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<p>Towards the end of 2019, all of Twitter was obsessed with &quot;decade in review&quot; posts. These year-end, re-cap, and decade in review posts would typically involve people bragging, and rightfully so, about the things they accomplished in the last ten years.</p><oembed>https://twitter.com/oanaroxana_sava/status/1213213494058848258</oembed><div className="ad-splitter"></div><div class="oembedall-container sec-iframe sec-oembed-iframe"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">2010 - 2013: law school <br>2015 - 2016: campaign to get a law passed in a Congress to honor my grandmother and her fellow WWII pilots at Arlington National Cemetery <br>2019: publish book about it <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/DecadeinReview?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#DecadeinReview</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/WASP?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#WASP</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/WWII?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#WWII</a> <a href="https://t.co/h9xziRJSU0">pic.twitter.com/h9xziRJSU0</a></p>&mdash; Erin_Miller (@millerlawmd) <a href="https://twitter.com/millerlawmd/status/1212228323058896899?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 1, 2020</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></div><div className="ad-splitter"></div><div class="oembedall-container sec-iframe sec-oembed-iframe"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">2019:<br><br>-welcomed McKinley to the family<br>-got a job at VCSU<br>-bought a house<br><br>Thankful for another year 👍🏼 <a href="https://t.co/jAgiaefzB0">pic.twitter.com/jAgiaefzB0</a></p>&mdash; Dustin Yorek (@CoachYorek) <a href="https://twitter.com/CoachYorek/status/1212233269565104129?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 1, 2020</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></div><div className="ad-splitter"></div><p>These tweets are nice, but they&#39;re just the greatest hits, and they don&#39;t show the struggle to buy that first house or the layoffs that led to your creating your own business, so one mom decided to switch it up.</p><h2>Christina Fattore, Ph.D, decided to do a decade in review post that actually summarized the last ten years. At first, she shared her &quot;decade in review&quot; like everyone else:</h2><div class="oembedall-container sec-iframe sec-oembed-iframe"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">My decade in review:<br>Got engaged<br>Got married<br>Had baby #1<br>Bought a house<br>Tenured<br>Had Baby #2<br>Kicked ass at work<br><br>Now... want to know a secret? 1/</p>&mdash; Christina Fattore (@cfattorewvu) <a href="https://twitter.com/cfattorewvu/status/1212389028118638594?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 1, 2020</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></div><div className="ad-splitter"></div><h2>Yes, she bought a house and had kids and got a good job, but then she went into the &quot;unedited&quot; review:</h2><div> <blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-conversation="none"> <p dir="ltr" lang="en">My unedited decade in review:<br /> Got engaged<br /> Got married<br /> Had surgery to better my chances of getting pregnant<br /> Got pregnant<br /> Had c-section #1<br /> Dealt with crippling PPD<br /> Bought a house<br /> Almost didn&rsquo;t get tenure<br /> Cried for a whole semester due to house + tenure shit 2/</p> &mdash; Christina Fattore (@cfattorewvu) <a href="https://twitter.com/cfattorewvu/status/1212389032526843905?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 1, 2020</a></blockquote> <script async="" charset="utf-8" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js"></script></div><p>In between all the major milestones, Christina got real about what it took to get there.</p><h2>She opened up needing surgery so that she could get pregnant, how she struggled with post-partum depression, and how she did 15 cycles of IVF to conceive for the second time.</h2><div> <blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-conversation="none"> <p dir="ltr" lang="en">Lost right ovary due to endometriosis (abdominal surgery #3)<br /> Got tenure after fighting tooth and nail<br /> Secondary infertility<br /> Appendicitis (surgery #4)<br /> Gave up on baby #2 after 15 cycles and insane stress<br /> Somehow ended up pregnant<br /> Had c-section #2 (surgery #5) 3/</p> &mdash; Christina Fattore (@cfattorewvu) <a href="https://twitter.com/cfattorewvu/status/1212389033642467331?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 1, 2020</a></blockquote> <script async="" charset="utf-8" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js"></script></div><p>The thread continued in this way.</p><div> <blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-conversation="none"> <p dir="ltr" lang="en">Dealt with crippling cramps due to endometriosis and possible Adenomyosis<br /> Decided I couldn&rsquo;t live like this anymore so had a hysterectomy (surgery #6)<br /> Through all this, taught all my courses and wrote and published. 4/</p> &mdash; Christina Fattore (@cfattorewvu) <a href="https://twitter.com/cfattorewvu/status/1212389035261476865?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 1, 2020</a></blockquote> <script async="" charset="utf-8" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js"></script></div><div className="ad-splitter"></div><h2>Christina concluded her post by explaining why she chose to give an &quot;unedited&quot; decade in review, when she could have just bragged about buying a home and getting tenured.</h2><blockquote> <p>I&rsquo;m sharing this because you never know what others are going through. I get sad when I hear people comparing themselves to others. Some years/decades are better than others. Be kind to yourself and empathetic to others. Happy 2020, folks</p> </blockquote><div><iframe allow="encrypted-media" allowtransparency="true" frameborder="0" height="531" scrolling="no" src="https://www.facebook.com/plugins/post.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Fphoto.php%3Ffbid%3D10114566767043923%26set%3Da.10100351263112753%26type%3D3&amp;width=500" style="border:none;overflow:hidden" width="500"></iframe></div><p> </p><div><script async="" charset="utf-8" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js"></script></div><h2>Christina&#39;s honest and transparent Twitter thread touched a lot of people online who praised her for her vulnerability.</h2><div> <blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-conversation="none"> <p dir="ltr" lang="en">Christina: this post means so much! Touched my soul. Hope it goes viral simply for the honesty we all need about our successes and our lives.</p> &mdash; Toni Bell (Teague) (@ToniTeagueBell) <a href="https://twitter.com/ToniTeagueBell/status/1212407379528159232?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 1, 2020</a></blockquote> <script async="" charset="utf-8" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js"></script></div><div> <blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-conversation="none"> <p dir="ltr" lang="en">Is it odd that I&lsquo;d rather hear about your struggles and how you overcame them than just your achievements? From your first tweet, I was like &ldquo;oh wow, well done!&rdquo; But from the subsequent tweets, I was &ldquo;OH WOW YOU FREAKING WARRIOR! YOU DESERVE EVERYTHING GOOD IN LIFE😭😭&rdquo;</p> &mdash; Sandra Ngu (@Sngu10) <a href="https://twitter.com/Sngu10/status/1212684712952651776?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 2, 2020</a></blockquote> <script async="" charset="utf-8" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js"></script></div><div className="ad-splitter"></div><div> <blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-conversation="none"> <p dir="ltr" lang="en">The reality is always the better story. Thanks for sharing this reminder. It&#39;s very important.</p> &mdash; Dorothy A. Buckley (@dabuckley) <a href="https://twitter.com/dabuckley/status/1212414747393560576?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 1, 2020</a></blockquote> <script async="" charset="utf-8" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js"></script></div><p>Here&#39;s to decade in review Tweets that list the highs the lows, the trials and tribulations, and all the real shit in between &mdash; we are all more than a 280 character tweet.</p><div className="ad-splitter"></div>

Mom's unedited 'decade in review' post praised for its refreshing honesty.

Towards the end of 2019, all of Twitter was obsessed with &quot;decade in review&quot; posts. These year-end, re-cap, and decade in review posts would typically involve people bragging, and rightfully so, about the things they accomplished in the last ten years.https://twitter.com/oanaroxana_sava/status/12132134940588482582010 - 2013: law school 2015 - 2016: campaign to get a law passed in a Congress to honor my grandmother and her fellow WWII pilots at Arlington National Cemetery 2019: publish book about it #DecadeinReview #WASP #WWII pic.twitter.com/h9xziRJSU0&mdash; Erin_Miller (@millerlawmd) January 1, 2020 2019:-welcomed McKinley to the family-got a job at VCSU-bought a houseThankful for another year 👍🏼 pic.twitter.com/jAgiaefzB0&mdash; Dustin Yorek (@CoachYorek) January 1, 2020 These tweets are nice, but they&#39;re just the greatest hits, and they don&#39;t show the struggle to buy that first house or the layoffs that led to your creating your own business, so one mom decided to switch it up.Christina Fattore, Ph.D, decided to do a decade in review post that actually summarized the last ten years. At first, she shared her &quot;decade in review&quot; like everyone else:My decade in review:Got engagedGot marriedHad baby #1Bought a houseTenuredHad Baby #2Kicked ass at workNow... want to know a secret? 1/&mdash; Christina Fattore (@cfattorewvu) January 1, 2020 Yes, she bought a house and had kids and got a good job, but then she went into the &quot;unedited&quot; review:  My unedited decade in review: Got engaged Got married Had surgery to better my chances of getting pregnant Got pregnant Had c-section #1 Dealt with crippling PPD Bought a house Almost didn&rsquo;t get tenure Cried for a whole semester due to house + tenure shit 2/ &mdash; Christina Fattore (@cfattorewvu) January 1, 2020 In between all the major milestones, Christina got real about what it took to get there.She opened up needing surgery so that she could get pregnant, how she struggled with post-partum depression, and how she did 15 cycles of IVF to conceive for the second time.  Lost right ovary due to endometriosis (abdominal surgery #3) Got tenure after fighting tooth and nail Secondary infertility Appendicitis (surgery #4) Gave up on baby #2 after 15 cycles and insane stress Somehow ended up pregnant Had c-section #2 (surgery #5) 3/ &mdash; Christina Fattore (@cfattorewvu) January 1, 2020 The thread continued in this way.  Dealt with crippling cramps due to endometriosis and possible Adenomyosis Decided I couldn&rsquo;t live like this anymore so had a hysterectomy (surgery #6) Through all this, taught all my courses and wrote and published. 4/ &mdash; Christina Fattore (@cfattorewvu) January 1, 2020 Christina concluded her post by explaining why she chose to give an &quot;unedited&quot; decade in review, when she could have just bragged about buying a home and getting tenured. I&rsquo;m sharing this because you never know what others are going through. I get sad when I hear people comparing themselves to others. Some years/decades are better than others. Be kind to yourself and empathetic to others. Happy 2020, folks  Christina&#39;s honest and transparent Twitter thread touched a lot of people online who praised her for her vulnerability.  Christina: this post means so much! Touched my soul. Hope it goes viral simply for the honesty we all need about our successes and our lives. &mdash; Toni Bell (Teague) (@ToniTeagueBell) January 1, 2020   Is it odd that I&lsquo;d rather hear about your struggles and how you overcame them than just your achievements? From your first tweet, I was like &ldquo;oh wow, well done!&rdquo; But from the subsequent tweets, I was &ldquo;OH WOW YOU FREAKING WARRIOR! YOU DESERVE EVERYTHING GOOD IN LIFE😭😭&rdquo; &mdash; Sandra Ngu (@Sngu10) January 2, 2020   The reality is always the better story. Thanks for sharing this reminder. It&#39;s very important. &mdash; Dorothy A. Buckley (@dabuckley) January 1, 2020 Here&#39;s to decade in review Tweets that list the highs the lows, the trials and tribulations, and all the real shit in between &mdash; we are all more than a 280 character tweet.

The Twitter "decade in review" thread we actually want to see.