Links to new info:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/94683516@N04/
https://www.fosters.com/article/20130201/GJCOMMUNITY_01/130209923?template=ampart
I apologize in advance for this being long and confusing. I welcome any insights y’all might have on any of this. I’m particularly interested in how much actual nursing experience she has.
So on my post yesterday someone mentioned Tess’ felonies were the reason she was fired from nursing. I did a quick google and found this arrest record in the local police blotter in Jan ‘13. So not the arrest being referred to but still interesting. According to the commenter I spoke with another commenter said Tess lost her job bc she was arrested for drug possession and dui thus it seems quite possible she’s been arrested more than once: so if anyone knows anything about that please contribute here as I’m working to try and piece this all together. I found one site saying she has 8 arrest records but I wasn’t going to pay for the info so that’s all I got.
I also had someone PM me this bizarre flikr album Tess made in April ‘13 featuring the pacifier (xtc use?) knife play kink meme, and weird crying pics. Since both of these new discoveries were from around the same time period I decided to try and piece them together with what we know of her early munching (pre-TikTok.)
According to her, this all started when she was 12 (in a TikTok she says everyone in her family got sick from a cold or something and they all recovered but she never got better.) Her father was a doctor and I get the impression he was a big ‘advocate’ for her when she got sick when she was younger. Supposedly she was told she going to die before she turned 18 (seriously how long has this bitch been dying for??)
In March ‘14 she had her colon removed (she states ‘13 on tumblr but multiple other posts show it in ‘14) but otherwise seemed to be doing significantly better around this time, climbing mountains, powerlifting, competing, eating healthy etc.
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Started a 2 year nursing program in Fall ‘14 at a community college and graduated from that in May ‘16. She also did one semester at a state university in Fall of ‘16 (She made the deans list so she was mentioned in the local paper, I suspect this is where the ‘valedictorian’ lie originated from
Honorables \n FAIRFIELD, Conn. — The following Fairfield University student(s) received Deans List Honors for the Fall 2016 semester: Megan M. DeFeo, of Rye. \n WEST HARTFORD, Conn. — The University of…
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) and I’m fairly certain she mentioned something about having to drop out from that from her illness but this is where things get kind of confusing bc she is also supposed to be working as a nurse during this time (not impossible to work and go to school though) and this is also roughly when her father was diagnosed with terminal cancer.
She supposedly worked as a nurse in NH and in ME. I think she claims she was an ER nurse first in NH somewhere and then was a psych nurse at Maine Med.
Her father passed away in Sept ‘17 after battling cancer for a couple years. My theory is Tess’ health started to improve when her Dad got sick, then quickly went off the deep end after he passed, and probably has something to do with him being a doctor and her health ‘advocate’ when she was younger, pushing her various doctors to try and find her diagnosis (ngl I wonder about possible MBP but that’s pure speculation on my part) so her return to munching after his death probably has something to do with grieving him, but idk, I’m not a medical professional, just a snarker.
So on TikTok Tess claimed that her illness came back after some insurance problems where she didn’t get her IVIG for a bit and when it did it was now treatment resistant. According to IG post this happened in Feb ‘17. Her Tx was delayed one and a half weeks.
By Fall ‘18 she is (maybe?) still working at Maine Med but also dropping her own NG tube? So from what I can gather if she got hired as a nurse immediately upon graduating community college in May ‘16 she could only have worked as a nurse for a MAX of 2 years. And that timeframe includes being both an ER nurse in NH and a psych nurse at Maine Med.
(Quick aside: I don’t know much about nursing- is it possible that “working as an ER nurse” in NH was some student training thing? I highly suspect it’s something like that but I know someone looked up her license and info on working in NH so if anyone has that please lmk! I know she made a sassy TikTok in response to the comment. Also someone on Reddit confirmed she lost her nursing license in 2019 bc of “criminal offenses” but unfortunately since the sub is gone I don’t have that info to cite. I suspect she has been arrested more than once.)
By Jan ‘19 she’s no longer working and in April ‘19 she says she is hoping to be cleared to go back to work in a month.
But two days later in she’s making posts about her doctor alluding to her possible death and ‘not letting her give up.’ She also has some strange finger herpes drama around this time. Essentially from about this point on she seems to snowball and just go full munch, eventually bringing us to what we see today.
For further context she posts her first TikTok in December ’20.