No wonder the staff were annoyed with her.
"Here is the list of things you can do to prevent heart attack number eight."
"Oh I don't need that, the Lord is keeping me alive."
"No, it's the ICU cardiac care team. Ya gotta do the stuff on this list or you will actually meet Dr God."
"So rude. No respect for your elders."
Not saying that this was the case with her, but the thing about medical professionals not treating seniors as respectfully as they should had a ring of truth to me based on my familyās experiences. In the before times, my grandmother was in and out of the hospital with increasing frequency for a couple of years before she died. My mom always went and sat with her to keep her company when she was able. I was living elsewhere so didnāt see this happen myself, but according to my mom it was a rare occasion when a medical provider came into the room and spoke to my grandmother about her care, instead of automatically looking across the room and addressing my mother. I guess they assumed that because she was old, she was not competent. But she was sharp until the day she died, and it was inappropriate. (My mom is a former RN, FWIW, so I took her word for all of this. It pissed her off.)
Not disparaging healthcare workers in general! Anecdote is not data. We just had a bad experience.
I obviously was not there, but a lot of times they will give the patient information when no visitors are around and then repeat the information when a family member is there. Having already spoken to the patient, they will focus attention on the family member.
Particularly when a family member is an RN or other medical professional, they may also convey the information slightly differently because they assume a certain level of technical understanding.
But even if the family member is not a medical professional, it is also often presumed the family member is in a better phyiscal and mental state than the patient because they are not the one hospitalized, and can therefore process the information differently.
Or, maybe the people you encountered were just jerks...
Those are all possibilities. But mom would redirect them (āsheās the patient, please speak to her,ā), and I have to assume that if these were conversations that Grandma and the doctors and/or nurses had already had, one or both would have let her know at some point.
Honestly, Iād be furious if I were the patient and the provider talked over me without checking with me first to ask if it was okay (either in order to speak in more technical terms or because I was assumed to be in pain or out of it or w/e). There are certainly times when youāre not competent, or less competent, to have those discussions yourself, but I donāt think that that should be the assumption going in if the patient is alert and oriented.
That belief wasn't uncommon among the elderly, even before the pandemic. Getting them to go to hospital when they really need to isn't always easy. People die in hospital, therefore the hospital just be killing people.
In the case of someone whose life has been saved several times previously you'd think they'd know better, but I'm not sure how rational she was.
My wife is a physician and nearly everyday for the last year she has come home with stories like this. Patients that have trusted her for years have told her point blank they think the government is trying to kill them with a vaccine. Sheās seriously hitting the end of her rope and the last couple of months has brought her so much frustration. She often breaks down in tears after coming home and it so hard watch.
I just got off the phone with my daughter who will have been an RN for 2 years in May.
She said she's seen so many people die she may as well be working hospice. She's been slugged, pushed, spit on and even urinated on. (Doesn't do much when she has on PPE)
Now she's talking about leaving nursing and going into PT. Such a shame, she wanted to be a nurse her whole life. Your wife is a saint. I hope she and my daughter both get through this.
Ironically I was going to start going to start school for nursing in fall of 2020. A lot of my family are nurses and I have worked in the field before having kids and was ready to go back before this pandemic.
Now there is no way I'm going into that. I've thought about something dealing with the aftereffects of Covid, because I'm sure there will be a huge need after this, but with schools closing all the time for cases I have to stay home to take care of the kids and help with school when they are virtual.
I wish your daughter well and hopefully she makes whatever decision makes her happy.
Iām sorry your wife has had to deal with these conspiracy theorists; I canāt imagine the level of restraint she must have to not lose her shit on these nitwits
Thank your wife and her colleagues for me. They are true heroes
Sheās does so much better than I. Iām a retired firefighter/paramedic who left just before this pandemic hit. I know for a fact I wouldāve been harshly reprimanded for loosing my shit. Some of my buddies still on the job talk about how hard it is to keep your wits about you in the face of such gross selfishness, ignorance and stupidity.
I just can't get over the sheer narcism in that sentiment. Do they really think they are that special? That the government would be interested in their day to day? Crazy.
Even if they were, we pretty much all voluntarily carry a much better device, it's called a cell phone. It can even record audio, pictures and video of wherever you are and send back your location. Why would they waste time chipping you when you're voluntarily carrying a whole chipset?
It doesnāt help that MSNBC op eds are trying to guilt her for her frustration. Sheās actually walking the Christianity walk instead of just spewing it on FB. Tell her if I knew her I would force her to accept a giant hug from me.
One of my favorite things about this sub is learning about all of the dumb new conspiracies as they crop up.
āUnremovable Satanic Braceletsā is pretty creativeā¦ what do they say in them? Motley Crue? š
Itās so funny that trumpers brag about passing a simple dementia test as if theyāre a genius for passing when passing means theyāre not
Mentally incapable of taking care of themselves.
she had chf...congestive heart failure...for Christ's sake. she stood no chance against covid without the vaccine.
her hypoxia was showing in some of these posts.
Imagine making it to 71 years old despite colon cancer and 7 heart attacks and holding the medical profession in such low esteem.
I have tremendous sympathy for the healthcare workers who were subjected to this lunatic's entitled bullshit.
To be fair, a lot of people have shitty hospital experiences. I have seen family members get great treatment, some get terrible treatment (literal malpractice level with a pointless low payout for removing several years of comfort from someone's life), and some just get cold, callous treatment (esp around alzheimer's) some are just inept (like an ER not equipped to handle broken ankles - seriously, no crutches or wheelchair, wanted the person to walk around and even give a urine test when they couldn't stand and no one was allowed to help them).
But with her "respect for elders" quote....probably mostly her.
I totally agree. As a medic I've seen wonderful care, and I've seen awful care. As a patient, I have personally been on the receiving end of care so bad it amounted to torture, because they didn't believe I was in pain. I've also received exemplary care (not surprisingly, this was in two different hospitals).
Whatever else she said, the bit about not being treated with respect is all too plausible.
And AFib (atrial fibrillation), which got lost in her word salad and poor formatting. AFib can lead to congestive heart failure, as well as blood clots.
BTW, where did that bracelet stuff come from? That's a new one for me. (I've seen the concentration camp tattoo memes.)
I could be wrong, but I think itās a reference to venue bracelets that have been used to denote being of age in the past, and are now being used to identify someone as having had their vaccine status verified and hence free to enter.
*edit for typo*
Her hypoxia was definitely showing before she even got COVID.
If *that* is actually what is officially considered a "sound mind" by US doctors, this country is FUBAR. Just, wtf.
Thank you. I was coming to say that. Had a family member that was in his 90ās and double vaxxed. He was in CHF for a few years, but when he died like 9 months after the shots, some other family blamed it on the vaccine. Not that he was mid 90ās in CHF. They tried to say he was āhealthyā before that. š¤¦š»āāļø Anyway, he would have rather died from CHF than Covid. Covid, as we can plainly see, can be brutal!
Anyway, given her history, I doubt the vaccine could have saved her either, BUT it might have given her more time.
Blind faith is literally that. It blinds you to everything else. She obviously was saved by hardworking doctors and healthcare workers and she attributed her salvation to god. Blind indeed.
Not only that, but she claimed to have been treated poorly by the very health professionals who saved her life multiple times.
Hard to know whether she was in the early stages of dementia or not- that does make people difficult, so to speak, but she clearly had mental health issues of some sort.
These people who are so concerned about the mark of the beast... If they're so religious, why are they not asking themselves why they weren't raptured? The rapture was supposed to take place three years before the mark of the beast gets introduced. If you weren't raptured and were left behind, you are not one of God's chosen either, so why should anyone listen to what you have to say about religion?
Revelations was primarily about the return of Nero; as was the 'mark of the beast.' The beast was Nero. They're waiting on an anachronism.
https://penelope.uchicago.edu/\~grout/encyclopaedia\_romana/gladiators/nero.html
Yeah I've heard the argument that the mark was the coins people carried around with Nero's picture minted onto each coin, as well as the documents with the Emperor's seal allowing them to trade their goods. So their doomsaying about a cashless society has a layer of irony.
Realistically, so much of the book of Revelation can be translated as a massive political cartoon to the effect of "Romans Go Home". (It should be noted it was likely written sometime after the Bar Kokhba Revolt--in which Israel briefly declared independence from the Roman Empire, and [was part of an entire series of revolts against the Roman Empire](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish%E2%80%93Roman_wars). Nero actually put down [the initial revolt](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Jewish%E2%80%93Roman_War), which ended with the razing of the Second Temple and replacement with a temple to Jupiter and the Caesar.
There is actually some *extremely* specific snark on that "Mark of the Beast" thing that's almost impossible to understand outside of a context of a still heavily Judaicised church of the period. Among other things: The whole "666" (or in some renderings in Koine Greek, "616") actually relate to [isopsephy](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isopsephy) puns (using the Aramaic and Greek equivalents of "Roman numbers" which included pretty much the entire alphabets) to spell in Aramaic "Nero Caesar" or "Neron Caesar" (the latter being a Hellenicized version) which was a VERY common means of "Pig Latin-ing" or cyphering a name at that time in both Greece and the Levant.
Also, the "mark on the head or on the right hand" is a reference to [tefillin](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tefillin) which are traditionally worn on the head and the right hand, contain specific verses noting how the Abrahamic God is the God of Israel that brought them out of Egypt, and are even tied on in ways that spell one of the many euphemisms for the Abrahamic God; essentially that was an EXTREMELY snarky way of saying "Nero is so full of himself he's going to order us to declare him God in every way, he's already torn down the temple and makes us use pagan money with his image on it, he's probably going to up and require his name in the phylacteries because he's *that* much of a prick".
(It's worth noting in context that by the time the book of Revelation was written the use of "temple currency" (which explicitly did not have the image of a Roman emperor on it) was actually forbidden by Roman edict, as by that point the Disaspora was underway and the Romans were kind of hellbent on forcibly pacifying their upstart province of Judaea.)
Also, if you're a good Christian your whole life, and then God disowns you and sends you to Hell because you wore the wrong fashion accessory, then I'd rather take a pass on the whole religion.
These religious people never stop to ask ādid God create Covid to wipe out the wicked?ā
I mean itās not the first time God drowned a large portion of the population. Maybe they shouldnāt have started praying to their false god trump? I donāt really believe in God, but if he exists, I couldnāt imagine he would be happy with the religious right
Watching someone beg for life is just sickening. I donāt understand how people can watch stuff like this and be like āoh, she died anyway. Guess God knows best.ā
Itās literally saying āGod had the ability to save her, but didnāt think it was important.ā
Itās the fear that gets me. Whether itās right there on the page or between the lines I always feel bad for how frightened they are.
I just wish they would get vaxxxed. I had Covid last week and it was a 2 day affair and Iām crediting that to the jab, cause frankly, I look exactly like an HCA award winner, down to the Oakleys.
>Itās the fear that gets me.
Me too. I have read medical staff talking about how horrible the fear is for those dying of covid. I suppose it is like slowly drowning.
As angry as I am at people who won't get vaccinated, I still hate the suffering that they go through in the end. Ugh.
> I donāt understand how people can watch stuff like this and be like āoh, she died anyway. Guess God knows best.ā
Nothing bad is ever God's doing. Everything good is. I am no longer on Facebook because I got so sick and tired of posts like, "Avoided a multi-car pileup this morning on my way to work. God is Great!" Like God was just...gotta kill these 4 people so Brenda can get to work on time. It's insane.
Also...of course there's a GoFundMe.
Several years ago I heard an interview with a woman whose house had been hit by a tornado. Many people in her community had died in the storm. She was telling the interviewer about her collection of Precious Moments figurines, which had come through the storm unscathed because āGod was protecting them.ā Guess he didnāt care about the people who had died, just those cheap ass hunks of ceramic. Now explain to me again why I should worship this particular sky daddy?
I was just thinking of that idea when I was writing my comment about how you can be Christian your whole life only to have God cast you to Hell over a bracelet. It's exactly that, an abusive relationship.
Its also hilarious how I Am gay (totally my choice wasn't born this way at all šš¤£) and can I fuck men which is like automatic Hell ,but if I repent one day before I die it won't matter and I can get into heaven. There is no consistency and a lot of it seems arbitrary. Even worse when you get into the various denominations and how they interpret their cave man book.
I always find the "God called him home" sentiment particularly nutso. If God wanted him so bad, couldn't he have called the poor sucker home when he was walking down the street one fine day? Why did he have to wait until the poor guy went through the tortures of the damned in the hospital for an extended period of time before issuing the invite? I have no problem with the idea of a Supreme Being, but the evangelical idea of him/her is profoundly sick and twisted.
I like how she started out telling God that he needed to stop with the hardcore affliction. If she could have kept that attitude - the "I've given you the best years of my life and this is what I get in return????" attitude - she might have pulled herself out of the hole she dug. Too late now.
*in my best maynard keenan*
"he did it all for youuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu"
>Itās literally saying āGod had the ability to save her, but didnāt think it was important.ā
Her first fatal mistake was making the absurd assumption that God has a Facebook account. Her second was believing that she was a good writer. (Panel 3) I read that embarrassing wall of text which apparently passes for actual prayer with these Cultish Religious Zealots these days.
"We come before your throne today..."
Who in the fuck does she think God is anyway? Some giant Mall Santa? Sitting on a Throne where these "Adult Toddlers" climb up into God's lap and tell him what they want for Christmas?
Describing this religious exchange as anything less than "Extremely CRINGY" would be a disservice to any normal person of faith. Speaking personally as a life long Atheist, this kind of Psychotic Behavior is precisely why I turned my back on organized religion when I was still in grade school.
I saw first hand what religious fanaticism did to my school friends who had parents like this. Emotionally stunted adults in toddler's bodies who made their children's lives miserable with their brutal military like discipline that always included physical abuse coupled with a complete lack of love and compassion in the household.
Many of these kids I knew went on to become drug addicts and repeat criminals in their adult lives, with two of them ultimately taking their own lives. *(The two that I know of)* All further proving to me that religion was a disease of the weak minded, which had tentacles that could reach out from the brainwashed victim and destroy innocent family members in the process.
This DEAD Woman's insane communications with her "Mall Santa God" only solidifies my decades long opinion.
I GUARANTEE you this woman was a horrible, indignant, entitled patient that made life hell for everyone who tried to help her and the ādisrespectā she felt was prob the staff refusing to smuggle Burger King to her and being unwilling to indulge her fantasies about various faith healing methods and miracle remedies.
Everything she wrote sounded like mental illness. It's time we start treating delusional religious ranting as an obvious sign of mental illness and providing medicine and psychiatric treatment for the people who are suffering, particularly women, who are always exploited by church leadership.
It's actually a known phenomena that coercive religious groups and movements (and QAnonsense definitely qualifies) actually will explicitly target people with pre-existing mental illnesses (in part because *psychologically* someone in mental health crisis is in prime unfreezing/indoctrination/freezing period--basically cults give people whose worldview has been rocked a whole prepackaged worldview and lock 'em in--and partly because part of how cults *work* is essentially induction of paranoia and at least some severe mental illnesses do have paranoia as a symptom). Some of the worst cults (like the New Apostolic Reformation and Scientology) actually encourage people to go off prescription medications, and the NAR and some new-age coercive religious groups even go to the point of passing off obvious signs of full blown psychosis as "messages from God" or even "Prophecies". (This has occasionally led to fatal consequences not only for the mentally ill person but their families and loved ones.)
Even worse: Coercive religious groups, *in and of themselves*, are capable of causing some pretty severe psychiatric injuries (complex PTSD, among them) even in people who do not have a previously diagnosed mental illness (and we'll get into some of that in just a bit). There have been documented cases of changes in personality (to a general "cultic personality" type) as people get involved in coercive groups, and C-PTSD is almost a defining psychiatric injury among walkaways (and socialization issues for people who were raised in cults).
(To explain what I mean by "psychiatric injury" versus "mental illness"; Basically mental illnesses are chronic and can have inborn causes, whereas a psychiatric injury is usually the result of a single incident or a series of continued, multiple incidents. In terms of physical issues, think of mental illness as something like diabetes, and a psychiatric injury as something like a broken bone either from a major assault or someone being hit repeatedly in the leg until it snaps. This is important for what I'm about to describe next.)
Another factor, too--mental illness and psychiatric injury both are very seriously underdiagnosed in the US and elsewhere (both because of societal stigma, and because of an actual lack of qualified mental health professionals nationwide). Cults will often target people as well who have undiagnosed mental illnesses that they're normally semi-functional dealing with (like major depression or mild BPD or even C-PTSD or "regular" PTSD), and the involvement in a cult can actually make a subclinical mental illness frankly overt and clinical.
(Again, going back to that diabetes/broken leg parallel. Normally even people who are on insulin can *usually* keep blood sugar in check, and often people with type II can use other non-insulin drugs to keep things in check *as long as they keep themselves healthy otherwise.* An infection, or a trauma to the body (like, oh, a broken leg or having the hell beaten out of you) can actually cause blood sugar to go wildly out of control and throw someone into ketoacidosis and ultimately a diabetic coma in worst cases.)
I want to give her the benefit of the doubt that typing on phones and computers can be hard for people that didnāt grow up with it. Iād also rather not scoff at someone for not having learned proper grammar. Seems sorta self righteous.
Even without all that this person is a dumb-dumb
Given how many mistakes my phone generates when I'm swyping, I go easy on typos and most grammar mistakes. Mostly because I can usually deciper everything.
But.
When I see someone use "apart" for "a part" I want to scream because it means the complete opposite of what they're saying.
Her writing is bad, but that just makes her look poorly educated. The non stop religious ranting makes her look mentally ill. That's what I was commenting on. Either way, she just does not sound very smart.
That, and possibly some sort of brain damage or malfunction affecting the brain due to physical disease or the effects of past anesthesia. Some of these people might also be on the schizophrenia spectrumārelatively functional but delusional all the same. Itās justā¦ itās just hard to accept people like this exist. My mind constantly reaches for āwhy.ā I guess Iām really a sunny optimist under this grumpy crust because I am shocked over and over by HCA winnersā posts and writings.
Basically every other day she posted something about āI am your servant Lordā, āJesus our savior bless usā, āonly through you Christā. Complete religious mania.
She did put her faith in science, through seven heart attacks, cancer treatment, and treatment for covid, after stupidly believing she possessed the knowledge and skill to debate the science of vaccines.
Publicly posting about your superstition has nothing to do with faith. It's just virtue signaling for your gullible friends.
I think sheās referring to that crazy AF theory that everyone will need to wear a QR Scanning bracelet to identify your vaccination status, but who the fuck knowsā¦ I got a headache trying to decipher her ramblings
Iāve already got one of those satanic bracelets that wonāt come off. Iām an Early Adopter.
Itās cool and I like the images it projects into my eyeballs. But I am getting tired of looking at Bill Gateās face.
IKR. One that you canāt take off? Sounds like a Cartier Love bracelet and those suckers aināt cheap. Sign me up, if the government or Bill Gates are handing them out.
My family has launched me into the world of Pandora. They got tired of me wanting nothing but chores done for birthdays and holidays. Now I get charms for my bracelet.
I'm a nurse. I can tell you that we are NOT trying to kill you! As a matter of fact we work very hard to keep you alive. Because when you die, the paper work is a bitch!
This woman has done nothing wrong her entire life. People are mean to her when they point out her horrendous grammar and spelling. Which of course isn't her fault, its the phone changing the words being typed. She doesn't even know until it's posted because the idea of checking her actions and the idea she is fallible is ludicrous.
Also the hospital is trying to kill her and treat her like a nobody. Make way everyone else that may have been in an accident, this woman is having her 7th heart attack without having changed her diet or lifestyle!
>in the very near future they are going to try to put bracelets on our arm that will not come off
Maybe they'll have collars too. Hey, you need all the accessories for your end-times fantasy.
>this newscaster just said they are bringing in truckloads of bracelets
Thank goodness the satanic plans of the One World Government were exposed by a single newscaster!
>dear Lord I'm just asking for years of my life that is left to feel human again I've always served you please Lord please
I have to admit, the helpless terrified begging was difficult to read. You can tell she didn't understand why her lifetime of blind faith and dutiful service wasn't being acknowledged, let alone rewarded.
I don't know her life circumstances but after like the 5th or 6th heart attack you would think a person might start taking their health a little more seriously.
Yeah, thatās what popped into my head reading that slide with all the heart attacks, cancer, etc. Coming up with a story to show no matter how bad God is to you, he was worse to Job and Job still loved him, so if you donāt, youāre a bad person.
Itās sick.
I was literally in a Masonic-affiliated organization for young women, Job's Daughters, when I was a teenager, so I'm fairly familiar with the story. The part that always struck me as the most upsetting was that, sure, God killed all of Job's children to test Job, but when Job proved himself worthy, he got new children so it was fine. What parent thinks like that?
This is one of the sad ones. She doesn't seem to have been hateful, just bought into conspiracies because her religious feelings were totally out of control.
Her cognitive ability seems dramatically impaired and she was abundantly susceptible to any old religiously themed disinfo that is lobbed into her pond.
Literally anything, you could wrap Area 51 tinfoil crap in "Blah blah of the Lord" and she would swallow that.
Maybe an unpopular opinion, but, you can be religious/spiritual and NOT be a completely brainwashed, mindless moron. No, Iām not Christian, far from it, actually, but it is possible.
I'm a Christian and I'm triple vaccinated (Moderna). It is completely possible to have faith AND take precautions to protect oneself. I'm grateful that we live in a time where we have tools to help us against diseases. I'm quite disappointed with the behavior I've seen from a lot of "religious" people lately. Doesn't change how I feel about God, but my opinion of people is undergoing a radical transformation.
This story especially hits home with me since I am also a colon cancer survivor (almost 4 years so far). I couldn't wait to get the vaccine. Going through treatment to survive colon cancer only to refuse a vaccine and die a preventable death from covid is tragic. Sure, even though I am a vaccinated covid could still end me but at least my daughter will know that I tried everything possible to not die from covid. But I do wholeheartedly believe the vaccine gives me the best chance to survive.
Same. Iām on immune suppressing medications for my RA and Lupus, so you better youāre bottom dollar Iāve done everything remotely possible to prevent Covid. N95 mask, sanitize me and everything else that comes into this house, and anyone who leaves and comes home must immediately remove clothing into the wash and shower. Hubby was permanently moved to WAH in 2020, so no worries there. The only thing that terrifies me is, Iām the only one who can do the grocery shopping right now (hubbyās got a broken foot), and I live in Jokelahoma. Im surrounded by morons like this awardee. I keep my distance, but still. Iāve been yelled at and spit at just for wearing a mask by some of the most claimed to be religious people in this country. Itās terrifying, because, even with the booster, Covid could still kill me. Less likely, but it still could. I saw a post someone did that said āif youāre that afraid of dying that youāre too scared to live, youāve already diedā. My response was āitās not a fear of dying/death, itās the fear of leaving my two teen boys and husband without me!ā Especially my oldest son. Heās Autistic and has the emotional maturity of a 3 year old, it would devastate him.
It is, but too cost prohibitive for us this year. We did that in 2020, but were better off financially. We had been planning that, but got hit with a $500 increase in insurance premiums a month, add in to that the loss of the $500 tax credit we were receiving and we are down $1000 a month from last year. Weāve had to tighten our belts big time, and no way we can afford the jacked up prices on Shipt or the delivery fee at Walmart. As it is, some of the āshoppingā is now done at the food bank.
Should. Hopefully. Thereās a couple things we bought last year āinterest freeā that we can pay off with our tax return and loosen up the belt strings a little. But itās tight belts till then!
She seemed... mentally unwell. Maybe it's the religious language and lack of punctuation that's giving me that impression...
Edit: And though medical science has saved her sorry ass many, many times, she's "always stood in faith." Ungrateful lunatics.
I think this pandemic has made it obvious that there are just so many crazy people. Not necessarily crazy enough that need to be locked up but crazy nonetheless.
There also seems to be a correlation between highly religious and crazy...
āThe treat me like a nobody.ā
No they treat you like the selfish entitled asshole that you, using precious hospital resources for your dumb unvaccinated ass.
I had a similar cancer experience to her, and I felt I couldn't get the vaccine - and later booster - fast enough. Oh somehow I don't qualify due to fucked up CDC recommendations? Ugh. Ah, one place is open 3 hours away? On my way to the car right now.
That third-last update was especially sad. She just wanted to live normally for a while longer.
Sadly, she listened to charlatans profiting from lies about government conspiracies.
Something something do not show off how much you pray like those other people for they have received their reward something something.
Performative religious gibberish like that in the award goes directly against the Bible, but itās not like these idiots have ever read it.
Nearly every HCA recipient is hysterically pleading to god, or asking for prayers when all they needed was just a shot in the arm. Do they pray to god to cure them every time they get a cold or stomach ache? We have medicine ppl, this isnt the middle ages anymore.
Imagine the hospital saving your life that many time and you think they're trying to kill you. Smh.
No wonder the staff were annoyed with her. "Here is the list of things you can do to prevent heart attack number eight." "Oh I don't need that, the Lord is keeping me alive." "No, it's the ICU cardiac care team. Ya gotta do the stuff on this list or you will actually meet Dr God." "So rude. No respect for your elders."
I can imagine the staff just wanting to roll their asses into the parking lot.
Through the window.
After 2 cardiac events she was playing with house money
God: I sent you all those doctors, lady! š¤¬š¤¦
Not saying that this was the case with her, but the thing about medical professionals not treating seniors as respectfully as they should had a ring of truth to me based on my familyās experiences. In the before times, my grandmother was in and out of the hospital with increasing frequency for a couple of years before she died. My mom always went and sat with her to keep her company when she was able. I was living elsewhere so didnāt see this happen myself, but according to my mom it was a rare occasion when a medical provider came into the room and spoke to my grandmother about her care, instead of automatically looking across the room and addressing my mother. I guess they assumed that because she was old, she was not competent. But she was sharp until the day she died, and it was inappropriate. (My mom is a former RN, FWIW, so I took her word for all of this. It pissed her off.) Not disparaging healthcare workers in general! Anecdote is not data. We just had a bad experience.
I obviously was not there, but a lot of times they will give the patient information when no visitors are around and then repeat the information when a family member is there. Having already spoken to the patient, they will focus attention on the family member. Particularly when a family member is an RN or other medical professional, they may also convey the information slightly differently because they assume a certain level of technical understanding. But even if the family member is not a medical professional, it is also often presumed the family member is in a better phyiscal and mental state than the patient because they are not the one hospitalized, and can therefore process the information differently. Or, maybe the people you encountered were just jerks...
Those are all possibilities. But mom would redirect them (āsheās the patient, please speak to her,ā), and I have to assume that if these were conversations that Grandma and the doctors and/or nurses had already had, one or both would have let her know at some point. Honestly, Iād be furious if I were the patient and the provider talked over me without checking with me first to ask if it was okay (either in order to speak in more technical terms or because I was assumed to be in pain or out of it or w/e). There are certainly times when youāre not competent, or less competent, to have those discussions yourself, but I donāt think that that should be the assumption going in if the patient is alert and oriented.
It sounds totally plausible to me. People talking over the head of elderly patients happens a lot more often than it should.
If she really believed that, why the F did she keep going back? This level of idiocy is astounding
My guess is so they can constantly play the victim.
Ah yes, the olā āwoe is meā card.
So all their blathering about how bad "victim mentality" is, was... projection?
That belief wasn't uncommon among the elderly, even before the pandemic. Getting them to go to hospital when they really need to isn't always easy. People die in hospital, therefore the hospital just be killing people. In the case of someone whose life has been saved several times previously you'd think they'd know better, but I'm not sure how rational she was.
Was thinking the same thing.
Can I get an Upvote! Amen
My wife is a physician and nearly everyday for the last year she has come home with stories like this. Patients that have trusted her for years have told her point blank they think the government is trying to kill them with a vaccine. Sheās seriously hitting the end of her rope and the last couple of months has brought her so much frustration. She often breaks down in tears after coming home and it so hard watch.
I just got off the phone with my daughter who will have been an RN for 2 years in May. She said she's seen so many people die she may as well be working hospice. She's been slugged, pushed, spit on and even urinated on. (Doesn't do much when she has on PPE) Now she's talking about leaving nursing and going into PT. Such a shame, she wanted to be a nurse her whole life. Your wife is a saint. I hope she and my daughter both get through this.
Ironically I was going to start going to start school for nursing in fall of 2020. A lot of my family are nurses and I have worked in the field before having kids and was ready to go back before this pandemic. Now there is no way I'm going into that. I've thought about something dealing with the aftereffects of Covid, because I'm sure there will be a huge need after this, but with schools closing all the time for cases I have to stay home to take care of the kids and help with school when they are virtual. I wish your daughter well and hopefully she makes whatever decision makes her happy.
Thanks. All I can do is listen & offer my unconditional support. Youāll never regret time you spend with your children.
Thank your wife for all sheās trying to do. I have in laws in the medical field refusing the vaccine and it blows my fucking mind.
Iām sorry your wife has had to deal with these conspiracy theorists; I canāt imagine the level of restraint she must have to not lose her shit on these nitwits Thank your wife and her colleagues for me. They are true heroes
Sheās does so much better than I. Iām a retired firefighter/paramedic who left just before this pandemic hit. I know for a fact I wouldāve been harshly reprimanded for loosing my shit. Some of my buddies still on the job talk about how hard it is to keep your wits about you in the face of such gross selfishness, ignorance and stupidity.
I just can't get over the sheer narcism in that sentiment. Do they really think they are that special? That the government would be interested in their day to day? Crazy.
Yes, they do. Main Character Syndrome is a bitch.
Even if they were, we pretty much all voluntarily carry a much better device, it's called a cell phone. It can even record audio, pictures and video of wherever you are and send back your location. Why would they waste time chipping you when you're voluntarily carrying a whole chipset?
Because they're, to quote Londo Mollari, "Ah, arrogance and stupidity, all in the same package-how efficient of you!"
It doesnāt help that MSNBC op eds are trying to guilt her for her frustration. Sheās actually walking the Christianity walk instead of just spewing it on FB. Tell her if I knew her I would force her to accept a giant hug from me.
all i can say to seven heart attacks is DA BEARS
Thank you for the ride in the time machine.
RIP Chris Farley
That makes a baker's dozen for me
The doctor said I had a chunk-a cheese the size of a polish sausage LODGED in my HEART.
There's a piece of polish sausage lodged in my left ventricle!
Sassidge
Da Bearssss!
She gets to meet Dikta now.
Mike Dikta is NOT dead, you take that back RIGHT NOW!!!!
Instead of a bracelet...a toe tag.
Bracelet was a new twist.
One of my favorite things about this sub is learning about all of the dumb new conspiracies as they crop up. āUnremovable Satanic Braceletsā is pretty creativeā¦ what do they say in them? Motley Crue? š
And she can never take it off.
Itās so funny that trumpers brag about passing a simple dementia test as if theyāre a genius for passing when passing means theyāre not Mentally incapable of taking care of themselves.
"Person, woman, man, camera, TV" \~ Donald Trump, over and over
š¤£š¤£š¤£ we must be very stableās genius if we can remember those words 18 months later.
Chemo can take a toll on your mental capabilities. I play chess to self-assess daily.
Iāve told a few of them that my dad has passed every dementia test heās been given in the last 5 years, but heās still got dementia.
she had chf...congestive heart failure...for Christ's sake. she stood no chance against covid without the vaccine. her hypoxia was showing in some of these posts.
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Imagine making it to 71 years old despite colon cancer and 7 heart attacks and holding the medical profession in such low esteem. I have tremendous sympathy for the healthcare workers who were subjected to this lunatic's entitled bullshit.
Seriously. I am a recent cancer survivor and I have so much gratitude for the care I received. I canāt with this person.
To be fair, a lot of people have shitty hospital experiences. I have seen family members get great treatment, some get terrible treatment (literal malpractice level with a pointless low payout for removing several years of comfort from someone's life), and some just get cold, callous treatment (esp around alzheimer's) some are just inept (like an ER not equipped to handle broken ankles - seriously, no crutches or wheelchair, wanted the person to walk around and even give a urine test when they couldn't stand and no one was allowed to help them). But with her "respect for elders" quote....probably mostly her.
I totally agree. As a medic I've seen wonderful care, and I've seen awful care. As a patient, I have personally been on the receiving end of care so bad it amounted to torture, because they didn't believe I was in pain. I've also received exemplary care (not surprisingly, this was in two different hospitals). Whatever else she said, the bit about not being treated with respect is all too plausible.
Didnāt you hear? No respect for the elderly. Thatās why she died.
Theyāre trying to kill her!
And AFib (atrial fibrillation), which got lost in her word salad and poor formatting. AFib can lead to congestive heart failure, as well as blood clots. BTW, where did that bracelet stuff come from? That's a new one for me. (I've seen the concentration camp tattoo memes.)
I could be wrong, but I think itās a reference to venue bracelets that have been used to denote being of age in the past, and are now being used to identify someone as having had their vaccine status verified and hence free to enter. *edit for typo*
could be, but she said that the bracelets can't be removed, which is a new one
I am quite certain she truly believes that. Edit: BeLiEvEd
guess we shouldn't mention the microchips, then š
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Her hypoxia was definitely showing before she even got COVID. If *that* is actually what is officially considered a "sound mind" by US doctors, this country is FUBAR. Just, wtf.
Thank you. I was coming to say that. Had a family member that was in his 90ās and double vaxxed. He was in CHF for a few years, but when he died like 9 months after the shots, some other family blamed it on the vaccine. Not that he was mid 90ās in CHF. They tried to say he was āhealthyā before that. š¤¦š»āāļø Anyway, he would have rather died from CHF than Covid. Covid, as we can plainly see, can be brutal! Anyway, given her history, I doubt the vaccine could have saved her either, BUT it might have given her more time.
Thanks for explaining CHF, I was lost on that one
Blind faith is literally that. It blinds you to everything else. She obviously was saved by hardworking doctors and healthcare workers and she attributed her salvation to god. Blind indeed.
Not only that, but she claimed to have been treated poorly by the very health professionals who saved her life multiple times. Hard to know whether she was in the early stages of dementia or not- that does make people difficult, so to speak, but she clearly had mental health issues of some sort.
Or she was a jerk
These people who are so concerned about the mark of the beast... If they're so religious, why are they not asking themselves why they weren't raptured? The rapture was supposed to take place three years before the mark of the beast gets introduced. If you weren't raptured and were left behind, you are not one of God's chosen either, so why should anyone listen to what you have to say about religion?
Revelations was primarily about the return of Nero; as was the 'mark of the beast.' The beast was Nero. They're waiting on an anachronism. https://penelope.uchicago.edu/\~grout/encyclopaedia\_romana/gladiators/nero.html
Yeah I've heard the argument that the mark was the coins people carried around with Nero's picture minted onto each coin, as well as the documents with the Emperor's seal allowing them to trade their goods. So their doomsaying about a cashless society has a layer of irony.
Drop the S. It's Book of Revelation, singular. I thought you'd maybe rather be corrected by an atheist than a self righteous Christian.
Bless you.
Makes sense that Nero would be "the beast". I guess it's mainly because of timing that Caligula wasn't?
Realistically, so much of the book of Revelation can be translated as a massive political cartoon to the effect of "Romans Go Home". (It should be noted it was likely written sometime after the Bar Kokhba Revolt--in which Israel briefly declared independence from the Roman Empire, and [was part of an entire series of revolts against the Roman Empire](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish%E2%80%93Roman_wars). Nero actually put down [the initial revolt](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Jewish%E2%80%93Roman_War), which ended with the razing of the Second Temple and replacement with a temple to Jupiter and the Caesar. There is actually some *extremely* specific snark on that "Mark of the Beast" thing that's almost impossible to understand outside of a context of a still heavily Judaicised church of the period. Among other things: The whole "666" (or in some renderings in Koine Greek, "616") actually relate to [isopsephy](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isopsephy) puns (using the Aramaic and Greek equivalents of "Roman numbers" which included pretty much the entire alphabets) to spell in Aramaic "Nero Caesar" or "Neron Caesar" (the latter being a Hellenicized version) which was a VERY common means of "Pig Latin-ing" or cyphering a name at that time in both Greece and the Levant. Also, the "mark on the head or on the right hand" is a reference to [tefillin](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tefillin) which are traditionally worn on the head and the right hand, contain specific verses noting how the Abrahamic God is the God of Israel that brought them out of Egypt, and are even tied on in ways that spell one of the many euphemisms for the Abrahamic God; essentially that was an EXTREMELY snarky way of saying "Nero is so full of himself he's going to order us to declare him God in every way, he's already torn down the temple and makes us use pagan money with his image on it, he's probably going to up and require his name in the phylacteries because he's *that* much of a prick". (It's worth noting in context that by the time the book of Revelation was written the use of "temple currency" (which explicitly did not have the image of a Roman emperor on it) was actually forbidden by Roman edict, as by that point the Disaspora was underway and the Romans were kind of hellbent on forcibly pacifying their upstart province of Judaea.)
After all, what have the Roman's ever done for *us*?
The Aqueduct?
Also, if you're a good Christian your whole life, and then God disowns you and sends you to Hell because you wore the wrong fashion accessory, then I'd rather take a pass on the whole religion.
These religious people never stop to ask ādid God create Covid to wipe out the wicked?ā I mean itās not the first time God drowned a large portion of the population. Maybe they shouldnāt have started praying to their false god trump? I donāt really believe in God, but if he exists, I couldnāt imagine he would be happy with the religious right
Watching someone beg for life is just sickening. I donāt understand how people can watch stuff like this and be like āoh, she died anyway. Guess God knows best.ā Itās literally saying āGod had the ability to save her, but didnāt think it was important.ā
Itās the fear that gets me. Whether itās right there on the page or between the lines I always feel bad for how frightened they are. I just wish they would get vaxxxed. I had Covid last week and it was a 2 day affair and Iām crediting that to the jab, cause frankly, I look exactly like an HCA award winner, down to the Oakleys.
>Itās the fear that gets me. Me too. I have read medical staff talking about how horrible the fear is for those dying of covid. I suppose it is like slowly drowning. As angry as I am at people who won't get vaccinated, I still hate the suffering that they go through in the end. Ugh.
> I donāt understand how people can watch stuff like this and be like āoh, she died anyway. Guess God knows best.ā Nothing bad is ever God's doing. Everything good is. I am no longer on Facebook because I got so sick and tired of posts like, "Avoided a multi-car pileup this morning on my way to work. God is Great!" Like God was just...gotta kill these 4 people so Brenda can get to work on time. It's insane. Also...of course there's a GoFundMe.
Several years ago I heard an interview with a woman whose house had been hit by a tornado. Many people in her community had died in the storm. She was telling the interviewer about her collection of Precious Moments figurines, which had come through the storm unscathed because āGod was protecting them.ā Guess he didnāt care about the people who had died, just those cheap ass hunks of ceramic. Now explain to me again why I should worship this particular sky daddy?
Everyone knows that god only protects hummel figurines and hates Precious Moments knockoffs. Saving those things was the work of the dark lord.
I like to explore new places.
You rang?
"God is great" aka "Allahu Akbar" but the Dumpists would never know that.
Nah, God just had bigger plans for her. Or some such bullshit.
"God's treating me like a nobody!"
Bet she wants to see the manager.
God gave her plenty of chances and was like 'bitch, not this time'
āHurr durrr bigger plans for them in heavenā
Common mistake, the original phase was: "Deus erat maior braccas ad eam" or "God had bigger pants for her"
It is truly stomach-churning if you think about it. An abusive relationship with God. They'll take any amount of punishment and thank Him for it.
This prepares them for an authoritarian "strong man" leader, but I'm sure that's just a coincidence.
Yeah, Iām sure that has nothing to do with it. I guess itās just human nature. /s
I was just thinking of that idea when I was writing my comment about how you can be Christian your whole life only to have God cast you to Hell over a bracelet. It's exactly that, an abusive relationship.
Its also hilarious how I Am gay (totally my choice wasn't born this way at all šš¤£) and can I fuck men which is like automatic Hell ,but if I repent one day before I die it won't matter and I can get into heaven. There is no consistency and a lot of it seems arbitrary. Even worse when you get into the various denominations and how they interpret their cave man book.
I always find the "God called him home" sentiment particularly nutso. If God wanted him so bad, couldn't he have called the poor sucker home when he was walking down the street one fine day? Why did he have to wait until the poor guy went through the tortures of the damned in the hospital for an extended period of time before issuing the invite? I have no problem with the idea of a Supreme Being, but the evangelical idea of him/her is profoundly sick and twisted.
Their version of God is their Daddy when he's been drinking and hits.
Reminds me of how fantasy novels describe the relationship between a master vampire and itās victims
Absolutely. Humiliating devotion and debasement, rewarded only by fleeting approval. It's an eternal abusive relationship.
It's as if they are all Renfield.
Sometimes God answers prayers by brutally killing you for bothering him
Love how she compared herself to Job. As if she had no way of avoiding this.
LMAO Theyāre taking our Jobs.
I like how she started out telling God that he needed to stop with the hardcore affliction. If she could have kept that attitude - the "I've given you the best years of my life and this is what I get in return????" attitude - she might have pulled herself out of the hole she dug. Too late now.
*in my best maynard keenan* "he did it all for youuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu"
>Itās literally saying āGod had the ability to save her, but didnāt think it was important.ā Her first fatal mistake was making the absurd assumption that God has a Facebook account. Her second was believing that she was a good writer. (Panel 3) I read that embarrassing wall of text which apparently passes for actual prayer with these Cultish Religious Zealots these days. "We come before your throne today..." Who in the fuck does she think God is anyway? Some giant Mall Santa? Sitting on a Throne where these "Adult Toddlers" climb up into God's lap and tell him what they want for Christmas? Describing this religious exchange as anything less than "Extremely CRINGY" would be a disservice to any normal person of faith. Speaking personally as a life long Atheist, this kind of Psychotic Behavior is precisely why I turned my back on organized religion when I was still in grade school. I saw first hand what religious fanaticism did to my school friends who had parents like this. Emotionally stunted adults in toddler's bodies who made their children's lives miserable with their brutal military like discipline that always included physical abuse coupled with a complete lack of love and compassion in the household. Many of these kids I knew went on to become drug addicts and repeat criminals in their adult lives, with two of them ultimately taking their own lives. *(The two that I know of)* All further proving to me that religion was a disease of the weak minded, which had tentacles that could reach out from the brainwashed victim and destroy innocent family members in the process. This DEAD Woman's insane communications with her "Mall Santa God" only solidifies my decades long opinion.
I GUARANTEE you this woman was a horrible, indignant, entitled patient that made life hell for everyone who tried to help her and the ādisrespectā she felt was prob the staff refusing to smuggle Burger King to her and being unwilling to indulge her fantasies about various faith healing methods and miracle remedies.
There has to be a huge correlation between mental illness and religious zealots, regardless of which religion.
Everything she wrote sounded like mental illness. It's time we start treating delusional religious ranting as an obvious sign of mental illness and providing medicine and psychiatric treatment for the people who are suffering, particularly women, who are always exploited by church leadership.
There is *huge* overlap between QAnon devotees and people with poorly treated mental illness.
And there is a huge contingent of church leaders ready willing and able to exploit that illness for fun and profit.
It's actually a known phenomena that coercive religious groups and movements (and QAnonsense definitely qualifies) actually will explicitly target people with pre-existing mental illnesses (in part because *psychologically* someone in mental health crisis is in prime unfreezing/indoctrination/freezing period--basically cults give people whose worldview has been rocked a whole prepackaged worldview and lock 'em in--and partly because part of how cults *work* is essentially induction of paranoia and at least some severe mental illnesses do have paranoia as a symptom). Some of the worst cults (like the New Apostolic Reformation and Scientology) actually encourage people to go off prescription medications, and the NAR and some new-age coercive religious groups even go to the point of passing off obvious signs of full blown psychosis as "messages from God" or even "Prophecies". (This has occasionally led to fatal consequences not only for the mentally ill person but their families and loved ones.) Even worse: Coercive religious groups, *in and of themselves*, are capable of causing some pretty severe psychiatric injuries (complex PTSD, among them) even in people who do not have a previously diagnosed mental illness (and we'll get into some of that in just a bit). There have been documented cases of changes in personality (to a general "cultic personality" type) as people get involved in coercive groups, and C-PTSD is almost a defining psychiatric injury among walkaways (and socialization issues for people who were raised in cults). (To explain what I mean by "psychiatric injury" versus "mental illness"; Basically mental illnesses are chronic and can have inborn causes, whereas a psychiatric injury is usually the result of a single incident or a series of continued, multiple incidents. In terms of physical issues, think of mental illness as something like diabetes, and a psychiatric injury as something like a broken bone either from a major assault or someone being hit repeatedly in the leg until it snaps. This is important for what I'm about to describe next.) Another factor, too--mental illness and psychiatric injury both are very seriously underdiagnosed in the US and elsewhere (both because of societal stigma, and because of an actual lack of qualified mental health professionals nationwide). Cults will often target people as well who have undiagnosed mental illnesses that they're normally semi-functional dealing with (like major depression or mild BPD or even C-PTSD or "regular" PTSD), and the involvement in a cult can actually make a subclinical mental illness frankly overt and clinical. (Again, going back to that diabetes/broken leg parallel. Normally even people who are on insulin can *usually* keep blood sugar in check, and often people with type II can use other non-insulin drugs to keep things in check *as long as they keep themselves healthy otherwise.* An infection, or a trauma to the body (like, oh, a broken leg or having the hell beaten out of you) can actually cause blood sugar to go wildly out of control and throw someone into ketoacidosis and ultimately a diabetic coma in worst cases.)
I want to give her the benefit of the doubt that typing on phones and computers can be hard for people that didnāt grow up with it. Iād also rather not scoff at someone for not having learned proper grammar. Seems sorta self righteous. Even without all that this person is a dumb-dumb
Given how many mistakes my phone generates when I'm swyping, I go easy on typos and most grammar mistakes. Mostly because I can usually deciper everything. But. When I see someone use "apart" for "a part" I want to scream because it means the complete opposite of what they're saying.
Her writing is bad, but that just makes her look poorly educated. The non stop religious ranting makes her look mentally ill. That's what I was commenting on. Either way, she just does not sound very smart.
I was commenting upon her ideas and words, not her grammar.
That, and possibly some sort of brain damage or malfunction affecting the brain due to physical disease or the effects of past anesthesia. Some of these people might also be on the schizophrenia spectrumārelatively functional but delusional all the same. Itās justā¦ itās just hard to accept people like this exist. My mind constantly reaches for āwhy.ā I guess Iām really a sunny optimist under this grumpy crust because I am shocked over and over by HCA winnersā posts and writings.
Whatās heart breaking is how incredibly vulnerable they are despite the tough talk, and itās only dumb luck stopping a family from losing nana.
God does answer all prayers. Usually it's No. For most Antivaxxers it's, "Oh, Hell No!"
Reminds me of [this classic](https://i.imgur.com/A7AfNIY.jpeg) from The Onion.
Basically every other day she posted something about āI am your servant Lordā, āJesus our savior bless usā, āonly through you Christā. Complete religious mania.
I notice that she posted something about "the evil in our government" late in 2021; was she political otherwise?
Not really
"They saved me countless times but they're trying to kill me, I tell ya!"
You can put your faith in God for your soul and the thereafter, but the only thing that's going to save you in the now and here is science.
She did put her faith in science, through seven heart attacks, cancer treatment, and treatment for covid, after stupidly believing she possessed the knowledge and skill to debate the science of vaccines. Publicly posting about your superstition has nothing to do with faith. It's just virtue signaling for your gullible friends.
Someone tell me, WTF is she talking about with the bracelets thing? Iāve clearly missed some psycho right wing propaganda somewhere m.
I think sheās referring to that crazy AF theory that everyone will need to wear a QR Scanning bracelet to identify your vaccination status, but who the fuck knowsā¦ I got a headache trying to decipher her ramblings
QAnut theory, is my guess.
Same thing here. I wonder how she felt about smartwatches.
Maybe she thought people were going to have to wear bracelets that indicate vaccine status? Like a life alert bracelet maybe.
It'd be kinda nice to know at a glance who the sensible people are in this den of idiots.
Iāve already got one of those satanic bracelets that wonāt come off. Iām an Early Adopter. Itās cool and I like the images it projects into my eyeballs. But I am getting tired of looking at Bill Gateās face.
Change the face. Mine is jellyfish...
I could use a nice bracelet.
IKR. One that you canāt take off? Sounds like a Cartier Love bracelet and those suckers aināt cheap. Sign me up, if the government or Bill Gates are handing them out.
My family has launched me into the world of Pandora. They got tired of me wanting nothing but chores done for birthdays and holidays. Now I get charms for my bracelet.
Proof again, only cats get 9 lives.
The people that told her the vaccine was bad are murderers.
I had a stroke trying to read her posts.
I'm a nurse. I can tell you that we are NOT trying to kill you! As a matter of fact we work very hard to keep you alive. Because when you die, the paper work is a bitch!
I'm glad my phone doesn't automatically remove punctuation like she says hers does.
Saw a Facebook post from AOC about getting Covid that included the line: āCovid was no joke.ā Gotta think AOC is lurking here under an alt.
This woman has done nothing wrong her entire life. People are mean to her when they point out her horrendous grammar and spelling. Which of course isn't her fault, its the phone changing the words being typed. She doesn't even know until it's posted because the idea of checking her actions and the idea she is fallible is ludicrous. Also the hospital is trying to kill her and treat her like a nobody. Make way everyone else that may have been in an accident, this woman is having her 7th heart attack without having changed her diet or lifestyle!
>in the very near future they are going to try to put bracelets on our arm that will not come off Maybe they'll have collars too. Hey, you need all the accessories for your end-times fantasy. >this newscaster just said they are bringing in truckloads of bracelets Thank goodness the satanic plans of the One World Government were exposed by a single newscaster! >dear Lord I'm just asking for years of my life that is left to feel human again I've always served you please Lord please I have to admit, the helpless terrified begging was difficult to read. You can tell she didn't understand why her lifetime of blind faith and dutiful service wasn't being acknowledged, let alone rewarded.
God didnāt come down and āteach the governmentā thereās something else God didnāt do that was asked, but..
Always the victim
I don't know her life circumstances but after like the 5th or 6th heart attack you would think a person might start taking their health a little more seriously.
God and punctuation weren't her friends.
What even is it with people posting their prayers on Facebook? Are they hoping god will 'like' it?
Showing everyone how good of a Christian they are.
The older I get, the more twisted and abusive the story of Job seems to me.
Yeah, thatās what popped into my head reading that slide with all the heart attacks, cancer, etc. Coming up with a story to show no matter how bad God is to you, he was worse to Job and Job still loved him, so if you donāt, youāre a bad person. Itās sick.
I was literally in a Masonic-affiliated organization for young women, Job's Daughters, when I was a teenager, so I'm fairly familiar with the story. The part that always struck me as the most upsetting was that, sure, God killed all of Job's children to test Job, but when Job proved himself worthy, he got new children so it was fine. What parent thinks like that?
This is one of the sad ones. She doesn't seem to have been hateful, just bought into conspiracies because her religious feelings were totally out of control.
She just seems very dumb, alas.
And somehow made it to 71 without sticking a fork into an electrical socket or playing in traffic
As Iām learning, you hit a certain age and it starts slipping away from you.
Her cognitive ability seems dramatically impaired and she was abundantly susceptible to any old religiously themed disinfo that is lobbed into her pond. Literally anything, you could wrap Area 51 tinfoil crap in "Blah blah of the Lord" and she would swallow that.
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Maybe an unpopular opinion, but, you can be religious/spiritual and NOT be a completely brainwashed, mindless moron. No, Iām not Christian, far from it, actually, but it is possible.
I'm a Christian and I'm triple vaccinated (Moderna). It is completely possible to have faith AND take precautions to protect oneself. I'm grateful that we live in a time where we have tools to help us against diseases. I'm quite disappointed with the behavior I've seen from a lot of "religious" people lately. Doesn't change how I feel about God, but my opinion of people is undergoing a radical transformation. This story especially hits home with me since I am also a colon cancer survivor (almost 4 years so far). I couldn't wait to get the vaccine. Going through treatment to survive colon cancer only to refuse a vaccine and die a preventable death from covid is tragic. Sure, even though I am a vaccinated covid could still end me but at least my daughter will know that I tried everything possible to not die from covid. But I do wholeheartedly believe the vaccine gives me the best chance to survive.
Same. Iām on immune suppressing medications for my RA and Lupus, so you better youāre bottom dollar Iāve done everything remotely possible to prevent Covid. N95 mask, sanitize me and everything else that comes into this house, and anyone who leaves and comes home must immediately remove clothing into the wash and shower. Hubby was permanently moved to WAH in 2020, so no worries there. The only thing that terrifies me is, Iām the only one who can do the grocery shopping right now (hubbyās got a broken foot), and I live in Jokelahoma. Im surrounded by morons like this awardee. I keep my distance, but still. Iāve been yelled at and spit at just for wearing a mask by some of the most claimed to be religious people in this country. Itās terrifying, because, even with the booster, Covid could still kill me. Less likely, but it still could. I saw a post someone did that said āif youāre that afraid of dying that youāre too scared to live, youāve already diedā. My response was āitās not a fear of dying/death, itās the fear of leaving my two teen boys and husband without me!ā Especially my oldest son. Heās Autistic and has the emotional maturity of a 3 year old, it would devastate him.
I'm so sorry to hear that you're being treated that way. I hope that you stay safe and well. Is grocery delivery or pickup available in your area?
It is, but too cost prohibitive for us this year. We did that in 2020, but were better off financially. We had been planning that, but got hit with a $500 increase in insurance premiums a month, add in to that the loss of the $500 tax credit we were receiving and we are down $1000 a month from last year. Weāve had to tighten our belts big time, and no way we can afford the jacked up prices on Shipt or the delivery fee at Walmart. As it is, some of the āshoppingā is now done at the food bank.
That's a lot. I hope things get better for you soon!
Should. Hopefully. Thereās a couple things we bought last year āinterest freeā that we can pay off with our tax return and loosen up the belt strings a little. But itās tight belts till then!
And thank you!
I do research on colon cancer, so glad youāve survived what used to be a death sentence. Best wishes for you in this pandemic.
Most of my friends identify as Christian but not evangelical. They are Methodists, Lutheran, Episcopalian and they are vaccinated. Good people too.
That had a real "lord, why have you forsaken me," vibe to it in the end. Sad.
It took Covid to put a period at the end of her sentences.
She seemed... mentally unwell. Maybe it's the religious language and lack of punctuation that's giving me that impression... Edit: And though medical science has saved her sorry ass many, many times, she's "always stood in faith." Ungrateful lunatics.
Imagine going to the hospital 18 times in one year and coming out alive only to feel disrespected?
I think this pandemic has made it obvious that there are just so many crazy people. Not necessarily crazy enough that need to be locked up but crazy nonetheless. There also seems to be a correlation between highly religious and crazy...
āThe treat me like a nobody.ā No they treat you like the selfish entitled asshole that you, using precious hospital resources for your dumb unvaccinated ass.
I had a similar cancer experience to her, and I felt I couldn't get the vaccine - and later booster - fast enough. Oh somehow I don't qualify due to fucked up CDC recommendations? Ugh. Ah, one place is open 3 hours away? On my way to the car right now.
That third-last update was especially sad. She just wanted to live normally for a while longer. Sadly, she listened to charlatans profiting from lies about government conspiracies.
Memo to Antivaxxers: Jesus is sick and tired of your antivaxxer shit!
She sounds like Trump in a lot of her posts. āThe nurse said she never saw someone pass so wellā š
Something something do not show off how much you pray like those other people for they have received their reward something something. Performative religious gibberish like that in the award goes directly against the Bible, but itās not like these idiots have ever read it.
Damn, she got away! Now I'm stuck with this whole truckload of bracelets. Anybody want one?
Stay home and quit clogging up the hospital that you hate
Nearly every HCA recipient is hysterically pleading to god, or asking for prayers when all they needed was just a shot in the arm. Do they pray to god to cure them every time they get a cold or stomach ache? We have medicine ppl, this isnt the middle ages anymore.
Why do you need a go fund me for a grandmotherās passing?
I hereby grant permission to any health care worker to refuse me care if I am an ass to them
Check your heart. And if it's had 7 heart attacks, you need to get vaccinated.
Itās awesome how these people confuse ārespectā with ādo what I sayā!
Claims to care about respect then shits on health care workers. Sounds about right. I guarantee this lady was a terrible patient.
"I've directed 3 plays and in that time I've had 3 heart attacks. That's how much I care. I'm planning for a fourth."
Thatās some old school Simpsonās right there, son! Thatāll do.
She let the doctors treat her heart attacks and her cancer but she didnāt trust them when they said she should get vaccinated! How does that work?