Community Munchausen's by Internet (Malingerers, Munchies, Spoonies, etc) - Feigning Illnesses for Attention

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Found a Zero/Long Covid flavored (sad?)cow to share from Xitter:
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Wiggles' entire personality trait is being an oppressed, victimized disabled person who wants to genocide the ableds.

Wiggles also attention-seeks by reeing that 41%ing should be a human right.

Yes, Wiggles has done sex work.
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A boring cow since their Xitter is reptitive, but a good one to have on your radar.
How is it even possible to be a prostitute AND a zero covid weirdo? Does she make the johns wear masks and condoms?
 
How is it even possible to be a prostitute AND a zero covid weirdo? Does she make the johns wear masks and condoms?

As a general rule, if they declare they do "sex work," they mean on OnlyFans or on another online platform. They're never talking about walking streets, lot lizard-ing, or giving blow jobs in the backseats of old Lincolns.

The ones who brag about doing sex work are never the people who have been brought so low by circumstances that their best shot at a roof over their head is selling their body in a seedy motel by the tracks so they can stave off withdrawals or the DTs.

My annoyance with this "sex work liberating!" crowd is a gripe for another thread.
 
Got this as an ad awhile back for an account called lymeadvise on Instagram. Reminded me of a particular kind of patient we’re well familiar with in this thread because that’s their client base/audience


Page is about as you’d expect
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He quite literally wrote the book.
You'll be shocked to know that his book is basically self-published. The publisher is "Sisters Media LLC," which is owned by his co-author, Kendra Neilsen Myles, who was a high-powered pharma manager until she had a kid and had a mental breakdown because parenting is fucking hard got diagnosed with - she claims - classical EDS! Imma go ahead and call shenanigans on that because this woman has perfect skin, which is. . .not a hallmark of classical EDS. Now her life revolves around "advocacy." She doesn't look like she was ever stupid enough to be an Afrin patient since she's still thin as a rail. But she certainly glommed on to him whilst running the quack circuit. A lot of the links on her various sites are defunct - seems the pandemic put a damper on her business.
 
Gotta love canada's socialized death. Reading between the lines of this it sounds like this girl got approved for euthanasia for some combo of the psychosomatic/munchie special and her father is suing to prevent it because he think's it's all psychosomatic and she's just depressed. In canada's infinite wisdom, the courts have determined that it is her right to euthanasia.

CBC article - https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calg...injunction-judicial-review-decision-1.7154794

There's a certain point where doctors can't actually stop super determined people from offing themselves, but this girl doesn't seem like she'd actually commit suicide outside of the MAID option. In a sane world they'd do at least one round of locking her up and throwing SSRIs at her before giving up completely.
 
Gotta love canada's socialized death. Reading between the lines of this it sounds like this girl got approved for euthanasia for some combo of the psychosomatic/munchie special and her father is suing to prevent it because he think's it's all psychosomatic and she's just depressed. In canada's infinite wisdom, the courts have determined that it is her right to euthanasia.

CBC article - https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calg...injunction-judicial-review-decision-1.7154794

There's a certain point where doctors can't actually stop super determined people from offing themselves, but this girl doesn't seem like she'd actually commit suicide outside of the MAID option. In a sane world they'd do at least one round of locking her up and throwing SSRIs at her before giving up completely.
Has she actually offed herself, though? This seems like CLASSIC munchie attention-seeking behavior - it's obvious why she's doing this, but if she kills herself, she won't be around to soak in the attention. Munchies rarely kill themselves on purpose; their deaths are more of a whoopsie-doodle when they munch too close to the sun and end up with actual for reals sepsis or organ failure. I would not be the slightest bit surprised if there's all this hubbub and someone gives her the suicide meds, and then she has some sort of treatment breakthrough or her disease remits a little or she "finds the strength to keep going" or some bullshit. Don't worry, she'll keep the prescription close to her and every time she needs a hit of attention, she'll share a photo of it and post something like "this is the only solution to my suffering." Attention will flood in, and the little bottle of suicide will remain on the shelf.
 
I’m sure Canada loves this case, as it sets a precedent for a parent being unable to object to the state killing their mentally ill child.
so progressive
I mean this is the case of a parent of an adult, that's a bit different. An adult can elect anyone to be their alternate decision maker.
 
Her bed is a "sensory haven" that converts into an adult crib, she says it "keeps me safe every night" but doesn't say from what... does she sleepwalk
I’m pretty grossed out by this because I know those beds are for medically fragile kids who need to be transported in and out of bed or may harm themselves due to seizures. If you’re an adult who can walk around on your own, you don’t need that sick baby bed. It feels like a munchie x adult baby collab.
Found a Zero/Long Covid flavored (sad?)cow to share from Xitter:
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Wiggles also attention-seeks by reeing that 41%ing should be a human right.
I like this one—good catch!

JFC guys: “I will face God and walk backwards into hell.” I haven’t had such good cringe in a long time.

I’d love to ask her what’s stopping her from driving off a cliff, or going to a freer province like Alberta and blowing her brains out, or going to Dignitas, or ODing on a substance, etc etc.
 
JFC guys: “I will face God and walk backwards into hell.” I haven’t had such good cringe in a long time.

The best part about this is that it isn’t even fucking original, it was stolen from an ancient dril humor tweet.

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Found a screenshot.
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It feels like a munchie x adult baby collab.
You are correct. Rose previously was open about her ageplay fetish. It dawned on me the other day while looking at photos of her that her trach collar is her munchie equivalent of the fetish gear she used to wear.
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Much of the change from admitting it's a fetish to straight munchie content appears to be motivated by trying to get her boyfriend qualified as her live-in carer so he can get paid to live out their fetish until she's dead.

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Tricia Melland part 4. In part 3, Tricia went to college and found a whole new audience of devoted friends to exploit for asspats and special attention. We ended with her getting diagnosed with MCAS and getting her latest central line removed after her umpteenth bout of sepsis. Welcome to terminal velocity. From here on out Tricia will be cruising at her maximum survivable munchie speed until she reaches impact.

Her new line will be placed at University of Kansas and she's hoping to be back to school on time for the new semester.
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IDIOTS!! Kansas does NOT have the line she wants! SHE TRIPLE CHECKED THAT THEY HAD IT!!!!! These people who have been keeping me alive in the face of my own suicidal stupidity are awful!
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Tricia goes to Omaha on 8 August to have her line placed. Predictably she reacts badly to anesthesia and has a “seizure”, full code in the PACU.
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The next day, she aspirates vomit in an MRI and is brought to ICU.
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Out of ICU two days later, IV seizure meds started. Still having all kinds of post-anesthesia problems and breathing issues. Her headaches are back.
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She claims they anesthetized her for an MRI because the “load noise induced seizures”
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Codes again. She’s on NIV with high blood carbon dioxide.
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On the 19th she’s in stepdown and they’re getting her off the NIV during the day. Any activity at all sets off her seizures so she can’t even sit up in a chair now.
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More seizures. Never shows or mentions an EEG, though. Now her dog alerts to them too. No dog has ever been proven to alert to actual epileptic seizures. Studies on “seizure alert dogs” found they were, at best, triggering PNES episodes in susceptible individuals or responding to behavior changes in people who have a seizure aura in which case they are also aware they're about to have a seizure. Despite that even just sitting upright triggers her seizures and her head is in 27/10 pain she plays the piano and it makes her feel better, until she gets back in her room. Then she’s in even worse pain and has even worse seizures.
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“I’ve never had seizures before this admission.” That’s strange, because when you first did the “headpoundy nofeelygoody” back in high school you claimed both dystonia attacks and seizures, and we’ve seen you have EEGs before then so they at least had reason to want to rule them out. She blames it all on anesthesia and a medication she’s allergic to. She bit her cheek during this one and there was blood all over her bed.
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On the 31st they let her play piano again, even though it makes her pain worse. It Was Worth It!! Her oxygen is increased and her seizures stop.
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They let her play piano again on 2 September and it triggers a seizure. It Was Worth It! This one is captured on video so the doctors can see. She’s coded five times on this admission. Holy fuck stop letting her near the damn piano.
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Imagine you are Wendy Melland, mother of Patricia Melland. Your daughter is sicker than she’s probably been in her entire lifetime of being extremely sick. It’s bad. She needs respiratory support. She's having new, constant seizures they can’t get under control. She keeps coding and it’s all hands on deck to save her when she does. Do you 1) stand back, allow medical professionals to do their jobs to keep your daughter alive, pray to your chosen deity, or 2) elbow your way in there to take dramatic, insta-ready photos of the code events from various angles and place the dog on her chest?
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Claire was not your friend. She was an Internet person whose real illness you wish you had the balls to skinwalk. But you know the CF community is used to sniffing out bullshitters trying to larp their high-profile disease and that it's almost invariably caught in infancy now, so instead you picked a disease that is notoriously hard to diagnose and extremely variable, that you STILL needed to pay a dial-a-quack to get diagnosed with.
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Another day, another seizure, more head pain and nausea after. Neurology changes her medications.
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In the midst of all this, an IDIOT!!! nurse breaks her central line! Please pray that this doesn’t predictably cause more problems from anesthesia.
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It does. She stops breathing and starts choking and dry heaving and her headache gets even worse. IV painkillers to the rescue! They also forgot to give her enough fluids and steroids, but at least she didn’t have a seizure. She wouldn’t have had to go through all this if that stupid dummy dumb nurse hadn’t made such a huge mistake. Please pray that I learn to be a mature adult.
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Dramatic cryface selfie because she’s told she should not go back to school this semester. Wow what a shock, after she spent the first two weeks of the semester playing Epilepsy Barbie in the hospital room.
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Back in ICU again. Her TPN got “messed up” and this made her pass out dramatically in the bathroom. Her blood Co2 goes as high as 77. But OOP PLOT HOLE AGAIN, she just admit her steroid dose has been oral this whole time and now she’s puking constantly so she’s not getting the proper dose. Critical care doesn’t want to switch her to IV or let her stress does anymore but a nurse gives them what-for and they back down. There’s some substances that can be absorbed by your stomach like aspirin but as far as I could google, steroids ain’t one of them, so she’s either never been getting a proper dose since she drains it out immediately and it’s just been a placebo, or she can digest and absorb things just fine.
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She can barely walk 5 feet.
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On September 23, she starts posting pics of herself vomiting blood. Do you reckon this one’s a selfie or that mommy took it for posterity? They’re doing an emergency scope but worried about more anesthesia issues.
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The bleeding slows down post-scope. Cool, guess they figured it out? But she’s had another terrible anesthesia reaction.
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Imagine taking this photo and posting it on the World Wide Web. She even calls it the bloody vomit saga!! Thank you for clearly delineating your plot arcs for me, you're a real G. Her tube is clogged with blood clots and her stomach can’t drain. I wonder why she has so much trouble absorbing her oral medications a true mystery for the ages. They also haven’t figured out why she’s bleeding at all and might have to scope her again, and it might be that her stomach is bleeding because of the air forced into it by her breathing machine.
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They take her off NIV because she’s an aspiration risk. They’re trying a wait and see approach with her now.
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More bloody vomit. No for real who is taking these pics? I’m dying laughing. Like doesn’t it look like her left eye is just a hair open to make sure she’s framing it up properly?
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Sepsis, Staph aureus again. Getting a blood transfusion because she’s still puking blood.
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Emergency scope. The Kels person she’s talking to is a friend who just died that day, another sick kid she met in the hospital and befriended, from what I can tell.
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The doctors LIED and said they’d give her the special anesthesia she requested. She’s claiming she was awake and aware of everything they were doing and vomiting as they tried to scope her. They don’t even give her extra pain meds!! And they still can’t fix the bleeding. Her line is superfucked with two other bacteria growing on top of the Staph and needs to be removed again, except this time they will give her anesthesia. At least it didn’t start sticking to her heart valves – that’s what caused Rachel Denton’s strokes. She’ll be getting a new PICC the same time.
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Her 20th PICC line is in, although they had trouble placing it because of all the scar tissue. This time they do dose her to the tits with pain meds.
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That didn’t work either. The new PICC is already infected because that’s what happens when you put a new catheter into an infection. That’s why they want to have a break from the line with just peripheral access for at least 48 hours to beat the infection back. Now another bacteria has cultured. She says three of the four in her line are gut bacteria that translocated
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On the 17th of October she lets us know she’s still puking blood, sometimes for hours on end. The bacterias shes culturing are now becoming resistant to the antibiotics they have her on and she’s in constant pain. They don’t even care! If they had just listened to her purchased specialists’ suggestions about her very unique case that only responds to insane doses of dilaudid, steroids, and antihistamines she wouldn’t be in this mess! They still think her bleeding bowel is the source of the infections but they can’t do anything about that because she’s constantly vomiting.
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Her PICC is now infected with gram positive poopy bacteria and because of her lack of access she needs a new one right away in the other arm. They don’t even know if they’ll be able to find a site for one.
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It takes an hour and they keep hitting a nerve, but they place the line. Still puking blood, now trying to get transferred to a different hospital because these bozos won’t listen to Boles and Afrin, two doctors across the country from her who are not there to see what’s going on and probably wouldn’t know what to do if they were.
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Culturing a 7th bug now and it’s another poopy bacteria. She’s pissing straight blood and might have kidney stones again.. But the good news is they gave her some pain meds.
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Her new PICC is already growing bugs.
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Do you reckon the nurses slip her extra meds so she stops trying to tell them how to do their jobs all the time?
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Ooop new PICC is infected with TWO bugs! That’s double lucky! So the situation is she has a double lumen PICC. Both sides are infected with something, they’re not quite sure what yet. Until they know what to do they’re alternating infusions and locks of vancomycin. While she’s getting the vanco infusion through one, they “lock” the other by filling it with vancomycin and letting it dwell there. That way there’s minimal chance for the bacteria to re-colonize the lines. But now her midline cath has blown so they have to stop doing even that because they need both lumens available at all times. Any medication, nutrition, or hydration has to go through them so with one line down there isn’t enough time in the day to alternate. If they can’t save the PICC she’s fucked. Nephrology wants to scope her to see what’s going on in her bladder but they can’t because of how sick she is and how little access there is if there’s an emergency.
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And now they have to run blood through those two lumens too.
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Get you a girl that can do this! She needs another scope because they still don’t know where the blood is coming from. Interesting that these doctors were blowing off her claims that she was vomiting blood for hours every day until she actually does it in front of them. This doctor apparently has a “pea sized brain” because of this. But they also think this is just a slow ooze of blood from inflammation and not something they can cauterize.
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Man the disdain for authority really comes out when they’re not getting the pain meds they want on demand, doesn’t it? All her medical problems have been over the weekends because of “a lack of properly trained medical professionals” watching over her. This time they used her special anesthesia and she still woke up vomiting, shivering, and in a ton of pain but it’s fine. They think she’s bleeding from further down in her intestine and that the blood is backing up into her stomach because of her intestinal failure. Wouldn’t it come out her ostomy if that was true? I guess it depends on where the bleed is and where the ostomy is. They can’t do a pill cam because if it is her intestines not moving blood then she won’t move the camera either, plus she vomits anything she takes in orally now.
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Omaha bad!!! She’s headed back to Kansas City finally. Weird, I thought Omaha was the only hospital that knew your body and your very special case. It’s where her intestinal failure specialist is. Recall that the whole reason this cascade of bullshit started was because KU were IDIOTS! Who didn’t have the right triple lumen broviac she wanted and she bounced to Omaha. Now Omaha is terrible and her trip to KU is awful because they didn’t send her pain meds with the transport crew. But now she’s at KU and she FINALLY has good competent doctors working on her. My brain keeps trying to put myself in her mom’s shoes and understand taking these photos and I can’t. I can’t make myself understand the mentality here. “My baby is on the ambulance in excruciating pain after just getting life flighted to another hospital, better document this for her instagram?”
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Her pain meds are late and this makes her vomit until she passes out. She now has a good, compliant doctor who will make sure she’s always drugged to the tits. GI wants to move ahead with the enteroscopy but she’s worried because last time they tried this she almost ended up perforated. She HAS to make it to the Twenty One Pilots concert guys!!!! Their music literally saved her!!!
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Felt sepsy, might delete later idk.
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Balloon enteroscopy is go. Meanwhile another poopy bacteria is growing in her PICC which is what caused the sepsis, so now her PICC probably has to go. Even now, even when she’s bleeding internally, septic, and running out of access, she’s running full-speed towards her next thing and bragging that Afrin is going to get her on continuous diphenhydramine infusion for the mast cell disorder that seems to be causing absolutely no problems and she’s so blessed that the GOOD doctors at KU are willing to work with her long-distance charlatans. She’s starting IVIG and trying a new IV iron as well.
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The source of the bleeding is finally found. The balloon enteroscopy shows nothing at first, but when they pull it back to her stomach and pause there they can watch blood just oozing out of the stomach walls and even a slight touch makes it worse. They can’t do anything about this, but the underlying cause might be a platelet issue they’ve just found the day before. PICC has to go and will be immediately replaced again. These are some pretty brutal antibiotics she’s taking.
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Iron infusion please pray. She doesn’t update.
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On November 11 she starts IVIG.
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oooh malingering for stronger pain meds or aseptic meningitis from IVIG?
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NOTICE ME TWENTY ONE PILOTS!! YOU ARE THE VENTILATOR FOR MY LUNGS!!! This is so cringe lol.
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Elevated lipase. They suspect pancreatitis, and she also might have meningitis so they’re doing another lumbar puncture to see. She’s also been transferred again, to St. Luke’s a few miles away.
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She won’t be making it to see her lifesaving band but the fans have been so great.
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By which she means she got what she wanted: her followers pestered this band on Xwitter and they responded. It’s kind of funny, I have only heard about this band from munchies. I guess it’s just an artifact of me not giving a shit about what The Youngs are doing unless they’re also getting unnecessary surgeries. Mel Lucas is a fan, now Tricia, and my first encounter was some annoying little munchie gendersperg who hung around IFGW briefly reusing the same username everywhere, who was posting on some Tumblr page asking if there was a specific pride flag for people who were “tøpigender, the gender based on the band twenty one pilots”. I thought it was a joke. It was not. I wish I had proof of this. It was the first time it really sunk in to me that to these kids, gender identity is basically synonymous with the most annoying fringes of fandom culture, but medicalized and subsidized by WPATH.
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She has gotten these strangers to be the obnoxious concert-filmers on her behalf, and they also gave up their paid meet and greet time so that she could be the focus instead. This is what I suspect she wanted the time she almost missed the Pentatonix concert last year: either she was out and got to see them again or she remained in the hospital and rallied the other weirdos who enjoy acapella covers of songs that sounded much better before they became acapella covers to get her special attention from the band.
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Alright, health update now that that’s over: it was aseptic meningitis after all, but her CSF pressure is high again. She still might have pancreatitis but it might be an ileus because her ab-anus isn’t producing any doodoo. The pain is making her feel too sick to take the oral medications she sucks out of her stomach.
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It is now Thanksgiving. Reminder that this hospitalization sesh started on 8 August with what should have been a fairly routine central line placement that instead lead to piano-induced seizures and puking blood on camera.
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KU Med? You’re out. Omaha? Take a hike. St. Luke’s is giving her what she wants so they’re her god now. They gave her more pain and nausea meds which gave her back her ability to purge shit out of her g-tube. Still puking blood because her stomach is falling apart but what can you do? They’re trying to get her back on oral meds. Wow Tricia seems like even this hospital doesn’t really believe you’re in total intestinal failure like you claim to be. KU are back to being idiots who don’t know what they’re doing because something something IVIG brand.
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December 7 she announces she’s septic again, and this time it’s a form of staph that likes to make biofilms in lines. Hers has got to go and they switch her antibiotics again, this time to Daptomycin.
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Oh this is bad news. Instead of trying to find a new place to put a line or doing a midline, they’re placing the new PICC directly into the same site as the old one over a guide wire. It’s pretty much a guarantee that the infection is just going to end up in the new line immediately.
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PICC 23 goes in without a fight.
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Oh no. Stenotrophomonas maltophilia is an extremely resistant gram negative bacteria that forms biofilms and it was found growing in one of her lumens. It’s one of those hospital-acquired opportunistic infections that likes to hang out in water sources and kills susceptible people very quickly. My first time hearing about this bug was a Frontline documentary about antibiotic resistance. It profiled a little girl named Addison Rerecich who went into septic shock from MRSA after picking a scab with dirty playground hands. Rerecich had to be placed on a ventilator and the Stenotrophomonas grew in the tubing for that. It very quickly colonized her lungs destroyed them. She ended up needing a transplant (and this documentary was filmed a year after her ordeal ended, so it doesn’t get to the ending: eight years later her donor lungs rejected and she declined to pursue a second transplant.) And here’s this absolute mongoloid laughing about “go big or go home!” This bug is increasingly becoming resistant to Bactrim which is one of the only antibiotics that was known to treat it. But Tricia gets to take hospital instagram selfies with her oxygen cannula and her doggie in a Santa costume and that’s all that matters!
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And her new line is already colonized. She’s septic again.
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Sometimes I just want them to die and get it over with. It’s not a pleasant feeling but when you’re basically watching a prolonged public suicide attempt playing out over years you start to crave some kind of resolution.
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Despite multiple antibiotics and Tylenol, her fever spikes again. PICC 23 has got to go and they have no idea where they’re going to place her next one. They seem to have given up hope of getting a peripheral line in her so she can take a break from the central lines that keep getting infected (or she’s outright refusing to let them try anymore) so this is what we’re down to: replacing an infected central line with a new one into an infected bloodstream over and over again. And now they have to make sure her heart valves aren’t getting fuzzy again. For once she sounds a little worried.
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41 central lines is absolute insanity. If they can’t get a PICC in this time they have to put the new line in her jugular.
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They succeed with the PICC in the same arm the infected one was in, but this one’s even more in her armpit. Please pray this one does not get infected right away.
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Trans-esophageal Echo. Doesn’t update.
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On Christmas Eve she hangs out under the hospital Christmas tree. She has now spent five months in different hospitals.
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Christmas Day and she gets the gift she wanted: another bout of sepsis.
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It’s more translocated gut bacteria. Her colon is oozing bacteria into her bloodstream and they are down to their last resort: total colectomy or she will die. Until then she has to keep the infected line because they have no where else to place one.
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Before that can happen she updates to say she’s in ICU, her lungs are filling with fluid, and they have her on 45L of oxygen. They might have to intubate her.
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And they do. It’s septic pulmonary emboli. Infected blood clots that broke off of her infected PICC line went to her lungs, burst into smaller blood clots, and blocked the teeny lil blood vessels all over her lungs. They had to scope her lungs and suck the crap out of them. For the first time in the year and change since she started claiming she needed oxygen full time, she actually understands what it feels like to not be able to breathe. While she was under they finally pulled the infected line and gave her the IJ line she didn’t want. She’s still actively culturing new bugs and now they’re not going to remove her colon for the foreseeable future because she’s too weak to survive the surgery, which means it’s going to continue to leak bacteria into her blood stream.
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And unlike most patients that are sedated for this, Tricia is wide awake because for the last decade she has been claiming that she’s extremely allergic to all sedatives. Stupid games, even stupider prizes. They’re planning to extubate soon but she keeps failing trials to turn down the ventilator.
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Somehow her heart is still spared by all this medical fuckery.
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Ten days after they were going to extubate her she’s still tubed. For one of the only times in her account history she seems to truly be a bit remorseful. Up until now she’s been gleefully charging from one hospitalization to another but this time shit’s out of her control and she doesn’t like it. Tomorrow they’re going to perform a tracheostomy and she’s upset. It’s ‘not for her’ – nothing against you losers who need one but it just doesn’t fit her style. But her alternative to getting the trach is they withdraw the endotracheal tube anyway and she’s kept comfortable until she dies. She can’t just stab her family in the heart and decide she doesn’t want this treatment. I’d almost feel bad for her grappling with this if she didn’t immediately go into a spiel about how this is just life with mito and you have to accept the progression! No Tricia. You did this. You backed yourself into this corner. Even if I pretend I totally believe that all these sepsises and line infections that led to the septic emboli were unintentional consequences of her colon falling apart, it’s still her fault her colon fell apart.
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I sat here wondering what my own dogs would have done if faced with this contraption sticking out my my mouth and realized they would have extubated me. Just gave it a good tug.
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and there it is. Tricia has a trach.
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This was NOT what she wanted when she decided to make faking sick her full-time career 10 years ago!! The second pic in this set is from an even earlier hospitalization than the 2009 ones she's been posting. It could be the wrist surgery at age 7 although if so, this was before the surgery, and she also claims that after that any minor illness made her crash and require hospitalization. I have to wonder if she was ever really sick enough to need this, though. Maybe mom was exaggerating how sick the kid was out of a genuine belief that she needed hospital-level care and that a little exaggeration was acceptable to keep her daughter safe. But I don’t know, all the pictures we’ve seen that were obviously taken by mom where Tricia was in an ambulance or in pain or distress, it all has left such a sour taste in my mouth about what this woman’s actual role was here. I want to believe it was like the story I shared the other day of P. In that case the child did have a real underlying health issue that made her afraid of getting sick and started to have FND symptoms after returning to school from covid quarantine, but mom was extremely anxious and did not believe the FND diagnosis. While searching for the “right” diagnosis she started spoiling P rotten, teaching her that playing the sick role got her special treatment and whatever she wanted, even if it was things mom explicitly said no to in the past. I can imagine this being a case where mom was convinced Tricia was much sicker than she was and Tricia fell into the role because it got her all of mom’s attention or all those new stuffies on the bed or time off of school – what kid doesn’t want that? Or maybe mom, the failed figure skater, really really liked the attention she got for having the sickest little daughter in the whole wide world. who knows?
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She’s piping hot and yeasty like a fresh-baked loaf of bread. My favorite part of this post is short-lived but funny male (???) munchie ChronicallyAdam begging for follow back while Tricia was talking about possibly dying. Adam was only briefly active but during that time collected various mobility aids and begged for attention all over the sicksta world before apparently caving and disappearing the second he got noticed by gossip threads. Adam posted the same messages to anyone without actually reading their posts so you would see girls crying that their dad died and Adam in the comments asking for a follow. Adam might be FTM, I don’t really care, but not reading anyone else’s posts and flouncing as soon as someone laughs at his ass comes off very male to me.
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It’s my timeline and I’ll get unnecessarily nostalgic if I want to. Do any of my fellow LCF alumni remember Autumn, the genuine male-to-female tranny munchie? This would have been the latter half of 2017 when Jaquie and Aubrey still reigned supreme. Seemingly as part of adopting this feminine role Autumn started emulating the zebra munchies, getting smart crutches and a port for salt water and all that. But he also skinwalked actually sick men, spontaneously deciding he had Von Willebrand’s Disease (a clotting disorder) when on a chronic illness panel with someone who actually DID have it, then getting annoyed and responding to the anons who pointed out that he showed no signs of this clotting disease during his multiple unnecessary surgeries and apparently forgot he even claimed to have it.

Like Adam he just dropped off the face of the planet once people started posting him and as far as I can tell has never resurfaced as a munchie. I tried to look for him a bit right after he DFEd but it was a fruitless quest. No point to this, I just think it’s kind of a funny mini-phenomenon, that the only two male zebra munchies I can think of both caved under the criticism immediately and never came back as far as I know. I guess it’s not that weird, some of our women do disappear and never resurface like Aubrey, who currently just works for a social services organization in Wisconsin using her actual college degree and appears to have completely given up on faking sick. But I’m so used to people like Dani who can’t exist without social media attention, who has been deleting accounts and resurfacing instantly since like 2016. Dani is currently on another lockdown cycle where she’s eliminated anyone who could leak to reddit et al but with her it’s always just a waiting game before the lack of attention makes her twitchy and she goes public again.

They switch the IJ to the other side of her neck and now her line is right under the trach collar and it hurts. Wow Tricia maybe you should have stopped this back in August.
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Yeah turns out this is absolutely no fun. It hurts like a son of a bitch and a resident starts digging around her barely-healed trach hole trying to realign the track after it slips. She was under the impression that she’d have an easier time getting off the vent once she got this but her progress has been minimal even with daily attempts to turn the vent settings down. She also can’t speak because they can’t find a speaking valve that works for her and when they finally think they have one, she can only use it for a few minutes at a time. They once again tell her that her colon has to be removed or she’s just going to keep getting septic over and over until one day she doesn’t survive.
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And mom’s there to document her first real shower in months. You know. Normal bonding activities between a mother and her adult daughter.
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Septic again. All three lumens of her new IJ are infected with gut bacteria.
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These girls just never realize they really could not survive this one, so while the doctors are desperately trying to get clean access into Tricia she’s just crying that they used the wrong anesthesia and her tummy-tum hurts now. They didn’t even strictly need to anesthetize her for this as far as I’m aware. This is reminding me so much of when Cheyanne was in liver failure and being evaluated for a bone marrow transplant to stop the disease, but wouldn’t stop complaining that they weren’t following her extensive MCAS rules. Cheyanne got “fired” from Cincinnati Children’s, the only hospital in the States with a program for the super rare genetic liver disease she claimed to have, because anything they tried to do she claimed they were putting her in danger by not using special brand of IV tubing or saying she would go into anaphylaxis from whatever they wanted to do.
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Stupid dumb doctors don’t listen to her when she says she’s septic even though she has no fever and clear bloodwork!! they run more labs and eventually culture Candida krusei again.
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The infected line is removed again and a new one placed in the other side of her neck, which is already showing stenosis from the repeated lines. She’s being referred out to a surgeon who might be able to help with the leaky colon poopoo bacteria but he doesn’t know if she can even survive the surgery and won’t know how much of her colon needs to come out until he opens her up. She’s starting Glutamine supplementation to hopefully repair some of the damage in the meantime but suddenly after years of taking oral medications despite her total intestinal failure she can’t do that anymore so she needs special IV glutamine only one compounding pharmacy in her city makes.
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April 9. Her candida is back and it’s now resistant to the drugs they’ve been using for months. Her IJ replacement is delayed for almost a week and Tricia is losing her mind.
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Happy mother’s day to the woman who has spent the last 10 years helping me convince doctors to cut me up and punch new holes in my body!!! Can’t be easy to be compliant with your only daughter's slow assisted suicide for social media attention, but Mom does it with a smile!
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Late May. She has now been hospitalized for nearly 10 months. On her 21st birthday in April they discover her new line is already infected, this time C. krusei, a new yeast called Candida parapsilosis, and Vancomycin-resistant enterococci meaning her poopoo bacteria is no longer susceptible to the antibiotic they were using to treat it. The C. krusei is now officially resistant to mycafungin, too, so she’s switched to voriconazole. How are those kidneys doing, Tricia? Doesn’t matter because her jugulars are now colonized by fungal biofilms so any line they put in there is going to get infected. They’re planning to go into her subclavian but she spikes a fever so bad they have to pack her in tons of ice and dose her to her eyeballs with steroids. Still she’s hoping against hope they can get a new line in and discharge her home finally.
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Her cultures are clear so she gets a new subclavian Hickman line. Whoops turns out it wasn’t clear, the voriconazole did not work, and everything is still infested with C. krusei. She’s switched to Amphotericin B, nickname: amphoterrible, because it has absolutely merciless and potentially fatal side effects. Nearly everyone who gets this drug spikes a fever with chills, a headache, nausea and vomiting, and other very very unpleasant symptoms (which apparently doctors call the “Amphtericin shake and bake,” lmao). It also causes all kinds of electrolyte imbalances, kidney and liver damage, arryhthmias. . . Needless to say, they will not be discharging her with this. As this is all going down one lumen in her brand new subclavian line cracks, which she is again blaming on a nurse flushing the line although this time instead of saying the nurse is an idiot, she says the line was defective. And now blood is pouring out of the insertion site. Was it worth it Tricia?
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There’s a tornado. Everyone’s moved into the hallways except Tricia, because she’s on a vent and they have to keep her attached to generator power. Was it worth it Tricia?
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2/3 lumens on her new line are now broken. They miraculously get a peripheral line in her but she needs more access. They’re going back into her jugular and hoping it’ll hold out, but it won’t because her gut is still leaking bacteria even with the IV glutamine. She’s done. Once this one goes, she’s letting the credits roll. No more surgery, no more lines, the movie’s over.
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And with that, they send her home. It’s in God’s hands now.
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I love a good cliffhanger, don't you?
 
You are correct. Rose previously was open about her ageplay fetish. It dawned on me the other day while looking at photos of her that her trach collar is her munchie equivalent of the fetish gear she used to wear.
These two things as "kinks" function similarly in theory. Going into armchair psychology mode here, sorry. Not only does she want a caretaker as a partner to satisfy the ABDL fetish, but if she is very ill that means she actually "needs" a caretaker. For her it's just an escalation of the ageplay kink, which is pretty common with more extreme kinks and fetishes that impact daily living. She definitely has more behavioral issues going on than many other munchies here, erring closer to the end of the spectrum chicks like Kelly Ronahan are on imo.
 
Tricia goes to Omaha on 8 August to have her line placed. Predictably she reacts badly to anesthesia and has a “seizure”, full code in the PACU.tri-034.png
These can't all be code blues. I think she's conflating rapid response calls (and a few places have a code for seizures) and just saying "codes" because she knows people will assume it's a code blue. If you are telling a story and say "code" to someone who works in the biz, they will initially parse it as code blue, because any other code you say what kind of code. You'd say "it was all in the linens, but if you looked they were soaked to being squishy at that point, and we called Massive Transfusion--I mean, Code, uhhh, Ruby? Yeah, Code Ruby. Anyway, Lab turned out to be just next door, so they rushed in before we had the lights on and slipped right in the blood puddle."
Back in ICU again. Her TPN got “messed up” and this made her pass out dramatically in the bathroom.
TPN is hella sugar, so if you stop suddenly you can have symptomatic hypoglycemia. Depending on rate, and I'd be a bit skeptical with someone who's on steroids, although she could also be getting insulin to cover and had some seriously bad timing happen. This could have happened but it also could have been someone explaining "almosts" to her. And she didn't mention blood glucose, so never mind.
The C. krusei is now officially resistant to mycafungin, too, so she’s switched to voriconazole. How are those kidneys doing, Tricia? Doesn’t matter because her jugulars are now colonized by fungal biofilms so any line they put in there is going to get infected
If there were background music, it would have been getting scarier and scarier as the PICCs keep getting colonized and the microorganisms get worse. Her posts are like "levering up the Demon Core with a screwdriver lol" levels of misunderstanding risk--you can play sick and have an LDR with a quack, you can fake gastroparesis for fun tubes, but the bacteria aren't in on your game. She's outnumbered.

And yet, fake service dog still in the bed, right on top of the entry points. I know hospitals are terrified of HCAHPS but just how many MDROs do you have to be infected and colonized by, simultaneously, before they tell you to keep the dog out of the bed?
 
I’m interested by the long COVID munchie’s header photo saying “fund vax injury and long covid research”. Have the zero COVID people gone full-circle and ended up aligned with the anti-vaccine people now that the general public is back to normal? United by mutual hatred of the CDC and both convinced that the government is trying to kill them?
 
I’m interested by the long COVID munchie’s header photo saying “fund vax injury and long covid research”. Have the zero COVID people gone full-circle and ended up aligned with the anti-vaccine people now that the general public is back to normal? United by mutual hatred of the CDC and both convinced that the government is trying to kill them?
They would deny alignment with them, but they deny the vaccines enough to act as if the COVID situation is even worse now than it was at this time 4 years ago.
 
I’m interested by the long COVID munchie’s header photo saying “fund vax injury and long covid research”. Have the zero COVID people gone full-circle and ended up aligned with the anti-vaccine people now that the general public is back to normal? United by mutual hatred of the CDC and both convinced that the government is trying to kill them?
I interpret it as them admitting it happens and it should be funded so no one has an excuse not to get the vaccine. I'm sure they'll claim it's rarer than it is but a necessary risk. If you fund it then you can force people who don't want the vaccine to get it. Or maybe they think if they can fund research into it then they can develop a magical zero risk vaccine that they can force everyone to take.
 
I’m interested by the long COVID munchie’s header photo saying “fund vax injury and long covid research”. Have the zero COVID people gone full-circle and ended up aligned with the anti-vaccine people now that the general public is back to normal? United by mutual hatred of the CDC and both convinced that the government is trying to kill them?
I was confused at first too, but then I realized that the Venn diagram of people claiming LC and people who reeeee about debilitating side effects from Gardasil is just a circle.
 
I was confused at first too, but then I realized that the Venn diagram of people claiming LC and people who reeeee about debilitating side effects from Gardasil is just a circle.
Yeah, that makes total sense to me. Not that there aren't people out there with legit vax injuries, but it's fertile munchie ground: vague and subjective symptoms, poorly understood etiology, super rare speshul disease status and guaranteed to butt heads with a few medical professionals for maximum aDvoCaCY clout.
 
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