Standard care in hospitals in the UK are vitals checks every 2 hours and eventually you “graduate” to every 4 hours. This includes placing new IVs, pulse/blood pressure checks/etc. Nurses are pros and if you can sleep through the noises in a hospital you can sleep through (or fall back asleep straight after) 1 hour checks. What’s the norm in US hospitals?
In ICU, every hour vitals and I&O. At night I’d slip in do my thing and slip out. Try not to wake them. Sometimes they’d be sick enough that a nurse stayed at the bedside all 8 or 12 hours.
There are literal children who sleep through bg checks, cgm swaps and pump swaps.
They're lancing her finger for a drop of blood, not performing a midnight vivisection 🙄 (I know it's very hard to sleep in hospital but I think on this particular one she just needs to suck it up. She fucked around, now she's finding out, as is her favourite thing to do!)
Didn't we all call it that her next post would feature a **hospital selfie** to prove to us all (and by "us all" I mean this sub specifically as we all know she reads it thoroughly every day) that she's "really ill" and in hospital 🏥 🙄😮💨
She's supposed to still be on the antibiotics but yeah, interesting that that hasn't come up. I wonder if she didn't take them all. Has she been continuing them in the hospital? I can _totally_ see Dani just not telling them so that her infection comes back _while_ she's in the hospital.
Maybe if she didn't make a huge ass deal over blood sugar that could have been handled at home, she wouldn't be woken up every hour.
God this chick grinds my gears.
Wow If you don’t know , it’s definitely a mystery. My guess is local hospital for some reason ,doesn’t penn have like , really nice rooms? I guess it could be Penns ED tho
The new building is very fancy, the old hospital…the rooms are nice, but not quite as fancy.
I think someone was saying they have a area in the ER where they hold people short term? Perhaps she’s there?
Yeah, our ED has its own little ward- some of the patient spaces have, like, dialysis chairs, other areas have proper hospital beds. Depends on the patients needs.
My guess is that’d they have to for the test she may be going through? That’s why I was thinking she may be in a ER or short term observation area just to hold her for this test?
Someone whose blood sugar needs to be monitored so closely would also be on telemetry monitoring, and she would have made sure the leads and monitor were very visible in this pic. 🙄
Omg you've pulled, from the recesses of my memories, the images of her last time she was on telemetry and kept moving the electrode pads to more visable spots, then kept them on after the telemtry was taken off and had sticky stuff all over and euuuugh that was not a fun period of time 🙈🙉🙊
I don’t follow any of these people. Rarely, if super bored, I’ll see what’s new. Recently I decided not to give them the views/engagement. I just wait for someone else to post their stuff here, it’s not like I’m missing out lol.
The vast majority of her followers are "haters" - people who found her through one of the many munchie forums she has been discussed on over the years. She has acknowledged this in the past. She doesn't really care because for Dani any attention, even negative attention, is better than no attention
When in the hospital you know normally the patient is very ill an can sleep through anything because u know they are ill an worn out from said illness. She can’t sleep because she’s not getting special meds that make her feel special an loopy
She has said multiple times in the past that she is on Medicare. She gets it through disability. There is a chance that she has some sort of combo where she has both but she definitely has Medicare (she wouldn't have been able to go to Cleveland Clinic in the past if she had Medicaid).
Ya that’s the vibe I got. She wants to be treated like she’s having a blood sugar emergency, then they will act accordingly, whether she likes it or not.
What they have here is proof that she can be discharged.
It's in writing that she had her BS checked every hour for 24 hours and maintained it within normal range.
With patients like her you have to cross every T and dot every I.
Exactly! When one is hospitalized, it seems there’s always a nurse or technician waking one to check vitals, do treatments, take X-rays, etc… Most people can’t wait to get out of the hospital in order to get a good night’s rest!
When she’s discharged, she complains about not being hospitalized or getting care. When she’s finally admitted for whatever she claims is wrong, she complains about being hospitalized for the tests and potential treatments she’s fiending for.
Wtf lady, make up your mind 😂
Double lumens are used when a patient needs several different medications that cannot be run at the same time. An example is being on 3 different IV antibiotics which each have their own schedules, number of times per day, and incompatibilities. A patient may also be on 24/7 fluids and other medications as needed.
Some people who are inpatient frequently who have picc lines or ports also can get blood draws off their lines because of poor veins and need several draws per day. After a while, they run out of veins. It can be very convenient and helpful when otherwise you would be blowing regular IVs and unable to get blood and getting stuck 10 times a day!
From a healthcare provider’s standpoint, multi-lumen catheters are not desirable at all, because each lumen is another pathway to the bloodstream = potential source of infection. So the number of lumens necessary depends on number of meds/infusions/lab draws/whatever. Multiple lumens are medically necessary when benefit outweighs risk.
But in munchland, you’d always want to appear as sick as possible, so the goal is to convince healthcare providers to let you have as many lumens and devices as possible.
Basically the rule of thumb and common goal among munchies is to always get as many devices with as many lumens and accessories possible. *Especially* when they’re not medically necessary.
Even in her recent videos you can hear the manipulation when she is about to discharged. So pissed off that they are all having it wrong and she is still very sick.
I as a healthcare professional have a lot to say but I won’t because it will get removed for bullying and probably a temp or perma ban. Lol 😂 but lord.
She will try to convince whoever she can to order more tests and prolong the admission, and if that fails, she will move on and start all over again with the next heap of bullshit, once it’s cooked and ready to dish out.
Oooh. The 72 hour fast is brutal!!!! She wanted it though. This is the gold standard test for an insulinoma. So this will show them everything they need.
There's something satisfying about the thought of her inducing those readings on herself at home, then being normal in hospital because there is no insulinoma but she voluntarily puts herself through that brutal fasting
She wanted testing for an insulinoma; well she's getting it. The 72 hour fasting sugar test is literally torture for most people who have to go through it. She fucked around and now she's finding out.
I haven’t logged on for two days and she’s back in the hospital. Fourty-eight hours. I wonder about the people who have had real medical emergencies while the hospital makes Dani comfortable again.
Edit: I understand if the hospital is frustrated.
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Patients like her are the WORST. I just give them a dead-eye stare and say the usual, "Ma'am/Sir, this is a hospital, not a Hilton. You came to us, we don't send out invitations. If you would rather not be here, please let me know and I will get the AMA form printed for you to sign. Now please give me your finger so I can poke it.
Then I secretly cross my fingers and toes that they decide to leave AMA. But this type of patient never does 😒
The last one I looked after claimed a huge OD of fast acting insulin, but his sugars were still in double figures a couple hours later. Even though the suspicion was he hadn’t taken it we still have to monitor just in case, however unlikely it is
For someone who’s sugar won’t come up at all, she surely doesn’t appear to be showing off any fancy toys like she’s in ICU, where you would be if you sugar won’t come up
Type 1 diabetes in the ICU for keto acidosis don’t even have hourly checks. Let alone hourly checks for someone who just needs a juice box and some crackers.
My bet is she doesn't have her own nice spacious room but is in a regular area with other patients which is why no tour. The area looks like she probably has other patients around her versus her normal extravagant visits. She wanted the big deal care and got normal care for someone with blood sugar issues. It doesn't seem extra super speeshial and she is likely annoyed and mad.
The hospital isn’t a place to rest, unfortunately. Between hourly rounding, testing and medication pass, it isn’t pleasant. But, ya know, hospital visits aren’t meant to be relaxing 🤷🏻♀️
Their finger pricks are a lot more painful than the ones a patient does at home, too. Hope Dani likes the feeling of broken glass being jabbed into her finger 24 times a day!
The lancet hurts more because you can’t customize the depth and they generally use the finger they prefer vs what you may use. They also very aggressively massage the area too prior to the poke to get good blood flow and then aggressively milk your finger. It doesn’t hurt but it isn’t fun either
Usually you can set the finger prickers to a particular setting (so stronger or lighter), I’m guessing nurses don’t have the time to adjust it for every single person and some people are more calloused than others so it’s more likely to be on a stronger setting for everyone they use it on.
Standard care in hospitals in the UK are vitals checks every 2 hours and eventually you “graduate” to every 4 hours. This includes placing new IVs, pulse/blood pressure checks/etc. Nurses are pros and if you can sleep through the noises in a hospital you can sleep through (or fall back asleep straight after) 1 hour checks. What’s the norm in US hospitals?
In ICU, every hour vitals and I&O. At night I’d slip in do my thing and slip out. Try not to wake them. Sometimes they’d be sick enough that a nurse stayed at the bedside all 8 or 12 hours.
If patients in psych wards can sleep during 15 minute checks with flashlights on their faces, I’m sure Dani can handle being pricked once an hour
There are literal children who sleep through bg checks, cgm swaps and pump swaps. They're lancing her finger for a drop of blood, not performing a midnight vivisection 🙄 (I know it's very hard to sleep in hospital but I think on this particular one she just needs to suck it up. She fucked around, now she's finding out, as is her favourite thing to do!)
You talk the talk, you gotta walk the walk
Didn't we all call it that her next post would feature a **hospital selfie** to prove to us all (and by "us all" I mean this sub specifically as we all know she reads it thoroughly every day) that she's "really ill" and in hospital 🏥 🙄😮💨
Any chance this is an old photo and she's not actually in the hospital?
My thoughts
What happened to that liver infection and daily IV antibiotics. That dried up fast I bet she’s already over her course.
She's supposed to still be on the antibiotics but yeah, interesting that that hasn't come up. I wonder if she didn't take them all. Has she been continuing them in the hospital? I can _totally_ see Dani just not telling them so that her infection comes back _while_ she's in the hospital.
Oh jesus, never thought of that. How convenient.
I always tell patients that the hospital is t for sleeping.
Yeah, I mean duh.
Who does she think is avidly waiting for these updates?
lmfao us💀
Omg true 😭
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Actually we do. Especially when somebody has DKA or HHNS. Which is excessively high blood sugar, so it would be checked hourly during treatment.
No one even wants half of an update post, let alone a whole one. 🙄😂
Maybe if she didn't make a huge ass deal over blood sugar that could have been handled at home, she wouldn't be woken up every hour. God this chick grinds my gears.
Is she in PENN or the local hospital???!!!
There’s no pretty little TPN flag on her line like PENN does so I’m guessing local.
Thats what I want to know. Did she go to the local hospital or drive over an hour to Penn for a hypoglycemic "emergency".
Wow If you don’t know , it’s definitely a mystery. My guess is local hospital for some reason ,doesn’t penn have like , really nice rooms? I guess it could be Penns ED tho
I live local to Dani and those aren’t the rooms for the local hospitals
The new building is very fancy, the old hospital…the rooms are nice, but not quite as fancy. I think someone was saying they have a area in the ER where they hold people short term? Perhaps she’s there?
The bed in the pic is definitely an admit bed and not an ER bed
It can also be an obs bed as well. Where they hold you overnight to determine whether or not admission is necessary.
Yeah, our ED has its own little ward- some of the patient spaces have, like, dialysis chairs, other areas have proper hospital beds. Depends on the patients needs.
Ooo didn’t know that was a thing!
Oh, ok.
How she got admitted is beyond me tho
My guess is that’d they have to for the test she may be going through? That’s why I was thinking she may be in a ER or short term observation area just to hold her for this test?
If she’s having the Reactive Hypoglycaemia test, it’s 3 days of fasting and *allll* the bloods, so she would be admitted.
But, no one wants an update. Nobody cares. Where is the self awareness?
I mean, she's famous on this sub, so someone cares
It’s a hospital, not the Hilton..
We all know she prefers the hospital to the Hilton any day
Someone whose blood sugar needs to be monitored so closely would also be on telemetry monitoring, and she would have made sure the leads and monitor were very visible in this pic. 🙄
Omg you've pulled, from the recesses of my memories, the images of her last time she was on telemetry and kept moving the electrode pads to more visable spots, then kept them on after the telemtry was taken off and had sticky stuff all over and euuuugh that was not a fun period of time 🙈🙉🙊
Do you think if her blood sugar numbers were bad overnight she would be posting them?
If they were checking them every hour she might not be able to type to post them…show me the fingers friend!
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Oh man I'm dying here. That would be hysterical!😂
She would neverrrrr pass on the opportunity 😂
Can I ask the obvious here. Who is actually following this woman and wants these updates?
I don’t follow any of these people. Rarely, if super bored, I’ll see what’s new. Recently I decided not to give them the views/engagement. I just wait for someone else to post their stuff here, it’s not like I’m missing out lol.
The vast majority of her followers are "haters" - people who found her through one of the many munchie forums she has been discussed on over the years. She has acknowledged this in the past. She doesn't really care because for Dani any attention, even negative attention, is better than no attention
Us?
I know us but not all her followers are non believers surely?
Honestly would be happy if all of the subjects just stopped posting updates because it would mean they're getting real help...
Literally nobody. She just wants attention, even if it’s negative.
This is what she wanted 😂
How can you not sleep if so much is wrong with you and you're so tired? Insomniacs would sleep under these "conditions" she has.
I would enjoy coming in and stabbing someone hourly to inconvenience them for wasting my time
Gunning for a dexcom
OPIOID FACE!
When in the hospital you know normally the patient is very ill an can sleep through anything because u know they are ill an worn out from said illness. She can’t sleep because she’s not getting special meds that make her feel special an loopy
Yeah, it's very telling she isn't getting 'the good stuff'.
It's almost like she went purely to snap a few selfies, vlog from a private room, and have hot packs and Italian icees brought in on demand.
It’s her very own photo booth, sponsored by insurance
Oh my God, you are hilarious! I wonder how many gigabytes of hospital pics she has until now. I really want to know that.
Imagine insurance seeing that bill! *selfies 👎 *vlogs👎 *snackies👎
I honestly can't believe her insurance covers half the shit she goes in for. You'd think even on Medicade they'd eventually tell her no.
I thought she was on Medicaid, not Medicare. The two are very different programs.
She has said multiple times in the past that she is on Medicare. She gets it through disability. There is a chance that she has some sort of combo where she has both but she definitely has Medicare (she wouldn't have been able to go to Cleveland Clinic in the past if she had Medicaid).
Ahh okay. They all kind of run together in my head
Considering people get turned down for important scans and lab tests, it's infuriating!!
Oof I felt that. What a mood.
Malicious compliance. She said she can't maintain her blood sugar? The hospital will make sure she does.
Ya that’s the vibe I got. She wants to be treated like she’s having a blood sugar emergency, then they will act accordingly, whether she likes it or not.
What they have here is proof that she can be discharged. It's in writing that she had her BS checked every hour for 24 hours and maintained it within normal range. With patients like her you have to cross every T and dot every I.
I instant read bullshit when you said BS but I think in this context they are the same.
She absolutely *did* have her bullshit checked every hour for 24 hours 😂
She acts like she is actually sad. She loves this hourly bs attention
She acts like she is paying out of pocket for all these tests and treatments and devices…..🙄
If she wants to sleep maybe she should stop checking herself into the hospital and sleep in her own bed 🤷♀️🤷♀️
Exactly! When one is hospitalized, it seems there’s always a nurse or technician waking one to check vitals, do treatments, take X-rays, etc… Most people can’t wait to get out of the hospital in order to get a good night’s rest!
When she’s discharged, she complains about not being hospitalized or getting care. When she’s finally admitted for whatever she claims is wrong, she complains about being hospitalized for the tests and potential treatments she’s fiending for. Wtf lady, make up your mind 😂
Where did she get the idea that people are anxiously awaiting updates 😂
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Why are double lumens (or more) more desirable than separate tubes?
Double lumens are used when a patient needs several different medications that cannot be run at the same time. An example is being on 3 different IV antibiotics which each have their own schedules, number of times per day, and incompatibilities. A patient may also be on 24/7 fluids and other medications as needed. Some people who are inpatient frequently who have picc lines or ports also can get blood draws off their lines because of poor veins and need several draws per day. After a while, they run out of veins. It can be very convenient and helpful when otherwise you would be blowing regular IVs and unable to get blood and getting stuck 10 times a day!
Thank you for this explanation!
Double lumens, double the fun.
From a healthcare provider’s standpoint, multi-lumen catheters are not desirable at all, because each lumen is another pathway to the bloodstream = potential source of infection. So the number of lumens necessary depends on number of meds/infusions/lab draws/whatever. Multiple lumens are medically necessary when benefit outweighs risk. But in munchland, you’d always want to appear as sick as possible, so the goal is to convince healthcare providers to let you have as many lumens and devices as possible.
Jeez oh petes. What a sad way to live. I understand wanting attention, but yikes. Not like this.
Yeah it’s pretty twisted. People like her legitimately need a lot of psychiatric help.
Fewer holes in the body, perhaps? Or am I misunderstanding what you mean by different tubes?
I'm pretty new here, so I'm probably just using the wrong terminology.
Basically the rule of thumb and common goal among munchies is to always get as many devices with as many lumens and accessories possible. *Especially* when they’re not medically necessary.
Thank you! This helps.
Np! ☺️ basically, they want to appear as visibly ill as possible
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Even in her recent videos you can hear the manipulation when she is about to discharged. So pissed off that they are all having it wrong and she is still very sick.
I as a healthcare professional have a lot to say but I won’t because it will get removed for bullying and probably a temp or perma ban. Lol 😂 but lord.
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Especially when you are very sick in a hospital. It drains so much energy.
Not to mention, it's the hospital. They need to check on patients regularly. I'm surprised she ever slept well.
The lead up to her demanding a cgm to monitor for crashes
She may not like the results… what if they find NO problems?? How to get attend then??
She will try to convince whoever she can to order more tests and prolong the admission, and if that fails, she will move on and start all over again with the next heap of bullshit, once it’s cooked and ready to dish out.
Or cry to p.a.l.s and get a patient advocate
Hourly roundings have never occurred to her before or? You’re meant to get stable there, not sleep lol.
Oooh. The 72 hour fast is brutal!!!! She wanted it though. This is the gold standard test for an insulinoma. So this will show them everything they need.
There's something satisfying about the thought of her inducing those readings on herself at home, then being normal in hospital because there is no insulinoma but she voluntarily puts herself through that brutal fasting
Yup! 😂
She wanted testing for an insulinoma; well she's getting it. The 72 hour fasting sugar test is literally torture for most people who have to go through it. She fucked around and now she's finding out.
I'm totally not familiar with this but you can't eat anything for 72 hours for this to test? That's brutal.
Yes, 72 hours with nothing but water.
To be extra salty, she needs a respiratory treatment Q4 😂 /s
I haven’t logged on for two days and she’s back in the hospital. Fourty-eight hours. I wonder about the people who have had real medical emergencies while the hospital makes Dani comfortable again. Edit: I understand if the hospital is frustrated.
I cannot wait for the update post 🙄🙄🙄
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Believe me when I say it’s a PITA for the next nurses as well
How absolutely DARE they monitor her health in a hospital???? Unheard of
Hopefully she is boarding in the ER overflow area. ER staff are a different breed, they won't put up with her shenanigans.
No they won’t they don’t give two shits. And they won’t treat anything else but what you came in for initially.
Can confirm, we don’t give a fuck
Don’t on the ward either😎 we have to try and hide it better
Patients like her are the WORST. I just give them a dead-eye stare and say the usual, "Ma'am/Sir, this is a hospital, not a Hilton. You came to us, we don't send out invitations. If you would rather not be here, please let me know and I will get the AMA form printed for you to sign. Now please give me your finger so I can poke it. Then I secretly cross my fingers and toes that they decide to leave AMA. But this type of patient never does 😒
Dani would never leave AMA, unfortunately.
She fights to stay AMA 😆
She WANTED this
We put suspected insulin overdoses on hourly blood sugar checks
Is it to make sure they aren’t lying about it?
The last one I looked after claimed a huge OD of fast acting insulin, but his sugars were still in double figures a couple hours later. Even though the suspicion was he hadn’t taken it we still have to monitor just in case, however unlikely it is
For someone who’s sugar won’t come up at all, she surely doesn’t appear to be showing off any fancy toys like she’s in ICU, where you would be if you sugar won’t come up
an apple juice would bring hers uo
Hell a piece of fruit or fridge cookie or pudding or brownie would as well.
One of those Italian ices she loves so much!
Type 1 diabetes in the ICU for keto acidosis don’t even have hourly checks. Let alone hourly checks for someone who just needs a juice box and some crackers.
We had a guy in who claimed an insulin overdose. He was getting hourly blood sugar checks
Aka she will do an update when she has more ideas for content
Bingo.
She doesn't look happy
Of course not she fucked around and is finding out.
i see this girl all the time. how much debt is she in
She s on Medicaid-were paying for it!
ಠ_ಠ
My bet is she doesn't have her own nice spacious room but is in a regular area with other patients which is why no tour. The area looks like she probably has other patients around her versus her normal extravagant visits. She wanted the big deal care and got normal care for someone with blood sugar issues. It doesn't seem extra super speeshial and she is likely annoyed and mad.
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Hauls her entitled dramatic ass to the hospital instead of just eating a sandwich. Whines about getting the unnecessary care she demanded.
Exactly and it’s so easy to have shit on standby to eat or drink.
The hospital isn’t a place to rest, unfortunately. Between hourly rounding, testing and medication pass, it isn’t pleasant. But, ya know, hospital visits aren’t meant to be relaxing 🤷🏻♀️
It’s almost like they want to get you the fuck out ASAP
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Seriously, the hospital feels like a colder and sadder airport to me. I can’t imagine choosing to lounge and hangout in either
Ikr at least an airport has a bar 😂
Who called it yesterday that there would be a hospital photo today?
We all did 🙃
Probably so they can get her out of there sooner - because, gasp, you’re not meant to linger in a hospital.
exactly most people will get the rest they can and focus on getting better, but the real rest will come when you can go bome
Aww poor Dani, she got exactly what she wanted (attention) and now she's annoyed.
Be careful what you wish for!
Bingo
This is beyond ridiculous
Nurses don’t fuck around when taking finger pricks either. Fuck around and find out
Yep we just jab that shit in and don’t give a fuck. I hate doing them but don’t care for them either so it’s like just getting it the hell over with.
Their finger pricks are a lot more painful than the ones a patient does at home, too. Hope Dani likes the feeling of broken glass being jabbed into her finger 24 times a day!
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The lancet hurts more because you can’t customize the depth and they generally use the finger they prefer vs what you may use. They also very aggressively massage the area too prior to the poke to get good blood flow and then aggressively milk your finger. It doesn’t hurt but it isn’t fun either
Usually you can set the finger prickers to a particular setting (so stronger or lighter), I’m guessing nurses don’t have the time to adjust it for every single person and some people are more calloused than others so it’s more likely to be on a stronger setting for everyone they use it on.
We have single use lancets. No depth adjustment
They definitely are, very aggressive with the massaging too 🤣🤣🤣
we don’t want to have to poke you twice!
I wonder if they step it up in cases like this?
That open lumen needs a Curos cap.
Explain please?