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

[ZsaZsaBinks]

Here's something to keep in mind about this diagnosis, it seems to most often come up with BPD. There's some conjecture within the psych community regarding whether or not nearly every person with BPD does not also have C-PTSD, because what is considered "traumatizing" to someone with BPD could be something relatively minor. The symptoms of C-PTSD are not really like the symptoms of PTSD either.

Anecdotally, I was speaking with a coworker who specializes in clinical psychology and apparently they're not even treated the same way, it's a whole other type of therapy people with C-PTSD need, and it happens to be the same type that is more effective for people with borderline.

I don't know your friend, but she sounds like she's got a lot of Cluster B going on and is playing people for asspats and validation. Munchies and those personality disorders seem to go hand in hand often in this thread.

Unfortunately when you confront them it always ends in disaster.

Spoiler: Powerlevel

I confronted my friend about her diagnoses. She said that they were real and that I was rude. I told her that she had Munchhausen’s syndrome. She told me to fuck off. I told her that she wanted to be special. She got after me even more. My family knows her and now everyone hates me. Being “heroic” is hard.

 

[Kate Farms Shill]

Tricia Melland part 5. Can my next one be a little less prolific? Jeez. In part 4, Tricia went to the hospital for what should have been a routine central line placement and instead was inpatient for months with new-onset seizures, vomiting blood, and culturing new resistant bacterial and fungal colonies. She hopped between hospitals trying to find one that would do whatever she wanted and Mommy was there to document it all. Tricia learned a lesson about something called septic emboli and now she has a new hole punched in her throat. We ended with her deciding that she was done, she no longer wanted to pursue treatments and that when her new central line inevitably gets infected she's not having it replaced. She is discharged home to die.

Spoiler: circling the drain

There’s no update until July and people start assuming she’s dead. She’s not, but she’s whining that they can’t find adequately trained nursing staff for her at home for the small amount insurance will pay them, and sometimes those lazy LPNs just sleep on the job. All her time and energy goes to her medication and setting up infusions because of the lack of qualified nursing and it’s exhausting but she can’t sleep. A simple doctor’s visit has become a logistical nightmare as they have to transport Tricia plus her ventilator and 10 or more infusion pumps, oh right also her lungs keep bleeding but for now she’s out of the hospital and it’s alright.


August 28, whoops. Septic.


Man that is a lot of infusions going. Can’t help but notice one appears to be labeled benadryl, because of course even in this state Afrin has her on continuous diphenhydramine for fake allergies. Anyway, she backs out of her previous promise not to get the line replaced saying that without one she can’t get quality-of-life improving medications and they wouldn’t even be able to keep her comfortable until she dies. The antibiotics stopped working so they’re switched again because Tricia would really like to ensure that the rest of us don’t stand a chance at survival against the cream of superbug soup she’s been brewing for years. This is when the “oh my god just die already” is really kicking in, ngl. They want to place a new tunneled catheter in her chest because normally they never ever let people leave the hospital with an IJ but that’s on hold until they can figure out what to do about these monster bugs she’s cultivating. The scales are tipping towards this no longer being worth it again.


More antibiotics, transferred to ICU, can’t get her pain under control and unsure how much more she’s willing to go through. Was it worth it Tricia?


Line falls out of her neck again when the sutures holding it in place rip through her skin after she sweats off all her adhesive and the weight of all the infusion lumens pulls on it overnight. Or she yanked it, who knows? She already has a midline placed for IVIG but everything is yeast-colonized again. They get some kind of long IV and a PICC into her arm with the aid of a military field nurse. She finally has pain control after “three days of continuous infusions to reset my nerves” and she’s finally moved to the step down unit.


Free at last on September 20, but they have to take her off one of the antibiotics she was on and if that one was controlling her main infection it’s just going to come back.


I was not kidding about the troon-out rate for her sorority.


October 1, back to the hospital with a 105 (!!!) degree fever. It’s probably sepsis.


No update until the 28th. They sent her home on the 10th with a fever that was still over 100F. Her fevers slowly creep back up. She has a PCA for pain at home, but she’s too tired and confused to use it as often as she usually does so she also goes into opiate withdrawal. They finally call 911 and get her pain under control, but she’s told the antibiotics are not getting rid of the infections anymore. They’re just keeping them subdued for a while


Our next update is a month later when she shows off that she gave her gingerbread man a trach.


December 13, 2019 she’s back in the hospital.


It’s pneumonia again and they’re suctioning the crap out of her lungs. Still totally colonized by yeast despite being on some heavy duty antifungals so she’s switched to an even harsher one that is going to sandblast her kidneys. Once again she can’t get her infected line out because then they’ll have no access but IR is too busy to deal with her to place a new one. They remove the line after her fever goes almost back up to 105. The HOSPITAL is out of blood for her!! She’s had over 100 transfusions now and it would really not be fair to die from want of a transfusion after all she’s been through so you need to donate more! In the comments she laments that being in the adult hospital at Christmas is nothing like being in Childrens. No santa, no fun child life crafting projects – not even a fruit basket! You’re just sick and in the hospital! She doesn’t update whining that she was inpatient for christmas so it looks like they got her out.


Next update is 23 January 2020. 105 degree fever again, sepsis again.


No update until April when she’s hospitalized again for sepsis and now because of covid, mommy can’t even visit her. She’s alone in the yucky grown up hospital where they don’t do anything fun for her and mommy isn't there to tell her she's the bravest little warrior. She doesn’t say it but this also means she can’t have Kenny with her because no one can take him out for potty breaks for her.


June. Back with sepsis again, from the Candida she’s still colonized by. She gets a new PICC in her armpit and it’s a struggle to find even that spot. Now they’re hoping that line doesn’t just get colonize right away too.


She’s discharged on the 28th and they start to taper her off steroids because it’s masking the fever. Surprise, 105.4F and she’s rushed back to the hospital and put in ICU packed with ice and steroided to hell.


Discharged 25 July and within a day her fever spikes again. Two of her three lumens culture bacteria and she’s back in ICU. Once again they have to place the new line into the same site over guide wire meaning the new line is already infected. The infections are getting more aggressive and she’s almost never out of the hospital and now with covid it’s extra boring. She can’t even do her bucket list because everything’s shut down. She’s considering hospice. Was it worth it Tricia?


In late August she announces they somehow miraculously found peripheral access to get her a “line holiday” to beat back the infection, then a new PICC. The vein is so narrow that with the PICC in no blood can flow but they’re hoping she’s got enough collateral vessels to make up for it and she’s sent home again.


Two weeks later, sepsis again. They try to fix it at home but can’t, so she’s admitted on the 10th.


Wow amazing suddenly after years of saying they literally could not find one spot to place a peripheral line they can now find spots. She’ll be getting an IJ again because they ran out of PICC options.


The IJ is in and Tricia is out.

Spoiler: rebound

Don’t worry, we’re not exactly watching a snuff film this time. In October 2020 Tricia joins Tiktok and here’s where shit gets real fuckin' fun. Tricia starts her account by dancing for this cancer kid Tia in her “home ICU”


This gets her a lot of attention from people, including the parents of the cancer kids she wanted to be, who take it at face value that Tricia is really sick because why the fuck wouldn’t you? Girl’s on a fucking ventilator.


And it gives her a great opportunity to talk about her favorite topic: herself and her very special diseases and toys. This also gives us a great opportunity. This is the first time we’ve heard her talk since she got the tracheostomy. Did you notice it?

No, it’s not the number of lumens coming off that line being held in place with a hair clip although that seems really precarious.


Did you guess “she’s not in respiratory failure?” Because the respiratory therapists in the audience have. With a trach there’s a short length of tube in her trachea and at the end of that there’s a little ballon cuff and inflates to seal off the airway and keep it in place, a lot like the balloons on their feeding tubes to keep them in the stomach. That way the air is only moving from the machine to the lungs and back, not coming out of your mouth and nose. But you can’t talk like that because no air is moving past your vocal cords. A PMV is a Passy-Muir Valve, a one-way valve that allows you to speak on a tracheostomy. The valve is put on the junction point between the ventilator tubing and the actual trach tube that’s in her neck. When the cuff is deflated, the valve opens to let the ventilator deliver air into the lungs, but closes on exhalation. Instead of the exhaled air going back out the valve to the ventilator, it’s breathed out of your mouth and nose, therefore it does pass the vocal cords.


Here’s a video about it.

Tricia does not have one of these. She just has the cuff deflated in her trachea. If you’ve ever seen someone who has a trach not on a vent, you might have seen them put their fingers over the end of it when they want to speak. That closes a two-way valve to make it easier to force air over their vocal cords, otherwise when they exhale to speak it would just go back out the valve. Tricia’s is wide open. These respiratory therapists and ICU nurses that have worked with tons of ventilated patients have never seen anyone on a vent able to control their breath and voice the way Tricia does and they have some questions for her.

From trying to understand how the fuck this thing works, this doesn’t explain the issue. With a PMV the valve is open when air goes in and because the tube points down and there’s positive pressure, of course it goes into the lungs. The issue is even with a capped valve it’s hard to force the air up and out of the mouth and with an open valve it’s pretty impossible to get more than a whisper out, yet Tricia speaks loudly and clearly at length.


Here she explains she has inline suction which is apparently very strange to be sent home with, since you can just pop the tubing off at home and suction very quickly then pop it back on. I don’t know anything about that, just repeating what I was told. I will say there's another girl Tricia will befriend soon who was also sent home with inline suction and there's no doubt she actually needs her vent.

Claiming that in June 2019, she was told she maybe only had a week to live. This would have been right around when they discharged her home on the vent after 10 months in the hospital.

She’s not a candidate for a lung transplant. She’ll later claim it’s because she is too sick to survive the surgery but most of the people I bounced this one off of suspected she couldn’t get on a transplant list because her lungs work fine and a transplant eval team would figure it out very quickly.


Lol, her favorite shows are Grey’s Anatomy, true crime docs, and House.


Claiming the colectomy has been canceled because selfish doctors don’t want her to “mess up their stats” by dying in surgery. Girl maybe they just don’t wanna kill someone.


The thought of watching her chew up food and spit it out is absolutely revolting, holy god.


Tricia makes it clap. Resp therapists in the comments continue to be interested in this anomalous patient.

I had to look up who these people tagged were and apparently they’re all big tiktok accounts that specialize in like ...positivity content. Feel good stories.


The best part of Tricia’s tiktok is the audience. On Insta she was talking to people who knew her personally who rarely asked for medical specifics. They wanted to know when she would be home, if she was feeling better, but they didn’t care how many lumens she had or how she can talk with the trach. Now there’s strangers on the internet who want to know everything about this and she’s going to tell them all

. People ask her how she gets out of the house now and she shows off her one hour routine for getting her pumps, her ventilator, and everything else she needs packed so she can go to the doctor. Her whole life revolves around managing these devices.

You see this Hannah (Taylor’s Version) account in the comments? Right I’m officially MOTI.

Spoiler: meet Hannah

Hannah has a very, very awful autoimmune disease called Granulomatosis with Polyangiitis fka Wegener’s Granulomatosis. It’s a form of ANCA-associated vasculitis that sends your immune system to attack the small blood vessels, causing inflammation of the vessels and death of the tissues they supply. In places where there’s a lot of little bby blood vessels like your lungs and kidneys, it can very quickly cause a cascade of bullshit that leads to necrotic lesions and/or total failure of the organ. When Hannah was 13, she went into the ER with suspected pneumonia that was not pneumonia. She was initially diagnosed by infectious disease as having an atypical tuberculosis before a telltale skin rash formed and a doctor blessedly recognized what was going on. By that point her lungs and kidneys were so trashed she had to be put on ECMO (extracorporeal membrane oxygenation, a form of life support where her blood was constantly cycled out of her body, oxygenated, scrubbed of CO2, then pumped back in to her body) and hemodialysis. Just when she was starting to get better she suffered massive blood loss from a ruptured blood vessel in her liver. She very nearly died and by the time they found the bleed her blood pressure was so low that anesthesia would have killed her. She had the surgery to repair it while awake with a paralytic agent keeping her from moving and while she was quite delirious from blood loss and sedation she does remember it. That she survived at all is nothing short of a miracle. At this point in October 2020, Hannah was newly-home from the hospital after more than six months, still on the vent and trying to navigate her new life.

Hannah has what Tricia wants, a genuine rare and shiny diagnosis and a story to tell of how she would not have gotten that sick if people believed her. She started getting sick at age 6 but given that her symptoms were pretty non-specific – nosebleeds, sinus issues, nausea, etc - it was constantly getting chalked up to normal kid illness. At one point shortly before her disease went critical mass she apparently turned up to the ER vomiting blood but it was chalked up to her having a passing virus. And a few months after that she came in with her airways swollen shut. Much of Hannah’s content was kind of black humor, irreverent joking about her past situation and continued care.

For a while it seemed like Hannah was coming under the influence of these older SickTokers and perhaps pursuing treatments she did not need based on what she saw them doing and heard them say. I hesitate to chalk too much of it up to an intentional act on her part because she was very young and traumatized, with her brain hung up on the fact that no one believed her until she almost died. She became particularly close to Tricia who is almost 10 years her senior and took trips to Kansas City to visit her several times.

The good news is Hannah has basically withdrawn herself from social media over the last two years which she attributes to just being busy getting back to real life, but her parents still update a facebook page for her where they show off that she worked hard exercising to get her lungs healthy again, got off the vent, the trach is now removed, and she was able to go off her steroid dose.

You can’t imagine my disgust for these women using critically ill children to validate their own LARP.

Weepy faggot sperg over. I don’t know if this oxygen fact is interesting to anyone because I have no context for how much is normal, but here it be.


LOL another one like Natalia who managed to get a power chair but can’t use it because it doesn’t fit in their vehicle. I wonder if this has drained their family finances so much that buying an accessible van is out of the question or if they know it’s ridiculous because whether she has the power chair or manual she requires an entourage to carry all her shit.


(She claims they’re really “struggling financially” from all this but I feel like her definition of struggling and mine vary by a lot. i doubt anyone in the Melland household is going to bed hungry because they have to make the food they have last until the next paycheck hits.)


Over the years several nurses and resp therapists will ask her if the vent is for pressure support, what her settings are, etc, and she almost never answers.


Tricia sure has a suspicious lot of energy for tiktok dancing. Don’t worry she performatively shows off her exhaustion. This sure takes it all out of her, what with her respiratory failure and mitochondrial depletion. It’s not just because she’s mostly sedentary and out of shape. So uhm, why is she panting from the exertion? If the cuff is inflated then no air is getting in her lungs that way which is really weird to think about. I mean sure she can breathe faster through the vent if she needs to but that goes through her trach, not her mouth like she's doing. And if it's deflated then why would you not inflate it before doing physical activity to make sure you have enough air staying in your lungs? And I thought the problem was her muscles were too weak to breathe. I guess she could just be miming it for show but it's just got the ole' noggin joggin.

Drug dox! TPN, IV glutamine to heal her bowel, lipids for the TPN, a PCA for pain 24/7, continuous benadryl, extra fluids, the antibiotics meropenem and ciprofloxacin, and the antifungal micafungin.


I’m not sure this is how that works…


It’s a suicide cult prove me wrong. Told you she never learned that the word she wants is “underlying.” Oh also I looked into it and while it's hard to find this information because mitochondrial micro-transplantation is a treatment that's being researched for the treatment of mitochondrial diseases and most hits I got were about that, I found a few articles saying that post-transplant mortality is not significantly greater in mitochondrial disease patients who survive the initial shock of the surgery and they're on par with non-mitochondrial disease transplant patients w/r/t things like donor organ longevity and rejection rates. I don't know how true that is but it seems right. I have a, like, two semesters of undergrad understanding of biology but it makes sense the same way that CF patients who get donor lungs no longer have CF in their lungs because the CFTR genes in the donor tissue function properly.


Again people want to know how she’s talking like this, and not people who just thought a trach meant no talkie. ICU nurses, resp therapists, people who work with ventilated patients or whose children are ventilated are all curious as to how she's doing this.


No, she won’t tell people what pain meds she’s on, just generally agreeing that tolerance happens fast. Yeah no shit.


Right so, I’ve kind of said a few times that part of my interest in this subject is it is this staying alive at all costs shit is very foreign to me. Of course I can’t say what I would have done for certain because I’ve never been in such a situation but all her “how do you put a price on my life?? I know I’m speedrunning organ failure and developing new superbugs that put everyone on the entire planet at risk but it’s keeping me alive!” shit just gets my hair standing on end.


Constantly trying to explain how she can be active and dance on tiktok despite her many ailments. That’s my workout for the year folks!!!


She makes a video explaining how she can talk on the vent to her many confused followers. I like that the model she’s using to illustrate is from Passy-Muir, the company that makes the valves for speaking that she’s not using. And that she or someone else illustrated “aspiratated” material for us. It again doesn’t explain how she’s able to push the air so easily out of her lungs and over her vocal cords without having it go back to the vent, which is what the Passy-Muir valve is designed to prevent and the reason most people need them to speak on a vent.

The problem is she’s claiming her respiratory muscles are too weak to breathe on her own (thus the people guessing she’s using it for pressure support only) yet she has incredible ability to expel air out of her lungs, past the open valve in her trachea, and over her vocal cords, going for long periods of time without pausing. She feels cool that she’s always the only patient doctor and nurses treating her have ever seen that have been able to accomplish this and I’m going to guess it’s because her lungs are in much better shape than she claims and if her breathing muscles are weak it's because she's been letting a machine do that for her.


And as expected the comments are full of professionals saying that what she’s doing here is incredible, they’ve never seen anything like it, a few of their patients without speaking valves can eke out a few words but none of them sound as clear, loud, and fluid as Tricia. I will point out that Hannah, who we know actually needed her trach, did have an inline speaking valve and she still had a very distinctive speech pattern where she could speak for a while then had to pause to let the machine breathe for her, and this was when she was actively weaning off the vent and able to go a few hours without needing support. Tricia claims she made absolutely no progress weaning off her vent and is in as bad shape she was immediately after the PEs due to deterioration of the muscle. Nope, not buying it.

Spoiler: shock therapy

The first of many videos where her energetic flailing disconnects her vent on camera and she posts the video because it's LOL SO FUNNY RITE GUYS. She claims she can go exactly one minute and thirty-nine seconds without the ventilator. That is very specific. She says she just got curious so she disconnected it and used her phone timer but doesn’t specify if that is when she got uncomfortable or if she started to lose consciousness and someone had to plug her in. Either way, a minute thirty nine is above average for the amount of time an adult can safely hold their breath which is like a 75 seconds. I just timed it myself and even as someone who plays an instrument that requires a lot of breath control who is physically active and reasonably healthy, 1:39 was about the end of my comfortable tolerance.


Nurses freak out about this so, ever the attention-seeker, Tricia makes a video of herself removing and replacing the trach cannula itself. Someone reports her saying it was “grotesque and for shock value” (yes) and Tiktok takes it down. NO she was totally helping nurses relax and realize trachs aren’t that scary!

So. Many. Dances. She’s toadally exhausted after filming them guys honestly!!!


I’m not taking unintentionally bad screenshots. This is just how she looks now. The dumb backwards cap really accentuates the steroidal SPEDface. In the video she just says the machine itself has a battery and a backup battery but they also have a backup backup battery and a generator for it, and if all of that is depleted and there’s still no power she has emergency places she can go to be plugged into a generator. The movie they’re talking about is a biopic of a man named Robin Cavendish who was paralyzed by polio. In the 1960s he and his friend designed and built a mobile respirator/wheelchair combo for polio patients to allow them to get out of the house for short periods. In the movie (I’m not sure if this happened in real life) he opted to stop using the respirator and die on his own terms at the end. It’s a death cult prove me wrong.


Here she says she’s too sick to survive a transplant so she’s not a candidate. Medfags I consulted all suspected she probably isn’t a candidate for the opposite reason: if she got evaluated for a transplant they’d realize her lungs work/that she is an insane munchie who will not comply with post-transplant care. This cowboy guy in the comments has gastric lymphoma and is on last resort treatments.

LMAO NO THE FUCK YOU DON’T HAVE VASCULAR EDS. Even just ignoring how preposterously unlikely it would be for her to have all these super rare diseases that are completely unrelated to each other, vEDS patients almost always have a look: large eyes, small chin, thin nose and lips, short stature, translucent skin with visible blood vessels. Even before she became The Staypuft Steroid Girl she didn’t have any of this except slightly transparent skin that falls within the normal range for a fair-skinned Caucasian person. So what do we think, diagnosed by a quack, made it up, or variant of uncertain significance?


For a feel-good note, Tahlia did get her lung transplant a few weeks after this but it took a while to figure that out because she rarely talks about her health on social media and is more interested in theater and cheerleading. She had pulmonary hypertension and a congenital heart defect. She’s alive and doing well.



She is “critically stable” meaning she’s currently at a shaky homeostasis but anything that goes wrong has the potential to push her over the edge.


She makes a series on what she’s diagnosed with. It’s not super interesting for us who have been following her since the start. Look Tricia, you've got the bloody vomit, you've got the leaking blood vessels although I'm going to guess the fact that you've had sepsis 40 times is what fucked your blood vessels. Any day now the combo of TPN and hepatotoxic medications should make your liver explode and I'm just saying... yellow fever. it's rare! no one else has it! It's been eradicated in most of the New World! There's no real treatment for it! I'm sure you can figure out a way to make your eyes bleed! I mean yeah people might ask how you got bitten by an infected tropical mosquito in the midwestern US but you've never really adequately explained how you got any of your diagnoses so why should we change that now? Come on. Go big or go home, claim you've got the yellow jack and make my medical historian dreams come true.

TSFM is one of the genes responsible for mitochondrial protein and mutations on this gene cause Leigh Syndrome, cardiomyopathies, encephalopathies, and skeletal myopathies. This woman’s baby is dead and Tricia gets more tikytok hearts.


Have we ever seen any evidence that she had post-sepsis fatigue? Even a normal degree thereof? Also reminder that the health issues at age 7 were a cyst removal and allegedly a bad reaction to propofol.


1) No there is not a big link between EDS and mitochondrial diseases outside of the world of delusional social media munchies, 2) reminder that her geneticist was using sketchy testing from a company that no longer exists, that he had a financial stake in, that used a proprietary platform they claimed was capable of rendering results in days instead of months, who also claimed they could diagnose autism and functional diseases using similar testing.


Her tiktok is my favorite thing guys, she’s just so remarkably dumb and so are many of the people talking to her. Anesthesia woke up her mito gene and this other person got genetically diagnosed by a functional nutritionist


You have never dislocated or even claimed to have dislocated anything. Ever. In 10 years of documenting your life by the fucking second.


LMAO THIS ISN’T EVEN POSSIBLE YOU MONG. hEDS is currently a diagnosis of exclusion because the gene mutation(s) responsible isn’t known and I’ve seen discussions questioning if it’s even a variant of EDS at all or just the extreme end of the bellcurve for hypermobility, thus all these girls being salty at their “hypermobility spectrum disorder” diagnoses. If you have confirmed vEDS then it explains the hEDS symptoms, therefore you’re not diagnosed hEDS because you have not excluded other causes of those symptoms. You’ve identified them. There is one (1) case on social media I found where a girl had two forms of EDS and showed her genetics testing where it was caused by a massive multi-gene deletion affecting two of her COL genes. There’s journal articles out about this extremely rare but possible phenomenon.


Tricia continues to court shock value for the algo by placing her oxygen within sight of an open flame.


Tricia squeezes out a tear while talking about how she wishes she could tell her 7 year old self that she’s never going to get better, it’s actually going to get a lot worse and everything she loves will be wrenched away from her. Macabre, I love it. I’m trying to imagine what I would tell my past self. “I know you won’t believe me, but one day, when you drunkpost on the internet at 3 am people laugh with you.”

Oh look, an EEG! When she never mentioned or showed on during the piano seizure saga I just figured she never got one.


The only time I have ever heard of benzos causing seizures is when someone is very physically addicted and quits cold turkey (for the same reason it’s a real bad idea to quit drinking cold turkey if you’re actually badly physically addicted. Alcohol and benzos affect how your body handles the neurotransmitter GABA which is why they have sedating properties. When you suddenly stop it, your brain does not reset how it handles GABA so your brain gets hyper-excited and this can cause things like the shakes, anxiety, paranoia, insomnia, hallucinations, seizures, or death in extreme cases. Always taper, my fellow boozetards.)


Dear spencer sorry about your daughter but Tricia did this for fun.


GET IT LOL LOL LOL BECAUSE IT IS LITERALLY A BAG OF SHIT AT A TEMPERATURE ABOVE THE AMBIENT TEMPERATURE AND I AM FEMALE.

Spoiler: griftmas

December 2020 after a long break from hospitalizations, Tricia announces she’s bringing sepsie back. She is once again colonized by C. parapsilosis. IR manages to get a temporary line in but once again warns her that she is running seriously out of access and this isn’t going to hold out much longer, and without a line she’ll die.


Fall risk. Tiktok dancing. Discuss. (as far as I'm aware anyone who says or acts like they might be a fall risk gets one of these, because the hospital does not want to take any chances and end up with a lolsuit or whatever.)


all these videos are just her sad mugging for the camera while a music loop plays with a text overlay so enjoy screenies. She feels better, hits 15k subs, dry-begs for gimmes, but whines about pain and wonders if her latest round of cultures will be clear.


Nope! Sure aren’t. They took her off daptomycin so now she’s culturing yeast AND VRE again. Now they’re going to try to use a midline and some peripherals to give her a short line holiday.


Oh right, and her soundtrack to this was a downtempo, underwater-ish sounding version of that Five Feet Apart song that Sarah Jane Adolphus used to use as her theme music. God damn now I miss Sarah Jane and her soft-stooled, non-alcoholic peach schnapps, wheelchair flipping antics. It was a simpler time.


They’re trying to place a triple lumen midline to give her a break.


It does not go as planned.


But people buy shit off her amazon list and that’s great!!


Here’s the story: they went down to IR to place the line. Instead they leave her with another PICC to get infected. Apparently this doctor did not get the memo that Tricia is completely out of sites to place a PICC and got one in. She just RUINED this potential site with her negligence!!! She’s been almost KILLED by medial errors like >100x!!!!


Ahh, remember that time I was fucking around with my central line in the hospital feeling immortal on christmas and then I got septic pulmonary emboli and ended up with a hole punched in my throat? Memories light the corners of my miiiind.


Kenny gets to visit for Christmas. I gotta say the little fucker is always thrilled to see her. He's still not a service dog but at least he's cute.


Tricia has found the way to make Christmas in the icky grown up hospital worth your while: post an amazon wishlist and watch the saps buy everything that’s on it.


Miracle, her heart is still fine and her line is uninfected this holly jolly Christmas. She’s still convinced she has sepsis and that it just hasn’t cultured yet.


She’s incorrect. Discharged New Year’s Eve and getting blood to start the new year off right!


Nope she was right, lol, it’s sepsis and she’s waiting to see if they can fix it at home.


In the meantime she’s going to explain again how she alone can speak so fluidly and clearly with the trach and no speaking valve.


They want to admit her but the hospital is clogged with those stupid covid patients so they send her home. Hopefully tomorrow they have a bed for her and she can get her line holiday.


It works out. She gets a triple lumen midline placed and gets up to her ICU room.


It’s going great!


She gets her new central line the next day and the day after is discharged again


You know, she hasn’t been complaining about her horrible anesthesia reactions in a minute. Just this flushing/rash.


What an obnoxious little snot. These people are keeping you alive when you’re charging full speed towards death for social media attention.

As soon as she’s home she has the energy to film wacky dance videos again.


LOL Tricia’s mom who spends all her time with Tricia tested positive for covid but miraculously Tricia is and remains negative.

Admitting she gets caught filming these in the hospital because all her monitors narc on her. These ICU nurses must be so amused.


Again saying she’s draining her parents’ finances.


Still courting shock value with her toys


Send me free shit!!!


(but don’t question my $7 starbies drink)

This is fun. I used to hate when they got on tiktok because i really would prefer to read captions than listen to a video any day, I can't stand that they all use the same music loops stripped of all context (justice 4 the Shangri-Las), and I hate scrolling through 600 videos of them flailing around and lipsyncing waiting for the one where they give me the tea, but it really does tend to bring out the peak attention-seeker in these girls.

 

[Breadbear]

Here she explains she has inline suction which is apparently very strange to be sent home with, since you can just pop the tubing off at home and suction very quickly then pop it back on.

They're easier to keep sterile. The catheters are sterilized and single use. For someone already cultivating super bugs, it gives one less line of infection.

 

[Zemblan Physics]

The only time I have ever heard of benzos causing seizures

Paradoxical reactions to benzodiazepines are a thing. Usually there’s just some agitation and restlessness but seizures are not completely unheard of (but extremely rare). And I’ll eat my Santa hat if Trisha actually had such a reaction. She probably faked one, though.

 

[Jewthulhu]

Paradoxical reactions to benzodiazepines are a thing. Usually there’s just some agitation and restlessness but seizures are not completely unheard of (but extremely rare). And I’ll eat my Santa hat if Trisha actually had such a reaction. She probably faked one, though.

I'm out of the loop as I haven't followed this thread that closely. What's the context for the seizure? Is there a video? Assuming it's not a pseudoseizure (which is most likely given this thread), a stressful event can lower the seizure threshold even if they're on a benzo.

 

[Mitt Doggy Dogg]

Paradoxical reactions to benzodiazepines are a thing. Usually there’s just some agitation and restlessness but seizures are not completely unheard of (but extremely rare). And I’ll eat my Santa hat if Trisha actually had such a reaction. She probably faked one, though.

I know seizures are pretty common withdraw symptom off benzo, never heard of people having them otherwise but wouldn't surprise me, benzos are a really dangerous drug

 

[Chan the Wizard]

Spoiler alert question: does Tricia die?
I don’t think she finds Jesus in the next 4 years except in the literal sense.

 

[Kate Farms Shill]

Spoiler alert question: does Tricia die?
I don’t think she finds Jesus in the next 4 years except in the literal sense.

Not yet, but part of my reason for trying to finish posting her ASAP is she appears to actually be at the end of the line this time.

 

[Oracular Slug]

Probably a stupid question but why in the hell do these girls want to be in the hospital? It sucks, it's noisy, you can't do anything, and it's just all around an experience most of us try to avoid. Plus the cost. I get that they want attention, but they want attention more than they want to sleep without beeping and constantly being checked on? More than they want real food? I'm just unable to wrap my head around wanting to be stuck in the hospital. (Yeah, yeah, top hats)

 

[Kela de Thaym]

Probably a stupid question but why in the hell do these girls want to be in the hospital? It sucks, it's noisy, you can't do anything, and it's just all around an experience most of us try to avoid. Plus the cost. I get that they want attention, but they want attention more than they want to sleep without beeping and constantly being checked on? More than they want real food? I'm just unable to wrap my head around wanting to be stuck in the hospital. (Yeah, yeah, top hats)

That's exactly it: they want attention. And the feeling of having people wait on you, showing you care and concern, etc.

Add to this a lot of these munchies started out in highly competitive careers like dancing or gymnastics, and when they either suffer a genuine career-ending injury or find themselves outclassed and realizing they aren't that special anymore after being gassed up throughout childhood and early teenage years, something in their brains clicks and realizes they can continue to get attention for being special by being sick rather than having to actually work and be productive humans in society.

Not rocket science to come to that conclusion when you've read numerous Kate Farms Shill deep dives into these broken, insufferable, and selfish excuses for humans.

 

[often puzzled]

She claims she can go exactly one minute and thirty-nine seconds without the ventilator. That is very specific. She says she just got curious so she disconnected it and used her phone timer but doesn’t specify if that is when she got uncomfortable or if she started to lose consciousness and someone had to plug her in. Either way, a minute thirty nine is above average for the amount of time an adult can safely hold their breath which is like a 75 seconds. I just timed it myself and even as someone who plays an instrument that requires a lot of breath control who is physically active and reasonably healthy, 1:39 was about the end of my comfortable tolerance.

I just want to know how many other people stopped right here and promptly timed themselves holding their breath.

Her redness in the hospital-- the "MCAS" flushing-- doesn't look any different or worse than half the people with seasonal allergies who are currently suffering through spring and double-dosing Claritin while sitting on their couch and scratching like a flea-ridden dog (not me, obviously).

Spoiler: trach question

This is off-topic-ish: when I was very young, a relative spoke with what she called a "voice box" after some kind of cancer involving her throat (she was a smoker). The voice it produced was monotone and extremely mechanical; you couldn't understand much of what she said. I think it may have somehow involved vibration? As I remember it, she held the device to the hole in her throat to speak. I just wondered if anyone knows what kind of device I'm half-remembering.

Tricia here reawakened this memory, so I started clicking around videos of these speaking valves on YouTube, but nothing sounded like what she had. I'm sure the technology is long since surpassed.

Anyway, she also smoked through the hole in her neck and later died of another smoking-induced cancer. My memories of all of this are vague because it was a long time ago, I was very young, and she hated children and smacked all of us with her cane if we came close enough, so I avoided her at all costs. The smoking through her neck and the cane-smacking stand out more to me than the mechanical voice, because memories of childhood are weird like that.

 

[GenociderSyo]

This is off-topic-ish: when I was very young, a relative spoke with what she called a "voice box" after some kind of cancer involving her throat (she was a smoker). The voice it produced was monotone and extremely mechanical; you couldn't understand much of what she said. I think it may have somehow involved vibration? As I remember it, she held the device to the hole in her throat to speak. I just wondered if anyone knows what kind of device I'm half-remembering.

Tricia here reawakened this memory, so I started clicking around videos of these speaking valves on YouTube, but nothing sounded like what she had. I'm sure the technology is long since surpassed.

So the valves simply bypass so that the vocal cords can be used I think your thinking of an electronic voice box.

 

[often puzzled]

So the valves simply bypass so that the vocal cords can be used I think your thinking of an electronic voice box.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=Hyg-DEodl0o

That's it! Thanks very much-- it was bothering me that I couldn't remember.

 

[Kate Farms Shill]

As I remember it, she held the device to the hole in her throat to speak. I just wondered if anyone knows what kind of device I'm half-remembering.

As Syo said, an electrolarynx. These are used when the layrnx is damaged or has to be removed, usually from cancer. Tricia's is intact so as long as she can get air up there she can speak clearly.

And yes, it picks up vibration rather than air flow. Technology has gotten better in recent years with translating vibration to tonal sound , often by using pressure sensitive buttons or switches controlled by the user. This is good because previously they were useless for very tonal languages like Mandarin Chinese.

 

[SNU]

Her holding her tongue a special way just reminds me of when that "no touch knock out" martial artist tried his chi blast on someone who wasnt in his cult and it didnt work. "I can knock you out with a chi blast but if you hold your tongue a certain way you can negate it"

 

[Oracular Slug]

That's exactly it: they want attention. And the feeling of having people wait on you, showing you care and concern, etc.

No, I get that, what I don't get is why they want to be in the hospital and not at home. They can take their toys home, and you would think having friends and family dote on you trumps having nurses do their job. They can't fake symptoms as much while on a shit ton of monitors either. Plus the cost! This shtick only works for late teens failure to launch who are still on daddy's insurance. I just can't wrap my head around wanting to be cared for so bad you'll give up the freedom to be a midnight snacking gremlin.

 

[GhoulTori]

No, I get that, what I don't get is why they want to be in the hospital and not at home. They can take their toys home, and you would think having friends and family dote on you trumps having nurses do their job. They can't fake symptoms as much while on a shit ton of monitors either. Plus the cost! This shtick only works for late teens failure to launch who are still on daddy's insurance. I just can't wrap my head around wanting to be cared for so bad you'll give up the freedom to be a midnight snacking gremlin.

A lot of it is to get high though, I mean I would think.
And then also. You wouldn’t believe what people will do to get out of work.

 

[Tragon Dirtle]

No, I get that, what I don't get is why they want to be in the hospital and not at home. They can take their toys home, and you would think having friends and family dote on you trumps having nurses do their job. They can't fake symptoms as much while on a shit ton of monitors either. Plus the cost! This shtick only works for late teens failure to launch who are still on daddy's insurance. I just can't wrap my head around wanting to be cared for so bad you'll give up the freedom to be a midnight snacking gremlin.

I mean maybe their families aren't the caring types and the hospital is the only place they can go to feel cared for? We do see a lot of parents (usually mothers) enable though. But if they're a nurse, they're probably both not caring at home but also enabling with munchie traits themselves.

 

[Uncle Tom's Condo]

Add to this a lot of these munchies started out in highly competitive careers like dancing or gymnastics, and when they either suffer a genuine career-ending injury or find themselves outclassed and realizing they aren't that special anymore after being gassed up throughout childhood and early teenage years, something in their brains clicks and realizes they can continue to get attention for being special by being sick rather than having to actually work and be productive humans in society.

I think this a good chunk of it. These girls really don't have the life experience to realize that the sun is still going to come up tomorrow if they're no longer number one at whatever sport., usually a team sport. Dancing and gymnastics seems to be overrepresented because there is no recreational league to join; if you don't make it at track you can still do 5ks or marathons with your age cohort and with golf when you don't make the cut then there's always a quick 9 holes after work while having a few cold ones.

I just can't wrap my head around wanting to be cared for so bad you'll give up the freedom to be a midnight snacking gremlin.

Adulation, sympathy and praise is addicting. Look at the bullshit behavior of the rich and famous and their desperation to stay in the limelight. Nothing more pathetic than a D-lister trying to remain relevant.

A lot of it is to get high though, I mean I would think.
And then also. You wouldn’t believe what people will do to get out of work.

Getting that shot of demerol in the ER does feel amazing and I can see why it's tightly controlled. But none of them strike me as work-shys since most of them never held down a regular job due to age and lack of education. Shit, being a munchie looks like a lot of work, or at least a big commitment.

 

[Kate Farms Shill]

Part 6 and final (for now) of Tricia Melland. In Part 5 she was home on the vent and trying to navigate her new life. She made a tiktok and accidentally gave away that she has way more respiratory function than she claims. She's been selling her uplifting story to an ever-growing audience that includes munchies, actually sick children and the parents thereof, and medical professionals who are asking all the fun questions. She remains blithely unaware of the danger she's in while continuing to culture new, worse bacteria and fungus each time she gets sick. Most recently she's spent Christmas in the hospital and learned that she can leverage this into extra special presents from her followers if only she posts an Amazon wishlist. In this final part, Tricia learns that claiming to be terminally ill is one thing. Actually finding out you are completely out of options and no one can help you is way less glamorous.

Spoiler: tears of a clown

The kid on the right is Hannah, the girl with vasculitis who almost died because her airways swelled shut from the inflammation. A reminder that Hannah was awake because after months on ECMO she was tolerant of the sedatives they could safely give her for a life-saving surgery after a blood vessel in her liver burst, and she was so close to death from blood loss that anesthesia would have definitely killed her. Tricia was awake because she's spent a decade pretending sedatives and anesthesia cause seizures. You are not the same.


Christophe Lafontante (1man3hearts) has a condition called myofibrillar myopathy, a genetic disease that caused failure of his heart, kidneys, and lungs, severely weakened his skeletal muscles, and if God hadn’t punished this poor man enough, he also developed thyroid cancer he survived and serious substance abuse issues that he overcame. You are not the same, Tricia. He has what you spent your life pretending you had.


And they’re like “variant of uncertain significance but you appear super sick so we have to consider you’re that one in a million case where this otherwise benign mutation causes disease.”


lmaooo and that’s exactly what they are: three different mutations of uncertain significance on genes for collagen. This means nothing. Statistically all of us have some weirdo gene variations that are not doing anything significant and most of us will go our entire lives not knowing they exist. Having a benign variation on the COL31A gene does not mean you have vEDS. It means you have a benign variation and your body still knows how to make Type III collagen properly.


And a reminder that she likely got all her genetics testing from Dr. Boles who used very questionable tests from a company he had a financial and professional stake in, which is no longer in business.


This Auntie Paparazzi account is fucking weird. I see them all the time tagging famous people to munchie accounts and they take this job very seriously.


So all this time Tricia's Instagram has been silent. March 9 she comes back looking like she’s been inflated, saying she has sepsis again and needs a new line again. God, get a new plot line, Tricia! She’s now tagging herself as #terminallytricia


Back on Tiktok she says she’s had multiple surgeries since the previous update and now they want to check her lungs but feel like her kidneys are too FUBAR to handle the contrast. Her temperature is a balmy 105.4F. Was it worth it, Tricia?


The next day she says they had an emergency femoral line in and now she’s got an IJ again. The stupid prizes keep appearing at her doorstep as she now has to have bronchoscopy (a scope of the inside of her lungs) done with no sedation.


Bronchoscopy over and Tricia is joking that with all these infections she’s quite the overachiever. She’s made this joke before and my munchie doxer side laughs at her being an idiot, but the public health nerd in me is screaming for her to be put down and buried in a lead sarcophagus for the safety of humanity.


The scope identified her lung bugs and it’s something hard to treat. She doesn’t name it this time. Yes she’s filming someone cleaning around her line site for this Tiktok.


She’s actually not in any of her local hospitals this time. She was attempting a road trip and got sick. They had to pull off the highway on the way home to get her into whatever the nearest hospital was.


It’s all good because she got a fluffy news piece written about how Tiktok is keeping her alive and before she started posting and getting an audience there she was ready to give up. The Dr. Clay Anderson they interview is an oncologist who had her at St. Luke’s after she bounced there from University of Kansas right before the pulmonary emboli hit.


She celebrates this article by doing more dumb tiktok dances while supposedly on death’s door and getting caught by the nurses.


She’s discharged on the 18th and the same day she’s back to filming energetic dances. Sorry, Heidi, since you presumably need your trach, I would not base my expectations on what this faker is up to.


Why you panting tricia? Could it be proof your lungs and respiratory muscles actually work? I wonder if she even wears the vent all the time at home or whether it gets disconnected as soon as no one who will tattle is around.

Spoiler: pay attention to me!!

LOLLLL. She almost learned the Jaquie lesson: if you’re constantly crying wolf in the hospital, screaming about your “mast cell reactions” and demanding more pain meds the nurses might not believe you if you suddenly start having real problems. She says they listened to her lungs and checked her sats, diagnosed her “drama queen” and a half hour later the chest xray and arterial blood gas showed the problems.


I can’t help but be a little irritated at all the resources that have been wasted keeping this girl alive. If this was a person who had a real disease I’d just feel bad for her but the fact that she got herself in this position on purpose and could have backed out of her lies over and over again but chose not to makes me moti about it.


She’s just going to spend the rest of her life checking off her bucket list. No point in trying to save herself now.


My guess is steroids or you decided to film another dance and got a little flushed.


She’s bleedin’ from her line because the clave broke off. This means she has to go to the hospital to get checked out and get a new dose of one of her meds because the bag she was hooking up is now contaminated and she doesn't have an extra this time.

She turns 23 and blows out the candles with her vent for shock value. Don't worry, she turned the oxygen off first!


Yeah real prolonged seizures that have to be stopped with a drug-induced coma are no joke, ask Katie Stanina. But that’s not what happened to you. Again, the fact that her mom’s instinct was “lemme document this for the ‘gram” makes me lose any hint of sympathy. Even if these are real seizures and not PNES, I just can’t feel bad because this is what they wanted. The seizures also just seem to have fucked off eh? Yeah sure maybe she got stability from medication but I refer again to Katie Stanina who continues to have breakthrough seizures regularly because she actually has really severe epilepsy.


Back to dancing and shock content.


May, sepsis again and her IJ is culturing yeast. The IJ is pulled and replaced with a midline.


Midline placed and immediately falls out. Or gets yanked out. Who knows? They get a peripheral in but she needs more access. She’s in bone marrow failure because of the infection.


They place a new IJ two days later. She’s given blood and some injection to make her bone marrow wake up.


Don’t like when it’s not in your control, huh? This was way more fun when you were just swinging your tubes around for attention and getting your sorority not-sisters to bring you candy in the hospital?


Discharged June 1.


People ask about her bucket list and she says the number 1 is to be able to meet Ellen Degeneres. If you go back to part 1 she was already tagging Ellen all the time from the hospital, but now she has a large following who are willing to tag accounts on her behalf. This was just weeks before the accusations about Degeneres creating a “toxic workplace” or whatever it was came out.


It works. A few days after her Ellen video she gets a facetime call from funny TV talk show lady.


Someone starts a rumor that she’s dead. Aww, wait until she's hospitalized and been quiet a while before you pull this one. It's much funnier that way.


If only there was some way to prevent this.


Medical PTSD is real! Sometimes I don’t get exactly what I want from doctors and that makes me sad! Sometimes they tell me "if you're really allergic to all sedatives and anesthesia then we have to do this while you're awake" and there's no magical option where I get to maintain my lies AND be knocked out for unpleasant procedures and given unlimited opiates on demand!


They buy or borrow a giant white van to take Tricia for a ride in the car.


Of course, it's because she needs to see Dr. Boles in LA again. Can't let those pesky sane doctors save her life without interference.


Answering some questions about her health.

In this one she talks about how she’s no longer considering the colectomy because they don’t even know if that would be enough or if other parts of her GI system are also leaking. There's a very good chance she wouldn't survive them cutting her open to find out. Again I refer to the stupidity of the game being played and that of the prizes to be won by doing so.

In this one she talks about how she had her ostomy placed in March 2013 and how she has extremely low output from it because she doesn’t eat.

So that means it was placed during this hospitalization with Dr. Mercer at Omaha. This was back when she never really talked about what was going on with her so I'm not surprised she didn't specify. Just was mildly interesting that I could actually find the time it happened.


Whoops, septic again. Her line is pulled once again and replaced with a midline.


It’s multifocal pneumonia. They switch her antibiotics.


New IJ line is in on July 22 and the infection is starting to clear up. It was resistant to the previous drugs used.


Marsha has SMA1. I know that Tricia here has the emotional maturity of a newly hatched boa constrictor but how do you lie to someone who has SMA1 and try to make your self-induced problems at all comparable?


Again, stupid games, the stupidest of prizes.


And we’re back to energetic dances despite her pneumonia, respiratory failure, and mitochondrial dysfuncton. I like the kyphosis/cushiongoid buffalo hump she has setting in.


Lovenox is a blood thinner. since she already had the PE that makes sense.


Mito: diagnosed by a known quack. MCAS: diagnosed by a known quack. EDS: genetic variants not known to cause disease. GI failure: self induced by eating disorder/long term opioid and TPN usage. Respiratory failure: any damage to your lungs is self-induced through fucking with your central lines until you got septic pulmonary emboli but you constantly give away that your lungs are in much better shape than you claim. Adrenal insufficiency: because steroids. Immunocompromised: because steroids, central lines, repeated bouts of sepsis, and everything else we’ve watched you do to yourself for 10 years. It’s real easy to “not play by the rules” of your disease when you don’t have it.


Tagging CIPO, chronic intestinal pseudo-obstruction, for the first time in many years. TIL TPN is $1000-2000 per bag. I think my brain just short-circuited thinking about how much the TPN alone has cost over the years, let alone everything else they've done to this moonfaced goldfish.


I sure hope this video took less than 1 minute and 39 seconds to film! That would be really bad if it took 1 minute and 40 seconds!


She hits 100k tiktok followers.


Lol nice bone density kid. How are those corticosteroids treating you?


Who the fuck knew Advil had a TikTok account? We are living in dystopia.


Again, Marsha actually needed this through no fault of her own, and so did Hannah for that matter. By all appearances Tricia could have long since weaned off of hers at least part time and continues to choose not to.

Spoiler: all downhill

Yeasty again in October. Please pray. Same song and dance as before. Line pulled, miraculously find peripheral access and get a midline in when the alternative is death.


This time when they go to place the IJ line she ends up with an EJ (external jugular) line instead. One of the lumens doesn’t work right off the bat.


By Halloween she’s back out and back to dancing, now with her bag of stomach goo flapping in the breeze to make people comment that they're sure it's going to fly off.


Oh fucking wow. So remember when they discharged her with her vent and she was silent on all platforms for long periods of time, only popping up to say she had sepsis again and was totally dying? Yeah she left out the part where she went to goddamned Lollapalooza in 2019 to meet that band she’s obsessed with. She even got to stand in a special area up front and away from the plebs. And doesn’t she look pleased with herself. It’s a shame covid put such a damper on her using her self-induced illness to get special attention from famous people. LMAO IMAGINE TAKING YOUR MOMMY TO A MUSIC FESTIVAL LMAO LMAO LMAO.


I’m NOT FAKING!!! Look at all my tubes!!! Would they have given me this for a fake illness??? Yes, lol, as we have discovered. I wanted to believe the answer was no, but alas, just that ceaseless optimism getting the best of me again. You started with GI problems/an inability to eat (in a pre-teen figure skater what are the odds!) and from there your wealthy parents paid for you to see whatever doctor would say it wasn’t anorexia, bouncing through children’s hospitals all over the US getting tubed, then untubed, then tubed again as each one took you at face value and gradually realized you were full of shit. This led to Boles, who used incredibly dubious genetics tests to diagnose anyone who walked in the door with mitochondrial disease then took this back to your local hospital to convince the doctors there that you were dying of a rare disease you do not have. You spent a decade doing your damnest to remain hospitalized and drugged to the tits, including fucking with your central line, dehydrating yourself until you got kidney stones, faking seizures and dystonia, and getting colonized by super resistant bacterial and fungal biofilms, with your disused GI tract falling to bits, culminating in septic pulmonary emboli that required a ventilator and now you keep giving away that you are no longer in need of that. So yes, you were faking then, you are faking now, and after you die, I will update to say that you faked yourself to death. I don't need to be a "mito specialist" to figure this out and I think I've made my case pretty convincingly in these six long posts.

Once again, Hannah is like 10 years younger than Tricia and did absolutely nothing to cause her health problems. Notice that by this point Hannah was no longer on a ventilator, just getting supplemental oxygen through the trach. This is because Hannah spent her days doing cardio-pulmonary rehab and trying to increase the amount of time she could tolerate being off the vent, if only by a few minutes.


if only, if only something could have prevented this.


As soon as Hannah leaves Tricia has sepsis again. Dumb covid patients are taking up HER hard-earned ICU bed!!


A whole day of waiting and they finally get her a bed. The infected line is removed and a midline placed but it’s fucked before they even start using it. Once again they manage to get peripheral access when there’s no other option.


It’s the same yeast she keeps culturing over and over and will never get rid of. That yeast colony is gonna sign the guestbook at her funeral.


Now she has a blood clot in her armpit and had to get a tiny peripheral IV into her finger for the anesthesia to try replace her line.


I am having trouble not making a very utilitarian argument about euthanising extremely infectious humans like rabid dogs. She’s being dosed with every heavy duty antibiotic and antifungal they have available to buy her more time so they can figure out what the shit she’s culturing is actually sensitive to. I hate it.


She gets a shiny new IJ to infect just before Christmas.


Discharged home for the holiday.


Here are her full vent settings if anyone would like to know. Maybe someone will find these useful but i don't have a fucking clue.


Yeah kid it’s real easy to not die of respiratory failure you’re not in.


The kind where it’s not dysautonomia or MCAS, it’s just your face being a little red like many peoples faces get for various reasons.


Yep. Anyone can see what you post. Even some ne'er-do-well you've never met who spends her insomniac nights archiving and writing about the social media accounts of young women who fake sick for attention. For the record, I found this one because a friend of mine who knows what I do for fun got recommended Tricia's account by the algorithm and asked me if I’d ever heard of a disease called “mito.” That was February 25. It took a few hours to do the initial sweep of her social media so I had a local copy to work off, a week and a half of maybe an hour a night to discuss with the pros who helped me fact check, about a day to do an extremely thorough scrape of her entire public internet presence, and by March 10 I was previewing my first draft to a group for feedback. March 12 the final copy started going up on the Farms. I wrote this sentence on 29 March because having a local copy means it doesn’t really matter if I’m finished writing when I start posting.


Marsha the SMA1 patient “trach twin” is dead. Wow sounds like when you really can’t breathe from extremely weak respiratory muscles this is not a fun energetic tiktok dance lifestyle but more of a “waiting for the end” kind of deal.


Talking about her gastric emptying studies here. She had them in 2009 and 10 and then again in 2013, so two before her social media started and one in the very beginning when she was being tight-lipped about her medical care. I’m going to guess the 2013 one was the same time she got the ostomy.


Yeah well, maybe if you hadn't been faking respiratory problems for years trying to live out your Hazel Grace/Claire Wineland/Five Feet Apart fantasies they would have taken you seriously the time you really couldn’t breathe.


It’s her 24th birthday and Hannah came to visit. You will notice perhaps that Hannah’s trach is now capped and not attached to anything. At this point she was celebrating that she could go entire days with a cap on her trach (not a valve, she was breathing normally) and use bipap at night. The only reason they kept the trach itself in was she might have needed it if her disease flared again, which was a concern because she was also tapering off her steroids. But mostly she was enjoying that she was looking and feeling like herself again. Tricia still has made zero progress.


Look at this photograph! Every time I do it makes me laugh!


Septic-ish again in July. They manage to treat it at home.


And she’s off to see her quacks again a few days later. She might not still be seeing Boles as he claims to only see patients up to age 23.


LOL you only have to travel that far because you don’t have a mitochondrial disease or MCAS and any on-the-level doctor specializing in this will be able to sniff you out as a fake. Probably the best place in the world for diagnosis and treatment of mitochondrial disorders is in Aurora, Colorado, which she had to pass through or at least very near to get to Vail.


Omg typical Tricia am I right? Falling asleep and accidentally posting drafts of silly dances!


Oh Charles. . .


When you and your mom get addicted to the attention and dedicated the rest of your life to making sure every aspect of your entire existence is medicalized? No.


If you had cancer you’d actually be sick, lmao.


I mean, sick with something other than the super-resistant biofilms she’s been nurturing for years.


Infection still raging. Posing to show off the DNR bracelet.


Don’t worry, she’s going to be miraculously better in time to ruin someone’s wedding with her pumps and vent.


By the way I found her mom writing a testimonial about this “Nezzie” thing she has all her infusions and vent on. It's not that interesting but I like to be complete.





At this point all she’s doing is screaming for attention from celebrities, trying to get them to engage with her because muh bucket list muh terminal illnesses


Doubt.


Oh god get a new plot line. “I’m septic! I need a new line! Right before christmas gosh darnit! Please pray I’m out for the holidays.”


"YAY I AM OUT FOR THE HOLIDAYS."


Four years on the vent, 300k followers because of it.


Feeling septic again in late January. Nothing grows from her blood cultures so they’re treating it at home with the Afflo Vest. Living out her CF skinwalker dreams at long last.


Because that did not result in a hospitalization she breaks two of her lumens at the same time.


The next day, blood transfusion booty dancing.

No you wouldn’t be because you would have never started this in the absence of social media.


She went skiing. On the vent. It took me a long time and several re-watches to realize that the ski instructor does have a very small ventilator in a pouch by his hip and she’s said before she uses a Phillips Trilogy which is like, 10 lbs portable with a longish battery life. And she is sit-skiing. Still, something just seems so incongruous about this and her stated level of disability. I wonder how many of their sit-skiing customers film dramatic swagger videos walking to the lift before they sit in the sledge.

She makes another explanation video for why she’s on the vent and again the comments are crawling with people pointing out how extremely odd it is that she’s able to speak so clearly without even taking breaks when the machine gives her a breath.

And how she has so goddamned much energy.


Again, real easy to defy the odds when you’re lying about what they are.

She makes it to 25 with a fancy cake she can’t eat. This terminal illness sure is taking its dear sweet time.


I WOULD PROBABLY REFRAIN FROM FLAILING IF I WAS HOOKED UP TO MACHINES THAT KEEP ME ALIVE. Just fucking saying. She has such a hard time getting IV access yet she’s swinging her arms around with her lumens hanging out of her shirt. She will die off the vent but she’s doing sweaty energetic dances that take her breath away and laughing that the vent gets yanked off at least once per filming session.

Spoiler: holding pattern

Babe wake up, new superbug just dropped. Acinetobacter Calcoaceticus-Baumanii Complex, a combo platter of pathogens that is often very resistant to multiple drugs. This is one of those new pathogen complexes that suddenly sprung from the bowels of hell like a decade ago and now is just endemic in ICUs all over the world. It’s a goddamned miracle none of these infections have killed her yet. She's on sepsis bout 50 or whatever, colonized by biofilms and constantly culturing new monstrosities and using it for silly tikytoky videos, forever secure in the idea that she will survive and use this to post more dance videos about how she’s bravely defying the odds. She is, for now, but how many times can you spin that chamber before you get a live round?


Again when she might die they magically get peripheral access she’s been claiming for a decade she no longer has.


JK they blew and she gets a femoral line now, because our old friend candida has returned. 10 days later she’s still a-strugglin.


Oh come on. We all knew you never had any real intention of being on the other side of this relationship.


Femoral line out. Two days later she’s back to tell us that this infection is managing to jump to any line they place. Once again claiming they’re down to possibly her last viable site for a central line.


Either January 2009 or August 2010, depending on which version of the story you’re telling this week.


Even with the line gone she’s still full of yeast. A new femoral line is placed and she’s put back on amphotericin B and voriconazole. Tricia considers that this might be her last round.


On the 10th of June she’s back to say the candida is no longer sensitive to any known drug in existence and there’s only two that have even a shot of treating it, but no one knows if they’re also resistant to those. The blood mushrooms are winning the war and Tricia is talking hospice. If she even manages to beat back this infection she still has the issue of only one viable site for the central line. They're making a hospice plan.


Three days later the new line is already infected and needs to be replaced, once again with a mix of peripheral and midline.


Peripherals blew on the 17th. Infection rages again.


She’s switched to a higher flow vent because her oxygen is low. Odd stuff on her TEE for the first time. Fluid is accumulating in and around her lungs and it’s getting worse. She’s no longer allowed to deflate her cuff so she can’t speak. Once again, Tricia learns what the disease she’s been claiming to have actually feels like. They’re now looking to see if any surgeon anywhere is willing to take her colon out knowing full well the surgery will probably kill her, or if there’s any last-ditch antibiotics they can try that they haven’t already. She realizes what @Aunt Carol said: the bacteria aren’t in on her game. They don’t care about the rules she’s made. They don’t care that she has reached her goal of making the celebrities and sick kids she idolized know who she is.


Was it worth it?


Somehow she has managed to survive multiple concurrent illnesses that individually kill otherwise healthy people. Oh right, I forgot to mention, the drugs she’s on to kill the infection are doing organ damage. And there’s no experimental treatments they can try. This might really be the end this time. . .


NOTICE ME, TAYLOR SWIFT!!! Nothing says "I am taking my situation seriously" like trying to leverage it to get one of the most famous human beings on the planet to acknowledge you. Taylor never does. Also she says this is something she'll never get to check off her bucket list but she already saw Taylor Swift live back in like 2014. She's just not able to go to this particular tour.


VRE is still growing and becoming more resistant. The femoral line is colonized and has to come out.


The yeast is also getting stronger and growing faster. Her colon has GOT to come out if she wants even a slim chance of surviving, but no one will touch her.


ID tells her they’re out of options.


Yet another bacterial infection has shown up in her lungs. #overachiever #gobigorgohome!!!


Was it worth it?


What does it matter what this costs? Tricia’s never had to do so much as do household chores to earn an allowance.


It’s August 11 and we’re still in this holding pattern. She disappears after telling people they’re out of options and she’s spending what time she has left with her loved ones.


And she’s back. 95 days in the hospital and she’s still got the same bugs and they’re still getting stronger every time they culture, her lines are all infected, and she might have a clot. Everyone agrees she needs to be in tertiary care and have that colon out but no one will touch her with hazmat suits on, and her team in Kansas City tells her they’re not even going to bother calling around anymore because it’s not going to happen. They’ve given up trying to save her.


Was it?


Because on instagram you said this was Hawaii in ‘07. The only way this works is if this was very late 2007 and the one post - the only post - she made claiming that she was in the hospital for Easter 2008 was the "correct" date for the GI shutdown.


That would be here, a 2016 post about how it had been 8 years since her first holiday in the hospital. But then that contradicts every other time she's talked about her GI shutdown being triggered by either the flu in August 2010 or an unnamed illness in January 2009. I know it's kind of a minor thing given everything currently going on but [screams in historian].


100 days in the hospital and she’s still in exactly the same spot she was 100 days ago.

Spoiler: the final countdown

She’s been transferred to a new tertiary care center, Barnes-Jewish Hospital in St. Louis, MO.


And she’s celebrating with another energetic Titkok dance. My god, aren't you dead yet? It’s September 15, she’s gotten and infected a new femoral line and Barnes-Jewish is already starting to regret letting her go camping in their ICU.


In October, her cultures are finally negative so they place an EJ line, but she’s still spiking a fever every day.


Because the candida is back. Bonjour!


And the resolution to this whole saga is: nothing! She gets discharged with the infection still raging and her colon still intact to spew more pathogens into her blood stream because there’s nothing anyone can do for her. There's no surgeon willing to cut her open. There's no super secret antibiotic the rest of us plebs don't have access to. Tricia has lived her whole life absolutely sure that she can always be brought back from the brink but not this time. Tricia has just learned what we've discussed in this thread: once the bacteria are resistant to the last drugs capable of treating them, game over. There isn't another one coming down the line, because whereas all those -mabs, antidepressants, blood pressure medications, and diabetes injections that have hit the market in the last 30 years is big business, new antibiotics to treat the tiny few cases of extraordinarily resistant bacteria in human petri dishes like Tricia is not. There's nothing left. It's over. You can blame pharmaceutical company greed all you want. It doesn't change that there is no drug that can fix what you've created. Your confidence in your own ability to survive this indefinitely was charming but the bacteria don't give a fuck about your brave mito warrior social media persona.


She’s verging on septic, her colon is falling apart, she cultures bugs that do not respond to any treatment available to humanity but getting some problem teeth pulled was def the priority here. I mean I guess if the teeth were abscessed and causing relentless pain the drugs no longer could touch then it's a quality of life thing. But it just comes off like she's still so confident that some miracle treatment will come out any day now and she'll be back to her "critically stable" comfort zone.


of course, this dental work sets off another round of fungal frenzy.


She’s back in the ICU. In early December, she almost dies. It was beautiful and peaceful but she’s back now, don’t worry.


Yay! It’s pulmonary emboli again! Was it worth it Tricia? Aren’t you really feeling like Hazel Grace Lancaster and your Augustus Waters will sweep you off your feet at any second?


Yeah just traumatize some children on the way out, good deal. Hopefully this child thinks of it as a happy memory.


She’s discharged for Christmas and septic by New Year.


I hope you weren’t expecting any catharsis from this. Tricia’s still alive and doing stupid tiktok dances.


As of recently she’s just been in the hospital in Denver after she went up to Colorado to go skiing again and crashed from candida overload as soon as she got there but it’s okay because some person I’ve never heard of is posting about her.


...I don’t know why this struck me so funny. I now know so much about this literal nobody from Kansas City who will be forgotten before her body's even cold because she did nothing with her life except turn herself into a human bioweapons laboratory and then stamp her feet and scream negligence when doctors couldn't prescribe her a deus ex machina. But the actual celebrity's name doesn't ring a bell. I had to google to even figure out what she's famous for. The rock I live under is forged of lead and no pop culture may penetrate my sanctuary.


As of the 28th of March she’s still in Denver, drenched in sweat with fungus coursing through her veins and these greedy doctors still haven't prescribed her that deus ex machina.

Hope it was worth it Tricia! Don't worry, I'm sure Kenny and your yeast colonies will have the cutest little outfits for your funeral.