some nice things like the pumpkin prowl and friendsgiving, how close I am to running out of GoFundMe money and how I'm feeling about Christmas and my birthday coming I can only put one photo as the icon which I chose to be the one that has the QR code that someone help me make...

nightmare wakes me 29.10.2024

Where the intensity of the abdication combines with the stink making me so extra sick and the Everest of difficulty of getting the system help me end up in my dreams creating a nightmare RICHOCHET (most recent article ) https://ricochet.media/en/3991/Canada-MAID-policy-death-by-poverty Gfm https://gofund.me/cff39173 #MyalgicEncephalomyelitis #healthcare #canpoli #disability #MyalgicE #pwME #MECFS...

THE STINK 26.10.2024

I explain what I mean by THE STINK and how it's dramatically worsening my health conditions not just by not letting me rest but by triggering multiple immune responses and creating / amplifying lung issues as well as keeping the eye swollen(you'll see an episode about that extreme histamine response to an immune vulnerability in August podcast episodes) which means we're not able to do the hyperba...

Devastating News vs Arm Floaties (Friendsgiving?) 07.10.2024

Some Devastating News vs Arm Floaties (Friendsgiving?). I'm feeling it so bad I don't even know how to write a description. but I am still going to fight just struggling for arm floaties (a talk about that last episode). it makes it feel kind of futile so I guess I am having the hard news eat my brain a bit today Gfm https://gofund.me/cff39173 Last news article was from RICHOCHET https://ricochet....

Arm Floaties 25.09.2024

I'm having a hard time keeping my head above water so I'm this ep I talk about Arm floaties. Here's the text I talk about re what's the what with seem floaties https://www.tumblr.com/momentsinreading/701215724949094400/and-i-dont-think-anybody-should-feel-bad-if-they?source=share and here's the YouTube of Taylor Tomlinson talking about it. it's pretty funny. https://youtu.be/xuue-s8qM8w?si=FL0V1Xx...

There was an old lady who swallowed a fly AKA The perils of lack of supports 31.08.2024

In this episode I talk about a recent eye infection that is very much living in the land of the song *THERE WAS AN OLD LADY WHO SWALLOWED A FLY* aka lack of supports creating a domino effect of problems for some reason the update to the Spotify for a podcasters app is not letting me add the photo I spoke of in the episode to this episode but you can see the photo of me doing my impression of a b-m...

Constituency Appt + GENETIC testing in process 15.08.2024

In this episode I speak about today's provincial constituency appointment and a genetics test that is processing. I was very grateful that friend helped me get it AKA paid for it and I'm hoping it will yield some results that will in turn yield some supports from within the British Columbia healthcare system. It's a hail Mary but at the time that the special came up on this full genome testing I w...

Queen Of The Cranky Arses 26.06.2024

A snapshot of the difficulties of disability bias, disease bias, gender bias in a day-to-day out in the world kind of a way. Plus a little about the ombudsman. I'll do a whole episode about that at some point. I'm not sure if you really be able to see it but it took a screenshot of a thank you letter I sent out to gfm donators. It really sums up that prospective I talk about in the podcast, the co...

Tilt Table Fiasco vs Watermelon Warpants 12.06.2024

Yes the photo is the watermelon pattern on the *big girl underpants*(like the saying) I put on. Gfm link https://gofund.me/cff39173 Mentioned this episode-Not called the economist but economist written "from longcovid odds to lost IQ points, ongoing threats you don't know about" https://www.ineteconomics.org/perspectives/blog/from-long-covid-odds-to-lost-iq-points-ongoing-threats-you-dont-know-abo...

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