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

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Is that even possible? There aren't any muscles in your fingers to train, just tendons - which are extra lax with actual (h)EDS. Seems like if your fingers legitimately insist on overextending while doing simple things like typing then bracing makes sense, and they're a more subtle option than the cheap plastic ones off amazon since they look like jewelry. I may have looked into them for my borked finger, don't punch solid walls.
I agree with you about the muscles. But I think it's possible to learn how to hold things "the right way", or to find different ways to do certain things. Maybe not in the most extreme cases, but I just can't imagine that 20 ring splints are practical in any circumstance...
 
I agree with you about the muscles. But I think it's possible to learn how to hold things "the right way", or to find different ways to do certain things. Maybe not in the most extreme cases, but I just can't imagine that 20 ring splints are practical in any circumstance...
For people who actually have EDS, ring splints can be helpful. It's true that strength training helps stabilize joints, because muscles can help keep joints in place via tendons. Tendons attach muscle to bone.

But EDS also affects ligaments, which attach bone to bone. So in areas there's little muscle, those ligaments are still loose, and no amount of muscle training can change that. External splints literally just keep the bones in line instead of going all loosey-goosey (think of how many different biomechanical forces there are on each finger bone when you bend them, especially if you're holding something).
 
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Dianna update on Patreon, but it's paywalled. I'm not gonna give her money, but we can see her scalp looks shockingly healthy for someone so sick uwu. She's clearly doing the "I'm totally getting better you guys!!" thing but you know she's not "getting better" enough to actually stop munching.
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Turns out I'm a retard and should have just checked her Youtube where that video was uploaded all along, including when I posted that. Here is the video, where Dianna talks about her activities, and says her brain is back but her body is not, and shows off her healthy-looking scalp and skin. Her day seems to be filled with pretty standard sedentary activities, I get the feeling she's bored of laying in bed all day pretending to be sick but isn't ready to actually be productive again.

She's putting on the same type of vocal inflections kids do when they fake being sick to get out of school. But she's oh so sick you guys. She shouts out the support on Patreon, without the free money from gullible idiots this multi-year sabbatical wouldn't be possible!
 
I don’t think Luigi is a munchie, because a key part of munching is getting attention. Up until he apparently decided to kill a health insurance CEO, he wasn’t doing any of the things munchies do. No e-begging, went to school, worked real jobs.

Being in so much pain/having sufficient mental illness that you decide offing a health insurance CEO is a good idea makes sense to me. I’m actually sort of surprised it doesn’t happen more often. Note: This is in no way a comment on the morality of offing health insurance CEO’s.
Luigi wasn’t a munchie, he was dealing with some kind mental illness or distress but coped with it by makin “back pain” an obsessive focus instead. Experiencing symptoms of mental illness for a high achieving, successful, normal guy would be terrifying IF he even recognized the issue. It’s very common for men to channel mental distress into a physical complaint or pain, and it’s esp common for it to be back pain. The pain was real, but it wasn’t physical in origin.

With a guy like Luigi physical complaints were acceptable, mental ones not so much. He could blame back pain because he wasn’t mentally coping well with daily adult life. Physical pain was a valid complaint to share with others, mental distress was not.

A ton of back pain complaints are psychological in origin. For all you hear the spine is actually way better engineered, and far more resilient, than things like knees and shoulders. A lot of people I’ve know that suddenly complain of back pain (without a physical trauma) were in the midst of a lot of stress, depression or distress.

When I saw those scans of Luigi with screw in his back I didn’t think man he really hurt his back, but that’s what doctors will do to you if you keep complaining of back pain and have good coverage. I don’t think he needed those screws in his spine but I think his mental distress found a physical outlet. Doctors accepting those complaints at face value (like they do with munchies) can lead to all kinds of BS surgery.

He also told someone he couldn’t “be intimate” with a partner due to his back, which again sounded like a psychological issue. Any wartime nurse can attest physical pain and injury did not put off young soldiers from sex (or trying for it), psychological traumas and illness did.

The type of guy he was, highly educated, well mannered, affluent would have provided a very strong facade that deflected any ideas about psych evaluations and helped hide mental troubles that might have been more obvious on someone less educated or polished.
 
Speaking of people who need wranglers, not a flock of social media vultures circling them. . .

Oh come on, like I wasn't going to do a welfare check on the only one of these girls I do not ever want to write a post mortem for. Katie is the thing that has blackpilled me on all social media forever. It was really hard to see what happened to her and know all these girls cheered her on and would still be cheering her on if she wasn't so icky and non-aesthetically sick now.

Katie, like Dani, was born very premature with real issues from that including learning disabilities. She developed a restrictive eating disorder as a teen, and like Dani she also got sucked into this social media spoonie bullshit and particularly once queen now corpse Jaquie Beckwith. That's about where the similarities between her and Dani end. Katie chalked her symptoms up to whatever her new spoonie BFFs told her it was, backed up by the same unscrupulous quacks Jaquie saw like Miguel Trevino who were happy to agree that her anxiety was MCAS and she needed a port for salt water infusions. But Katie truly is sick and her real illnesses were masked by all the shit they did. When it finally came to a head, she almost died several times, in part because during covid she was entrusted to care for a port she is not competent to care for and in part because she made herself a pest at every ER within two hours of her home by rushing there for "anaphylaxis" and demanding surgeries the other girls insisted she needed. First she went in for a 'dislocated rib" that was almost ignored until her lung collapsed - septic emboli - and a second time her anxiety turned out to be sepsis that was so bad by the time she got to the hospital she was having an actual heart attack. At one point a hospital threw her in the behavioral unit because she wouldn't stop smacking her head on shit and acting erratically. it was only after weeks there that they thought perhaps they should give her an EEG. Surprise, she's developed severe epilepsy. In 2021 she went into status epilepticus and respiratory failure, was placed in an induced coma, and almost died for a third time and spent a year learning to breathe again.

The last two years I've posted an update on her it's been her very slow recovery from that and her getting back to her old life. She had not completely given up the spoonie illnesses but I want to remind people that Katie thinks that's all real. When all of her friends and her doctors are saying her anxiety attacks are really MCAS and she needs IV benadryl or she'll go into anaphylaxis and die, Katie believes it. If the ER doc treating her for her 10th infection of the year then tells her she doesn't need that port, what does he know? Her doctors are specialists who know her much better. She did mostly stop talking about them.

In January Katie posted that she was having off-and-on bouts of chills. She worried it was sepsis. It was a line infection. They replaced her port and sent her on her merry way, no hospitalization needed.
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She had some unnamed procedure done and prayed no seizures. She had one minor one but anesthesia is a huge trigger for her so having only one instead of a week-long cluster was big news to celebrate.
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And celebrate she did. In March they threw a party to celebrate a whole year since her last major seizure. She vows to get back to playing violin now that she's well. I should point out here that the reason they're celebrating seizure free when she just reported having some is that Katie has epileptic seizures and psychogenic. Some of her seizures are "real" in the sense that she is convulsing and this is not intentional or something she is doing for attention, but they are not true seizures. She has actually had an ER nurse drill an intraosseous (into the bone) line into her shin during one because she could not stop convulsing and let them know it was not a true seizure and they did not need to do that. if you scroll up one pic, the lower left corner of her medical binder says she has a power port and medics have explicit permission to use it to administer rescue drugs if needed because of this. I can't stress this enough: Katie isn't faking. Katie is what happens when someone of low intelligence and high gullibility gets involved in a community of people who are faking. FTR the other notes on the binder are to please keep her glasses and the binder with her.
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She's opening up about what she went through in 2021. At one point her parents were considering withdrawing her life support and letting her pass.
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I would have loved for this whole update to continue this way. Katie celebrates milestones and looks back at the bad days as a thing of the past. Katie plays the violin. Katie pets cats. Unfortunately, i can't because in May they found a clot in her jugular. Her port was infected.
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The second paragraph here she says "I know you now see it and I hope you understand." Katie's grandma was at the end of her life when the epilepsy started. For years the family had downplayed Katie's dramatics and not let grandma know she was running to the ER every two days. After the coma incident, Katie had been dodging her grandmother entirely because she didn't want grandma to see how sick she got. One day she decided it would be a worse wound for her grandmother to think she didn't want to see her, so she made plans to visit. Just five days before she was scheduled to arrive, grandma passed suddenly. As a final kick in the teeth, Katie had a severe seizure cluster that landed her in the hospital the week of the funeral. This line is her hoping that grandma understands why she did it now that she can see Katie from Heaven. Man going home soon to see my one remaining grandparent for christmas is just hitting different right now.
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She had a daytime seizure for the first time in years but she was seeing it as an aberration.
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At the end of May she was home and explained what happened to her. A clot formed near her port, broke off, and went to her jugular. She also got a pocket infection around her port. they had to "scoop out" the crud in the pocket and she has a wound vac on while it heals. She has a PICC until they can replace the port. She reports she had a lot of seizures in the hospital because of the sepsis and stress, but she's feeling much better now. She hopes when the wound vac comes off she can go back to playing her violin at church. At the end she plays along with a song.
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On June 11, she was back in the ER waiting to be admitted. She got a clot near the PICC this time. It was infected again, and her lungs were full of inflammation. Maybe letting someone with learning disabilities take care of a central line at home is a bad idea. i know this time she actually needed it - she was getting IV antibiotics for the infection - but on a day to day basis Katie uses her port for saline, benadryl, and zofran, none of which she needs. It was prescribed to her by a charlatan for diseases she doesn't have. One of them arguably doesn't even exist. It's not treating her real disease that could potentially kill her on any given day but it is very very obviously contributing to that disease getting worse. I don't often get angry over this shit but Katie is an actual diagnosed SPED who can't make these decisions for herself and doesn't even understand that she's being slowly killed by doctors who only see her as a paycheck, and no one is fucking stopping it. Fuck this gay earth.
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June 19, she's been in ICU all week. She says while she was in the ER she repeatedly let them know she needed epilepsy medication and was blown off. Because of the missed doses she went into status epilepticus again. The hospital she was in transferred her to her regular hospital. She got a femoral line placed for the antibiotics to fight multiple infections and blood clots. They're fitting her with a Groshong, which is very similar to a Hickman line but has a self-sealing three way valve in the tip. In six months she'll get a new port. why though.
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They decide on an IJ line instead. The vascular surgeon chose this because she's on a high dose of blood thinners for all the clots. Once it's in she can go home with it. Why though.
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The IJ can't be placed because of all her scar tissue. She claims everyone but the vascular surgeon has given up on her but he still thinks he can get a PICC in one of her arms. Then n a few days she'll be back to get a broviac threaded through her navel until her chest heals enough for a regular line. Once again, I know she currently needs access because she is infected as fuck, but she's infected as fuck because she has a central line for salt water. She does not need a permanent solution for central venous access once the infection is over. Most people with epilepsy do not keep an always-accessed central line for rescue meds. Yeah shit like diastat (rectally-administered diazepam) might not be dignified but if you need it you're too unconscious to know.
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She got a port placed in her abdomen. While it heals they want to put another tunneled cath in to run IV antibiotics.
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At the end of July she still wasn't home. She was being transferred to a different Epilepsy center in St. Pete's.
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August 4 she says that she was released after they determined that the seizures she was having were mostly psychogenic and therefore "harmless" in as much as she might bang her head or bite her cheek during one but she's not going to stop breathing. i think it's pretty telling that her non-epileptic seizures are convincing enough that the regular hospital had to send her to a dedicated epilepsy center to determine if they were epileptic or not. Again, Katie isn't faking. Katie is traumatized by hospitals and her brain is shutting itself down out of anxiety which is ironically prolonging her stay in the hospital. Unfortunately she ends this by saying she's back because she's septic again. She explains that during her last surgery they intubated her and after she was extubated she started choking on her own secretions. She buzzed for a nurse but by the time they got there she was unconscious and cyanotic. She had to be placed on a vent.
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Of course. She had a femoral line and it got infected. She's now on oxygen all the time.
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She keeps saying she's in because the nurses can't do something they said they'd do but i'm not sure what she means.
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August 16. Fucking finally. Her team at the hospital does not think she's competent to care for a central line.
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So here's what happened. They thought it was sepsis and were going to pull the line. It was actually just a site infection that cleared up. But because she's in the hospital she's having both kinds of seizures so she's placed in ICU. While there she develops pneumonia and her lungs collapse. Remember how her line wasn't infected? Whoops, it was and now she has sepsis again. Now her liver is turning into paté from the medications to fight the infection.
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But they gave her a new line anyway because of course they did.
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Finally home on the 24th.
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Hurricane-induced seizures. They treat it like it's epileptic, chances are it's not but funny enough her rescue meds for the epileptic seizures are fast-acting benzos so they work for the psychogenic ones too.
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(here was her assessment from the first time she had status epilepticus and her proof she was intubated, feel free to comment on these doses as i assume they are very high)
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Mostly she's just preparing for christmas these days. Good for her, hope she has a good one.
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Every time I catch a story by her it's either a cat pic, meme, or infographics about epilepsy. i don't know if she ever went into all the types of seizures she had, nor do I really care. It's obvious they're real.
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But here's a big thing I missed. She claims the first time she had sepsis was from living in "an unsterile apartment with a friend'. I totally had no idea she ever moved out of her parents' house but my immediate guess was she lived with Katie Schmude. Katie Schmude is probably responsible for a lot of Katie Stanina's real problems. Schmude, a failed nurse, is the one that taught Stanina how to access her port and purge through her feeding tube. Sure enough the time they were hanging around each other the most in early 2021 was also right before the first time Stanina was held in the ICU for sepsis.
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Stanina also likes to tag her location and she placed herself in Lakeland for most of this time period, which is where Schmude lived at the time. And those who know their lore will remember the Stanina-Schmude alliance was short lived and fell apart during the time Stanina was hospitalized for sepsis that first time. Neither ever came through with the details but Schmude did make cranky vague posts about how someone was spreading vicious rumors and calling her a faker indicating Stanina was the one who realized Schmude was insane. I have always thought she caught Schmude doing something real, real blatant like injecting toilet water into her line or siphoning blood out of it but I suppose it's just as likely she got herself worked up about dirty living conditions and thinks this, not the fact that she isn't competent to care for a central line, is why she got sepsis.
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There's a second possibility which is the Ryther sisters. Jessica and Pamela Ryther are two of a set of triplets, born parbaked like Katie with a lot of the same complications she's had. They're both closer to the center of the bell curve than her as far as life skills (one even waited tables at Disney up until the pandemic) but they're also both enormous munchies. Literally and figuratively, these girls have to be 300 lbs each and somehow both of them managed to get feeding tubes. We know how.
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They live in Orlando 2 hours away from Katie's family and are also the ones who were updating about Katie in the weeks after the sepsis which is when it became obvious the seizures were real. Katie was hospitalized in Orlando during the sepsis bout and her subsequent epilepsy clinic admits. And when Katie is talking about her friends and being two hours from home in this post about her epilepsy diagnosis she's referring to the Rythers. They're the ones who were with her the first time she went into status epilepticus while shopping and the ones who called 911.
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we established she has PNES on top of her real seizures and being in a hospital is a huge trigger for those, and we know the first time she had those she got thrown in psych. Actually here's a Threads post from June where Katie says the PNES issue is still a problem for her because it makes some doctors raise their eyebrows at the real seizures she's there for. I don't doubt the epilepsy is real and she's additionally having psychogenic seizures but I also do think she still has a streak of attention-seeker in her that throws them off. See also her habit of posting photos of herself with dried blood all over her face. I can easily see how an overworked doctor sees her acting like a tit, sees the salt water port and the list of fake diseases, and thinks the seizures are just another girl putting on a show.
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I kind of just accepted those psych ward seizures were her first real seizures and it was just her habit of crying wolf that got them treated like a behavioral problem. But I've also always thought that the sepsis was what made the epilepsy go bananas because she only started to get stuck in ICU with seizure clusters visible on EEG after she was released from the hospital post-sepsis. I kind of see the Rythers as harmless attention-seeking morons, but Schmude? I put very little past that psycho and am now wondering if she didn't decide to play Dr. Schmude with Katie's line. But I guess it's not really a mystery that needs to be solved. i looked around a little on a whim and I found old posts of her on a cat forum. Adorable.
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And this obituary from when Jaquie died.
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And a caring bridge blog she abandoned after a single post. This was not her first port surgery as she already had one when her account started in March 2019.
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I breezed through her friends list on facebook out of curiosity and most of the people on there are family, locals who seem to go to the same church as her, and a smattering of nurses from the hospitals she's in all the time. Over the years she's cut most of the munchies out of her life from what i can tell. That's great and i hope 2025 treats her well.

Of course we know where we're going next.

Actual factitious disorder patient who has to have a camera and a sitter on her in the hospital because they know what she's doing. Katie's antics range from rubbing her skin to fake rashes to pumping herself full of blood thinners until her lungs start to bleed and slashing her tendons so deep they had to be surgically repaired. Her favorite trick is to drain blood out of her port until her lips turn grey from anemia and pretend she doesn't know how it happened. Somehow managed to get prescribed CF medications like dornase alfa when she doesn't have CF. No one's sure why her head is shaped like that.

In 2022 she had apparently moved back to Michigan for a while and I suspected her family decided to move back to their home state. Since she lived with her parents and has been unemployed for ages I guessed she had no choice but to move back to Michigan. However their house in Mulberry, FL is still listed as her address and it hasn't been sold since 2010 which is when they moved there. As of 2023 she's back in florida and spends all her time with the Ryther girls. I have no idea if she actually lives with them or just glommed onto them and their mom. Worth noting that one of the ryther girls, like Katie, went to an associates-level nursing program but did not finish.
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and she's fucking with her tubes and stopping herself up to the eyeballs with pills to get medical attention. Alas, she's been chased off nearly every social media platform by mean boolies (guilty!) and now does not give up the goods so easily. While this emergency surgery would have easily been 20 days worth of content in previous years it now barely gets a mention. Witzel technique is a jejunostomy. She's claiming she's went into total kidney failure from the lupus she doesn't have. By D/C here she means "discharge from the hospital", not dilation and curettage. She spayed herself a decade ago.
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she fancies herself a service dog trainer but has no idea what she's doing. The only dog she 'trains' belongs to one of the ryther girls and all she's doing is scaring the shit out of it and choking it with a prong when it tries to get away from whatever scary thing she's forcing it to be in the room with today. The grey haired lady is the Ryther girls' mother.
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The dog also constantly pulls, can't heel, and is constantly sniffing around for stuff. Sure, he's a service dog.
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mostly she just complains about how she can't nearly kill herself and waste hospital resources bringing her back from the brink for attention without criticism these days.
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While looking for interesting things on the good katie I instead found this proof I looked for when I did their original posts but thought was lost to the ages. Katie Stanina used to have a care package program she ran with Katie Schmude. When I first found them, Schmude was all over the care package instagram. She used it as a personal blog where she vented details about her health. One of the things that stuck out in my memory was Schmude had her personal paypal linked to the account right under the one Stanina used to get donations for the actual care packages. Unfortunately I didn't archive anything and when they had their falling out Stanina removed almost all references to Schmude from the page. But here's an old linktree where Schmude lists all the care package links and the big bold SECONDARY DONATIONS link at the top goes to her now-deleted paypal account.
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And since we're talking about Capital-M Munchausen syndrome

This one I'm convinced would still have munchausen if the Internet ceased to exist tomorrow. She's been making and keeping herself sick for over a decade to punish her mother, first with anorexia and then with the munchie standards before moving onto infecting herself with resistant bacteria until parts of her hands had to be amputated.

Emerged from the ashes like a beautiful, pus-filled phoenix in August. After a year of silence and rumors that she was living a relatively normal life, Paige finally got tired of not getting Tiktok attention for her induced illnesses. She's back to the sad walrus we know and love, living in the hospital in her stretched out Love Your Melon beanie to look like the saddest little chemo kid on the ward.
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on 13 October she posted this video showing a new pus-pit forming on her throat. She spent the next several days pretending to be soooo scared of this procedure she's had at least a few dozen times now.
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Annnd she's claiming she totally lost her voice from it. Funny, because this video looks like she was talking totally normal and just muted the audio then decided to tell an off-the-cuff lie about losing her voice to me
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She claimed she was in some kind of accident and it left her with gnarly wounds all over. Nah dude, you've been picking. That's what Ronahan's legs looked like early in her "Behcets" era. I've heard rumors for as long as Paige was silent that she had moved on to picking but never any proof. Those gnarly patches of scar tissue are my proof. Disgusting little munchie freak.
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And as is tradition, as soon as the bandages came off she was back to getting her gross little fingers at the wound and it got infected again so she had to have it pressure washed a second time.
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Now that she's had the second surgery she's free to actually pretend she lost her voice since the nurses have not heard her talk since it, lol.
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After that she added a bunch of sign language stuff to her amazon list because of course she's still milking this surface clean out that could not impact her vocal cords. Hilariously, she's been adding American and British sign language books and nothing for New Zealand sign language, the one that could actually help her if this were a permanent problem. (And also LoLLLLL imagine her trying to sign with the lobster claw. Or doing those lego sets she's e-begging for lol.)
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After 100 days hospitalized and 36 ""surgeries"" she was released back into the world in early December, now claiming she miraculously got her voice ba-
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lol false alarm she already created a new gnarly infection they have to scoop out and purged herself to hypokalemia. Never change, you gross little hospital-demon.
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Since we just caught up on some of our oldest, dearest friends, why not a few more?

Jaquie's "big sister" who constantly competed with her for who was sicker, gave a benzo-soaked eulogy at her funeral that mocked her family for mourning her death while a cheerful song from the Disney movie Moana played on a loop, raided her house for disability toys she could steal, called her grieving mother "mom" and hung all over her on Mother's Day just days after the funeral, and was finally told to fuck off.

There's an update, but first have a Jan-Jaquie Lore Dump because I still cannot pass up the opportunity to sperg about Jaquie when it presents itself. I figure it's been five years since she died. There's probably a lot of people reading that only kinda know what Jaquie was like and what her relationship with Janiece was, maybe even some who don't know who I'm talking about!
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Jaquie was the queen of the munchies from 2015-19. With daily vlogs, a happy and adorable golden retriever by her side and a "gee whiz" Leave it to Beaver/Disney movie kind of attitude about life, she quickly became one of the most famous of this new generation of insta-munchies. She spawned a whole bunch of copycats who modeled themselves on her, including a flock of girls in her area of Florida who saw her same quack of a doctor and got all the same diagnoses and toys as her. Janiece was one of them, but that's not how they met. They met in high school but they didn't like each other at first and felt they had nothing in common.
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Jaquie started faking sick around age 12, first with narcolepsy/cataplexy and then moving on to epilepsy and migraines shortly after meeting her boyfriend (later husband) Judd at 16.
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She got her first service dog, a reactive german shepherd, around this time, followed by an out of control retriever mix and finally a golden doodle named Oakly she trained with the crazy poodle lady, Susan Grill. Susan was an alleged service dog trainer who was well known for starting shit. Most famously she tried to sue Disney when they told her she couldn't bring 5+ standard poodles in costumes into the park at once. She mostly trained "seizure alert" dogs which is not a thing but it's fine because Jaquie didn't have seizures anyway. A neurologist at Nemours tried to tell her parents the seizures were fake but she continued to claim they were real and simply too deep in her brain to be seen on EEG.
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There is no indication Janiece was faking sick from high school and in fact she seems to have been something of a party girl, perhaps a rebellion against her ultra-religious upbringing; her mom is some form of evangelical/pentacostal Christian who thinks Satan is luking around every corner. After high school she attended culinary school specializing in pastry and she worked as a pastry chef for Disney after graduation. She started dating Paul Ibertis, her future husband, sometime around 2013. Her posts about him were normal couple stuff, along with commentary on how fat she got in the first two years of their relationship. She was never really fat but she has a really round face and a tendency to develop a double chin at even a normal weight. She never mentioned her health. As LCFers pointed out, the helicopter ride is an odd choice given that some of Jan's earliest claims when she was introduced on jaquie's channel were hyperacusis so severe she needed to keep a wad of cotton jammed in her ear at all times and vestibular migraines. Forgive my fucked screenshots for most of this but neither Jaquie nor Janiece's instagrams are still online. Jaquie deleted hers a year and change before she died when she was facing more scrutiny and Janiece deleted hers around when she got pregnant.
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Before Paul, she was dating a man named Joshua Ortiz who was more than dabbling in psychedelics and hard drugs and became particularly fond of synthetic marijuana, aka "Spice." He started acting erratic and threatening suicide. Joshua was placed in psych hospitals twice, most likely the 72 hour special. His parents believed he had bipolar disorder or schizophrenia made worse by his drug use but he refused treatment. He was fired from several food service jobs after he developed paranoid delusions that the meat being served was human flesh. Janiece reported that he started exiting the house through the bedroom window because 'they' would get him if he used the door. He racked up a laundry list of criminal charges including battery, possession of controlled substances on school grounds, armed burglary, and grand theft auto.
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In October 2014, Joshua claims he asked his mother why she was ignoring him and was told that it was because of his drug use and he was not welcome in the house anymore, then she flicked a cigarette at him. He grabbed a hatchet and began threatening her with it. They got in a fight, she started punching him, he overpowered her and strangled her to death. He then stole her car and drove up the interstate. His brother found their mother's body hours later. The car was reported stolen and Joshua was found on I-95 outside Baltimore, Maryland. In 2018 he was found competent to stand trial and was sentence to 30 years for second degree murder.
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There is a decent argument here that Janiece's first illness claim, PTSD, was not faked. From what I can tell she and Joshua were dating for a long time and his behavior escalated over a long period. It's entirely possible that she was the victim of a whole lot of bullshit she's never publicly discussed, a whole lot of talking him down from suicide threats and paranoid rants, maybe some of those battery charges were against her. In any case, the first time Janiece ever posted a pic of Jaquie was May 2015. A few weeks later, Judd was deployed with the military. Jaquie started finding doctors that would diagnose her with new diseases she constantly crowdsourced information about starting with Mayo Clinic in July. Along the way she started volunteering for a golden retriever breeder training 'started service dogs' and eventually bought a puppy of her own, Harlow. She claimed that Oakly developed arthritis and was not able to perform the mobility tasks she now needed so he was rehomed to be Janiece's PTSD service dog.
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Janiece first posted herself working Oakly in August 2015, right after Jaquie got Harlow.
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They would often train them together in Disney.
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Over time Jan just started absorbing everyone else's claims. She started saying she had narcolepsy like Jaquie. Paul had Crohns so she started having severe GI problems and gluten issues. then she was dizzy like Jaquie and needed the dog for mobility, so Oakly was replaced by another golden from the same breeder as Harlow, Orion.
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She started seeing Jaquie's doctors and got a port of her own, starved and purged herself to a lower weight than Jaquie ever was, and got her husband to push her in an off-the-rack clunker wheelchair when they went out. FTR, there's some evidence that Jaquie actually encouraged people to skinwalk her and found it flattering. At least one person (possibly Alex Moine / leviatyourservice) broke off their friendship because Jaquie was pushing her to see Dr. Trevino and get the same diagnoses as her. When Jaquie died, Janiece was aggressively pursuing a feeding tube for her obvious eating disorder. On the day of Jaquie's funeral, Janiece not only gave a drug-fuelled eulogy where she mocked the family of the deceased, but she also posted a youtube video, "in honor of Jaquie: I've been diagnosed," where she announced she'd be getting a massive open-abdominal surgery for MALS.

Let's back up. When Jaquie first started her Youtube she was completely straight edge. Not a sip of alcohol, refused all pain meds other than tylenol, was offended by the very idea of taking an opiate to the point where she claimed her EDS made her metabolize them so slowly that she would be knocked out of commission from a baby dose. That all changed when she got a wholly unnecessary Roux-en-Y Jejunostomy. They rerouted part of her intestine to create feeding tube access she didn't actually need but claimed she needed because she kept fucking with and breaking her old tube. For the first time in her life she was pounding on the morphine button and begging for pain relief.

Her story flipped: now her EDS made her metabolize opiates super fast and she needed elephant doses for them to even touch her pain. The problems started a few weeks after surgery when Jaquie continued to fuck with her tubes for attention as she always had. If you don't know how these things work, Jaquie originally had a PEG-J. It was a single hole through her abdomen into her stomach. A feeding tube was placed in this with two "tails" if you will, a thicker one that ended in her stomach (gastric) and a thinner one that was threaded through the lower sphincter of her stomach into her intestine (jejunal). Jaquie learned very quickly that by twisting and messing with the exterior portion of the tube she could make the jejunal tube kink or flip out of her intestine and into her stomach and then they'd have to place a new one which she would turn into a whole hospital stay. The whole reason they did this crazy roux-en-y was to give her separate, straight G and J tubes in separate stomas. Since both of them were straight tubes and nothing had to be threaded through her stomach they could just pop them in and out to change them. Jaquie claimed she only used her g-tube to drain her excess stomach acid (and food she ate) but fed through her jtube. This time when she broke her tube, they pulled it out of her with no pain relief and did not replace it.

She started going to pain management doctors after that and added regular opiate doses to her already crazy medication schedule of round-the-clock benadryl infusions and zofran boluses. Any one of these things alone will slow your digestion down to a crawl and she was sucking back all three all day. By mid-2018 she was having bowel impactions so severe they had to manually dig the shit out of her.

And then came the cannabis. What started as trialing CBD and low THC tinctures quickly spiraled into her vaping Rick Simpson Oil all day while laying in bed and doing little else. She claimed this also treated her gastroparesis and allowed her to eat ...and rapidly gain weight. When pain management tried to pull the plug by saying she could not have both medical marijuana and opiates, she found a new pain management who didn't care what that dumb old DEA thought.

Right around Easter in 2019 she went into the hospital for period cramps. No really. She claimed her menstrual cycle had restarted after many years of malnutrition and it had made her various illnesses flare. She ended up getting a pocket MRSA infection on her ass cheek that had to be cleaned out and used this minor surgery and the cramps to score a dilaudid PCA pump.

On the 27th of April she made her last post. The next day her husband posted that she was dying. Under enormous pressure, her intestine "telescoped" into the weak spot created by her feeding tube, a medical emergency called intussesception. It did not visibly herniate through the abdominal wall but folded in on itself and the tube wrapped around it, something that could not be seen from outside. The intestine died from lack of blood flow and she started to go into shock. Allegedly she was taken in for an emergency surgery when they finally realized this wasn't her crying wolf again but by then it was too late.
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A few weeks after Jaquie died Jan announced she was pregunté, which took the MALS surgery off the table. Everyone expected her to name the baby after Jaquie, by-proxy the kid, or go full munchie malingerer now that the attention was on her baby, but she didn't. She really rarely mentioned her health after the baby was born and when she did it was just to justify why they had a nanny to watch the baby when she didn't work and Paul was on leave most of the time. The baby's life was kept mostly off youtube, with a few vlogs that focused on her and her milestones but where her face was always obscured. Most of their content became about Paul and his Crohns Disease, which seemed to scratch Jan's medical itch for the longest time. She could vlog about his treatments, his surgeries, his shitbag, get all the attention she wanted, and never have to actually endure the unpleasantness of medical procedures.
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It was weirdly on brand for a woman whose featured video on YT is still the 2017 classic where she demonstrated how to use a saline enema.
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The only other interesting thing Jan did between 2019 and 2024 was rack up $2500 of credit card debt on a paypal card and then stop paying. The bank took her to court in 2021 and went as far as mediation. Apparently they just paid the bill off and the case was dismissed in 2023 when the bank's attorneys failed to provide good grounds to keep it open.
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In December 2023 she made a pretty benign video about her narcolepsy and how they needed the nanny for days like these when she could barely peel herself out of bed and Paul was recovering from yet another surgery. Then she signed off for 10 months.
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She came back Paul-less...
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...and unfortunately kicked off her new life as a single mom with a bunch of health posts about the baby. She's taken the kid to the hospital a bunch of times and insinuated that the baby was having seizures (she wasn't). Jan's also been visibly losing weight agan. She has clickbaited about the breakup but given no details on what happened. She is mostly just sucking up that single mom clout for now.
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I actually considered, because this is Jan, that Paul had died from his Crohns disease or something and in her self-absorbed world view this got translated to "this is about me and I am now a single mom" without any mention of his death. But then I remembered what she was like when Jaquie died and realized she would have vlogged him being embalmed for attention. According to this Hurricane Milton video she's still at the house she lived in with Paul, 3002 Ashland Lane South in Kissimmee. The address on the credit card debt case was Paul's parents' house. No idea where Paul is living. She has said that Paul's mom still comes over to take care of the baby and bring Jan food when she's unwell, but this sounds like a Grandma who doesn't want a vindictive munchie cunt trying to cut her out of her grandbaby's life to me.
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On October 24, she posted a boring vlog of herself laying in bed with her kid, saying the baby has a fever and they had to cancel their fun plans so the baby could recuperate in bed. She takes the baby's temperature and it's normal, which she chalks up to Motrin. This was her last public post.
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Over on facebook she made one post in early October announcing she was now living a new life.
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There's comments from a month ago saying she hasn't been on patreon either.
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So we know from the divorce filing that Paul was the one who initiated it. Domestic matters like this are exempt from Florida's sunshine laws so we can't see the actual contents of the case, but we can see what's on the docket. The case was officially opened in July by Paul and the most recent activity was an October expedited motion for contempt of administrative order followed by a motion for temporary relief a few weeks later. I am not a lawperson and don't know if that's why Janiece stopped posting, like she was told not to put any videos of the child up until custody resolved or something. She definitely was not planning to go silent since the video before her last one she was showing off a $180 gimbal she bought and her first video after 10 months of silence was a time lapse of her turning a walk-in closet into a youtube studio complete with Chinky flat pack furniture and aesthetic lighting.
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I really don't think we'll get anything but clickbait about the divorce if she comes back. Fellow Jaq/Jan watchers probably remember how hard Jan clickbaited that she was going to tell the full, true story of what happened to Jaquie at the end, but not this video guys. She's doing that same thing now with the break up. Yeah sure she might be trying not to fuck herself in the divorce case by running her mouth, but she also knows it's what everyone wants to know. I just wanna know if Paul is going to kick her out of the house or if he's going to let her live there for the sake of custody/to keep the baby close to him and safe. Not like Jan can afford a mortgage payment or rent.

(I know I am such a fucking spazz about the baby's name since Janiece has said it roughly 8 million times at this point but I am a huge doomer about minors' lives being documented on their attention-seeking parents' social media and try not to add to what I see as a growing fucking catastrophe where young adults can't escape a legacy their oversharing mothers saddled them with.)

Next one's a real deep cut I don't even know if anyone but me remembers.
 
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She keeps saying she's in because the nurses can't do something they said they'd do but i'm not sure what she means.
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Since she's "back in the hospital because" a nurse won't do something she thought they were going to do, I wonder if it's a home health agency scope of practice issue. Maybe they promised they'd send someone to do line dressings but didn't have the right staff, something like that.
 
How tf is Paige STILL getting so many infections, there's no way they were dumb enough to take away her watcher. Right? Right?
NZ has a nursing shortage right now and any nurses on the wards are incredibly overworked and there is a high turnover.
If she is supposedly 'really' sick and not known to be faking there may be only a handful of nurses who have worked there long enough suspect she's doing it to herself and they most likely simply have no time to prove it. Without proof, there isn't any money in the budget to pay for a 1:1 sitter for her.
 
Has SGB (sara grace bensinger) ever been discussed on here? I know she was posted about on Reddit before locking down her account like 4+ years ago. Someone randomly commented on a post saying she died but I can’t find anything to back this up.
I actually saw that claimed on Tumblr about a year ago. No evidence for her death, just someone randomly claimed it. I can't find an obituary, so maybe it's just a rumor?
 
I actually saw that claimed on Tumblr about a year ago. No evidence for her death, just someone randomly claimed it. I can't find an obituary, so maybe it's just a rumor?
Yeah I couldn’t find an obit either. I tried looking on her fb and none of the people who share her last name have posted anything publicly. I’ll admit I’m not great at searching for this kind of info tho
 
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Jake Doolittle has responded to his haters.

Cross-posting from Breadtube thread, could we have finally found the elusive male munchie? At the very least he's MBP, everything about his "health journey" screams malingering.
Also lol'd at him doing a livestream """from a hospital room""" to appear more dramatic, when in reality it was just the ER. He was never hospitalized.
 
Cross-posting from Breadtube thread, could we have finally found the elusive male munchie? At the very least he's MBP, everything about his "health journey" screams malingering.
Also lol'd at him doing a livestream """from a hospital room""" to appear more dramatic, when in reality it was just the ER. He was never hospitalized.
...wait, isn't that the dude who made a video accusing H3's Ethan Klein of munching about potentially having Lupus? Talk about throwing stones while living in a glass house! (Note: in Ethan's defense, I think he at one point had a false positive ANA antibody test? Also Ethan never said he was suffering from Lupus, or claimed he got diagnosed with Lupus - he said he was checking in with a rheumatologist just to be safe, since he had a few vague Lupus symptoms and a positive ANA lab result. Mind you, this all happened when Ethan was still obese/before he started eating healthy. Presumably his vague health issues were the result of his obesity, and factored into his decision to go on a weight loss journey).
 
Logged into an old Twitter account and realized I was still following coffeespoonie (ebegging jew malingerer who reports her uber drivers for not accepting her pet service dog)

Don't think I'll have a chance to go through her entire history (for all her disabilities and dislocations she sure fucking tweets a lot) but here are some recent gems:
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No money for rent, all the money for coffee. But it's okay because her therapist tells her to! Did you know there's literally no reason to leave the house other than to get coffee?
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Didn't happen lol
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She celebrates the customary munchie tradition of being hospitalized during holidays:
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I'll leave you with this fucking hilarious mental image of her battling her mortal enemy (gravity), bouncing down the stairs cane and all:
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battling her mortal enemy (gravity)
"Gravity never loses. The best we can hope for is a draw." Tremors 6

Her psych may well have told her that if it got her out of the house, go to the coffee shop. As in with a book/laptop/etc, not as in "buy fancy coffee you cannot afford". No fucking way. Keeping people in their current housing is infinitely easier than navigating section 8 and similar. More like: cut back luxuries, get on food stamps or visit a food bank, and pay your rent.
 
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