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Part two of Nicole and Abby Sams, twin sisters bonded by their internet attention war. Functional twin Abby is outgoing and athletic, travels to Tanzania on charity missions, and spends her free time lifting weights and surfing. Meanwhile Nicole spends her days scrolling through Tumblr and Youtube skinwalking anyone she's interested in. She's shaved her head and cried about trichotillomania while also making posts about pediatric cancer and covering her shaved head with cancer wraps and beanies. She scratched up her arm and made posts about self injury and teen suicide. She made posts about how her ferret is deaf from Waardenburg Syndrome trying to get attention from those communities. She claimed to be genderfluid, a vegetarian (who eats chicken), anxious, depressed, dyslexic, and a host of other things, all the while tagging whatever social media personality she's cribbing notes from today. Her current identity is "girl with service dog" because she's discovered (and is obsessed with) CF vlogger Mary Frey who has a service dog. She has just adopted a young pit bull mix from the shelter to be her accessory.
We left off as the twins are really separated for the first time. Nicole takes her dog to attend art school in Chicago and Abby is flying solo in L.A. for a semester before she starts a marine biology program in the Virgin Islands. Let's see how this pans out.
And we're gonna stop there because it's convenient and this one is a lot of work.
We left off as the twins are really separated for the first time. Nicole takes her dog to attend art school in Chicago and Abby is flying solo in L.A. for a semester before she starts a marine biology program in the Virgin Islands. Let's see how this pans out.
Upon arriving on campus in Chicago, Nicole’s puppy behaves like a puppy and not a real trained service dog. She jumps on people, wants to play all the time, and won't listen to commands. She starts looking stressed in photos. Nicole admits she's fine in training sessions in their dorm but then loses it when they're in public. I think there's a mix of things going on here, one being Nicole's failure to prepare Mercy for a big move from their sleepy suburb to a busy urban campus. Her only real exposure was at big box stores and her CGC classes but she's now expected to behave like a fully trained service dog, when a real SD would have like a year of slow socialization and training before they're expected to work full days like this. But also Mercy is a young pit bull. Their energy level tends to be insane and they need to be run into the ground. Like this dog needs to be taken on a jog or out to play fetch for like an hour before she's expected to do anything that required focus. Walking to class is not nearly enough exercise to then expect her to sit calmly for two hours. (Also worth noting that back home they had another adult dog who probably helped run her energy out.)
Nicole makes the Quiddich team. This is so dorky lmao, but yanno what? Do you. Play your nerdy sport and have fun. At least she's going outside and being social instead of crying on tumblr all day.
Within weeks of starting school, Mercy is washing out and being rehomed. This is shockingly mature. She admits the dog is not going to be okay with this work and she needs a family that will play with her and let her live her best doggy life, not to be forced into a box she doesn't fit. Although I'm sure the embarrassment of her service dog not behaving in front of all her new peers was much more of a factor than the dog's wellbeing in this decision, at least she gets to be a pet now. Go on, good girl. Unfortunately this does not mean she won't get a new dog to fuck up. She's getting a great dog from a great lineage next.
She will not be getting that dog. She decides she’ll be fine for now.
Never mind, she starts a gofundme and now she can buy a new dog before she dies of acute lack of attention. GFM is deleted.
DO YOU STILL LOVE ME EVEN WITHOUT MY DOG @FREYLIVING???????
Abby is still being the functional twin. When she's not working or exploring the city, she hikes in Joshua Tree.
She goes high enough in the mountains to reach snow and ice.
On her blog we figure out what’s going on with her. Her dream school (UNC-W) is too expensive and on Youtube she explains she was offered no scholarships to attend. Instead she decides to go to the University of the Virgin Islands which has a great marine biology program but she won’t be starting until Spring. In the meantime she’s spending a semester in L.A. working. But also oh, she’s developed severe joint problems and spends so much time in doctors offices.
She does not feel at home in L.A. She tries to connect to people but finds they have nothing in common also plz paypal dono?
She explains that she did not have migraines, she had one long migraine that wouldn’t fuck off. She missed a lot of school, got a lot of tests, went to a lot of ERs, and doctors thought she was faking. She’s now claiming she’s hard of hearing and has to “yell with my hands” instead of speaking and that she is in constant pain. MEAN DOCTORS BAD. Down the rabbithole we go.
She's seeing this gap in her education as an opportunity to do something wild and impulsive and have a change of scenery while she's still young, which is why she moved across the country on a whim. She lives in a 275sq foot apartment while working on a project she enjoys and she'll move on to her next big adventure soon because she is so wonderful and special, so unlike everyone else. Yeah, people rooting for Abby? Sorry, in addition to being a munchie, she's a totally unlikeable pretentious fuckstick lodged so deeply in her own vagina that she's wearing her cervix as a hat. I pulled a little writer's trick on you where I cut out the parts where she was being completely obnoxious so that you would think Abby was the good twin. Ha-ha, I sure fooled you! There's no good twin, they both suck. Abby just happened to be a smug fitness and jesus freak posting about how smart, mature, and independent she is instead of a whiny gendersperg crying about everything.
She’s a very deep thinker. Man teenagers are a laugh riot.
Here are some of her deep thoughts about how great she is and how she doesn’t care about money.
Nicole is getting a new dog to fuck up! It's a 9 month old female shepherd-retriever.
Both twins head home for Thanksgiving. Abby will not be going back to California after the holiday.
Nicole is back to cancer posting.
Abby’s posting about joint pain and fatigue.
Nicole goes back to school for her first semester finals.
Nicole’s taking online dog training classes so she won’t screw the new dog up.
Here’s the new dog. Her name is Ziva. She's an anxious basketcase who goes off her food and water as soon as she gets to campus and takes over a day to relax. WARNING. DANGER.
At least she's exercising this one.
Abby’s vagueposting in what looks like a hospital.
She does Vlogmas where we see that she’s calling normal muscle twitches serious neurological symptoms
Ziva is reactive to other dogs but easy to redirect with cheese.
Which means, of course, she's gonna use a prong instead. Why the fuck not?
Nicole goes home for christmas. She makes her puppy pretend it’s a service dog well enough to get through the airport. Puppy did DPT because Nicole was anxious even though she was never trained for this! She just knew what to do! Hey dipshit. Your puppy is anxious and seeking comfort from you.
Here's the story of how this went from Abby's youtube! She couldn't do an online check-in because of the dog meaning she had to spend more time at the airport trying to convince people that her totally untrained puppy was a true 'n' honest service dog. She expects to be given bulkhead seating without paying and is shocked to find that they seat her in a regular seat. "It's not [Ziva's] job to accommodate herself. That's Delta's job." Nope, sure isn't lol. Nicole was also not allowed to pre-board and has a panic attack trying to get herself and her scared puppy into the space allotted while the flight attendants remind her that she's holding everyone up. She screams that the dog has never been on a plane and barely been on a car. Perhaps Nicole should have done her due diligence and prepared both herself and her puppy for this experience. There's dozens of youtube videos (including both Queen Jaquie and, before she privated most of her YT, Mary Frey) about flying with a service dog where they will tell you the airline is not obligated to provide you bulkhead seating and you either need to pony up or take a gamble that they have it available and will move you there if you ask nicely. There's also plenty that show you how to get your pet or service dog prepared for their first flight so you don't traumatize the fuck out of them.
Of course the dog is a natural and knows what to do all the time with no training.
Aww little Samslettes.
She takes the dog to a concert. Ziva's terrified and shakes at the start but then calms down and does great! Nope, she shut down out of fear. This is the exact opposite of what you want to do. If the puppy is afraid, remove it from the situation immediately and work back up to things like this slowly with tons of rewards for being calm. You want to keep puppy exposures short, calm, and pleasant.
Nicole gets a new harness for Ziva with a handle for light mobility and guiding. Why do you need this?
Meanwhile Abby now needs an MRI but it’s been pushed back.
Nicole starts skating again.
People tell her the prong is in the wrong spot. She’s aware, but she can't get it to stay in the right place and she’s gonna keep using it anyway. So annoying when I can’t just hurt my dog without all these questions!
Nicole has a bad headache and Ziva totally knew. She did DPT on the floor of Target. Wow we’re already at the laying on the store floor with my dog pics! Again, this looks like the dog is anxious and seeking comfort.
She has a new plan for school.
Abby’s opening up. She has some sort of chronic illness but not sure what. She’s had it for a year and a half and it’s getting worse. It’s mostly pain in her lower body and no one knows what’s up. She can barely walk.
Here’s the story from her youtube where she adds in the detail that the reason the medications made her feel like deep-fried shit was because she was seeing so many doctors who prescribed so many things and she never knew what to take or if there was going to be an interaction. Is she just not reporting what meds she's on?
Nicole is now the less embarrassing of the twins.
...its a low bar these days.
Nicole and Ziva head back to school.
Ziva has been completely traumatized and starts reacting to everything in the dorms. She doesn’t listen, can’t heel, and won’t do anything right. She growls and barks in class. Nicole is determined to fix it instead of washing another dog right away.
Nicole’s back to crying all the time and her dog has to stay in the dorm when she goes to ASL class because she won’t stop barking at everything and everyone.
She’s still obsessed with Mary Frey, back on her impeccable diet of greasy carbs, and the dog still won’t stop barking.
Nicole has hard decisions to make.
She’s taking animal behavior classes. Not like, the dog training classes in her spare time. This is one of her college credits for some reason. I'm guessing this is offered because one of the film major concentrations focuses on nature documentary filming but she assumed it would help her train the dog better.
Abby’s in a lot of pain and noticing a loss of function.
Nicole may still be skinwalking Mary but at least she’s working out and doing things. Abby is now the one who lays in bed crying all day.
Nicole has a crush on a deaf girl. She says Abby is fluent in ASL.
Here’s Abby signing and talking about how she has some hearing loss and “identifies as hard of hearing” but real deaf people won’t give her a special sign name ostensibly because her name is short enough and that makes her sad. I don't know enough about ASL to tell if she's doing this right but I assume if she's had multiple interpretation jobs she is. Simcom is "simultaneously communication" i.e. she's speaking and signing at the same time which results in her both speaking and signing slower than she would if she chose one. Apparently (from reading a few blog posts about it) the capital-D Deaf community hates simcom because the signing isn't as fluid and tends to favor spoken grammatical patterns over native ASL patterns whereas normie deaf people think it's a net positive that both deaf and hearing people can participate in the conversation this way, because someone who both signs and speaks can act as the go-between.
Nicole's depression hits hard. She’s able bodied but she can’t even go to the store to get toilet paper.
This is because Ziva has also washed out of training for barking too much and not wanting to work after Nicole traumatized the shit out of her. Because she lives in the dorms, Nicole’s school tells her the now-pet puppy has to go so Ziva is rehomed too.
Abby visits Nicole in Chicago and she has forearm crutches now.
She finally got a diagnosis! Go to her blog and youtube to learn more! You're the boss.
Here she tells us that all that crossfit and all those months of traveling, she was just masking her extreme pain and pushing through it. She went to every specialist her parents could afford to take her to and was told she was lying and seeking attention. She moved to LA and got a job as an ASL interpreter for a TV program which is what required her to hike a mountain. She’d just gotten over a cold and was feeling like doodoo. A mix of the fatigue, the altitude, and the frigid weather made her collapse near the top of the mountain. She couldn’t feel her legs and was in intense pain, her vision was blurry. After 20 minutes it passed and she went back to work. She went home for the holidays and decided to stay, enrolling in Georgia State instead of UVI to be close to home. Every doctor she sees now tells her it’s nothing, except one who tells her it’s restless leg syndrome and she’ll be fine. She’s lost muscle and can barely use her legs which twitch and contract and go numb on her, and shes bought herself crutches because no one would prescribe them. Finally Emory’s pain center tells her it’s RSD/CRPS, a disease she already tried to get diagnosed with but was told to fuck off. She claims she’ll never get her muscle or function back and that she might need a wheelchair in the future. Jesus wept.
here's the video.
Also on youtube she recalls how many doctors watched her hysterical in the waiting room and pulled her aside to tell her to stop faking for her parents’ attention. Oh gosh I wonder what her "misdiagnosis" was! Anxiety, functional neurological disorder, or just good old factitious disorder?
Nicole goes home for Spring Break the next day.
So in addition to the classes we knew she was taking - ASL and animal behavior - she's also taking Deaf culture and Harry Potter Culture. The absolute state of higher ed in my country, jesus wept.
Abby gets a nerve block.
ME TOO! I’M SICK TOO!!
Abby’s nerve block doesn’t work.
She announces she’s only going to get worse.
Nicole is back at school and she has lost a ton of weight.
Less than a month after diagnosis, Abby’s doctors tell them there’s nothing left to try.
Her symptoms are very different from any other CRPS case the pain clinic has seen. The doctor has never seen someone progress as quickly as Abby is. Lol yeah either they know she's faking or she's being non compliant or both, and either way they're passing her off like she's radioactive.
Nicole’s pens are syringes. Interesting.
She’s watching vlogs about IBD. GEE I WONDER.
She remembers she used to say her life was ruined by trichotillomania and uh, oh gosh she doesn’t know how she stopped her devastating hair pulling compulsion but she fought real hard and did!
she’s still obsessed with Mary Frey btw.
She’s now on Pristiq (desvenlafaxine, a SNRI antidepressant) and trazodone.
She’s also #Pre-nursing. Remember that she is at an art school. Not pursuing an arts degree at a normal university but a dedicated school that only teaches the arts. Needless to say while there's a biology minor for their environmental studies program (itself focused on the fashion industry), she's not taking any real sciences or going to be able to stay there if she wants to be a nurse. So she just...bought scrubs for funzies I guess.
Sniffing up Mary’s skirt again. Believe it or not, this gets creepier.
Abby now has a disabled parking pass and is ordering her first wheelchair.
On her blog she tells us she wants to remove her legs because her brain does not recognise them as a body part, that they’re hot, tingly, and melting with temporary paralysis and intense spasms. She has many other symptoms she won’t divulge and her emotions are unstable now too. She wanted to smash her computer after seeing old crossfit videos. Blah blah blah god’s plan blah blah give wheelchair.
At the end of the school year, Abby goes to Chicago to help Nicole move home. Nicole’s not going back to Chicago in the fall. Abby’s in a transport chair, not even a manual. See the small rear wheels. But this looks like a loaner they used for that outing, not her real chair she ordered. We'll see the real chair soon.
Nicole goes shopping for gluten and dairy free foods now that she’s home.
Nutella has milk in it. How is bananas covered in chocolate spread not sweet enough for you?
Abby runs through a field in the rain and feels normal again. Just ordered a wheelchair.
She even films it for us!
She won’t show us the wheelchair on her account yet because something. She reminisces that two years ago she could lift the weight of two grown men and now she can’t even push herself in a chair. Why does CRPS in her legs prevent her from using her arms?
Meanwhile Nicole suddenly mentions a new “furbaby’ named Pippi and that some chick in petsmart lets her have a book about suicide and psychics
We’re introduced to Pippi. She’s a two year old pitbull and the new SDIT. Nicole will be attending service dog training classes with her over the summer.
She starts public access with her immediately because she still hasn't learned that jumping in with both feet is not the answer.
As you can see she’s had no formal training. The training goals for the week are to start teaching her how to do very basic commands.
Nicole is now much thinner than Abby. Check out that thigh gap.
Abby goes back to LA for Vidcon. So that's why she needed a wheelchair right away.
Suddenly in June 2017: #ehlersdanlos #POTS #edstype3.
Nicole is claiming she’s intolerant to dairy, gluten, and meat and the dog is also allergic to everything. what a hilarious coincidence!
She gets nauseous every day at 4 pm even on a limited diet. Well that's one way to get out of eating dinner with the fam.
For a while it’s all dog training shit and thinly veiled body checks on Nicole’s account.
Abby sees a new geneticist and they validated her. She feels seen. And her Brave Souls blanket came in!
I am legally obligated to remind you that the true queen of my heart, Amanda “Skinwalker” Winig, was discovered by LCF because she won a Brave Souls contest that Jaquie also entered.
The twins go to the beach for a week.
Where Abby decides to sperg about how people are sex trafficked so don’t eat hot dogs on Independence Day or something and Nicole fakes sick to get out of eating anything.
Magic dog makes Nicole forget she’s sick.
Abby opens up about being diagnosed POTS and hEDS. She’s struggling to accept that this is her life.
Here’s a video about it.
Check out this "extreme joint hypermobility."
Nicole’s magic dog alerts to POTS! What luck! Also lol @ skelly going to a store to stare at but not purchase candy.
She brings the dog to a Jesus convention at church.
Training for alerts now.
We finally see Abby’s real wheelchair and it’s a Quickie Qri that sells for $1300. I do not believe anyone prescribed or fitted this.
Doctors still don’t believe her! They drown out her suggestions with their “””””medical expertise”””””. Your medical degree does not compare to her youtube MD!
Magic dog totally alerts to gluten in a candy bar with zero training whatsoever
The rescue dog is of unknown provenance but they believe she was used for breeding before Nicole got her. God dammit let the good girl be a pampered pet. There are pics showing her chest and she's definitely whelped and nursed at least one litter.
Abby goes hiking and kayaking in the Adirondacks even though it causes her so much pain. It Was Worth It.
Pippi alerts to Nicole picking her face because she doesn’t notice she’s doing it, of course.
Abby and Nicole are moving to Athens together for school. They'll be attending the University of Georgia.
Nicole is trying to rebrand as a super-organized study blog again.
Nicole has a tough time getting Pippi registered at the school as a student. Why do you need to do that? She legally can’t be denied access as long as she's behaving and Nicole doesn’t live in the dorms so that’s not the issue. Just take the dog to class and talk to the disability office if someone bitches. Except that other SD munchies get student ID cards for their dogs and she wants one too. Also I just want to point out that this is the third time she's gotten a dog RIGHT before moving/traveling, even though the moving was the point at which the other dogs went bananas.
How to correct occasional leash pulling: shock them into submission! Don’t bother even trying to fix it with redirection and positive reinforcement or even a more gentle corrective. Just go right to punishing the shit out of them! Don't worry, she doesn't use it because she can't afford one.
The girls are all moved in. Abby is malingering while Nicole is still just obsessed with making her dog act enough like a service dog to pass muster in class this time and once again the dog is reacting negatively to suddenly being moved to a new location. Why can this girl never learn from her past mistakes?
oh my godddd how could anyone be jealous that I get to take my dog everywhere and they don't?
Nicole’s shoulder is totally fucked from hypermobility even though she’s never mentioned it before. She needs Pippi to get things for her in case her arm hurts real bad or she’s having sensory issues.
She has a gluten-free haven in Athens. Unlike Grace who only ever went to restaurants where the whole kitchen was gluten free, Nicole goes to normal restaurants and take their word that there will be no cross contamination.
Next post: BLAST IT ALL! She’s been glutened by tofu! Pippi now has a strong natural blood sugar alert. Lmao. wait for it.
she’s still skinwalking Mary.
Abby is just Jesusing.
School starts and Pippi won’t stop growling at people out the windows. She’s two. She’s past all the critical socialization and training windows and they have no idea what happened to her before Nicole picked her out at the shelter. Also Nicole needs a dog to let her know she's getting anxious.
Aww man she’s reading Eric Foner. Brings me back to undergrad, the historian in her larval state. Anyway she’s constantly saying that the dog is alerting to low blood sugar now but doesn’t have a glucometer so she can’t really tell. She just knows she feels better after a spoonful of nutella. So the dog taps her on command and Nicole rewards herself for this with chocolate. Its like reverse service dog training.
Studying isn’t about learning the material! It’s about writing in an aesthetically pleasing script with colored pens so you can post it to instagram.
I mean, not gonna lie. Pippi learns fast and that includes learning that growling in class isn't appropriate. She posts plenty of videos showing the dog calm and wagging her tail in all kinds of places and she never looks anxious. Just seems like she lucked out with a really pleasant personality on this animal.
But she also vastly overstates the dog's abilities, as one can imagine. Pippi’s amazing natural “gluten detection” is just “food detection.” It’s not that one jar has gluten-free bread and one has regular bread. The control jar is empty. Pippi "alerts" to which jar has the bread in it.
Abby is sick.
Now Nicole is sick.
Nicole is making her dog push the cripple buttons now. She says it’s because her hands are full (lol smack it with your hip like a normal person) but in the video one hand is holding the camera and the other is pointing to the button.
“Oh right I used to claim I had a devastating case of trichotillomania!” I don’t believe she ever had it. I think she deliberately set out to give herself a few bald spots for attention from that Beckie girl and so she could justify shaving her head by crying about how she can’t have long hair or else she’ll pull it out. I also think there was possibly a gender component, where her family said no or she thought they would say no to shaving her head to be her best boyself so she found a loophole that didn’t make them freak out. Ktcommander in the comments is another friend who was genderspecial in high school but grew out of it. Nicole never mentions her gender shit after deciding Mary Frey is her new god.
Abby is in constant pain and has had a considerable shift downward with her health. She’s once again out of treatment options.
Nicole is also in pain but her pit bull laying on her helps it!
They’ve been hit Hurricane Irma and it fucked their house right up.
They go back home to the family and fake sick there for a while.
Nicole takes pictures of Abby writhing around on the floor so they can post it on insta.
They go back to the house once electricity is restored but now it’s been flooded from a broken pipe. The house is now temporarily uninhabitable. They have to pack everything salvageable and head to their aunt’s house then back home to their parents.
They go home to check out the damage. It’s bad.
Abby and Nicole collab on a super janky guide harness for Pippi. RUDE COMMENTS WILL BE BLOCKED!!! By rude comments she apparently means people telling her she shouldn't be yanking on this animal's untested joints or she doesn't know what she's doing.
Hi Hayden!!!!! I will never stop laughing at how incestuous this community is!
Abby keeps finding solutions for her health problems but her terrible doctors always dismiss them. Every day is a battle now.
They need masks for… something. I mean, attention is the answer but they don’t give an official reason for why they need them.
On October 4, both girls end up making big medical updates. First Abby, who is very excited that she’s had her first scheduled salt water infusion for POTS which will even help with her EDS symptoms! (How?)
Nicole, on the other hand, calls a gastro who yells at her. She goes to urgent care who doesn’t tell her what she wants to hear, then heads to the ER who also tell her to kick rocks. She’s not going to die but she still can’t eat and something’s wrong with her intestines. Of course the dog came along every step of the way!
Two days later she updates to let us know she’s admitted to the hospital and tubed because her stomach won’t “tolerate” any food.
She’s discharged with the nose hose. She loves it!!!
and she’s now on Creamy, Delicious Kate Farms! Just like Mary Frey was, and she takes the same pic Mary does! Mary noticed her!!! she needed Kate Farms because her old formula tasted real bad. People in the comments point out that she should not be tasting her formula if it’s going in an NG tube. Her excuse is she has GERD so she tastes it from reflux. Ok.
They get lost in a children’s corn maze. Abby is in so much pain! Remember when she bought a wheelchair?
If you can eat pies and drink cocoa why do you need a feeding tube? Just drink nutrition drinks instead of cocoa. IDK about every brand but at least Ensure says right on their website that you can heat their shakes up without affecting the nutrition profile.
Abby does not like being the healthier twin. She’s now posting pics in her bed, the infusion clinic, and of her wheelchair.
"Extremely troublesome veins." GIB PORT.
Another one who just forgets her wheelchair when she goes shopping, as one so often does when they need a wheelchair.
Annnnd... Nicole gets a tattoo of Mary Frey’s handwriting. This is fucking creepy. Mary totally loves it and is not currently getting a restraining order!
Nicole has a Kate Farms tote and hat and I’m enough of a sperg to know that Aubrey Anha Winkie (Aubreys_lyme_journey, one of the OG anachan gastroparesis fakers from the Jaquie era) had the same hat and tote. I think they were given out with your first order or something.
Twin caught me slippin (and biblin).
Nicole has a follow up appointment. She’s not gained any weight at all. How could this be? Oh. Because she "stopped tolerating" her target rate so she went ahead and turned the rate down on her Creamy Delicious Kate Farms, which her doctor doesn’t like. She scores pain meds but still cant stomach solid food. Still no answers. People just think she’s anorexic and she’s not!
Abby is depressed. She’s “tired of being told that I wanted this, of people saying ‘you did this to yourself, you shouldn’t be happy, this is your fault, stop being okay with it, stop lying.” Lol so yeah, Abby is getting called out all the time for faking, both by doctors and by former friends who remember her as the surfing, hiking, skateboarding crossfit enthusiast who aren’t buying her sudden descent from that to wheelchair princess. Also she's like, palpably jealous of the feeding tube. Just some Deep Thots about what we might be seeing play out in yonder spoiler if you're interested in my brain noise.
Nicole makes the Quiddich team. This is so dorky lmao, but yanno what? Do you. Play your nerdy sport and have fun. At least she's going outside and being social instead of crying on tumblr all day.
Within weeks of starting school, Mercy is washing out and being rehomed. This is shockingly mature. She admits the dog is not going to be okay with this work and she needs a family that will play with her and let her live her best doggy life, not to be forced into a box she doesn't fit. Although I'm sure the embarrassment of her service dog not behaving in front of all her new peers was much more of a factor than the dog's wellbeing in this decision, at least she gets to be a pet now. Go on, good girl. Unfortunately this does not mean she won't get a new dog to fuck up. She's getting a great dog from a great lineage next.
She will not be getting that dog. She decides she’ll be fine for now.
Never mind, she starts a gofundme and now she can buy a new dog before she dies of acute lack of attention. GFM is deleted.
DO YOU STILL LOVE ME EVEN WITHOUT MY DOG @FREYLIVING???????
Abby is still being the functional twin. When she's not working or exploring the city, she hikes in Joshua Tree.
She goes high enough in the mountains to reach snow and ice.
On her blog we figure out what’s going on with her. Her dream school (UNC-W) is too expensive and on Youtube she explains she was offered no scholarships to attend. Instead she decides to go to the University of the Virgin Islands which has a great marine biology program but she won’t be starting until Spring. In the meantime she’s spending a semester in L.A. working. But also oh, she’s developed severe joint problems and spends so much time in doctors offices.
She does not feel at home in L.A. She tries to connect to people but finds they have nothing in common also plz paypal dono?
She explains that she did not have migraines, she had one long migraine that wouldn’t fuck off. She missed a lot of school, got a lot of tests, went to a lot of ERs, and doctors thought she was faking. She’s now claiming she’s hard of hearing and has to “yell with my hands” instead of speaking and that she is in constant pain. MEAN DOCTORS BAD. Down the rabbithole we go.
She's seeing this gap in her education as an opportunity to do something wild and impulsive and have a change of scenery while she's still young, which is why she moved across the country on a whim. She lives in a 275sq foot apartment while working on a project she enjoys and she'll move on to her next big adventure soon because she is so wonderful and special, so unlike everyone else. Yeah, people rooting for Abby? Sorry, in addition to being a munchie, she's a totally unlikeable pretentious fuckstick lodged so deeply in her own vagina that she's wearing her cervix as a hat. I pulled a little writer's trick on you where I cut out the parts where she was being completely obnoxious so that you would think Abby was the good twin. Ha-ha, I sure fooled you! There's no good twin, they both suck. Abby just happened to be a smug fitness and jesus freak posting about how smart, mature, and independent she is instead of a whiny gendersperg crying about everything.
She’s a very deep thinker. Man teenagers are a laugh riot.
Here are some of her deep thoughts about how great she is and how she doesn’t care about money.
Nicole is getting a new dog to fuck up! It's a 9 month old female shepherd-retriever.
Both twins head home for Thanksgiving. Abby will not be going back to California after the holiday.
Nicole is back to cancer posting.
Abby’s posting about joint pain and fatigue.
Nicole goes back to school for her first semester finals.
Nicole’s taking online dog training classes so she won’t screw the new dog up.
Here’s the new dog. Her name is Ziva. She's an anxious basketcase who goes off her food and water as soon as she gets to campus and takes over a day to relax. WARNING. DANGER.
At least she's exercising this one.
Abby’s vagueposting in what looks like a hospital.
She does Vlogmas where we see that she’s calling normal muscle twitches serious neurological symptoms
Ziva is reactive to other dogs but easy to redirect with cheese.
Which means, of course, she's gonna use a prong instead. Why the fuck not?
Nicole goes home for christmas. She makes her puppy pretend it’s a service dog well enough to get through the airport. Puppy did DPT because Nicole was anxious even though she was never trained for this! She just knew what to do! Hey dipshit. Your puppy is anxious and seeking comfort from you.
Here's the story of how this went from Abby's youtube! She couldn't do an online check-in because of the dog meaning she had to spend more time at the airport trying to convince people that her totally untrained puppy was a true 'n' honest service dog. She expects to be given bulkhead seating without paying and is shocked to find that they seat her in a regular seat. "It's not [Ziva's] job to accommodate herself. That's Delta's job." Nope, sure isn't lol. Nicole was also not allowed to pre-board and has a panic attack trying to get herself and her scared puppy into the space allotted while the flight attendants remind her that she's holding everyone up. She screams that the dog has never been on a plane and barely been on a car. Perhaps Nicole should have done her due diligence and prepared both herself and her puppy for this experience. There's dozens of youtube videos (including both Queen Jaquie and, before she privated most of her YT, Mary Frey) about flying with a service dog where they will tell you the airline is not obligated to provide you bulkhead seating and you either need to pony up or take a gamble that they have it available and will move you there if you ask nicely. There's also plenty that show you how to get your pet or service dog prepared for their first flight so you don't traumatize the fuck out of them.
Of course the dog is a natural and knows what to do all the time with no training.
Aww little Samslettes.
She takes the dog to a concert. Ziva's terrified and shakes at the start but then calms down and does great! Nope, she shut down out of fear. This is the exact opposite of what you want to do. If the puppy is afraid, remove it from the situation immediately and work back up to things like this slowly with tons of rewards for being calm. You want to keep puppy exposures short, calm, and pleasant.
Nicole gets a new harness for Ziva with a handle for light mobility and guiding. Why do you need this?
Meanwhile Abby now needs an MRI but it’s been pushed back.
Nicole starts skating again.
People tell her the prong is in the wrong spot. She’s aware, but she can't get it to stay in the right place and she’s gonna keep using it anyway. So annoying when I can’t just hurt my dog without all these questions!
Nicole has a bad headache and Ziva totally knew. She did DPT on the floor of Target. Wow we’re already at the laying on the store floor with my dog pics! Again, this looks like the dog is anxious and seeking comfort.
She has a new plan for school.
Abby’s opening up. She has some sort of chronic illness but not sure what. She’s had it for a year and a half and it’s getting worse. It’s mostly pain in her lower body and no one knows what’s up. She can barely walk.
Here’s the story from her youtube where she adds in the detail that the reason the medications made her feel like deep-fried shit was because she was seeing so many doctors who prescribed so many things and she never knew what to take or if there was going to be an interaction. Is she just not reporting what meds she's on?
Nicole is now the less embarrassing of the twins.
...its a low bar these days.
Nicole and Ziva head back to school.
Ziva has been completely traumatized and starts reacting to everything in the dorms. She doesn’t listen, can’t heel, and won’t do anything right. She growls and barks in class. Nicole is determined to fix it instead of washing another dog right away.
Nicole’s back to crying all the time and her dog has to stay in the dorm when she goes to ASL class because she won’t stop barking at everything and everyone.
She’s still obsessed with Mary Frey, back on her impeccable diet of greasy carbs, and the dog still won’t stop barking.
Nicole has hard decisions to make.
She’s taking animal behavior classes. Not like, the dog training classes in her spare time. This is one of her college credits for some reason. I'm guessing this is offered because one of the film major concentrations focuses on nature documentary filming but she assumed it would help her train the dog better.
Abby’s in a lot of pain and noticing a loss of function.
Nicole may still be skinwalking Mary but at least she’s working out and doing things. Abby is now the one who lays in bed crying all day.
Nicole has a crush on a deaf girl. She says Abby is fluent in ASL.
Here’s Abby signing and talking about how she has some hearing loss and “identifies as hard of hearing” but real deaf people won’t give her a special sign name ostensibly because her name is short enough and that makes her sad. I don't know enough about ASL to tell if she's doing this right but I assume if she's had multiple interpretation jobs she is. Simcom is "simultaneously communication" i.e. she's speaking and signing at the same time which results in her both speaking and signing slower than she would if she chose one. Apparently (from reading a few blog posts about it) the capital-D Deaf community hates simcom because the signing isn't as fluid and tends to favor spoken grammatical patterns over native ASL patterns whereas normie deaf people think it's a net positive that both deaf and hearing people can participate in the conversation this way, because someone who both signs and speaks can act as the go-between.
Nicole's depression hits hard. She’s able bodied but she can’t even go to the store to get toilet paper.
This is because Ziva has also washed out of training for barking too much and not wanting to work after Nicole traumatized the shit out of her. Because she lives in the dorms, Nicole’s school tells her the now-pet puppy has to go so Ziva is rehomed too.
Abby visits Nicole in Chicago and she has forearm crutches now.
She finally got a diagnosis! Go to her blog and youtube to learn more! You're the boss.
Here she tells us that all that crossfit and all those months of traveling, she was just masking her extreme pain and pushing through it. She went to every specialist her parents could afford to take her to and was told she was lying and seeking attention. She moved to LA and got a job as an ASL interpreter for a TV program which is what required her to hike a mountain. She’d just gotten over a cold and was feeling like doodoo. A mix of the fatigue, the altitude, and the frigid weather made her collapse near the top of the mountain. She couldn’t feel her legs and was in intense pain, her vision was blurry. After 20 minutes it passed and she went back to work. She went home for the holidays and decided to stay, enrolling in Georgia State instead of UVI to be close to home. Every doctor she sees now tells her it’s nothing, except one who tells her it’s restless leg syndrome and she’ll be fine. She’s lost muscle and can barely use her legs which twitch and contract and go numb on her, and shes bought herself crutches because no one would prescribe them. Finally Emory’s pain center tells her it’s RSD/CRPS, a disease she already tried to get diagnosed with but was told to fuck off. She claims she’ll never get her muscle or function back and that she might need a wheelchair in the future. Jesus wept.
here's the video.
Also on youtube she recalls how many doctors watched her hysterical in the waiting room and pulled her aside to tell her to stop faking for her parents’ attention. Oh gosh I wonder what her "misdiagnosis" was! Anxiety, functional neurological disorder, or just good old factitious disorder?
Nicole goes home for Spring Break the next day.
So in addition to the classes we knew she was taking - ASL and animal behavior - she's also taking Deaf culture and Harry Potter Culture. The absolute state of higher ed in my country, jesus wept.
Abby gets a nerve block.
ME TOO! I’M SICK TOO!!
Abby’s nerve block doesn’t work.
She announces she’s only going to get worse.
Nicole is back at school and she has lost a ton of weight.
Less than a month after diagnosis, Abby’s doctors tell them there’s nothing left to try.
Her symptoms are very different from any other CRPS case the pain clinic has seen. The doctor has never seen someone progress as quickly as Abby is. Lol yeah either they know she's faking or she's being non compliant or both, and either way they're passing her off like she's radioactive.
Nicole’s pens are syringes. Interesting.
She’s watching vlogs about IBD. GEE I WONDER.
She remembers she used to say her life was ruined by trichotillomania and uh, oh gosh she doesn’t know how she stopped her devastating hair pulling compulsion but she fought real hard and did!
she’s still obsessed with Mary Frey btw.
She’s now on Pristiq (desvenlafaxine, a SNRI antidepressant) and trazodone.
She’s also #Pre-nursing. Remember that she is at an art school. Not pursuing an arts degree at a normal university but a dedicated school that only teaches the arts. Needless to say while there's a biology minor for their environmental studies program (itself focused on the fashion industry), she's not taking any real sciences or going to be able to stay there if she wants to be a nurse. So she just...bought scrubs for funzies I guess.
Sniffing up Mary’s skirt again. Believe it or not, this gets creepier.
Abby now has a disabled parking pass and is ordering her first wheelchair.
On her blog she tells us she wants to remove her legs because her brain does not recognise them as a body part, that they’re hot, tingly, and melting with temporary paralysis and intense spasms. She has many other symptoms she won’t divulge and her emotions are unstable now too. She wanted to smash her computer after seeing old crossfit videos. Blah blah blah god’s plan blah blah give wheelchair.
At the end of the school year, Abby goes to Chicago to help Nicole move home. Nicole’s not going back to Chicago in the fall. Abby’s in a transport chair, not even a manual. See the small rear wheels. But this looks like a loaner they used for that outing, not her real chair she ordered. We'll see the real chair soon.
Nicole goes shopping for gluten and dairy free foods now that she’s home.
Nutella has milk in it. How is bananas covered in chocolate spread not sweet enough for you?
Abby runs through a field in the rain and feels normal again. Just ordered a wheelchair.
She even films it for us!
She won’t show us the wheelchair on her account yet because something. She reminisces that two years ago she could lift the weight of two grown men and now she can’t even push herself in a chair. Why does CRPS in her legs prevent her from using her arms?
Meanwhile Nicole suddenly mentions a new “furbaby’ named Pippi and that some chick in petsmart lets her have a book about suicide and psychics
We’re introduced to Pippi. She’s a two year old pitbull and the new SDIT. Nicole will be attending service dog training classes with her over the summer.
She starts public access with her immediately because she still hasn't learned that jumping in with both feet is not the answer.
As you can see she’s had no formal training. The training goals for the week are to start teaching her how to do very basic commands.
Nicole is now much thinner than Abby. Check out that thigh gap.
Abby goes back to LA for Vidcon. So that's why she needed a wheelchair right away.
Suddenly in June 2017: #ehlersdanlos #POTS #edstype3.
Nicole is claiming she’s intolerant to dairy, gluten, and meat and the dog is also allergic to everything. what a hilarious coincidence!
She gets nauseous every day at 4 pm even on a limited diet. Well that's one way to get out of eating dinner with the fam.
For a while it’s all dog training shit and thinly veiled body checks on Nicole’s account.
Abby sees a new geneticist and they validated her. She feels seen. And her Brave Souls blanket came in!
I am legally obligated to remind you that the true queen of my heart, Amanda “Skinwalker” Winig, was discovered by LCF because she won a Brave Souls contest that Jaquie also entered.
The twins go to the beach for a week.
Where Abby decides to sperg about how people are sex trafficked so don’t eat hot dogs on Independence Day or something and Nicole fakes sick to get out of eating anything.
Magic dog makes Nicole forget she’s sick.
Abby opens up about being diagnosed POTS and hEDS. She’s struggling to accept that this is her life.
Here’s a video about it.
Check out this "extreme joint hypermobility."
Nicole’s magic dog alerts to POTS! What luck! Also lol @ skelly going to a store to stare at but not purchase candy.
She brings the dog to a Jesus convention at church.
Training for alerts now.
We finally see Abby’s real wheelchair and it’s a Quickie Qri that sells for $1300. I do not believe anyone prescribed or fitted this.
Doctors still don’t believe her! They drown out her suggestions with their “””””medical expertise”””””. Your medical degree does not compare to her youtube MD!
Magic dog totally alerts to gluten in a candy bar with zero training whatsoever
The rescue dog is of unknown provenance but they believe she was used for breeding before Nicole got her. God dammit let the good girl be a pampered pet. There are pics showing her chest and she's definitely whelped and nursed at least one litter.
Abby goes hiking and kayaking in the Adirondacks even though it causes her so much pain. It Was Worth It.
Pippi alerts to Nicole picking her face because she doesn’t notice she’s doing it, of course.
Abby and Nicole are moving to Athens together for school. They'll be attending the University of Georgia.
Nicole is trying to rebrand as a super-organized study blog again.
Nicole has a tough time getting Pippi registered at the school as a student. Why do you need to do that? She legally can’t be denied access as long as she's behaving and Nicole doesn’t live in the dorms so that’s not the issue. Just take the dog to class and talk to the disability office if someone bitches. Except that other SD munchies get student ID cards for their dogs and she wants one too. Also I just want to point out that this is the third time she's gotten a dog RIGHT before moving/traveling, even though the moving was the point at which the other dogs went bananas.
How to correct occasional leash pulling: shock them into submission! Don’t bother even trying to fix it with redirection and positive reinforcement or even a more gentle corrective. Just go right to punishing the shit out of them! Don't worry, she doesn't use it because she can't afford one.
The girls are all moved in. Abby is malingering while Nicole is still just obsessed with making her dog act enough like a service dog to pass muster in class this time and once again the dog is reacting negatively to suddenly being moved to a new location. Why can this girl never learn from her past mistakes?
oh my godddd how could anyone be jealous that I get to take my dog everywhere and they don't?
Nicole’s shoulder is totally fucked from hypermobility even though she’s never mentioned it before. She needs Pippi to get things for her in case her arm hurts real bad or she’s having sensory issues.
She has a gluten-free haven in Athens. Unlike Grace who only ever went to restaurants where the whole kitchen was gluten free, Nicole goes to normal restaurants and take their word that there will be no cross contamination.
Next post: BLAST IT ALL! She’s been glutened by tofu! Pippi now has a strong natural blood sugar alert. Lmao. wait for it.
she’s still skinwalking Mary.
Abby is just Jesusing.
School starts and Pippi won’t stop growling at people out the windows. She’s two. She’s past all the critical socialization and training windows and they have no idea what happened to her before Nicole picked her out at the shelter. Also Nicole needs a dog to let her know she's getting anxious.
Aww man she’s reading Eric Foner. Brings me back to undergrad, the historian in her larval state. Anyway she’s constantly saying that the dog is alerting to low blood sugar now but doesn’t have a glucometer so she can’t really tell. She just knows she feels better after a spoonful of nutella. So the dog taps her on command and Nicole rewards herself for this with chocolate. Its like reverse service dog training.
Studying isn’t about learning the material! It’s about writing in an aesthetically pleasing script with colored pens so you can post it to instagram.
I mean, not gonna lie. Pippi learns fast and that includes learning that growling in class isn't appropriate. She posts plenty of videos showing the dog calm and wagging her tail in all kinds of places and she never looks anxious. Just seems like she lucked out with a really pleasant personality on this animal.
But she also vastly overstates the dog's abilities, as one can imagine. Pippi’s amazing natural “gluten detection” is just “food detection.” It’s not that one jar has gluten-free bread and one has regular bread. The control jar is empty. Pippi "alerts" to which jar has the bread in it.
Abby is sick.
Now Nicole is sick.
Nicole is making her dog push the cripple buttons now. She says it’s because her hands are full (lol smack it with your hip like a normal person) but in the video one hand is holding the camera and the other is pointing to the button.
“Oh right I used to claim I had a devastating case of trichotillomania!” I don’t believe she ever had it. I think she deliberately set out to give herself a few bald spots for attention from that Beckie girl and so she could justify shaving her head by crying about how she can’t have long hair or else she’ll pull it out. I also think there was possibly a gender component, where her family said no or she thought they would say no to shaving her head to be her best boyself so she found a loophole that didn’t make them freak out. Ktcommander in the comments is another friend who was genderspecial in high school but grew out of it. Nicole never mentions her gender shit after deciding Mary Frey is her new god.
Abby is in constant pain and has had a considerable shift downward with her health. She’s once again out of treatment options.
Nicole is also in pain but her pit bull laying on her helps it!
They’ve been hit Hurricane Irma and it fucked their house right up.
They go back home to the family and fake sick there for a while.
Nicole takes pictures of Abby writhing around on the floor so they can post it on insta.
They go back to the house once electricity is restored but now it’s been flooded from a broken pipe. The house is now temporarily uninhabitable. They have to pack everything salvageable and head to their aunt’s house then back home to their parents.
They go home to check out the damage. It’s bad.
Abby and Nicole collab on a super janky guide harness for Pippi. RUDE COMMENTS WILL BE BLOCKED!!! By rude comments she apparently means people telling her she shouldn't be yanking on this animal's untested joints or she doesn't know what she's doing.
Hi Hayden!!!!! I will never stop laughing at how incestuous this community is!
Abby keeps finding solutions for her health problems but her terrible doctors always dismiss them. Every day is a battle now.
They need masks for… something. I mean, attention is the answer but they don’t give an official reason for why they need them.
On October 4, both girls end up making big medical updates. First Abby, who is very excited that she’s had her first scheduled salt water infusion for POTS which will even help with her EDS symptoms! (How?)
Nicole, on the other hand, calls a gastro who yells at her. She goes to urgent care who doesn’t tell her what she wants to hear, then heads to the ER who also tell her to kick rocks. She’s not going to die but she still can’t eat and something’s wrong with her intestines. Of course the dog came along every step of the way!
Two days later she updates to let us know she’s admitted to the hospital and tubed because her stomach won’t “tolerate” any food.
She’s discharged with the nose hose. She loves it!!!
and she’s now on Creamy, Delicious Kate Farms! Just like Mary Frey was, and she takes the same pic Mary does! Mary noticed her!!! she needed Kate Farms because her old formula tasted real bad. People in the comments point out that she should not be tasting her formula if it’s going in an NG tube. Her excuse is she has GERD so she tastes it from reflux. Ok.
They get lost in a children’s corn maze. Abby is in so much pain! Remember when she bought a wheelchair?
If you can eat pies and drink cocoa why do you need a feeding tube? Just drink nutrition drinks instead of cocoa. IDK about every brand but at least Ensure says right on their website that you can heat their shakes up without affecting the nutrition profile.
Abby does not like being the healthier twin. She’s now posting pics in her bed, the infusion clinic, and of her wheelchair.
"Extremely troublesome veins." GIB PORT.
Another one who just forgets her wheelchair when she goes shopping, as one so often does when they need a wheelchair.
Annnnd... Nicole gets a tattoo of Mary Frey’s handwriting. This is fucking creepy. Mary totally loves it and is not currently getting a restraining order!
Nicole has a Kate Farms tote and hat and I’m enough of a sperg to know that Aubrey Anha Winkie (Aubreys_lyme_journey, one of the OG anachan gastroparesis fakers from the Jaquie era) had the same hat and tote. I think they were given out with your first order or something.
Twin caught me slippin (and biblin).
Nicole has a follow up appointment. She’s not gained any weight at all. How could this be? Oh. Because she "stopped tolerating" her target rate so she went ahead and turned the rate down on her Creamy Delicious Kate Farms, which her doctor doesn’t like. She scores pain meds but still cant stomach solid food. Still no answers. People just think she’s anorexic and she’s not!
Abby is depressed. She’s “tired of being told that I wanted this, of people saying ‘you did this to yourself, you shouldn’t be happy, this is your fault, stop being okay with it, stop lying.” Lol so yeah, Abby is getting called out all the time for faking, both by doctors and by former friends who remember her as the surfing, hiking, skateboarding crossfit enthusiast who aren’t buying her sudden descent from that to wheelchair princess. Also she's like, palpably jealous of the feeding tube. Just some Deep Thots about what we might be seeing play out in yonder spoiler if you're interested in my brain noise.
There's no shortage of news stories, essays, and TV programs about twin / girls / who / both / have / eating / disorders and how they keep each other sick. They get locked in these extremely destructive competitive spirals because neither girl wants to be the "fat" twin who isn't special. They end up spending their lives trying to make sure the other twin isn't moving more or eating less than them often to the tune of precisely measuring each food item they eat or following each other around the house to make sure they get the same number of steps in. The treatment almost always involves separating them so they can't feed off each other anymore, because neither of them wants to be the one who got better so they both stay sick
I think that's kind of the dynamic we're seeing here, to a lesser degree. I do not believe Abby has an eating disorder or ever develops one but I do think that the feeding tube is a subject of some serious jealousy. Since the start, Nicole has only ever claimed mental illnesses: anxiety, depression, trichotillomania, and gender bullshit plus a one-off migraine and a "meat intolerance" no one around her seems to believe is real. I think Abby always felt like she was the better twin. Nicole spent her days rolling around in bed crying about her hair and being unable to function whereas Abby had "real" problems (her alleged migraines and hearing loss) but never let them slow her down. That's still the narrative Abby wants to go for. She had this medical problem that cut her time in LA short and kept her from her dream of studying in the Virgin Islands but she keeps on keepin' on, applied to a different university to pursue her dream of being a marine biologist despite all these medical setbacks and she's adjusting to her new life.
And now here comes Nicole suddenly trying to elbow into the same family of spoonie illnesses Abby has been getting herself diagnosed with and she got herself a visible sign that she’s really sick. Everyone who walks by might think Nicole is just anorexic but Abby knows the “truth” that she is trying to get diagnosed with Trendy GI Disease and is moving in on her EDS territory. I also think she's possibly aware that she's shot herself in the foot by claiming a genetic disease when Nicole is her literal biological clone. If she has all these illnesses stemming from a genetic whoopsie then it stands to reason that Nicole has them too. What we're going to see from here on out is Abby trying to restore the status quo, where she's the independent woman who keeps her head up and succeeds despite her disabilities while Nicole is the whiny crybaby who can't handle her own life and needs supervision.
I think that's kind of the dynamic we're seeing here, to a lesser degree. I do not believe Abby has an eating disorder or ever develops one but I do think that the feeding tube is a subject of some serious jealousy. Since the start, Nicole has only ever claimed mental illnesses: anxiety, depression, trichotillomania, and gender bullshit plus a one-off migraine and a "meat intolerance" no one around her seems to believe is real. I think Abby always felt like she was the better twin. Nicole spent her days rolling around in bed crying about her hair and being unable to function whereas Abby had "real" problems (her alleged migraines and hearing loss) but never let them slow her down. That's still the narrative Abby wants to go for. She had this medical problem that cut her time in LA short and kept her from her dream of studying in the Virgin Islands but she keeps on keepin' on, applied to a different university to pursue her dream of being a marine biologist despite all these medical setbacks and she's adjusting to her new life.
And now here comes Nicole suddenly trying to elbow into the same family of spoonie illnesses Abby has been getting herself diagnosed with and she got herself a visible sign that she’s really sick. Everyone who walks by might think Nicole is just anorexic but Abby knows the “truth” that she is trying to get diagnosed with Trendy GI Disease and is moving in on her EDS territory. I also think she's possibly aware that she's shot herself in the foot by claiming a genetic disease when Nicole is her literal biological clone. If she has all these illnesses stemming from a genetic whoopsie then it stands to reason that Nicole has them too. What we're going to see from here on out is Abby trying to restore the status quo, where she's the independent woman who keeps her head up and succeeds despite her disabilities while Nicole is the whiny crybaby who can't handle her own life and needs supervision.
And we're gonna stop there because it's convenient and this one is a lot of work.
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