Atypical anorexia, another OSFED disease. It’s anorexia nervosa with all the symptoms that come with it, without being underweight. It’s so that people who are either early in their ED or weight restored but still struggling can get treatment. It’s been coopted by fat girls who want to pretend they have a dainty skinny disease so they can claim their pints of ice cream were just “challenging fear foods.” See the proana scumbags threads on LCF for pictures of obese girls with BPD showing off nose hoses because they have an "atypical anorexia" diagnoses they use to get into residential treatment where they refuse to eat.
Yeah this greasy pizza covered with pepperoni and cheese is definitely gastroparesis friendly. Uh, are eczema, joint pain, hair falling out, headaches, and muscle spasms symptoms of celiac? (Apparently they are. Thank you, Kiwis with celiac who allow Kate to ask too many questions in their DMs.)
More proof she was never really an addict as older generations would have defined it: she
does drink when she feels like it but can have one or two and call it a day. She was a party girl and now she doesn’t party. It’s called growing up. Most of us do it.
Bipolar sperg. She’s now saying she was diagnosed at 18. No bby you just told us you got diagnosed with
borderline at 18 and then squeaky wheeled and substance abused your way to a less shitty bipolar diagnosis at 19. She’ll need psych meds for the rest of her life because of it.
ER selfie! She’s having some sort of flare that includes nausea, vomiting, chills, aches, stabbing chest pain, difficulty breathing, fatigue, headaches, and heart palpitations. She’s now on a liquid diet, pain killers, muscle relaxers, and steroids.
A moment of clarity.
It’s because she’s now on a more holistic healing path with eastern medicine and whole foods.
ED clinics are used to girls claiming all kinds of ethical and medical reasons they can’t eat certain foods and won’t play that game with her. Add to the fact that she’s overweight and diagnosed BPD, no one will touch her because they think she’ll just fuck around for attention and make it harder for the rest of the patients to actually recover.
Claiming she drank until she blacked out every day, then six months ago (while she was still claiming to be sober) she started doing it again. But now she’s doing much better!
My god she’s so self-absorbed.
Now claiming she also can’t have soy, dairy, or corn and it’s so hard to fight this with her eating disorder and even being strict with her diet hasn’t helped her symptoms.
Hurray, her eating disorder is cured!!
She’s a survivor. A SURVIVOR. She’s been going to therapy 4 to 5 times a week (egads) and she’s survived multiple diseases trying to kill her. The hyperbole. #neuropathy
Isn’t it amazing that all her problems disappeared when she latched onto a new identity that lets her remove herself from anything uncomfortable? From “addict” to “chronic pain, need medications.” From “eating disorder” to “strict diet for my multiple illnesses.”
Making a big deal out of synthroid, claiming a total loss of all thyroid function. In the comments, someone asks how she has hashimoto’s when the tests came back negative all the time. she says they weren't running the right test because she didn't have the right symptoms and she didn't get diagnosed until they ran the one her mommy was begging them to run. LMAO. She also claims her diet is free of processed sugar to someone who wants her to try the medical medium diet. Also let's just take a moment to mourn the loss of her original sicksta. She never mentions getting thyroid testing at all on her personal page, but people know she was tested and it wasn't Hashimoto's meaning she was either telling them IRL or, way more likely, documenting it all on the sicksta. Imagine all the laughter we're missing out on because this selfish individual deleted the early evidence of her munchausen.
She was “destined for pain clinics and a life of bed rest.” Haha holy shit. Turns out fixing her diet, meditation, and vitamins fixed her problems and she’s great now.
Nope, she’s declining again. She’s now diagnosed with three rare diseases and five major chronic illnesses and her friends are so cruel to not understand how sick she is all the time just because she looks healthy and used to party for days. Now claiming she has asthma. #epsteinbarrvirus #reactivated #costochondritis
She filters herself to plastic. Tl;dr “my illnesses make me feel special” but she also says she’s getting hydration therapy at the hospital.
thank you for revolving your life around me, specifically.
a year without gluten. Celiac triggered many other diseases in her. If you zoom in her whiteboard says she's on flexeril, norco, and benadryl.
GP really has its grips on her now. Keep praying. #endometriosis.
‘“atypical anorexia”, which is just the fat phobic version of anorexia nervosa’ no you self-absorbed magpie, the purpose of creating that diagnosis was to ensure that people who have all the symptoms of anorexia but are not yet clinically underweight can get early intervention. It’s the opposite of fatphobia. It’s accepting that people of a normal weight can still suffer tremendously from restrictive eating disorders and opening a pathway for those people to get treatment catered to their needs. But you don’t care because all you hear is “not skinny enough for the good diagnosis so no one on social media cares.”
“I have been my most malnourished and mentally unwell at my highest weight." She said the doctors were mystified by her torn esophagus and bleeding ulcers but now seems to be admitting it was from or at least exacerbated by purging.
Rare disease day. She has seven major health conditions and three are rare.
Right after she feels embarrassed by her fatphobic diagnosis when all the skinny ana “recovery” girls are posting for NEDA week she announces her ED recovery isn’t going well and she’s just been lying to make people feel better. Also seeded berries and whatever other seeds she has on her yogurt, not great for gp.
Covid hits and she’s now immunocompromised and hasn’t seen anyone except her parents in five days, the horror. Tagging SGB.
BOOM. She’s been trying to get diagnosed with chronic lyme and finally found an amazingly kind doctor who told her what she wanted to hear. “It does mean one thing: I’m not crazy and I never was.” LMAO. In the comments she’s says she’s being tested for EDS as well. Of course.
It turns out quarantine was terrible for your mental health but KEEP IT UP GUYS! JUST A LITTLE LONGER! - March, 2020.
Covid is very inconvenient for her plans to munch her way into a feeding tube or TPN. She feels SO GUILTY for having to use medical resources in a pandemic!
Other people trying to stay healthy while locked inside is extremely triggering and she’s relapsed with her anorexia and it’s all your fault!
Making fun of your own weight gain during quarantine is also triggering to her and you’re incredibly privileged if that’s the worst that happens to you. Now she’s struggling with her eating disorder because of YOU. Sign off of social media and take responsibility for your own mental health? NEVER.
The
privilege. As if everyone had access to a privately-owned vehicle and limitless gas money so they could take a long drive out of town everyday so that they could ensure no one was anywhere near them when they went outside for fresh air, and implying everyone should be on her level of social distancing or else they were literally murdering people. What if you live in a city and don’t drive? Are you just never allowed to leave your apartment because the street is too crowded to walk on? What if you don’t have laundry machines at home and need to use a laundromat or you can’t afford the extra fees to get your groceries delivered? What if you were one of the people whose jobs were deemed essential who had to keep going to work through the whole thing?
This is about meeeeeeeeee.
“stop trying to follow one beauty standard” says the woman who airbrushes herself to CGI levels in every photo.
Seeking better pain management options now. Remember when she was saying we shouldn’t relapse into addictions during quarantine?
More backstory on her mental illness and how everyone thought she was just having tantrums until this one gym coach came into her life. There’s something really unsettling to me about her whole relationship with this adult man. Not so much grooming on his part as like, I feel like Grace was trying to get affection from this adult man/make him a surrogate father figure. I don’t doubt she did things like dramatically refuse to eat her lunch so this guy would “talk her through each bite.” That’s if she’s even telling the truth that any of this happened.
Again. Cities. Not everyone has this luxury. Also so much for “social distancing means no one!” when she’s going to visit family friends. Rules for thee.
Covid bad because after getting mono (like almost everyone does) she now has
reactivated Epstein Barr. EBV can cause problems in a small minority of the people who have it (which is 90% of the adult population) but it’s mostly one of those yuppie diseases the chronic lyme quacks will blame for a host of things it actually has nothing to do with.
Tl;dr being friends with superficial party girls who don’t care about you is draining especially when you know you don’t really belong.
Tagging Ashley Carnduff. Admitting she never graduated high school or college. Also this post jesus christ. “nobody wanted to put in the extra work to help me have a shot at a bright future.” You’re a middle class white woman whose parents coddled and spoiled you for your entire life. When you started having mental health problems in childhood your parents took you to therapists instead of telling you to get over it. You had dance lessons, expensive vacations, soccer practice, were allowed to indulge whatever teenage interest you had. You didn't have to leave school to support yourself or your family, you weren't forced to care for siblings. You just werent allowed to take unlimited time off from school, blow off whatever you didn't want to do, and still pass your classes. Get some real problems.
She was dying and too weak to lift a finger. Hundreds of doctors told her it was in her head and when she finally got confirmation the surgeons CRIED with her. Why do they always claim their doctor weeps? These doctors have to tell people they’re dying of cancer. I doubt your treatable inflammation from gluten is what pushes them over the edge.
She moved back home at the start of the pandemic because she’s too fragile. Her parents are now her puke bucket dumpers, ice bag refillers, and tear wipers in addition to supporting her financially and emotionally.
Wasn’t she diagnosed with GAD at 8 a while back? But fine, molested by a babysitter and that’s why she started panicking at 4. I’ll choose to believe that happened because I can’t believe even these wretched gutter goblins would lie about being raped as a child. Drug rehab not so much. I think that’s more of her trying to legitimize her “addiction” that was really just party girl shit, or that one of her psych ward vacations they made her do a substance abuse group. Bipolar is back to being diagnosed at 19 but no mention of getting the borderline dx the year prior.
May 2020 she says she’s been diagnosed with the combo platter: hEDS, MCAS, and POTS, in addition to the autoimmune diseases, gastroparesis and now small intestinal bacterial overgrowth. She’s going to start a liquid diet and IV fluids and nutrition (lol). She can’t tolerate any oral medications so they all have to be IV too. “I thank god every day for connecting me with my new doctor back in December.” lmao the lyme quack diagnosed her with all of this, in case there was a sliver of doubt.
Also on facebook she writes this tome about Celiac. She was so weak her parents had to lift her off the toilet. She saw literally hundreds of doctors trying to get diagnosed, muh trauma. She started vomiting blood and her parents took her home and made her go to the ER. They hospitalized her and after three days they did a colonoscopy showing the damage to her intestine was so severe it could be seen without biopsy. Since then she's been trying to navigate a gluten free life.
So the reason her sicksta is dead is she decided two accounts was too much work so she’s munching on main now.
Her hEDS is flaring now that she claims to have it. hEDS doesn’t flare, dumbass. She’s starting an elemental diet after years of living off booze, cupcakes, and pizza. Vomiting causes her ribs, shoulder, and
spine to dislocate. No, sure doesn’t, considering you’re not paralyzed. This diet is a bandaid before she can start IV nutrition.
Still robust despite all these stomach problems AND a restrictive eating disorder!
Despite never once mentioning non-food allergies in the entirety of her account she is now having 2-5 mast cell reactions a day to things like the smell of sharpie markers and her bath products. Hasn’t Epi’d yet but she’s on hella benadryl and allegra. Despite following and interacting with a ton of instamunchies she’d never even heard of this disease until she was diagnosed with it.
Lol yeah her doctor is a dial-a-quack that has an a la carte vitamin infusion room in the same clinic.
She must really miss the days when she had the willpower to starve herself. Claiming you can’t keep any meals down loses its punch when you’ve already admit to purging for a decade.
“It’s a privilege to be able to earn yourself an income.” It’s a privilege to malinger on mommy and daddy’s couch and eat up their retirement funds with quack appointments and bullshit infusions so you can play sick baby princess for social media attention.
She also never complained of these symptoms when she was out dancing or hiking in the woods or whatever. Another thing she claims she has had forever and that she never sweat even running around in the summer sun as a child.
And now that she’s found the key to tapping out of life, she’s off all her psych meds. BPD is no longer in her hashtags but #metoo is. Hmm.
“I remember every single person who told me I was faking, that I was a liar, that I needed to grow up and not be such a burden to my parents.” I feel seen.
35 days in the flare from hell. The more she talks about her conditions the more she is judged. Lol yeah because your stories make no sense, are full obvious exaggerations and contradictions, and change constantly.
She’s subluxed her spine. So what I’ve got from these posts is she went out and had fun for a day and people told her she must be feeling better. She was totally in 10/10 pain and ready to vomit but she covered it with makeup and a smile!
ER for pelvic pain and bleeding. CT shows nothing and she’s sent home with pain meds. She got a second opinion because of some notes from radiology about how she was holding her peepee and there was a nodule on her lung. It might be thoracic endometriosis but she needs an extra She’s seeing new doctor who specializes in minimally invasive gynecological surgery. “I keep losing weight, keep having more intense pain days.”
This post and the many other BLM posts she makes can be summed up as: this is not about me but it’s totally about me! Don’t forget I’m disabled! Also I love the double standard that you must wear masks and avoid gatherings at all times and if you so much as get a cup of coffee at the dunkin drive through you’re literally killing people but the BLM protests were too important and you should go in these giant crowds.
POTS is getting worse and now she has emergency medications for tachycardia which she later specifies are beta blockers. Her EDS specialist was shocked. She was shocked. Shocked. 3 compressed disks, 4 dislocated ribs, and both shoulders dislocate when she stands leaving her arms hanging limply at her sides. Her PT tries to reduce the dislocations and they just pop right back out. These chicks have no idea what a dislocation is like lol.
She gets her exploratory lapro looking for endometriosis. Over 10 of her joints in her chest and shoulders are subluxed.
She thought she was getting opiates out of this and they gave her tylenol lol. She holds her peepee for attention again and still she’s ignored. It took her mom literally screaming at doctors to reluctantly get a dose of the good stuff. Then her mom has a panic attack that mimics a seizure and is removed from the room. Aww it’s a whole family affair!
Whoops, wasn’t endometriosis at all. She had a pelvic infection which sounds like PID to me. She’ll be getting a PICC line now because she needs IV medication. She hopes she can keep it and get salt water through it.
PICC-chan has arrived and she’s so excited! For now she’ll be running medications through it and eating orally, which she seems to have no problem doing given her physique.
“In an accident, I wouldn’t be able to get lifesaving medications.” Fun fact they will drill into your bone if they have to. Ask Katie Stanina how much fun it was to wake up from one of her actual epileptic seizures to find an IV line drilled into her shin (spoiler: she was so distressed at the sight of it that she had a psychogenic seizure!) Anyway, new doctor great because she’s giving me everything I want.
They’re saying the illness and its care are a burden because they are and you shouldn’t feel like you have to be someone’s caretaker out of guilt because that’s a terrible basis for a relationship. If these illnesses weren’t burdens you guys wouldn’t have anything to bitch about when you fake them.
My fat body is nothing to be ashamed of!
She goes to the ER for lyme and is told it’s not real. Lyme disease itself is real. Chronic lyme is not. She goes on to explain she has no memory of a tick bite, never had the rash, and was told it wasn’t even a possibility when she asked doctors if it could be that. So... It’s not lyme. Cool. “there are hundreds of millions of people on earth trying to fight Lyme.” Lyme is like, almost entirely localized to certain parts of the US and Canada if i'm not mistaken. And no, Oregon is not one of those parts. Neither is Montana.
“Empathy is my weakness and my greatest gift.” So, so self-absorbed.
I love that she’s just making up things that sound plausible now. She spent her entire summers in the woods around Mt. Hood and Butte, MT, there’s never been longer than a few weeks without her posting from some forest trail or secluded looking-locale, but now she’s always been afraid of nature because it was too far from the nearest hospital. Anyway her health has been improving. Let’s cheer.
Adhesive allergies are common. Because she’s claiming this is a mast cell reaction instead of a fairly normal response to having adhesive on for days, they take her toy away. Now she goes back to peripherals for her life-saving salt water.
She goes to PT and feels better, along with lyme coinfection detox (bullshit), reducing inflammatory load (bullshit) and just fighting so gosh darned hard. Now she can go on hikes and go to the coffee shop again.
How dare other people go out! I am immunocompromised! You must remain inside because of me! “You cannot begin to grasp your level of privilege.” LMAO says the girl getting vanity saltwater infusions around actual cancer patients so she can pretend she’s sick and “identify as disabled” for internet clout, who thinks we all had the luxury to go drive alone out in the countryside every day for our mental wellbeing during quarantine.
Now claiming another disease that doesn’t exist, PANDAS. She’s healing with functional medicine after traditional medicine failed her, which is a cute way to say doctors didn’t believe me so now I have to go to pay-for-play charlatans. “Every illness I have has a test with a definitive answer, yet it took 22 years to find the right doctors willing to run the very very quick tests.” No, false. Most of the things she claims do not have a test with definitive answers but a collection of tests to rule things out and narrow down what it could be in conjunction with other evidence. For example a positive GES isn’t a definitive test for actual gastroparesis because there’s ways to temporarily slow your digestion through medication and/or lifestyle. And that’s if the disease in question exists in the first place.
“Being disabled, identifying openly as disabled has been incredibly healing for me.” She has a walker and a shower chair now and her body ‘doesn’t know how to retain oral hydration properly’. It wasn’t anxiety! It was POTS all along! She got brushed off as hysterical in the past. She has a severe exercise intolerance and feels like she’ll faint after 10 minutes of walking. Sounds like deconditioning, friend. She’s so glad she’s no longer being told to take ativan and chill but now being given vanity salt water infusions.
Trying a new catheter that’s less permanent than a PICC but more than a peripheral. Also “hard to find things to be thankful for” jesus christ you spoiled cunt.
She’s allergic to the sun now.
Part of her fake new self-acceptance is she’s going to stop editing and filtering her photos so people stop calling her a catfish.
So it really does look like she’s lost quite a bit of weight now but also recall at her high weight she was binge drinking four lokos and now she’s at home with her family being supposedly kept to a gluten free, dairy free, corn free, soy free, processed-sugar-free liquid diet.
Cope about how her failure to launch is because she's sick, not because this is easier and gets her more attention.
Medical cannabis but at least she’s gone off opiates and most of her nausea medications since she got a weed card. Fine.
Her hair is growing back and her skin stopped falling off in chunks.
Trying to balance her no longer relevant teenage eating disorder with her new illnesses is hard.
Here’s more information on the rape, which was that it happened when she was 17 (she specifies it was Halloween weekend in another post), the police believed her but the courts failed her. The mantra she came up with when her rape story was not believed has now become her mantra when doctors don’t believe her. Oh my fuck.
Yeah there’s not a look of disability but there sure is a look of the ones you guys claim: white, suburban, middle class, former teen athlete, wearing identical clothes and makeup, sitting in rooms that look like the rooms of every other member of your cohort, with the same toys, repeating the same mantras, given every possible opportunity to succeed. Never stops making me laugh that these girls get offended by being told they look healthy.
Recovery is going great!
But she’s so sad and tired and overwhelmed by trying to keep herself alive. Won’t someone please think of Grace in these trying times as she fights another made-up illness? Turns out she never had fibromyalgia. She had Post Viral Syndrome from her reactivated EBV which means she has chronic mono. She has to take antivirals forever now.
You know what can delay your gastric emptying? Starving yourself and purging. But also uncontrolled celiac. Perhaps she needs a new GES now that she’s no longer being glutened daily.
“I went from breakfast sandwiches to an elemental diet in two weeks.” Why do they think this is a brag instead of a massive red flag? She was losing 10 lbs a week.
These Revive smoothies are a delivery service and they cost $8 each, before shipping and fees. I checked a few at random. The “Pink Dragon” is 140 calories. The “Liquid Gold” is 120. Acai twist is 130. All of them had somewhere in the 4-10g fiber range. So not really GP friendly at all. Also unsurprisingly, almost all the calories are from sugar with very little protein.
When has she ever had anaphylaxis lol. At least BPD is back in the hashtags.
She had hypomania but nature cured it.
Her EDS is flaring again. She can’t have a PICC because muh MCAS so they’re moving onto a more permanent peripheral.
But this is bad because she’s having terrible anxiety suddenly when she needs to get her IV placed. Port please!
She needs an MRI to check for degeneration of her spine. Her knee is fucked. Her hip needs urgent imaging because it “snaps in and out of the socket hundreds of times a day,” she has slipping rib syndrome, migraines, potentially a platelet disorder, her GP is flaring, she’s moldy, her lyme detox is slow, and she’s waiting for approval to get her port.
why won't everyone revolve their lives around me?
Port consult. Pray 5 me.
Audrey's still dead.
GP is making her anorexia flare.
Oh look she has interests outside of being sick.
She’s working on forgiving the doctors who called her on her personality disorder, bulimia, and opiate abuse. Thank god for her quack.
She gets her port. Why is everything filtered pink now? What happened to no more filtering her photos?
She has mold toxicity which is triggering her other illnesses. Reminder that EDS is a genetic condition.
Yanno, I wouldn’t be bothered by like a cancer patient posting some woe-is-me emotional meltdowns but when these girls do it I just want to shake them. As we’ve seen with the ones that fuck around and find out, when faced with an actual life-threatening illness or disability outside of their control, they real quick learn that it isn’t fun and do whatever it takes to get better.
She’s had 8 psychiatric hospitalizations, 5 partials, and 2 failed residentials. Borderline says what?
She dissociaties from medical trauma and this photo is proof.
Once again claiming she was near death when her celiac was diagnosed. Worst case the doctors have ever seen. It was missed because doctors were so fatphobic they wouldn’t test her just because she was steadily gaining weight when severe uncontrolled celiac almost invariably makes you lose.
Lol what was that about getting off all your pain meds except weed?
Muh internalized ableism. She felt like a fraud when she used mobility aids because she knew she is one. More back story. She started having leg pains and shin splints around 10 but it wasn’t growing pains or her active dance hobby. She quit dancing from leg pains now instead of missing so much practice for mental illness. She claims sprained ankles every few weeks and crutches – not a single photo showing so much as an ace bandage.
Obligatory “you don’t see how much I suffer”. Bedridden for weeks before her exploratory in May. That’s funny because she was posting about enjoying nature every day at the time.
Dramatic black and white photo to announce another diagnosis, the dreaded monster known as
Raynaud’s Phenomenon. LMAOOO like 15% of adult women and 10% of adult men have it to some degree. Invest in some isotoners and get over it.
Hahahaha omg. Her last hospitalization she was having a terrible flare of her Raynauds and needed emergency access. What a maroon. “I exist with a near constant HR of 115.” What is
postural orthostatic tachycardia?
“I’m a fraud but no one called me one. How empowering!”
“I lack a gene that helps my body filter out environmental toxins.” Wow I can’t even tell that you you didn’t finish high school. This whole caption is “chemicals bad”
fatphobic doctors! Why won’t you give me the skinny princess diagnosis just because I’m not skinny?! Also admitting she was a slampig during her party girl days.
And now she’s posting gifs of herself sobbing because she has trauma from mean doctors not giving her every diagnosis and treatment she wants with no question. ERs aren't for chronic illnesses and this is bad.
How many days of the year are there to bring awareness to Grace Harestad?
More about the rape. She was 17 and it was Halloween weekend. Five of her psych admits were due to this trauma. She developed an intense fear of men (see above for slam pig story, see also going to parties, bars, raves, and everywhere else she went for four years). Lemme just say, from everything she says about this it sounds like she got drunk at a party and the guy she was dating took advantage of the situation. So I don’t disbelieve it, but I don’t believe all her claims about the aftermath. I think it’s her typical pattern where there’s a grain of truth surrounded by wild exaggeration.
Another awareness day! She started having POTS symptoms when she was 14.
Recall that 14 is also when she was starving herself and purging. She spent weeks in the ICU for it but was sent to psych because they thought she was faking.
Wow no one likes you when you’re self-absorbed, miserable, and always chimping about how life is unfair to you? Incredible.
And admitting she still has all the ED thoughts, just not the ability to starve herself anymore. This darn pandemic is keeping her from getting the intensive anorexia treatment she so desperately needs and she’s scared.
Proven by the science. I have no specific opinion on the use of masks against coof. I just like that phrase and stopped reading immediately after it.
ER for a brutal 50+ day flare, doctor doesn’t know what EDS is. Given more narcotics. Too much pain to speak but not too bad to tap out a 500 word insta post.
On so many narcotics that her days blur together. Subsidizing your addiction, with Grace!
“I have to force feed myself through sobs and dry heaving so my blood sugar doesn’t drop so low I end up in the hospital.” Lmao sure you do. Complaining about EDS slow healing but her lapro healed fine.
Hemiplegic migraine and begging her mother to kill her. It's the most rare type of migraine in the world.
“Central lines are a big deal, they are a sign of severe illness, like Cancer and chronic Lyme, and things like POTS and gastroparesis and other conditions that require frequent IV access.”
She has a CGM and her blood sugar drops to “deadly” levels in her sleep. This is actually a thing that happens in diabetics but I don't know that it happens in non diabetics? She’s been in the ER for a kidney infection and stone and now her port is fucked.
The story of how only one quack at a private clinic an hour and a half away believes anything is wrong with her. “The doctor who correctly weans me off the pain killers when I am ready, not when the opioid police come around and say the pain relief is over.” Damn saying the quiet part out loud there, Grace.
It’s pretty great not being an insane munchie. Thanks for asking!
What a fucking racket. Admits she’s completely draining her parents’ finances.
She sees the lyme quack weekly to find new things wrong and new things to spend her parents’ hard-earned money on. She still has a kidney stone, she has “non-specific adrenal exhaustion issues” and hormonal imbalances, needs more imaging, and now she has IV benny.
Taking photos between the sobs. What in the attention seeking fuck.
Her kidneys aren’t doing great. Her pancreas is trash. She’s starting a new bone pain medication for cancer patients. How many times you gonna imply your disease is just as bad as cancer?
She posts this very funny attention seeking reel in November.
Wow it’s almost like quarantine was really bad for everyone’s mental state or something! Waiting on kidney stone surgery even though four WORLD CLASS DOCTORS have said it’s necessary.
she's besties with the infusion center nurses.
Going in for surgery and also looking like Grandma Rose with the Trach. Kidney stone removal and stent. Claiming 7 years prior she had this done but there were complications.
The surgery is successful, no complications and she's discharged home.
She loves IV benny (and opiates)!!
She can’t drive because of her medications but don’t worry, she has daddy to cart her around!
When I write these I really do try to give them the benefit of the doubt that any individual illness they claim to have might be real. So let’s talk about this rather innocuous video of her making a sandwich and why I believe it is evidence she is telling the truth about the celiac. Not only are all the products she uses certified gluten free, but since she shares a kitchen with gluten eaters, she has her own toaster and her own color-coded cookware to avoid cross-contamination. From everything I’ve learned discussing celiac fakers in the past, Grace is actually doing best practice to avoid gluten and not one time does she slip up after her diagnosis. Not one packaged food she shows has gluten in it, never a “oops forgot to check the label” or an “it was worth it!” So if she’s not actually celiac then she is totally dedicated to the lie. On the contrary: seeded bread, two kinds of mayo, vegan cheese made of coconut oil, and half an avocado. Tell me you don’t have gastroparesis without telling me you don’t have gastroparesis.
Also this post. She’s got advice the other gluten fakers don’t even think about, like using squeeze bottles so someone doesn’t dip their gluteny knife in your jar, storing your food on top shelves to keep crumbs out, and keeping your own dish sponge out of the hands of gluten-eaters. I had a kiwi with celiac look over some of her celiac posts and she agreed: while she's as dramatic as ever she doesn't slip up and nothing she's saying is an outright lie.
“Dynamic disability” is a cute term lol. She decides to get a handicap sticker for her car because she gets caught in the rain and her grocery bags rip. My kingdom for a more convenient parking spot!
Hahaha omg she “walked away from her faith” at 17 and it was terrifying. She joined a youth group for 5 minutes because she needed a new captive audience to hear her sob stories. Also claiming she had severe celiac symptoms from back then and walked around with heat packs on her stomach but also has admit in the past that she abused laxatives as a teenager.
her slice of normalcy is the infusion center, holy shit get a personality.
Reminder that the “complications” of her “emergency” pelvic laproscopy that was actually a scheduled exploratory was that they gave her tylenol when she wanted fentanyl.
All she's posting is these info slideshows and most of the slides are just WebMD tier lists of symptoms. Now saying she constantly dislocated joints in school. She was diagnosed at 16 with Femoral Anteversion, which is the medical terminology for “pigeon toed” and has nothing to do with EDS afaik.
The story of her stomach pain hospitalization from 2015 when she got told she had IBS and fibro. How did all of these colonoscopies and tests miss the celiac that was so bad that the doctor wept when he saw it?
Party girl who loved hiking and being in the city had agoraphobia. She is now claiming sensory issues. Also as you read that paragraph about “I have been a massive barrier…” remember that she has admit to starving herself, purging, and abusing laxatives for much of her life on top of binge drinking and dabbling in drugs.
It’s totally okay to leave your port tube hanging out all the time for maximum attention!
Claiming she threw up a pickle two days after she ate it. x
An illness is not a disability.
Saying she was sick from gluten for her entire life but just “internalized” it and thought everyone felt that way but she was bad at coping. Again I'm inclined to believe she has celiac but she was a chubby kid and admit she starved herself and purged in high school.
Here is an interesting piece of information she has never shared: her dad has Crohns disease and was diagnosed when he was in his 20s.
Her health is stable. She’s back on the liquid diet for GP, she has something called straightening of cervical lordosis, and she needs more autonomic testing.
Autonomic testing means going off all her meds cold turkey and she feels like shit now.
We have never seen her in a knee brace. Not once.
She’s in a full blown flare after going off her meds.
Say it with me: wow it’s almost like quarantine was terrible for everyone’s mental health! Also let’s just reflect on the fact that Grace has admit she sees doctors at least twice a week and goes for infusions and port needle changes all the time and the infusion center nurses are her besties now. She hasn’t been isolated at all. She’s had a standing play date every weekday.
Rare disease day. She might have a rare rheumatological disorder and a rare blood disease. She's a genetic masterpiece.
Let’s see what the latest version of her biography says! Her health problems began at birth when she couldn’t regulate her temperature and was super colicky, she had stomach problems and constipation from childhood. She started having nausea issues around 10 and was put on a high fiber diet. Doctors said it was anxiety. She didn’t connect with a therapist until one told her that her GI problems had nothing to do with her crippling anxiety that kept her from doing anything. The anxiety was now about throwing up or shitting herself in school. On a road trip she has bad poopy cramps and eventually passes out and that was totally POTS (recall that she abused laxatives and know that cramps, vomiting, and passing out are all signs of stimulant laxative overdose). She was missing school because she was always sick but also she was partying. She dropped out of college because of pneumonia and stress. On a backdrop of years of excessive partying, tonsil surgery w/pain relief, and grief from Audrey’s death, she gets a GES that says she totes has gastroparesis but the doctor “downplayed the diagnosis” – which says to me she was borderline at best and had no real symptoms. And then she got the celiac diagnosis and found her lyme quack. Wow what a story!
But what got me about this is she’s once again saying her family are Holocaust survivors. In another post she says specifically that she’s stood in the very concentration camp where they lost their lives. We know she’s been to Dachau, presumably saw other sites while visiting Europe with her family a few years back. And you know, she’s such a whiny little bitch always crying about her made up problems and how she’s a survivor all the time. I’m gonna put on my historian hat and we’re going to tell the story of the
true survivors of the family, the ones who faced down two genocidal bastards and lived. Let’s do some genealogy.
So we know her surname is Harestad and her grandparents on that side were Warren and Gloria. That’s a bust. They’re all-American.
Newspaper records find a Lori Ann Neil and Todd Harestad getting married in Portland. We know from her posts that her parents’ names are Lori and Todd and a Lori Neil Harestad follows Grace on Facebook. They’re our guys. From here we learn her maternal grandparents were Dennis and Mara Neil.
Dennis is also American from Great Falls, Montana, but Mara was born in Latvia. Her name on immigration is Mara Mikelsons and she’s headed for Lilburn, Georgia (the US state) with her mother Alma, brothers Martins and Peter, and sister Meta, just as Grace described. They arrived in New York City on a US Naval transport ship, the USNS General C.C. Ballou out of Bremerhaven, Germany. This was a transport specifically for people displaced by war including those liberated from concentration camps. Mara was just 8 years old and mother Alma 36 and traveling with four young children.
Here's Alma and Peteris in the Displaced Persons camp at Hochfeld, Augsburg, Germany, near the Czechoslovakia border. Displaced persons camps were used as temporary homes for refugees displaced by war, including people liberated from the concentration camps, and this paper is registering Alma's youngest son who she gave birth to in the camp in
May 1945. That's right. She survived two genocidal bastards while
pregnant. What a fucking legend.
From that we find an obit for Alma, now remarried as Alma Stoetzel. We learn the Mikelsons name the kids have is from their father, Peter (Peteris) Mikelsons, who died in 1944. This is the great-grandfather who Grace tells us was killed. Also note that the funeral for Alma is in a Lutheran church.
At the time of Alma’s death, youngest son Peter had already passed away. He died in 1951 at age 6 of acute fulminating tracheal bronchitis complicated by trauma from an attempt to save his life. So far most of this checks out. I can’t find another brother for Mara that died in the war, but maybe that was just Grace being confused since Peter died so young and so soon after they immigrated.
Martins, for the record, died in 2019 and he was the one who went along for the family trip back to Latvia.
Alma remarried to a John Nemec Jr, American, two years after moving to the states. From that marriage certificate, we learn her parents full names: Vera Brant(s) and Jacob Sirm(a)is.
Here’s Vera’s grave. So this would be Grace’s great-great-grandmother.
We can find Vera Sirmais and her son Peteris – Alma’s brother so Grace’s great-uncle - through immigration records. They too left Latvia for Georgia in 1950. Note that they’re also listed as Lutherans. So they’re not Jewish or any group that faced religious persecution under the Nazis, but that doesn’t mean they weren’t in concentration camps for some other reason.
Peteris Sirmais was also in the displaced persons camp at Hochfeld immediately after the war along with members of his family. But like Alma and her kids, they were just regular old Latvian refugees, not liberated concentration camp inmates. Well, maybe Grace doesn’t understand that concentration camps and displaced persons camps were different. The DP camps were pretty shitty a lot of times and the Simais family did arrive flea-infested and suffering malnutrition. Peteris died in Olympia, Washington at the age of 72.
The story still more-or-less checks out. Their whole life in Latvia was disrupted by Stalin then they fled to Germany and had to escape Hitler, they ended up in a camp albeit not the one Grace thought they were in, then they came to the US. The one loose end we have is Peter(is) Mikelsons, Alma’s husband and Grace’s great-grandfather, the one who died during the war and presumably who she means by family lost in the camps. Thank you Find-a-grave! Peteris died in 1944 and is buried in the Latviesu Legiona Karaviru Bralu Kapi in Riga, Latvia…
...a cemetery reserved for veterans of the Latvian Legion. Also known as the Latvian SS Volunteer Legion. Most Latvians hated the Soviets, so when Germany "liberated" them from the Red Army, many volunteered for service in the Waffen-SS. Peteris Mikelsons rose to the rank of Corporal before his death. And he died in Latvia, before the family left for Germany. So not only were they NOT Shoah’d, they were the ones doing the Shoah’ing. There’s no way anyone in Germany gave trouble to the pregnant widow of an SS Corporal and his young children. “Targets of unimaginable violence?” From who? The Allies who shipped your Hitler-lovin' asses to America?
Now how much of this can we blame on Grace? Unknown. We know she wants to be the victim all the time and will use others’ deaths, global catastrophes, and anything else she can think of as a platform to talk about herself and her own struggles again. I do not put it past her to visit a concentration camp on a family vacation and fabricate a story about how her family died there. But there’s every chance her family lied about it. Wouldn’t you rather say great-grandpa Peteris died in the death camps after the Nazis got him rather than admit he’s buried with military honors in an SS cemetery? But while we’re debunking her family history, granddad who did multiple tours “overseas” and she’s so glad he didn’t lose his life in battle? "Enlistment branch: CG". He was a coastie radio operator.
