Inactive Rachael Farrokh / Rod Edmondson / Rachael's Road to Recovery - Anorexia as a Midlife Crisis

[Dawdler]

I am confused, from my reading on the Great Leap Forwards I had thought that people who are malnourished to that degree always developed severe faminine edema causing them to swell up with water.

How did she manage to stay that thin? Am I just ignorant? From a cursory read on google it seems that it caused by a lack of protein, is it simply the case that she only ate a piece of sandwich meat once every three days? Or is it that the severe famine edema seen in the Chinese countryside was a result of both severe malnutrition/lack of protein in conjunction with overwork, whilst Mrs. Grifting Ghoul didn't even walk around?

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She wasn't malnourished in the famine kind of way. Just withered away over time.
Basically all her muscles and organs dissolved for energy. When that ran out she ded.

 

[IglyUglyOh]

Back in the 20th century a lot of psych wards in the US got shut down because they were fucking horrifying. You would think an alternative would have been invented by now but instead we mostly feed the nutjobs pills and let them wander around causing mayhem and point and laugh at them until they end up in jail or elected to public office. If you're rich and have a mentally ill kid you can also have them kidnapped and sent to a troubled teen camp to be tortured for a few years.

It’s supposed to be ‘community care’ In the 60s/early70s young med students were on fire with the spirit of informed consent. The mental institutions would be shut down, people would get care in the community, and anyone who chose to be homeless could keep doing that.

There was even a semi-famous bag lady who Harvard scientists were convinced LOVED being homeless and just didn’t want to live somewhere.

They never stopped to think maybe she was just echoing everything they said because it was the first time smart people had been nice to her in literally years.

Anyway, of course funding never materialized and also mentally ill people - the kind who used to be institutionalized- are not great at holding down jobs, owning cars, and getting to appointments on time.

And the Reagan like fully killed it off.

I’m not saying every mentally ill person should be locked up. I know people on heavy meds who have better jobs than me, in fields like finance. By these helpless like bag lady cases: just fucking put them somewhere so they don’t get hurt by some pervert. Like be real.

There are homeless people who live in their cars they’re not a problem. There are people who like lost a job and have no family. But the like hearing voices, can’t stay on meds homeless - let’s put them somewhere because they’re too nuts to not get themselves hurt.

 

[STN]

"A joyful heart is good medicine, but a crushed spirit dries up the bones."

Proverbs 17:22​

 

[Hopkinsville Goblin]

"A joyful heart is good medicine, but a crushed spirit dries up the bones."

Proverbs 17:22​

I looked up Proverbs 17. Much of that chapter seems relevant to the current situation with Johnny Somali and Hank Yoo. I've been following those two nitwits for some months now.

Do they give you a Bible in Korean prison? Cause that's the only place he's going to read it.

 

[Clostridium Botulinum]

Anyway, my real question is after cremation how many ounces was there?

Her spirit is probably terrified that a crematorium is essentially a human-sized bomb calorimeter and energy in the form of calories was released from her skeltal

 

[Dr. Butt]

She had cheek implants during her z-list actress days, right? Her lich cheeks are really different looking from other professional skellies.

 

[GainsGoblin]

She had cheek implants during her z-list actress days, right? Her lich cheeks are really different looking from other professional skellies.

I wanna say yes because her cheeks are so fucking sharp and weird looking, but in all of her pre-skelly pics she has 0 cheekbones to speak of, so I’m gonna go with weird facial structure. Ashley has pokey cheekbones too.

Funeral will be live-streamed August 8 at 11 AM on their YouTube channel per her memorial page: https://www.dignitymemorial.com/obi...a/rachael-farrokh-edmondson-12459360#services


Rod wrote a song called “Unicorn Warrior” and posted it to his Spotify. I will not link as I do not wish to further drive any traffic to this grifter. It includes the lyrics “recovery is her vision” and “tiny but mighty she tries to gain back her weight”. He used an AI voice for the singing.

Rod posted a clip of pre-skelly Rachael pretending to be Elaine from Seinfeld to promote a diner. She has three lines and one of them is “I’m starving!” (On mobile, can’t archive: https://youtu.be/H1hLaL2whHU)

Rod has posted three live streams:

In the first one: (https://www.youtube.com/live/972bTwzGSP4?si=3N5Po9lYqy7siUNf)

• he says Rachael hadn’t updated recently because “it was hard for her to sit through [anything negative]” and also after she had her last surgery she had no positive updates to share (she actually hasn’t had any positive updates since roughly 2020 but better late to the insight party than never I guess).
• Their home health aide allegedly neglected Rachael and they had to put Rachael on hospice “temporarily” until they found a new agency (I interpret this as “insurance wouldn’t let anymore home health aides touch her with a ten foot pole” and told them to either go on hospice already or fuck off).
• During this time she started sleeping more and Rod had to use medical tape to fully close her eyes and insert a mouth guard while she slept.
• The hospice nurse figured out that Rachael had contracted COVID and Rod is sure to emphasize that he wasn’t the person who infected her, that the person who did infect her may be learning this information for the first time from this video, and that person totally shouldn’t feel bad (he definitely wants that person to feel bad).
• Rachael passed in her sleep, and Rod fully realized she was dead when he had to pry the mouth guard out of her mouth because rigor mortis had sent in.
• Rachael’s dad was there when she passed (we also hear him briefly say something to Rod from the background during the video).
• They had to call Rachael’s mom and sister to break the news and they came over and Rachael’s mom combed and braided her hair and observed that Rachael had a smile on her face, which is very sweet.
• They all went outside and a butterfly flew in front of their faces (I guess I can’t totally begrudge a grieving person finding comfort in something regardless of how cliche it is. But I hope my loved ones pick something more interesting than a butterfly or a penny on the sidewalk. Why not think of me when you see a badass one legged pigeon?)
• Rod tells a story about how Rachael once helped him cheat in a college psych course.
• He talks about his sobriety from “smoking”, presumably marijuana and not meth, which is the lamest possible drug to need to get sober from.
• Rod cries a lot and it’s not clear to me how authentic any of those tears are.
• For no reason at all except to continue to center himself in the narrative, Rod tells a story about how his mom’s pastor said Rod was destined to leave a mark on the world.
• He plays his dumb AI song and is sure to reiterate three times that he made it.
• He claims he was “initially opposed” to the donations they got from the earlier donation campaigns, that “a neighbor” set that all up (they didn’t) and he doesn’t want people to “take it the wrong way” now that he’s getting donations again. “You get a blessing by helping”.
• Rod shamelessly plugs their monetized YouTube channel: “I feel like she’s still with me when I watch her on video and that’s available too. I’m gonna post more videos that have never been released.”
• Rod prays to protect everyone’s souls and plays his shitty AI song.

The second live doesn’t really say anything other than that he got disconnected and will try again. In the third live: (https://www.youtube.com/live/5z9r7GKjU5k?si=YJS0jhov-QPqrSKY)

• Rod admits that he announced that there would be a public funeral without consulting with her family members. I’m sure her family is thrilled with the “compromise” of live-streaming a private service.
• There is also a public gathering on August 23, regarding which he implies that a family member has a problem with him calling this gathering a “celebration” and would prefer he call it a “remembrance”, but because Rod is a narcissist who can never back down he is sure to also call it a celebration every time he calls it a Remembrance.
• Rod is attending grief therapy, is sober, and is getting back into jiujitsu.
• He tells a story about how Sarah Silverman once gave Rachael a hug but only gave him a handshake.

Rod also posted a video from Rachael’s birthday party in 2021 (https://youtu.be/IOflkC2fscE) in which we are subjected to viewing Rachael in a bikini.

 

[Dr. Butt]

I wanna say yes because her cheeks are so fucking sharp and weird looking, but in all of her pre-skelly pics she has 0 cheekbones to speak of

She's got an implant-esque chunk in her pre-ana pics. Ashley doesn't have that extra shelf or whatever on her sticky-out part. IDK I feel like she had to have had a few minor procedures done just based on her whole psychological...thing.

 

[Gorilla Milk]

Allow me to introduce you to pooners.

Pooners IS Tumblr Trannyism. It's just the tranny mind virus affecting women instead of men.

 

[GainsGoblin]

Question for mods: if Rod continues to be a cow in his own right, do I keep documenting that here or does he need a new thread in proving grounds? I suspect he will peter off after while since there’s no more dying wife to milk, but he seems pretty committed to continuing the grift as of right now, and I don’t want to keep posting somewhere I shouldn’t.

 

[Trombonista]

Question for mods: if Rod continues to be a cow in his own right, do I keep documenting that here or does he need a new thread in proving grounds? I suspect he will peter off after while since there’s no more dying wife to milk, but he seems pretty committed to continuing the grift as of right now, and I don’t want to keep posting somewhere I shouldn’t.

You can keep the updates here.

 

[Munchie_Minder]

Question for mods: if Rod continues to be a cow in his own right, do I keep documenting that here or does he need a new thread in proving grounds? I suspect he will peter off after while since there’s no more dying wife to milk, but he seems pretty committed to continuing the grift as of right now, and I don’t want to keep posting somewhere I shouldn’t.

Thank you for your dutiful recaps; my sincere apologies for being extremely late to the wake. I hadn’t thought much about this cadaverous cow in a minute since there hadn’t been an update in over a year. The shit Rod shared post-mortem is definitely rated lunacy. Do we have any info on him about jobs or anything? It would be ALR’s “Tommy-level horrifying” to find out he is working or pursuing a job working with other mentally ill skellies to continue the attention/monetary grift/ fetish with someone else. Something about that reminds me of Shameless, when Frank tries to find dying cancer patients to stay with as a “cancer concierge”, after Bianca dies.

I’m not going to blame him specifically, as it’s obvious they both got something out of this, but it looks like they were married in 2013 and met at a gym where he was a personal trainer. It looks like she was last working as an actress in any capacity in 2011. By 2014, she’s looking very old, by Hollywood standards, and begins losing a lot of weight. By 2015 she’s ebegging and scammed people out of almost $200K. They then continue this grift and cycle of lose and gain for 10 years until the toll from all of this kills her. Based on his comments online after her death, that you’ve so kindly farmed, this guy is giving me some major red flag vibes. At first I thought it was a bright spot that he at least hasn’t released footage from the past year like a real psycho would love to do, but then he says he wants to release footage people haven’t seen, and that is a bit horrifying and seems like a continuation of the grift.

I’m torn on whether I appreciate the fact that he has to go back to work after 10 years of ebegging and tending to someone who sleeps most of the day and rarely has enough output to be much more than a somewhat sentient bag of bones that has to stay where you left them, and horrified over the thought that he might be wanting to find another skelly to grift off of.

Anyway, appreciate your dedication to continue farming this cow’s corpse carrier.

 

[GainsGoblin]

I appreciate your appreciation!

You noted that they hadn’t posted in a while. I didn’t put this in the recap but in one of his lives he told on himself: he said something to the effect of he had been “encouraging” Rachel to get back online. I really think he was the main driving force behind the entire online grift and at the end she must have finally put her foot down about it. I bet he hated that. I also suspect that he was fairly complicit in sabotaging any recovery progress she did make. She sabotaged herself of course, but I can’t help but notice her life only took the nosedive it did after she got together with Rod. He’s gross and I wonder if she would have ever been like this at all if she never met him.

I think Rod is a textbook narcissist and he’s gonna do everything he needs to to fuel his narc supply. Money wise he has death benefits now, and maybe some donations, and it’s possible she also had life insurance. Money wise I think he will be okay, even if it’s not a lot to live on. But I think he’s going to milk his widower status for all it’s worth. I pity the next woman who falls for it.

 

[Munchie_Minder]

I appreciate your appreciation!

You noted that they hadn’t posted in a while. I didn’t put this in the recap but in one of his lives he told on himself: he said something to the effect of he had been “encouraging” Rachel to get back online. I really think he was the main driving force behind the entire online grift and at the end she must have finally put her foot down about it. I bet he hated that. I also suspect that he was fairly complicit in sabotaging any recovery progress she did make. She sabotaged herself of course, but I can’t help but notice her life only took the nosedive it did after she got together with Rod. He’s gross and I wonder if she would have ever been like this at all if she never met him.

I think Rod is a textbook narcissist and he’s gonna do everything he needs to to fuel his narc supply. Money wise he has death benefits now, and maybe some donations, and it’s possible she also had life insurance. Money wise I think he will be okay, even if it’s not a lot to live on. But I think he’s going to milk his widower status for all it’s worth. I pity the next woman who falls for it.

Narcs and attention whores are all the same, regardless of gender. Not surprised to find out my suspicions seem spot on. Looking forward to any updates on this. Thank you again for farming.