Name: Chr!stina D0herty
Location: Woburn, Massachusetts
Claimed conditions:
EDS
MCAS
Chiari malformation
Tethered cord syndrome
Spinal instability
Idiopathic intracranial hypertension
Dysautonomia
POTS
Adrenal insufficiency
Gastroparesis
GERD
TMJ
Sleep apnea
Endometriosis
IBS
Celiac disease
Kyphosis (hunchback)
Scoliosis
Chronic pain
Spina bifida occulta
Lyme (for a minute)
Other, I'm sure but it'd take me forever to pore (pour?) over all her hashtags.
When we meet Christina, she's a nerdy 18-year-old who does middling watercolors of Disney characters on the gram.
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Big oof.
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In an early post, she already has been diagnosed with EDS and has a fusion surgery. You might think that this is her first surgery, but we come to learn later that it's not at all... I think this may have been like her 4th or something.
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She posted this picture shortly after, but the timeline here is messy. She had just started her Instagram and it wasn't a true documentation of what she was going through at the time.
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In a later video she says she was unable to read because of idiopathic intracranial hypertension. I'm not sure this is out of line with that, again I don't think the 2014 timeline exactly syncs up. We don't know if this was another surgery or pics taken during the same surgery.
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(I believe this comment belongs to this post, but I took a lot of screenshots so.)
In 2015 she was "relearning to walk" (she is often relearning to walk).
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Now featuring seizures, for some reason. This is when we see a number on surgeries: five, with six and seven upcoming.
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Moving on to 2016 (and maybe not in order):
She began 2016 with almost all of her spine fused:
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She started a YouTube channel and now has MastCell
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She had a "mini-stroke" and had to have a cerebral stent placed
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She was allergic to CT contrast. Look, I can tell you this: no. CT contrast is most often an iodine preparation. Iodine is naturally occurring in the body as it is necessary for normal thyroid function. There are a VERY limited number of reactions to contrast, which would be treated with a corticosteroid. If you believed you had a seafood allergy or a contrast material reaction, you'd tell the doc and they would assess whether to give it to you. Please correct me if I'm wrong, but at the MOST she could be having a pseudoallergic reaction.
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She got a feeding tube, which started when she was around 10-11, she says
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She did a sleep study
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Here's a picture of her spine
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Remember when Lyme was a thing? lololol
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She let her g-tube hang out of her skirt mid-summer cuz that's normal.
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In March she had her ENTIRE spine fused, skull to tailbone.
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I know I'm kind of useless, but she's got all kinds of different braces and idk what all they do. Idk if people with 5 different spinal surgeries need them or not. Maybe at that point you do.
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They all LOVE this book.
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She fainted "well over 20 times"
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She finished off the year by getting a picc.
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Okay, now it's 2017 and she's 20-21 years old.
She begins to monitor he bloodsugar for reasons unknown.
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This is her spine as viewed on fluoroscopy. All fused up
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Is this true, "loose ligaments can't properly support and stabilize our joints"?
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She definitely took this pic on the DL, like once the nurse left her to get changed.
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Don't forget about her feeding tube. She can't swallow.
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And she started xolair injections cuz she reacts to food, perfumes, smoke, air freshners, laundry soap, cosmetics, etc. "essentially allergic to everything." (but not Lush products)
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Okay, moving on to 2018.
Surgerines in 2 different states sounds a bit like doctor shopping, no?
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According to her, a scan showed that one of her screws popped loose. I guess that's what happens when you've got that much hardware.
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Also around this same time she had a lung infection (?)
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Gnarly.
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And here he is, the man himself.
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THIS. WOMAN. She let doctors perform surgery on her WHILE SHE WAS AWAKE. I think it was fusing of her tibia and fibula and she got operated on like, World War I bite a bullet and let an untrained medic saw your leg off-style. I'm not sure anyone I've yet seen on Kiwi Farms is so committed.
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Now, a lot of her 2018 stuff is like, pictures of art and inspirational quotes and stuff. But when she goes downhill, she goes downhill fast.
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She had a shunt placed, lots of stuff done... probably if you've had that many surgeries, now is about when you can start to expect things to go wrong.
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I'm not 100% sure I follow this train of thought, if this was the shunt that was placed before or a second shunt placed later. Anyway, she got a major infection.
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I believe this is from the same hospital stay
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And then she had ANOTHER spinal fusion revision. My GAWD that shirt.
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Shortly thereafter, this post says, she had a collapsed lung because a surgeon poked a hole in her lung during a port placement.
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Now it's 2019.
Punctured lung or punctured lung scare? Unknown.
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Her mom videotaped her in the hospital, where a nurse (or someone) had just quick-pushed 50mg liquid benadryl
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"This is why I don't do drugs, people," she tells an imaginary audience.
Posted the same day:
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Guess who has an embroidered bag for her epipen?
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FUSION SAVED HER LIFE OKAY?!
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What. Is. A. Bone. Growth. Stimulator.
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Also this lil jokester posted this about CBD on 4/20. Furthermore what is wrong with weed culture I ask?
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And then it's all artposts... until around October, when her health takes a nosedive again. I'll just let those posts speak for themselves, since they're mostly text.
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