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

[Kate Farms Shill]

She's had a little bit of social media presence over the last few months, but not much. Constantly switching Youtube channels and Instas. It was enough as to where I would only bother to look every few months. But this was posted just a few days ago - on the day that Jaq died, I believe.

The last video I saw was what you described - her screeching about her gastric stim not working and having to go to the ER and arguing with doctors about it. Knowing that she did that enough to get a tube just to shut her up is both hilarious and outrageous.

Dani has always sounded absolutely exhausting even online. Mad props to you having to deal with her IRL. It makes sense that she'd act just as whiny irl as online. Lol at her, of all people, complaining about wasting resources. And I DEFINITELY believe she is as stupid as she sounds. No one can type or talk like that and be anything else.

If you have any dirt or insane conversations you've had with her to relay, I'm all ears. She was always one of my favorite cows.

Oh boy.

I moved and cut off all contact with her right after her gj surgery because I knew it was going to be nothing but tube porn. So I have no info on her for... a year? Except for what others who knew her have shared in frustration.

Spoiler: “probably more info than anyone needs to know about a SPED munchie named Dani.”

Just for the record I was not one of the anons who posted about her on LCF. I just lurked to see what strangers said about her. I only found out about them at all because she was always melting down and drawing everyone’s attention to them. I was a little scared of Chan-style boards before then and avoided them. So I guess she did contribute positively to my life in that way.

First off she is totally incapable of talking about anything except herself. I have never met someone so obsessed with turning the conversation back to herself and her very special sicknesses. Like someone would say “oh hey I had a baby this week.” And she would say “I’m not going to have kids, I’m much too sick, I would probably die if I tried to have a baby because I’m so sick.” When I told her I got engaged she immediately started talking about wanting to get married to her fake boyfriend and never let me talk again. Even teenagers are more capable of pretending they care about you. The only other person she could ever talk about was Jaquie and sometimes Aubrey and that was only to compare herself.

She’s a binge-purge anorexic. when we were maybe 30 she intentionally relapsed with her ED and did get quite skeletal and frightening, enough to get an NG and an inpatient stay in Nevada that she posted all over social media about – I think they allowed phones where she was but she might have just spammed photos after she was released. After treatment she tried to intentionally relapse again several times through restriction but couldn't stop eating. That's when muh gastroparesis started. I don’t know if she was purging again or restricting until she broke down and binged or what. She does have some dysmotility from purging and laxatives as well as serious GERD, but they’re controlled with PPIs and Linzess. Her GES was borderline for solids and normal for liquids even with abusing certain medications in an attempt to game the test.

She modeled herself after Jaq even though we're 10 years older. She constantly compared herself to Jaquie. It was a single-minded obsession with having all the same diagnoses and toys. Even her clothes, she started wearing loud leggings and tee shirts for a spell. She has zero self-awareness about this and no matter how many times you try to tell her that Jaquie’s munchie toys are not normal treatments for these problems, she just says “but I really need them!” Over and fucking over. I would never in a million years have thought she would weasel herself into a stim let alone a tube considering how obvious and incompetent she is but squeaky wheel/constant screeching hissyfits at Temple Hospital pay off I guess.

She fucks with her wounds to keep them from healing. As if that was ever in doubt. I will eat my underpants if she didn’t give herself this stoma infection on purpose. I also would not be surprised if she fucked with it because Jaq’s death was taking her munchie pity circle jerk from her – she posted it several days after Jaq died.

She hoards pill bottles. I’m pretty sure the empty/mostly empty bottle from every prescription she has ever gotten was in a Rubbermaid container that she showed off and organized like it was a precious collection of artifacts in a museum. She is obsessed with having the newest shiniest most expensive medications to bill Medicaid for.

When she started applying to liberty u’s online degree program she asked me if it was going to be a lot of religion because I worked in academia and knew my way around a course catalogue. I said yes, absolutely, every class is going to be about Jesus. She registered for classes anyway and then whined incessantly about how much religion was involved and tried to get me to write her bible study papers for her. She had no clue what academic dishonesty was and why I would object to writing her papers for her.

She has no other hobbies. None. Munching is her only hobby. She buys YA books but doesn’t have the attention span to read them for more than a half hour at a time. The only thing I ever witnessed her reading for longer was Wintergirls.

For a while she was trying to get my partner and I to train a service dog for her. When told our dog is just a pet who has a mellow personality and a good grasp on obedience, she didn’t understand why that didn’t translate to us being able to train a service dog for her. I think someone convinced her she was Much Too Sick And Fragile to care for a dog in her state and that she had to wait until those mean doctors helped her before she could get a service dog because she dropped it suddenly and never bothered me about it again.

Every time I logged into Facebook I would get a message from her venting about her latest medical drama. I just reactivated and it appears we’re still friends. Same shit different year, wannabe inspiration posts, melodramatic medical kvetching, e-begging, pretending to read and have hobbies. Surprisingly no mention of Jaq dying. But she never did read the drama after LCF shut down the munchie threads, AFAIK. Someone we know tried to tip her off to r/illnessfakers’ posts about why Jaquie should not be a role model and she went on a tearful rant about cyber bullying and how she wouldn’t ever read a site like that again. I don’t think she’s unaware Jaquie died. I think she’s just convinced she’s the next queen of the Spoonies.

And even if she did read this, I don’t worry about her identifying me from this information and sperging out to our remaining mutual friends or something. she’s so dense and self-absorbed she could never remember anything about me or anyone else from conversation to conversation. It was 100% waiting for us to pause for a half second so she could start talking about herself again.

I don’t know how much of that is “dirt” and how much is blatantly obvious.

 

[TwoFiftyTwoPM]

God thank you for this. insert Amen gif This is EXACTLY what I wanted to know. You just made my day with this. No joke.

 

[eternal dog mongler]

this is how it works in the US too
there are more mild forms where you can live to be an adult without knowing, like what this lady has, but she been sick her whole life without knowing why. or here's a paper about some people diagnosed as adults, but they all had recurring chest infections and other problems consistent with cf.

It happens, and actually I'm sure a small but significant amount of infants don't undergo the usual pre-natal screening. There's also idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis which can hit in adulthood and is very very similar to CF...but both IPF and CF can be easily found on imaging so it's a bad choice for munchies. And you'll get imaging almost ASAP because that's how you keep tabs on progression.

That's why munchies usually stick to diagnoses of exclusion and stuff that can be easily faked. Except they only generally go for the popular ones that they see on social media. Someone who worked in medicine that munched out could probably rack up like a hundred diagnoses but medical munchies tend to be munchies by proxy and busy themselves killing patients instead of killing themselves, which is even more horrifying.

 

[Kate Farms Shill]

God thank you for this. insert Amen gif This is EXACTLY what I wanted to know. You just made my day with this. No joke.

By the way, cow crossover. Anyone remember Kadee Konstantino's friend Kelly, the one with the NG tube that people called "palette face" because she wore obnoxious lipstick and had orange hair? Yeah she's part of this weird New Jersey/Philadelphia group, too. She has been recovered from her ED for over a year and now has epilepsy. All she ever posts about is her health and Kadee.


Dani is now toying with a MCAS dx and mentions benadryl a lot. Hmmm...



She wants to give back to her fellow munchies by ... selling them pads she makes in her filthy apartment so they, too, can have stoma infections


Here she is contemplating fucking with her feeding tube more immediately after Jaquie died from fucking with her feeding tube too much


But what she REALLY wants is a port for home infusions that her cardiologist selfishly refuses to help her with


And of course... She's trying to get on Kate Farms now. Good munchie. Suckle at the teat of Kate Farms.


That's about as much SPED as I can take in one day.

 

[Kate Farms Shill]

I lied, I can take way more SPED munchie tonight. Enjoy, fellow Kiwis.

Spoiler: More from the bottomless well of Dani's Tragic Suffering.

Poor Dani, her Vivonex tube feed spoiled when she poured too many cartons in a bag, ran them at <25 mL/hr, and left them in direct sunlight for hours during New Jersey's insanely warm Spring this year. Even after multiple people told her not to pour multiple cartons in a bag at once, to run them at a normal rate, and to keep them out of the sun or ask her landlord to turn on the AC in her unit to keep her formula from spoiling.


But good news! Since she can't tolerate the Vivonex, she's now completely transitioned to Kate Farms! Yes, nutritious, organic Kate Farms, made from all plant-based whole foods for the tube fed munchie who likes to pretend she doesn't chow down on burgers and fries as soon as no one's looking.


After her stoma gave her trouble when she definitely was not fucking with it...


She made sure to keep her tube safe by wearing it in the proper position.


Because she needs it for meds since she obviously can't swallow pills except for the handful of pills she swallows


But oh no, it clogged!


And then broke!


Good thing she could take up space in an ER all day bellowing for them to fix it or she'd starve!


Even though she does have gastroparesis-friendly safe foods she can eat like... grilled cheese for breakfast.


And she can always purge through her g-tube into a fucking soda bottle


She desperately sought help with her non-existent terminal gastroparesis. She needs only the BEST doctors. Dr. Parkman at Temple, who gave her the G-stim and the GJ tube, just isn't kowtowing to her every demand enough. She needs to switch to UPenn or go even further afield.


She decorated her IV Pole and wondered if it was too obviously attention-seeking to go into the communal living room of her housing project with it for no reason.


She decorated her stoma


She organized her feeding tube supplies


She organized her medical table but didn't fucking wipe it down first, god damn I'm so triggered.


She really, really wanted to see Five Feet Apart, a movie about teenagers in love but also they have cystic fibrosis and they're dying and they can't come near each other ever for their whole lives, how tragic and romantic. In b4 "I think my lung function is declining. Why won't my evil stupid doctor put me on the transplant list?!"


She planned a move based around the most important things in life.


She admit that she doesn't understand A&P and I prayed to every deity who would listen that she had not changed her major to nursing or some shit like that


But by far the best thing about Dani is she posts the results of every test so you can see exactly how full of shit she is, because she's too stupid to realize that the few blips on her tests mean fuck all and she'd be healthier than most people if she just ate food, slept, laid off the fucking sugar free energy drinks she chugs down daily (muh gastroparesis! muh tachycardia!) and the unnecessary medications, and got some exercise.

Even when fellow munchie Just Breathe Nicole lets her know she's full of shit

You know they say "absence makes the heart grow fonder?" I used to want to push Dani into a wood chipper on a regular basis and now, gosh, I think I'm falling for her.

 

[Undiagnosed Lupus]

THANK YOU!

Her autistic REEing on the threads, excessive blog posting & attention seeking is pathetic, she should have been banned a LONG time ago.

She doesn’t have lupus, she is full of shit & quite frankly she doesn’t need a medical doctor, she needs a psychiatrist & a padded room.

This however proves the point that illnessfakers, truechronicillness and malingering are all munchies calling out munchies.

I feel genuinely sorry for any genuine medical professionals in that thread that get sucked into the munchies wraith.

I'm late to post this, but holy shit this bitch is crazy. Her IG is now on private though.

 

[Video Games]

Been lurking for months but had to sign up to talk about this one because, for some reason, I find her absolute bizarreness fascinating. Needed to share this ten minute melodrama about being unliked in a forum. (I tried to archive but don't know what I'm doing and archive.org and .is didn't seem to work, sorry.)

This is one of the most fantastic videos I've ever seen. The purple prose. The absolute incapacity to accept blame. The fact that this stems from being disliked on the Internet (for doing the exact shit she does in the video). For all her attempts to make her crying online sound literary, Christine actually managed to make something I'd consider art.

Also, THANK YOU @Kate Farms Shill! A while ago she (she?) recommended some really interesting books, and this time she actually provided some. Why am I still here when I could be reading about women hundreds of years ago getting diagnosed with consumption or whatever? Maybe my attachment to the Internet in the face of tons of other interesting (and productive) ways to spend my time... is because of some sort of disease?

 

[Kate Farms Shill]

I'm late to post this, but holy shit this bitch is crazy. Her IG is now on private though.

She won't stay gone. They never do.

 

[Otterly]

isn't lupus something they have very specific tests for?

There’s not a single diagnostic test - mostly it’s done on a combo of signs, symptoms and lab tests. High ANA, a Malar rash (like a butterfly on the face) and a few others and you can be fairly sure. A few other antibodies are common but not specific. You get alterations in blood counts, protein in urine sometimes. It’s a nasty disease.

The major mutations that cause cf are defined - and now there’s a great drug for one of them. The mutation stalls the protein as it’s being made and the drug kind of lets it get past that block so it reads out properly. So you’d be able to fake symptoms but no decent doc would be fooled. Cf does some pretty grim things to your lungs , guts and pancreases.

Kate farms - that sounds fascinating! Another rabbit hole to wander down...

 

[eternal dog mongler]

I lied, I can take way more SPED munchie tonight. Enjoy, fellow Kiwis.

She sees a GP, a cardiologist, a gastroenterologist, a motility specialist, a neurologist AND a rheumatologist.

...but not an OB/GYN. Who needs regular pap smears anyway

That's munchie logic for you.

 

[TwoFiftyTwoPM]

I used to wonder if the boyfriend was real or else, as LC suggested, some asshole that just used her for a quick bang. I used to feel bad about the idea that it was a real dude who was using her. Now I'm convinced that the boyfriend never existed at all, which is a relief. And also hilarious. (Moving to Arizona? Sure, jan. Just like you and the love of your life were moving into a place together in "just a couple of months".....at least a year ago.)

Love that tube-pulled-through-my-neckline-shot. I've seen toddlers who are more smooth at copying the "cool kids" and their looks.

Reading all her stuff - such a lack of self-awareness. And she'll continue to "get worse", following the Munchie trajectory of never getting better despite getting more and more life-saving tools. Jesus fuck it's almost aweing.

Nggghhh, this stuff about Dani is the good shit. Right into my veins.

 

[ADHD]

She sees a GP, a cardiologist, a gastroenterologist, a motility specialist, a neurologist AND a rheumatologist.

...but not an OB/GYN. Who needs regular pap smears anyway

That's munchie logic for you.

You can get pap smears done by your GP as well as an OB/GYN. Maybe she does that?

 

[Kate Farms Shill]

I used to wonder if the boyfriend was real or else, as LC suggested, some asshole that just used her for a quick bang. I used to feel bad about the idea that it was a real dude who was using her. Now I'm convinced that the boyfriend never existed at all, which is a relief. And also hilarious. (Moving to Arizona? Sure, jan. Just like you and the love of your life were moving into a place together in "just a couple of months".....at least a year ago.)

Love that tube-pulled-through-my-neckline-shot. I've seen toddlers who are more smooth at copying the "cool kids" and their looks.

Reading all her stuff - such a lack of self-awareness. And she'll continue to "get worse", following the Munchie trajectory of never getting better despite getting more and more life-saving tools. Jesus fuck it's almost aweing.

Nggghhh, this stuff about Dani is the good shit. Right into my veins.

Honestly I didn't think anyone but me was going to care about Dani. I remember anons complaining about how boring she was on LCF, and my attempt to bring her up on IF was met with "omg she's trying to do better for herself she's in school and so what if she got a feeding tube?!"

Boyfriend exists as a human. Whether or not he cares about her is another thing entirely. I never met him and never saw him interact with her. She almost never talked about him unless you specifically brought something up related to your SO and she needed to flip the conversation back to herself. His name is Paul Liptak. He's a bartender at a trashy dive called Marz Bar. That's all I know about him.

Dani's annoying enough to get the few toys she has now. I don't think she can continue on this path. She burned her bridge with the only doctor who paid attention to her and gave her stuff, Dr. Parkman at Temple's Digestive Heath center. She burned bridges at St. Luke's at Warren by using their ER as a fun place to hang out on Saturday night (and dressing up like she was going out to dinner to go there. The doctors that ordered the tests that proved she's fine are both at St. Luke's Phillipsburg office - Jaffari is a rheumatologist and Mehta is a neurologist, and she's already been through their gastroenterology people which his how she got the referral to Temple. She's already burned through all the doctors around her hometown. She's going to keep being too obvious to convince anyone she's really sick. One glance by a doctor at her social media will see she fetishizes her tube. IF She makes it to Arizona, maybe maybe she'll be able to obfuscate her past antics enough to get a new toy but... I'm choosing to be optimistic that she's going to keep screaming into the void.

Spoiler: a history of Dani's behavior before lolcow

Sorry had to dig through my own journals, Dani's old facebook, and my partner's brain to get this info straight.

I've known her since around 2011/2012. At the time she actually had two jobs. She worked full time or close to it for the Just Born Confectionary Co. (the people who make Peeps) in their retail outlet and held another part-time job at St; Luke's Anderson hospital in Bethlehem, PA (I don't know if she ever told me what she did there, partner says she thinks it was janitorial/environmental services). On top of that she was in school for pharmacy tech and she actually got through it and got a job at Walgreens' pharmacy, I think also in Bethlehem. I asked my friend who is a manager there if he remembers her but he doesn't. I mean it's not med school but it was something that required her to get up, get dressed, sit through a class and absorb information. At one point she tried for nursing school as well, as far as I remember, but had to stop because she couldn't get through the math courses. Point is: She was annoying as fuck and dumb as a stump but she wasn't totally useless and she really did try to make something of herself. She also looked like the goddamned cryptkeeper. So when she constantly complained that she felt nauseous, weak, dizzy, when she fell down and broke her wrist, it all made sense. She had an eating disorder, was running herself into the ground with school and work, and she felt like shit. Cool, got it.

Then around early 2013 she checked into Renfrew clinic Philadelphia. She got out and was totally normal. Really. She went to her outpatient meetings. She worked, she talked about applying to better jobs. She went on a really prolonged social media break. Still totally full of herself and you couldn't hold a conversation but she was, yanno, being as normal as a stunted and genuinely stupid person can be expected to be and seemed happy. Then she relapsed with her ED and went to UPenn Med's Princeton ED center then to a private (?) clinic in Reno for a while. When she came back it was a 24 hour news cycle of munchie drama. This brings us to 2015-16 when she returned to social media and never. shut. up. again.

Random info; She was a smoker and drank a LOT of vodka with diet soda. She continued to smoke but I don't remember her drinking after she got back from ED treatment. She was a gymnast and later a competitive cheerleader in high school.

TL;DR: Dani was normal-ish with multiple jobs and an education as well as clearly anorexic, then slowly grew into her current form in the years I knew her.

Spoiler: absolutely massive pre-lolcow Dani private facebook dump

This bitch seriously updates her facebook 10-20 times in any given day so this is... extensive. Most of her updates are like, "netflix!" or "cleaning my apartment lol such a mess don't know how i'll get thru all this!" You aren't missing much.

The Princeton days


She tried to claim to have a gluten allergy and be a vegan during this time because, yanno, ED specialists are too dumb to realize that's a way to restrict what you're forced to eat. Her next update was about how she lost her day pass privileges because her weight dropped.


Then she went to Reno's Center for Hope in the Sierras, where the munchie antics truly began. For the most part it was still "I'm so bipolar, panic attacks, anxiety, flashbacks, dissociated, manic, depressed..." more than physical ailments.
(side note: she pulled her vegan/gluten free act there and they forced her to eat peanut butter sandwiches on GF bread all the time.)


She started memorializing old injuries too


Still mostly concerned with being the sickest widdle anorexic in the whole wide world


Then she came home to New Jersey where she mostly cried about how hard it was to be home from her 6th inpatient, but also about her terrible health as a result of her chronic anorexia and sperged about her foot



Jaquie'd up a toy (Cropped to remove innocent child)


Then she started talking about fibromyalgia which she never claimed to have before along with other ailments.


August 2015 she started pining for a PEG tube immediately after admitting she ate food she's allergic to


Drug-seeking. "Chronic fatique syndrome" but also chronic insomnia


Can't keep anything down; wants diet soda ??? Please note that most of these posts have 0 engagement. She's just screaming into the void. The intermittent "shares" were to a second facebook she had set up as a public account to e-beg and whine about how bad she felt or to her mom.


Watched after school specials about eating disorders


Starts doctor shopping because those mean doctors at St. Lukes won't give her morphine and a PEG

more pining away for the days when she was actually sick


And trying to prove she still is


October 2 appointment did not go to her liking. She said nothing about it that day and posted two days later about how her new doc was also really stupid and she was so complicated she had to go to a specialist. No one was paying attention to her so she pretended to break her wrist again. Went to a different hospital over half an hour away and had a temper tantrum over those stupid doctors also not seeing how serious and special her case is. Only the brave X-ray tech has seen the truth of Dani's plight and diagnoses her with "abcess seizures"


More doctor shopping, desperate to get tubed


The famous DIY feeding tube incident. Yes, she really did this. Twice! TWICE! This was her first self-inserted NG. This one stuck around a few days while she continued to go to the ER and random doctors until one forced her to take it out. The next time she did it everyone told her to knock it the fuck off and she got embarrassed and took it out the same day.


If you're going to claim you can't eat anything maybe crop the Wawa Hot 'n' Tasty to-go food cup out of the pic (Wawa is a convenience store/deli chain. That looks like the mashed potatoes. They're super, super buttery, not vegan, and about 900 calories for a large, which is what she has there.)


Start of the Service Dog Saga. I don't have the texts of her asking me to train a dog for her. At first it was supposed to be just a pet to keep her company but then as soon as Harlow and Jaq got e-famous it turned to "I need a service dog!!!" She mentioned it intermittently for a year or two and started a GFM for a program dog. Comments during this era were 90% "omg yess a cute doggo!!" and 10% "if you have no money you should not have a dog."


Goes to doctors with self-inserted NG tube. Doesn't understand why they keep telling her to get rid of it and fucking eat. The audacity of the doctor not pushing our delicate Dani back out of the hospital! Doesn't she understand this woman is dying?! She was claiming an inability to swallow as the reason she can't get nutrition.


Cut herself, "broke her ankle" (never even swelled), and held her wee trying to get admitted to the hospital. Complained she couldn't drink smoothies because they got too "light and watery" for her to swallow. Was still drinking soda, tho. Really boring shit. Then she decided she had serotonin syndrome.


But her real problem was acute lack of feeding tube. Her remaining ED recovery friends all abandoned her because she was triggering and she had a few tard meltdowns over it.


Bonus: total lack of self-awareness

That's all in 2015.

I have to do my actual work now but if I find time later and people are interested I'll comb through 2016. She is truly the gift that keeps on giving to munchie hunters.

 

[Umaibae]

A contestant on the current season of Drag Race has EDS, which I found interesting. Except they don't have any medical toys, nor do they sperg out about it. Only mention was they said they needed to fall more carefully during some choreography so they didn't accidentally pop their knee out — but they still danced, writhed all over the floor etc. while wearing heels Ike a champ.

Hm. It's almost like Munchies make EDS to be this horrible, horrible thing that makes living life TOO HARD, when really only the vascular type is deadly.

 

[suck my pickle]

Honestly I didn't think anyone but me was going to care about Dani. I remember anons complaining about how boring she was on LCF, and my attempt to bring her up on IF was met with "omg she's trying to do better for herself she's in school and so what if she got a feeding tube?!"

Boyfriend exists as a human. Whether or not he cares about her is another thing entirely. I never met him and never saw him interact with her. She almost never talked about him unless you specifically brought something up related to your SO and she needed to flip the conversation back to herself. His name is Paul Liptak. He's a bartender at a trashy dive called Marz Bar. That's all I know about him.

Dani's annoying enough to get the few toys she has now. I don't think she can continue on this path. She burned her bridge with the only doctor who paid attention to her and gave her stuff, Dr. Parkman at Temple's Digestive Heath center. She burned bridges at St. Luke's at Warren by using their ER as a fun place to hang out on Saturday night (and dressing up like she was going out to dinner to go there. The doctors that ordered the tests that proved she's fine are both at St. Luke's Phillipsburg office - Jaffari is a rheumatologist and Mehta is a neurologist, and she's already been through their gastroenterology people which his how she got the referral to Temple. She's already burned through all the doctors around her hometown. She's going to keep being too obvious to convince anyone she's really sick. One glance by a doctor at her social media will see she fetishizes her tube. IF She makes it to Arizona, maybe maybe she'll be able to obfuscate her past antics enough to get a new toy but... I'm choosing to be optimistic that she's going to keep screaming into the void.

Spoiler: a history of Dani's behavior before lolcow

Sorry had to dig through my own journals, Dani's old facebook, and my partner's brain to get this info straight.

I've known her since around 2011/2012. At the time she actually had two jobs. She worked full time or close to it for the Just Born Confectionary Co. (the people who make Peeps) in their retail outlet and held another part-time job at St; Luke's Anderson hospital in Bethlehem, PA (I don't know if she ever told me what she did there, partner says she thinks it was janitorial/environmental services). On top of that she was in school for pharmacy tech and she actually got through it and got a job at Walgreens' pharmacy, I think also in Bethlehem. I asked my friend who is a manager there if he remembers her but he doesn't. I mean it's not med school but it was something that required her to get up, get dressed, sit through a class and absorb information. At one point she tried for nursing school as well, as far as I remember, but had to stop because she couldn't get through the math courses. Point is: She was annoying as fuck and dumb as a stump but she wasn't totally useless and she really did try to make something of herself. She also looked like the goddamned cryptkeeper. So when she constantly complained that she felt nauseous, weak, dizzy, when she fell down and broke her wrist, it all made sense. She had an eating disorder, was running herself into the ground with school and work, and she felt like shit. Cool, got it.

Then around early 2013 she checked into Renfrew clinic Philadelphia. She got out and was totally normal. Really. She went to her outpatient meetings. She worked, she talked about applying to better jobs. She went on a really prolonged social media break. Still totally full of herself and you couldn't hold a conversation but she was, yanno, being as normal as a stunted and genuinely stupid person can be expected to be and seemed happy. Then she relapsed with her ED and went to UPenn Med's Princeton ED center then to a private (?) clinic in Reno for a while. When she came back it was a 24 hour news cycle of munchie drama. This brings us to 2015-16 when she returned to social media and never. shut. up. again.

Random info; She was a smoker and drank a LOT of vodka with diet soda. She continued to smoke but I don't remember her drinking after she got back from ED treatment. She was a gymnast and later a competitive cheerleader in high school.

TL;DR: Dani was normal-ish with multiple jobs and an education as well as clearly anorexic, then slowly grew into her current form in the years I knew her.

Spoiler: absolutely massive pre-lolcow Dani private facebook dump

This bitch seriously updates her facebook 10-20 times in any given day so this is... extensive. Most of her updates are like, "netflix!" or "cleaning my apartment lol such a mess don't know how i'll get thru all this!" You aren't missing much.

The Princeton days
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She tried to claim to have a gluten allergy and be a vegan during this time because, yanno, ED specialists are too dumb to realize that's a way to restrict what you're forced to eat. Her next update was about how she lost her day pass privileges because her weight dropped.
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Then she went to Reno's Center for Hope in the Sierras, where the munchie antics truly began. For the most part it was still "I'm so bipolar, panic attacks, anxiety, flashbacks, dissociated, manic, depressed..." more than physical ailments.
(side note: she pulled her vegan/gluten free act there and they forced her to eat peanut butter sandwiches on GF bread all the time.)
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She started memorializing old injuries too
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Still mostly concerned with being the sickest widdle anorexic in the whole wide world
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Then she came home to New Jersey where she mostly cried about how hard it was to be home from her 6th inpatient, but also about her terrible health as a result of her chronic anorexia and sperged about her foot
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Jaquie'd up a toy (Cropped to remove innocent child)
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Then she started talking about fibromyalgia which she never claimed to have before along with other ailments.
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August 2015 she started pining for a PEG tube immediately after admitting she ate food she's allergic to
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Drug-seeking. "Chronic fatique syndrome" but also chronic insomnia
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Can't keep anything down; wants diet soda ??? Please note that most of these posts have 0 engagement. She's just screaming into the void. The intermittent "shares" were to a second facebook she had set up as a public account to e-beg and whine about how bad she felt or to her mom.
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Watched after school specials about eating disorders
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Starts doctor shopping because those mean doctors at St. Lukes won't give her morphine and a PEG
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more pining away for the days when she was actually sick
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And trying to prove she still is
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October 2 appointment did not go to her liking. She said nothing about it that day and posted two days later about how her new doc was also really stupid and she was so complicated she had to go to a specialist. No one was paying attention to her so she pretended to break her wrist again. Went to a different hospital over half an hour away and had a temper tantrum over those stupid doctors also not seeing how serious and special her case is. Only the brave X-ray tech has seen the truth of Dani's plight and diagnoses her with "abcess seizures"
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More doctor shopping, desperate to get tubed
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The famous DIY feeding tube incident. Yes, she really did this. Twice! TWICE! This was her first self-inserted NG. This one stuck around a few days while she continued to go to the ER and random doctors until one forced her to take it out. The next time she did it everyone told her to knock it the fuck off and she got embarrassed and took it out the same day.
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If you're going to claim you can't eat anything maybe crop the Wawa Hot 'n' Tasty to-go food cup out of the pic (Wawa is a convenience store/deli chain. That looks like the mashed potatoes. They're super, super buttery, not vegan, and about 900 calories for a large, which is what she has there.)
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Start of the Service Dog Saga. I don't have the texts of her asking me to train a dog for her. At first it was supposed to be just a pet to keep her company but then as soon as Harlow and Jaq got e-famous it turned to "I need a service dog!!!" She mentioned it intermittently for a year or two and started a GFM for a program dog. Comments during this era were 90% "omg yess a cute doggo!!" and 10% "if you have no money you should not have a dog."
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Goes to doctors with self-inserted NG tube. Doesn't understand why they keep telling her to get rid of it and fucking eat. The audacity of the doctor not pushing our delicate Dani back out of the hospital! Doesn't she understand this woman is dying?! She was claiming an inability to swallow as the reason she can't get nutrition.
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Cut herself, "broke her ankle" (never even swelled), and held her wee trying to get admitted to the hospital. Complained she couldn't drink smoothies because they got too "light and watery" for her to swallow. Was still drinking soda, tho. Really boring shit. Then she decided she had serotonin syndrome.
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But her real problem was acute lack of feeding tube. Her remaining ED recovery friends all abandoned her because she was triggering and she had a few tard meltdowns over it.
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Bonus: total lack of self-awareness
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That's all in 2015.

I have to do my actual work now but if I find time later and people are interested I'll comb through 2016. She is truly the gift that keeps on giving to munchie hunters.

obligatory long time lurker, came from IF, sick of asspats, etc.

came to say @Kate Farms Shill your research is top notch and exactly the snarky shit I came here for. this dani girl is a fucking trip.

 

[Kate Farms Shill]

More from Dani's grimoire of eternal suffering. 2016 is when Jaquie and Harlow started getting e-famous and Dani went absolutely fucking bananas, from "stupid annoying girl you tolerate" to "holy shit someone shut her the fuck up." This is just some of the truly batshit stuff she posted in 2016. I would be here all day if I uploaded everything. Hundreds upon hundreds of updates on her health. Almost every day, at least two posts about how she was dying. Constant ER visits. Doing everything in her power to get admitted.

The feeding tube saga ended for now. She realized everyone was totally over hearing about her desperate need for a PEG and no doctor was going to give her one. She continued to bang on about her totally real gastroparesis that she diagnosed herself with, but she stopped specifically demanding a feeding tube until the next year when Jaquie got one. But the service dog saga really took off and with it came the e-begging and constant temper tantrums. Grab the popcorn buckets, kiwis.

Spoiler: our lady of perpetual munchausen

These are organized by theme rather than chronologically since she has several plot lines going on at the same time and it gets confusing.

At the beginning of the year she decided self-harming was the correct way to get the medical attention she desperately craves. She cut herself bad enough to need stitches or glue a few times. Then in february 2016 she gave herself 3rd degree burns on one of her arms and got tons of medical attention. It took months for them to heal and involved lots of appointments and treatments and she was elated by this. I'm not posting too much of her whining about this because it's boring as fuck. Also not any pics of the wounds because fuck no but they're on the old Lolcow threads if you're a masochist.



While the feeding tube drama backed off, the gastroparesis drama did not. Chimping out because friends from eating disorder units were annoyed with her constant body checking, calorie counts, and whining about not eating and throwing up.


Claims to be dying of gastroparesis. Truly this is the grocery list of someone with this ailment. Not juice, ensure, instant potato flakes, cream of wheat...


And she can eat massive plates of vegetables covered in pepper and hot sauce.


Fries are exactly what you should eat when you have gastroparesis.


Got to see a neurologist. Got an MRI. Surprise! nothing's wrong.


But I think I had a stroke trying to decipher this.

Griping about pain, wanting stronger drugs, fibro, whatever she can find to whine about


12/10 pain. Better take a selfie.


Thinks she has POTS. Obsesses over blood pressure and tachycardia for a while.


Medical kiwis can feel free to correct me here but... This is all pretty normal looking to me. That's what happens when you move around. Your blood pressure and heart rate should not remain constant. Her heart rate is normal for someone who abuses caffeine, smokes, and doesn't exercise. I cannot stress enough how truly, exhaustingly stupid Dani is.


Munched her way into a holter monitor that she named Holly and did... this.


Bought a pulse ox on Amazon. Gratuitous photos when it came in all showing nothing is wrong. Stopped posting when too many people told her nothing was wrong.


Bought a TENS unit. Didn't realize TENS was in Japanese and just picked random settings. Next update was asking how to return a TENS unit she had opened and used. Bonus: is going to be a model.


Pill bottle hoard with all the labels turned away so you can't see that most of them are old.


Why is she wearing a sling to her doctor appointments? Oh, because she had dead arm when she woke up and it was still a little tingly. Not even fucking kidding.


She finally got a hospital admit overnight and complained about how she never expected this to happen. Might need a blood transfusion! Might have a clot! Annnd.. nope, nothing was wrong with her.


Complaining about how she goes to the ER too often for things they can't help her with and they keep turning her away. Fellow drama queen joins in to complain.



ER doctors say she is "too chronic" for a walker or a cane. So she buys one anyway. And decorates it. And names it Bertha. And brings it the next time she goes to the ER.


Dramatically holding her pee so she can go to the ER again.


Blood in her poopy. ER time! Alas, she's "too chronic" again. Commenters tell her to stop going to the ER for things that are not an emergency. Jumps to "I don't have borderline!!" Never change, Dani.


But the real highlight of 2016 was the service dog saga. She actually ended up getting approved by one organization, Merlin's KIDS which primarily trains shelter dogs to be autism support dogs and occasionally provides them for firefighters or others with PTSD. She was going to use this dog for mobility and "passing out all the time" and bragged in the comments how she was "so tiny" they had to make sure they got a smaller dog for her. The good news is almost no one donated because they knew she couldn't care for a dog and people told her to stop begging. So she made another platform to e-beg.


In response to an "if you can't afford the vet you can't afford the pet" comment, she made a third donation page for emergency supplies for the dog ...like food. Unfortunately link 404s.


And a fourth one for the dog AND her bills. Because this all screams "capable of caring for another living being."


More attempts at fund raising the $10,000-15,000 donation for the dog she doesn't need and would probably end up killing.


(still had to spend a few bucks for the essentials, of course)


Friend mentions she got her dog for free off Craigslist and trained it to be a SD. Jaquie got famous for training Harlow around this time. I think this is where she got the idea to ask random dog people she knew to train a dog for her.


By November she had stopped mentioning the dog and by December she had a new GoFuckMe for just her bills.

And thus we conclude 2016, the year Dani really started to go off the rails into munchie-land. Tune in next time I have a few hours to kill for 2017.

Edit: lol, found another service dog fundraiser she ran in 2016. https://www.customink.com/fundraising//spoonie-warrior

 

[Ellesse_warrior]

https://www.bbc.com/news/health-48151355

Does anyone know more about the above?

I've spent all weekend reading through this whole thread. Very interesting to say the least. I read through some studies about how healthcare systems/ CPS deal with MBP to see if any of the earlier questions in the thread could be answered. The below is a study that gets updated every few years.
https://www.rcpch.ac.uk/sites/defau...A_Practical_Guide_for_Paediatricians_2009.pdf
TLR - In cases of suspected child abuse the numbers are high for MBP (highest number cited UK study 97/128 cases).
In the UK and Ireland anyway video recording is used in cases where MBP is suspected. The attached has an appendix of the different factors which would need to be met to use video recording.

Spoiler: International Doctor Shopping

Remember this girl? One from the earlier pages
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4IfvftWEqrQ

She brought up the issue of not being able to doctor shop because the NHS is a national system. As it turns out this has not been a deterrent for munchies because there have been a number of cases where they travel between the UK and Ireland sometimes using fake ID's or feigning amnesia. I don't have figures for this but it's common enough to be mentioned in HSE (The Irish Health Service) sources for dealing with cases of MBP. (It's also quite common for Irish people to go to the UK for certain procedures which are not available in Ireland so the guidelines for both the HSE and NHS generally include both).

Perhaps Brexit will prevent some of this from happening but then again all EU citizens are entitled to healthcare from EU countries using an E111 card. I wonder are there munchies abusing this system in the same way and it hasn't been spotted yet.

Spoiler: Fake Service Dogs

This one had the malamute and a great pyrenees and also seems to have a history of short lived animals

Current name: Vincent Parizek
Other alises: Elise Parizek
Rhys Fox
<one that’s something weeby>

and I couldn't find the original page but there was a girl with a St. Bernard 'service dog', I find the choice of breed very suspect as although they are generally lovely gentle breeds they are hard to train to do anything other than the basics eg house training and sit etc. Giant dogs are in general big cuddly dopes. Also you would really have to mistreat a St Bernard for it to bite you so the story of the St Bernard biting a stranger is suspect in itself. I have a great pyrenees X St Bernard myself and she's as thick as two short planks. Literally nothing but fresh air between her ears. They are not made for that type of work at all.

There was also a woman mentioned early on in the thread who threatened to pepper spray anyone who looked at her 'service dog' for distracting it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D244b4E3yuA

Was it this girl? Anyway it started a big discussion about how service dogs are really well trained etc.

Short anecdote: I used to work in a shop and had a regular customer who was blind. Her guide dog absolutely loved chewing on those little squares that you put on the clothes hangers to easily show what size an item of clothing is. He used to randomly drag her into racks of shirts after spotting them on the floor. She used to laugh it off and apologised in case he ruined a display. I think a person reeeeing about their 'service dog' being distracted is a red flag too. I think more people react like my customer and have a sense of humor about things.

 

[Kate Farms Shill]

I think a person reeeeing about their 'service dog' being distracted is a red flag too. I think more people react like my customer and have a sense of humor about things.

There's a saying in service dog circles: it's a dog, not a robot. Most legit handlers I know expect the dog to do dumb dog stuff once in a while even when vested.

 

[Otterly]

Well that report is fairly scary:

“f the 128 index children had at least one sibling and of these, 15 had at least one sibling who had died previously (a total of 18 deaths, 10% of all siblings). Five of these deaths had been previously classified as Sudden Infant Deaths. The literature review by Sheridan30 identified that 25% of known siblings of index children had died and 61.3% had illnesses similar to those of the victims.’

Oi.

 

[Ellesse_warrior]

Well that report is fairly scary:

“f the 128 index children had at least one sibling and of these, 15 had at least one sibling who had died previously (a total of 18 deaths, 10% of all siblings). Five of these deaths had been previously classified as Sudden Infant Deaths. The literature review by Sheridan30 identified that 25% of known siblings of index children had died and 61.3% had illnesses similar to those of the victims.’

Oi.

Five of these deaths had been previously classified as Sudden Infant Deaths. This line in particular. I read this originally as a possible catalyst to trigger MBP rather than infanticide.