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

[Gemmer]

If you can't eat and you are grappling with intense pain, the last thing you want to do is struggle with an instrument that you haven't played in a while.

I mean, I've never played a violin but I bet it takes some serious focus and strain (like something where your head will fall off) to play it. But Jessie decides to start practicing again...in hospital. Talk about attention seeking.

 

[VisceraNexus]

The big girls who complain about "malnutrition" and "starving" are always the funniest to me. They are showing everyone their big fat body and triple chins and have the gall to bitch about their "inability to eat."

 

[Not_a_Doctor]

I wouldn’t be surprised if she is getting up to the 300lb mark now. Hard to tell not knowing how tall she is. Aside from showing absolutely no signs of being in pain or distress, she is pretty energetic for someone on week 6 or whatever of no food and no water. I’m equally amazed at her finger dexterity - someone who was actually severely dehydrated would be struggling to stay warm, would not be lying around naked, and would not be able to articulate like that.

On a different topic, has anyone been following the mushroom trial in Oz? Short version is 50 something Mum allegedly poisons relatives with foraged death cap mushrooms. Turns out, on top of being an alleged murderer, she also faked cancer! She announced that she had ovarian cancer and had had a biopsy recently, and even discussed whether or not to tell her children.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-06-05/5-key-things-mushroom-murder-trial-erin-patterson-june-4/105376988

““Then, I'm not proud of this, but I led them to believe that I might be needing some treatment in regards to that in the next few weeks, or months," she said.

Ms Patterson said the reality was she was about to get gastric bypass surgery to deal with long-running concerns over her weight and was too embarrassed to tell them.

She did not want their caring attention to stop and was mindful that she may need assistance in the lead-up to and after her planned operation.

"I thought perhaps letting them believe I had some serious issue that needed treatment might mean they'd be able to help me with the logistics around the kids, and I wouldn't have to tell them the real reason," she said.”

If you haven’t been following it, it is well worth a google.

 

[SaltyButter]

And dont forget, the ones who are both fat and claiming they need TPN/tubes/etc to eat and live ALWAYS immediately shout about FATSHAMING the instant you dare to question their delusional narrative about how for 6 years they cannot eat a bite of food. Like. Please at least try harder to convince me. Like pick it up and drop it a few times a year as an excuse for why you dont lose weight. Tell people your conditions are in "remission" and then you get to coopt cancer terms as well! (I know I know, not only a cancer term but...I just wish they would try to make it interesting)

 

[RNTard]

Absolute insanity.
How is that allowed and how do the nurses deal with it? What about people with (actual, I gotta make that distinction here) severe allergies on the same floor or same room?
I'm intrigued the logistics

simply, it's the path of least resistance as Aunt Carol stated, psyche patients in particular are prone to becoming "agitated" if they don't get their maccas their gonna start banging on the windows of the nursing station till they either get it, or seclusion, i have no doubt some retarded consumer has filed AHPRA complaints over not getting their chicken wings.

Hospital food sucks, it's no surprise they want something else when some nutritionist has prescribed total goy slop for them, if you ever want a reason to never get old, try eating some pureed food.

logistics wise, the delivery drivers are usually familiar with the hospital and they'll write in the delivery order notes what ward their on so getting it to them isn't hard, it can be nice to take a bit longer picking the food up, take a break, steal a few chips and then return. Delivery drivers are not allowed in, no chance in hell their getting on the ward, what they order isn't really my concern unless their NPO, or it might harm them, a psyche nurse told me about how some cluster B ordered knives to the psych ward.

Caring about allergies is such a school concern. Patient notes will regularly contain the most retarded allergies like oxycodone causing drowsiness like that isn't a well known side affect of opioid medication, I saw a red arm band yesterday, checked and the only allergy listed was shellfish, but if they mention it, we have to document it.

I've been interested in the number of nurses with mental illness, can't find many studies with numbers, most of them are bs qualitative studies, but i found one from 2007 in which 35% worked psyche LMAOOOOO

https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1447-0349.2007.00492.x

 

[Smellee Cat]

I miss Thomas Eugene Paris and can’t seem to @ them

 

[InternetDramaFillsTheVoid]

I saw a red arm band yesterday, checked and the only allergy listed was shellfish, but if they mention it, we have to document it.

I may be wrong here, but I’ve heard that people who have shellfish allergies can react to things like Betadine (iodine).

 

[RNTard]

I may be wrong here, but I’ve heard that people who have shellfish allergies can react to things like Betadine (iodine).

They're two completely separate allergens. We use Chlorhexidine instead of Betadine because it's longer lasting and has a reduced rate of surgical site infections. I prefer Betadine because it's easier to wash off, irritates the skin less in sensitive areas (moid groins) and some patients just hate the colour and are quite vocal about being stained pink.

 

[Special spoonie]

Forgot whoever posted it. but thanks whoever posted the ginger Brit heifer who nods off because she’s a trainwreck. But anyhow somehow she’s announced she’s having a crotch goblin. Her poor nan or whoever will be raising the damn thing. These girls can be so cruel.
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[Flourishing Pinecone ❧]

They're two completely separate allergens.

I had to look this up, and learned that I have been pedalling this medical myth.
There's no link between them (unlike like link between kiwifruit and latex allergies), and not only that but iodine isn't even an allergen - it's just that some people get IV contrast related allergic reactions, but it's not the iodine.

 

[Aunt Carol]

I had to look this up, and learned that I have been pedalling this medical myth.

Yeah, I was the same until a few years ago. Next time there's a push at work to launch a project based on evidence-based medicine I guess that'd be a low-effort slam dunk, and less controversial than Colace: Doesn't Work for Shit.

 

[Munchie_Minder]

GORL I THOUGHT YOU DIED. HOLY SHIT, WELCOME BACK. No joke I was just talking about you the other day and about how I wished I had saved my convos with you so I could just make sure you were ok.

I’m so sorry! I will message you if that’s okay (don’t want to piss off null lol). I tried to come back before and the farms was down. My life is finally settling down thankfully lol! I just recently happened to check and see if the farms was back up because I saw that this potential cow I had been following years ago (wheelchair rapunzel) had a baby and I missed that whole back story and holy shit some amazing autists preserved that whole saga for me. My instincts were straight on the nose with how narcissistic and entertaining her train wreck has been. Sad that there’s a kid involved but not surprising AT ALL. Then I saw our sad walrus was finally put out to pasture, and I knew I had to come back now that life is calmer lol!

 

[Greedy Fly]

Lying down and moving your (fat) bow arm up-and-down seems like it'd be way more exhausting than the normal side-to-side movement. What does she mean by "scroll suspension system" or "adjustable scroll system"? I know the scroll is the curly bit at the end but I thought it doesn't do anything. Why would messing with the scroll let her focus on the bowing, won't she still have to do the fingering?

 

[Oracular Slug]

Lying down and moving your (fat) bow arm up-and-down seems like it'd be way more exhausting than the normal side-to-side movement. What does she mean by "scroll suspension system" or "adjustable scroll system"? I know the scroll is the curly bit at the end but I thought it doesn't do anything. Why would messing with the scroll let her focus on the bowing, won't she still have to do the fingering?

She had to mean the suspension system scrolls, because besides looking pretty all a violin's scroll does is hold the tuning bits. And yeah, it probably would be harder, my bowing arm always tired first while playing like a normal person. The whole thing is a needlessly complicated setup that would never allow you to play well, there's no way that bowing arm has room to go back without her elbowing the bed. I think the point of it is simply that normally you have tilt your head to help hold the violin in place, and if she did that her head would fall off.

 

[Not_a_Doctor]

I wasn’t sure if I was allowed to post a link to Reddit. I know ideally I should archive and repost but here is the link to the video of her playing if you are interested. It is a train wreck. Warning - may cause ears to bleed

Jessie’s Hospital Serenade

 

[Just A Rat]

I assumed the “scroll suspension system” was something rigged up to hold the violin up at the scroll so it stays in position without being held there.

 

[Oracular Slug]

Well, that was a painful listen, thanks for that. I'm trying to find some benefit of the doubt here but nope, I'd just put the bow down and apologize to whomever went through the time to set that up. I think she might be self taught too, she was playing decency fast, and getting enough of the fingering close enough, but still fucking sucks. Nobody made her play the same piece until she couldn't get it wrong, speed counts for nothing if you're squeaking like a mouse.

 

[Munchie_Minder]

Forgot whoever posted it. but thanks whoever posted the ginger Brit heifer who nods off because she’s a trainwreck. But anyhow somehow she’s announced she’s having a crotch goblin. Her poor nan or whoever will be raising the damn thing. These girls can be so cruel.
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I haven’t seen this one yet. Would it be more or less horrific than Dani M having a blessed virgin birth by Mr. 25/8 Amazonian? That will give me a quick scale while I do a dive.

 

[NoodleFucker3000]

Who the fuck let this ho bring a violin into the hospital

 

[Scoia'tael]

The big girls who complain about "malnutrition" and "starving" are always the funniest to me. They are showing everyone their big fat body and triple chins and have the gall to bitch about their "inability to eat."

Me too. I've been open about my skelly past on here before and you could say I am intimately acquainted with malnutrition. Shes certainly malnourished but not mal-caloried (you know what I mean). I find these cases an interesting break from the ana-to-munch pipeline given that they clearly have no qualms about porking it up for the larp vs the girls that fuck with their tubes to stay skinny.
Its an interesting break in the willpower of self harm that they exhibit. Will willingly subject themselves to anything but hunger.