DUSK NOTE: After almost a week of trawling through screenshots, we finally had to call it quits and synthesize...something. I'll include the last of my aunt's analysis, and close with our impressions, though mine are clearly the opinions of an psychologically uneducated asshole, and hold considerably less weight.
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I can't fathom why someone want to commemorate such a traumatic event. I feel like a broken record, but I'm mildly shocked that she is so open in dwelling on and obsessing over these dangerous medical procedures. This post reads as a nauseatingly-excited reliving of what must have been a traumatic event for her daughter, with a hurriedly appended "isn't it awful?" tacked on afterwards. If you have a particularly nasty older relative or neighbor who delights in telling you that Rosie lost the baby, didn't you hear? Eighth month and everything. Dick had to get her shut up down at Juniper Hill. Terrible, innit?
This is far beyond that kind of schadenfreude, though. It's not entirely out of the question that she gets off on being healthy while her kids are in pain, but it's clearly about the attention for her. If it weren't, she wouldn't be celebrating, and she wouldn't be posting the gory details on Facebook. It's normal to go to close friends and family members for reassurance, but who cares if your cousin's ex-girlfriend puts a "sad" reaction on your status update? If she were truly traumatized, she'd never make a post, period, much less one of this tone. Think about the most frightening day of your life. For example, about seven years ago, my twin brother was in a car crash. To this day, I remember almost nothing about that day. My nephew told me that he called me, etc., etc., but that day was so stressful and horrific that all I can remember are a few random moments. I'm sure most people reading this have experienced a similarly stressful situation. Would you write about it on Facebook? Probably not, but maybe your page is carefully curated, and you've cultivated some distance. Would you write about it like this? If you answered in the affirmative, all I can do is hope that you're doing so from behind a door with a good lock on it.
I don't want to nitpick too hard, especially considering that there's plenty to criticize her for without stooping too low, but I was a bit taken aback by her seeming expectation that her daughter be "brave and strong" and handle ever
View attachment 1246928ything with "much grace and positivity." That is entirely too much to ask for from a child in an extraordinarily painful situation. Also, "We began to press doctors, nurses, and wound clinics locally for answers" is code for "I turned myself into a giant pain in the ass and got booted out of two to three local practices." And the words no M.D. wants to hear: "My momma heart knew differently." To pediatricians, that means "I know that hundreds of years of medical science, a preponderance of high-quality evidence, and all reputable medical authorities tell me that vaccinations are safe and effective, and that foregoing them can be very dangerous, but I read a blog on the Internet and it activated my lizard brain, so I'm about to make your life a living hell and maybe infect one of your immunocompromised patients with the mumps." To a CPS investigator or diagnosing doctor, it means "you have evidence against me, or evidence that my child is healthy, or evidence that their condition isn't what I say it is, but I'm going to assert that my child is so special that the laws of physics and anatomy don't apply to them, and then sit back with a smirk like I'm a modern-day Benjamin Franklin." Surgeons should not "trust the gut" of an untrained idiot when deciding whether or not to hack open a child's skull and dig around in their brain. I can't believe I have to say that, but apparently it's not obvious. Dr. Greenfield, Dr. Baaj, and Dr. Otterburn: kiss my ass. I honestly, truly hope the out-of-pocket cash you got from this whore made you happy, because this kid is either going to die from a complication from your hatchet jobs, or by suicide before she's twenty. Happy fucking Zipperversary.
View attachment 1246954Also, how pathetic do you have to be to declare yourself your child's best friend? My best friend is not a fucking nine-year-old. Obviously nobody who has a choice can tolerate her. Too bad her kids don't have the option of cutting and running.
Never trust anyone who says that they're the "only" one of anything. I'm reminded of a scene from the Simpsons when Homer asks a indigenous guy "Are you really the last of the Mohicans?" and he replies "Ehh, chicks dig it when you're the last of something." In medicine, I am very skeptical that there are any unique cases. There are atypical presentations, but unless you were onsite at Chernobyl or mucking around in an asbestos-and-lead factory, chances are, you're not that special. If you have a rare cancer or genetic condition, your PCP might not know what they're looking at immediately, and they may not have treated someone with that diagnosis before, but it has been discovered, and someone knows about it. If not, you're either a bonafide, one-in-a-trillion medical mystery, or you're full of shit. Psychiatry is a little more fluid, but we have guidelines. If you don't have either obsessions or compulsions, you cannot have OCD. You must meet X number of diagnostic criteria to receive Y diagnosis. Anyhow, she's clearly on an "awareness" power trip. Even if she weren't lying, "awareness" is the lowest form of advocacy. Parents posting meltdown videos of their autistic children and humiliating them on YouTube is "awareness." Who in this day and age is unaware of autism? The only thing they want people to be aware of is their PayPal.
She also deliberately misses the point of the criticism she has been receiving. The issue is not that her daughter is spoiled (though when you're celebrating the six month anniversary of an event that's not even a birthday, one has to wonder if you're causing more problems than you're solving). The issue is that this is bizarre, grotesque, morbid, macabre,
weird behavior. She basically answers by telling us "shut up, my kid is dying, feel bad for me," and closes with the worst advice ever. Curious about someone's disability? Ask them! Ask a stranger to explain their health to you! Of course she would delight in this, because she's an attention whore, but imagine being a paraplegic at the grocery store and this gormless hick and her Frankensteined kids swan up to you and ask, because knowledge is power! I was a little heartened, at least, that she has been getting some criticism.
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Ugh. Ugh. Ugh. Look, I was born into a white-trash family. I've seen hunting accidents, limbs necrotic from diabetes, and home-births. I'm a veteran. I've worked in emergency departments pulling foreign objects from anuses and treating gunshot victims, people hit by buses, et. cetera. I've evaluated rapists and murderers. But for some reason, this just really turned my stomach. Look at the top left. That's not my kid. I don't even like most kids. But I could not sit by and hold a camera seeing the pain and terror on that kid's face. How does a mother even remember her Facebook page in a situation like that? And the disembodied hand, pulling her face up, putting her on display...chilling. The next picture isn't even of her face. She's just an object to be displayed and sliced open. For God's sake, a child having her head cracked open doesn't need a camera in her face. She needs comfort. She needs a mother human enough to be present with her in her time of fear. Of course, if her mother was a fucking human being, she would've never been in that situation in the first place.
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Enough said. I'm not much of a psychoanalyst, so I won't venture any theories as to the psychodynamics of her more vicious treatment of her daughters. I think she tips her hand here. She tacitly admits that she won't stop. I'm ambivalent as to whether she actually can't help herself, or if she just doesn't want to, because she likes it. In my own personal opinion, I always tend to presume competence, but I'm sure there are those who would be a bit more generous.
DUSK NOTE: Krissy Klein is a fat, psycho whore and I would not have sex with her.