Apologies for shitting up the thread and not providing any further updates, but I've been following our Vampire Munchie for years, and re-read through this and her threads on other forums within the last week and just had a sudden epiphany that I hadn't seen anyone else mention, but it may have been too obvious to others so they didn't.
So, right before her leg saga, she had those "mysterious blisters" on her fingers. Almost immediately, everyone figured she grabbed some kind of heat tool for hair, like a curling iron or straightener, and held onto it until it badly burnt her. Once that started to heal, her legs became her focus.
It just occurred to me that her fingers were almost certainly her test run for burning herself (either with heat or, most likely for her legs, chemicals) and seeing what her results would be. Losing a hand probably would have been too difficult for her, so she didn't continue to aggravate the wound on her hand. Similarly, this seems to be why she stopped fucking with her thighs, as amputation up to the hip would have been "too much" for her.
I'm not sure why this feels like an "a-ha" moment, but I'm very convinced her finger burns were her early experimentation with the process of burn wounds that she later applied to her legs.
You're right, I think, about her testing the waters with it, but I think an important note to keep in mind with Kelly is that she never thinks ahead with her newest, mysterious "symptoms". She literally just claims something, or does something to herself, and then gauges people's reactions. If enough people believe it's a plausible ailment she'll run with it, but if not she'll drop the storyline completely and move on.
I think with the finger burnings too many people called her out on them being obvious burns from gripping something hot so she moved the same technique further down until someone named it behcts.
Posts like this are why I love the Farms.
Conspiracy theory: she has had no visitors of any sort, & is posting entirely by herself to try to glean some extra pity party favors. Imagine being so grossly disliked & mistrusted that no one so much as calls you after your legs are amputated. How very fucking sad it would be if not completely self-inflicted.
Normally I'd agree with you because Kelly has no friends (she has some family she still manages to manipulate out of obligation on occasion, a roomate who I think gets her rocks off claiming to be taking care of this fragile little ballerina with oh so many problems and a bunch of fellow munchies online who all "yes and" each other until one is found out and then they're dropped like a stone) but someone is helping her take some pictures. It could be a super patient nurse, but I think more likely at least one person was in the room with her at one point.
A reminder for the new kids; none of her accounts have ever actually been "hacked". Its one of her fave excuses for when she gets found out for posting something blatantly false, when her phone has been proven to be posting on lolcow or kiwi farms, when her followers stop paying attention or when she needs to buy time to come up with a new story/excuse.
What usually happens is that she doesn't get the same engagment from these new accounts as she did her old ones, so she magically "recovers" her old account to get back the followers and asspats that used her migration to dump her sorry ass.
Officially went down the full K-hole today and watched the entire IG saga.
That is the hardest part for me to stomach. Well, one, is there are a couple points earlier in her story where docs don't want to debride her wounds "because the wounds are not self-inflicted," and the Behcet's has to run its course before the damaged tissue can be removed.
Because she is diagnosed as having Behcet's, the underlying problem/diseased tissue would still remain because she's in a Behcet's flare & it will continue to be damaged until the flare is over.
I'm certainly no expert, but her entire treatment plan for most of this seems to be based upon Behcet's. If Kelly never had Behcet's, every single time a decision like whether or not to debride was made factoring in that condition & not the true injuries. Every single time, she could have just said, "I picked at them" and probably not even be judged the first time or two because I'm sure they itch. Every single time, she threw away her legs more and more.
I'm appalled Kelly got how many millions of dollars of tax-payer funded treatment and care to try to help her keep her legs, ultimately to fail because she was allowed to pick at them. I realize it's Canada, can they not strap a psych patient's hands down if they're that much of a risk to themselves? It seems it would have been more cost-effective to hire a 24-hour babysitter team to keep her from hurting herself than pay for all the extensive wound care and long hospitalizations.
Does anyone know which infections her legs had? There are pictures where her legs look like a Petri dish from a doorknob swab, seemingly multiple infection types.
The important thing to remember here is that we don't actually know what kind of treatment plan she was on, or what the doctors have actually said. All we have are the words (and obv. fake medical papers) of a compulsive liar and attention whore. When she claims the doctors gave a specific order because, in her own words, the wounds
aren't self inflicted she's just trying to use that as proof that the doctor's aren't on to her lies.
What was her justification for scraping at bone with dirty fingernails, while still claiming it's not self inflicted??
She doesn't have one. She just repeats that her behcet's is super special and that just because there's one photo or video where she's hacking at her own wounds like a woman possessed doesn't mean she does it
all the time or that it was the cause of her wounds or ongoing "symptoms".
Over the years Kelly has been caught in a ton of lies and contradictions, but it doesn't slow her roll.
I haven't kept up with Kelly in awhile. I bailed on the exposed nerve twitching stuff.
But how the hell is she shocked? She couldn't have possibly thought those legs would last. Might as well come back later to see the stump picking saga and her big reveal of the unknown new leg stump disease she has aquired that is baffling doctors.
Two thoughts on this; first is that she's obv not really shocked and is just playing it up for her audience. She's maintained for ages that she's going to beat this and come out stronger so when she doesn't she has to have her proper script prepared.
Second is that I do think, as inevitable as this seemed to all of us, that she was a tiny tiny bit surprised. Think of it this way; You're a circus performer up on a tightrope with no safety net; you jump and hop across the rope with full confidence that you'll make it to the other side because you have every other time before. You delight as the onlookers gasp when you pretend to lose your balance, they're convinced you'll fall, but this is just another practiced stunt and you know just when to pull back. What looks to them like a slip up, or a lose of balance is still completely within your control. But one day you DO slip, you DO fall and then you find yourself flat on your back, staring upwards in completely shock. That wasn't supposed to happen.
Kelly was never afraid of her symptoms or the outcomes because she controlled every bit of it, and I think she convinced herself that no matter how bad it looked as soon as she stopped it could all go back to normal and she'd be fine. The problem is that she never actually stopped, she had way less control than she ever realized and the few times we saw what seemed like genuine fear and regret in her was probably that reality peeking through for just a moment before being consumed by the "but I can stop anytime" fantasy.
Is it feasible for the nurses to put a camera in her room? She'll either find out and stop doing whatever the fuck she's doing in hospital or not notice, in which case they have leverage. Also, some of you guys were talking about her and pregnancy... Do you think she'd even find a man? She looks like a psycho at first glance, legs or no legs. Tbh her eyes bother me more than her draugr beef jerky shins.
I can't imagine why they would bother. They really don't need
more proof that she's doing this to herself, it's all been laid out bare for them to see since her bloodletting days. Hell, she's taken pictures of her using her hands and even scissors to hack at her legs that they've no doubt seen, and line that up with the fact that her skin grafts started getting destroyed the moment she got access to them again, well, even the most naïve medical professional would raise an eyebrow.
That said, we don't know what they have already that Kelly doesn't know about. I'm sure they already have video of her bloodletting, probably pulling out her own crown (since that happened in the hospital and the nurses and doctors just rolled their eyes) and no doubt picking and scrapping. Kelly doesn't realize this because, well, she's that perfect kind of stupid that thinks they're too clever for us normal folks.
