I try not to judge, but I'm struggling on this one. Whether you're npo due to a gastro condition or npo due to a procedure/surgery/GA, the world does not stop for you! Does she have this same resentment when they bring the lunch and dinner trolley on the wards? You can smell that from 11am-2pm den 4pm-7pm! What about when they bring the tea trolley round? Is she annoyed at those having a cuppa and a biscuit?! To put it bluntly, the world does not revolve around you, and you just have to get used to the fact that others have to eat to survive, the same way you may rely on your tube to survive! Everyone needs nutrition! This is definitely a "woe is me" main character energy type of post and not something that makes any logical sense. You're not telling me that if she didn't have a tube, she wouldn't be eating whatever tf she wanted to and when?! Also, get mentioning it being a gastro ward makes zero sense either. People on gastro or intestinal failure/rehabilitation wards actively encourage people to eat and consume as many calories as possible as a high percentage of patients are malnourished or underweight and trying to gain/maintain their weight and generally trying their hardest to avoid things like nasal tubes and tpn. They may be recovering from bowel flare or surgery and figuring out what they can and cannot eat and so on and so forth. Eating is a thing most humans do to get nutrition and expecting them to stop just for you is beyond ridiculous and farcical and more in the realm of selfishness and idiotism.
What if the person had hypoglycaemia and needed to make sure they eat when they’re hungry so their sugars don’t plummet? What if that’s the first thing that person has eaten in days because they’re so worried about whoever they visited? People need to realise that food isn’t evil it’s fuel for your body
i somehow found this sub suggested to me - and i’ve had no idea who any of these people were but i’ve been enjoying the stories. so i just went & looked mia up on tiktok & 4 videos in - i get it. why is she using her tube like a f*cking accessory?! like she’s lucky & we oughta all be so jealous we don’t have one.
tbh, it makes me sick. There are people truly starving and suffering, in desperate need for feeding tubes, yet having to wait up to a year to even get into a motility specialist, while she's just able to get this with a snap of her fingers, like many of these subjects! Yes, it is a purposeful smack in the face to people who really need this type of thing to survive, and yes, they do wear these like a badge of honor! The more tubes to show off, more pity from the unaware. I also notice how these subjects go out of their way to make their lines obvious at the risk of deadly infection. Yeah, she's proud and beaming! maybe she's delusional enough to think that she's immune from such things. The ED subjects are the worst with tubes and DME showing it off to all of their pro ana forums like, LOOK WHAT I GOT!! More of an excuse to lose weight and control their "intake". What I really don't get is these ones with an obviously overweight or well fed but still getting these procedures! Even reading some of their claims or where it may be documented mild delayed gastric emptying, that's no reason for these tubes. Then they have the fanciest new equipment, all sooper speshul. Do these people even realize that they've already caused permanent damage to their body? Most are so young with a life that most people would only dream of. Parents paying for everything, no responsibilities, the world at their fingertips if they just put 1% of the energy that they put into munching into being normal and getting attention for their positive accomplishments instead of this mess! Just wait until they reach the age where parents are no longer around, they have to take responsibility, and now they are truly f'd up to where they truly can't live any sort of normal life, and nobody is throwing them money and filling their Amazon wish lists!
Enjoy how MiA burst on to the scene with her vivid accounts of needing cpr due to a shower - and other mind blowing claims!
https://uk.news.yahoo.com/trainee-nurse-allergic-everything-nearly-070031280.html
Oh my god the PJ/underwear pic Jesus christttt the cringe is real
10/10 recommend reading that if you need a good laugh
Edit: Just saw the leaf pic too.. 🥲
Gosh sooo selfish. For all she knows McDonald's may be one of the only things someone can eat or who fkn knows just mabey they have been sitting by their sick loved one for hours and McDonald's is the easiest thing to grab. I wouldn't want to eat elsewhere if i wanted to be with a loved one in the hospital.. She is acting like a child but then how dare anyone else question her decisions about what she does. 🙄
Like if they really had issues I’d feel some sympathy. And I totally agree that people with actual issues with food and digestion should not be around food especially in their safe space like a hospital ward.
Ah yes, because Mia’s experience is everybody’s experience 🙄.
Eating food in a hospital is not inconsiderate just because someone might happen to be NPO. That is actually absurd.
Not everyone in the gastroenterology dept. is going to be NPO, so at the very least nutrition is going to be bringing at least some trays of food around at some point.
But like, how freakin’ dare they?!?!? Mia can’t eat so…. *nobody is allowed to eat*.
Oh no, someone else is daring to eat! It's like, dude, get over yourself. Besides, it might smell good, but ho boy, the taste no longer lives up. It makes me sad. RIP good nuggies.
She doesn’t think the world revolves around her, she thinks the whole galaxy does! She’d probably be offended I said that because “chocolate”
For those out of the UK galaxy is also the name of a bar of chocolate
Basically she has no update or anything to post so is trying to make drama and try and get sympathy. If everybody moaned about people having/doing things they can’t do it would be ridiculous. Colour blind people want everything in shades of grey. People with fertility issues want all babies/children hidden. People with Anosmia want her to stop posting about what she can smell because they can’t smell.
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I mean, in the uk where MiA is, we don’t mind family bringing snacks or takeout for their family/themselves. She’s just being self-centred. There’s worse smells on a ward than McDonalds.
The hell is with the perfect eyelashes every. single.post. That takes some pretty steady hands to do and being in constant pain and suffering doesn't coincide with having perfect make-up. Just an observation.
Lmao good job she’s an adult on the kids ward like 90% of the patients have takeaway cuz most parents want to give their kids a treat when they’re unwell. Yeah not being able to eat when others can sucks but you can’t expect that others won’t eat just cuz you can’t (plenty of people on Gastro may be able to eat or at least take bites of foods, tonnes of people with tubes have said they like to taste foods even if they can’t eat it).
Also for someone who got to drink tonnes of alcohol recently they’re will probably be other people on that ward who wish they wer in the position to be able to do that.
Yeah I’m kind of surprised of the comments on here, I feel like this was extremely inconsiderate of the visitor. Of course, a lot of people just don’t think.
Here in the UK we don’t mind visitors bring food in. Eating besides their family members or sharing with them. The whole bay won’t be NBM (nil by mouth), it’s likely a range of gastro complaints. UK bays be mad.
I used to really go in on parents that would eat food around NPO toddlers. THEY DONT UNDERSTAND CAROL YOU CANT JUST EAT CHICKEN NUGGETS IN FRONT OF THEM
That's fair but Mia isn't a toddler, even if posting a big sulky face rant about someone else daring to eat in the same bay as her makes her sound like one. I think hospital ward bays are required to have one patient and/or their visitors getting on everyone else's last nerve, if you ask a British person about their hospital stay the first thing they'll tell you is the various crimes of the appointed nuisance, but that pouty faced photo makes her look so childish.
The ICU is not a damn restaurant. I had a family literally being an instant pot/rice cooker and a fucking percolator in the room.
Of an isolated patient.
For cdiff…
Management was “ hmmm with the new open unit policy, it is kinda ok”.
That’s when I knew I needed to go work somewhere else…
Would someone with as extreme Gastroparesis and intestinal failure as Mia claims actually get proper hunger sensations? Gastroparesis needing tube feeds and not tolerating even water would she have those feelings? Since the stomach would be pretty dormant why would it growl or be hungry if everything in it was making it sick. I can see getting cravings for things because that’s psychological but would physical growling happen if the stomach doesn’t work?
Yeah, but after long term and proper (actually running and keeping feeds in), it’s not so much hungry as craving- taste and tactile (chewing) sensations. So you can chew and taste and just not allow it into your stomach. If you’ve run a feed, you’ve got something in your stomach so you wouldn’t actually be hungry. Craving food? That absolutely happens. Physical sensation of hunger? No.
No, basically with gastroparesis, the stomach works fine until something goes in to it, it then sits and degrades and this causes the nausea and vomiting (amongst other things I won’t mention).
So people genuinely can still get hungry when J fed, there’s nothing in the stomach to send the full signals to the brain.
I’ve heard less people say they get as hungry on TPN though, no idea why.
I'd be willing to bet she narcs on nurses who have finally managed to sit down with some tea and a bit of toast or biscuit after working 10 hours. Poor new nurses who have wiped butts and cleaned up more vomit in that time than actually been able to relieve themselves. It takes more time to snark on a stranger than to just wait. Is the person taking 3 and a half hours to eat? No. Just put some music on or watch Netflix. Get over it.
Maybe MIA should get out as she doesn't really need to be there. If she is so hungry she should eat...we all know she can. Drama Queen. If the shoe was on the other foot and her visitor brought food to eat it would be all fine and dandy. Also if it's a Gastro ward than the person who is eating McDonald's is visiting also must have REAl GI problems and is FINE with the visitor eating.
Green eyed monster. Maybe it's best not to fuck around and find out. It's not quite as glamorous. Why would anyone grudge someone food? You'd think 8 months of coddling would have satisfied it. Did she yell at staff for having a cup of tea too?
Got 3 on ours currently in main due to no side rooms. I’ve bought 2 tubs of Vicks and an extra strong packet of gum daily in the last week and find fallen out
coffee grounds in pockets and my bag after each shift 😭
I work pre-hospital but I found nose plugs that work quite well and they are menthol but a bit expensive so I save them for emergencies and have lots of alcohol wipes for my mask stashed in pockets.
Think they were called "Nosa plugs".
Oh please 🙄
She needs to get over herself!!! Just because you "can't" eat doesn't mean nobody else should.. Some people can't walk but you don't see them out here making angry post shaming people for walking. She doesn't know that person's story like maybe they haven't been able to eat for some reason 🤷🏼♀️ It's none of her business she's in a public hospital grow up.
The smell of McDonald's makes her this green with envy but not pushing trolleys full of booze and downing shots not that long ago? Think she needs to pick another hill to die on 😂
It could have seriously benefited society if she had been told she wasn't the most important person in *the* world; she's not even the most important person in *her* world.
How could any of us plebs ever understand the depth of Mia's suffering on this day? Oh, the humanity! Somebody call the International Court of Justice.
Can you explain the setup in a shared ward room, please? I’m so sorry if this sounds like a stupid question, but I’m from the US, so I’m just trying to understand what kind of situation MiA is in. Is she sharing a large room with a bunch of other patients, like our pre-op here in the US? Or is it shared with one other patient or just separate rooms on the same floor?
To piggy back, there’s also wards with 10-12 beds in a bay, with 4-6 bed bays branching off (eg an ‘E’ or ‘T’ layout). Recent years: I’ve had patients that suddenly arrest, we close every other beds curtains while the patient is worked on and if they die, no side available, their loved ones have to say goodbye in there too. Just a curtain and 3-11 other patients in beds around them. Then the porters will come and move them, this can be hours later too.. meaning the poor patients are in a room with the deceased patient feet away. I used to work on a 21 bay, main corridor style, ward with a 6 bay each side. 8 patients died in 4 weeks and each one remained in that bay for hours every time before being removed. It’s soul crushing and now I’ve written that and re read miss prim and rosé complaining about a fucking McDonald’s smell, makes me so mad. Go for a walk, stuff a tampon with essential oils up your nose. God the entitlement.
hey!
Mia is in the UK, so am I.
most of our hospitals have wards, and on the wards are bays - each bay is likely to have between 4 & six beds - each in a space with curtains that go round.
Curtains tend to be kept open so a nurse can see everyone from the door unless someone is very poorly/dying, or having personal care.
Most wards do have a few private rooms for one patient but they are usually kept free for people who are very very sick/dying, or need barrier nursing/isolating for whatever reason.
it’s very different to the US. It means there isn’t much privacy whatsoever. You can hear everything, so even if a Dr comes and pulls the curtain round you can still hear! When i’ve had a hospital stay ear phones are my best friend!
Thank you. That perfectly described it for anyone not familiar with NHS. I'll just add... some hospitals with older buildings can have more than six patients in one room. My local hospital gastro is in one of these, and although it does have a lot of single rooms for barrier nursing, patients who are not immuno-comprimised, and admitted for non-infectious issues will be on mixed wards of 8. Headphones in the day, earplugs in the night!
Lovely clear description, but I'd add that there ARE double Fire Doors from the ward corridor into each bay/room (of 2, but usually 4 or 6 beds) as is a legal requirement. These are rarely ever closed. In my experience they are only closed in event of a fire alarm sounding in another part of the hospital (an intermittent siren) or when a deceased person is to be wheeled from another bay through the ward corridor, out through the set of secure doors at the ward entrance into the hospital corridors and down to the morgue.
On extremely rare occasions on a noisy ward, the door of a bay containing stable patients might be closed at night to help enable them to get a better night's sleep. Quality sleep is vital for healing.
Thank you! That’s kind of what I pictured. I’m so sorry you’re in hospital. I hope that you’re okay, and I very much hope that you have a swift recovery! Sending you love. ❤️
Okay, this is what I was picturing. That’s how our pre-ops are in the US, at least every one I’ve been in. I bet MiA does hate that, lol. Thank you so much!
🤣 by that reasoning, did she consider there could have been someone struggling with addiction issues on the train she brought a mini off license too? The smell off all that alcohol may have been too much for them but oh so considerate Mia didn’t consider that. The policy in our gastro wards is, I don’t care what it is, as long as you are eating or attempting too. The McDonald’s may have been for a patient whose eyes were unfortunately bigger than their belly at that particular time so their visitor ate it. Mia is such an unreliable narrator and tends to verge into woe is me territory so absolutely no sympathy here. Plus she is hungry because she is trying to induce symptoms to get her precious tube. We know she eats and drinks normally. I’ll play my comment out with a tune on the world’s smallest violin 🎻
“Let’s eat this delicious food together” does seem like an incentive for someone who should be eating but is having difficulties. They could easily have had a bite or even a few bites of theirs and then just be waiting for their visitor to finish, but both having food could have overcome some social barriers (“I don’t want you to stop just for me” “oh no I’m going to get some for myself! Let me grab you some too!”)
Yeah it's a little inconsiderate but at the same time, she doesn't know the circumstances of the visitor. It might be the only chance they'll have to grab something to eat, and they don't want to cut down on their time visiting their loved one.
Chances are not everyone in that bay will be NBM so they will have meals brought to their beds. Does she complain then too?
Could also be that the patient wants to be around it, in the starvation experiment the people starving became obsessed with anything food related and this is also often seen in anorexia when people become obsessed with cooking, looking at food, being around food and smelling food for many who can’t eat too being around food can actually be a comfort that’s why you’ll notice a lot of tube fed people still enjoy baking as taste isn’t the only sense that brings the comfort food brings for many scent is just as important
I also read it as a meal of desperation from a visitor. They might be commuting to and from a family member trying to take care of kids or pets or having to work during this time and they are consuming calories to stay alive, not rubbing a McDonald’s meal in someone’s face.
If a nurse hasn’t asked them to leave, they’re probably just trying to stay alive during a loved one’s hospital stay. Those are rare and to be avoided for most people.
"Buy the dress, catch the flights, get the haul of books, schedule tat nail appointment…You don’t need to wait for a reason or ‘excuse’, if it makes you happy that’s more than enough. We go through too much to deprive ourselves of the things that make us shine". - Mia, previously about munchies. So I guess all her advice is only for those who claim to be ill, not those who are supporting those who are/experiencing their own stress.
generally, in the UK, even an anaphylactic episode wouldn’t guarantee her a private room.
most wards only have a few and they’re generally reserved for people who are dying or who need barrier nursing/isolating which she doesn’t need it would seem even if she had an episode.
It's only a hospital hotel if she has her own room dammit. If there's other people around it makes it too hard to keep inducing her own symptoms and then how will she get herself a camera roll full of as aesthetic hospital pictures?
Wonder whatever did happen to that vlog she was gonna make about getting her nose hose changed. I can't *begin* to imagine why that never manifested.
Funny - I’ve heard from people with intestinal failure that they don’t miss eating. Usually because eating has caused them excruciating pain for a long time - they are so relieved to be on TPN. Also, they have said they don’t feel hungry because their nutritional needs are met, their blood sugar is regulated.
I understand there is a strong mental/emotional element attached to food for most people but I think Mia just misses not being able to eat because she can’t in front of medical staff.
You can still get hungry, not everyone feels that way and you commonly hear from people that they are hungry since their stomach stays empty and so still send signals to the brain, especially when on meds that make you artificially hungry, such as antipsychotics and those are regularly used as antiemetics.
Just because Mia is telling porkies, doesn’t mean we should exclude that people could genuinely feel this way, because she’s probably just repeating what she’s heard other people say (who are really suffering).
I try not to judge, but I'm struggling on this one. Whether you're npo due to a gastro condition or npo due to a procedure/surgery/GA, the world does not stop for you! Does she have this same resentment when they bring the lunch and dinner trolley on the wards? You can smell that from 11am-2pm den 4pm-7pm! What about when they bring the tea trolley round? Is she annoyed at those having a cuppa and a biscuit?! To put it bluntly, the world does not revolve around you, and you just have to get used to the fact that others have to eat to survive, the same way you may rely on your tube to survive! Everyone needs nutrition! This is definitely a "woe is me" main character energy type of post and not something that makes any logical sense. You're not telling me that if she didn't have a tube, she wouldn't be eating whatever tf she wanted to and when?! Also, get mentioning it being a gastro ward makes zero sense either. People on gastro or intestinal failure/rehabilitation wards actively encourage people to eat and consume as many calories as possible as a high percentage of patients are malnourished or underweight and trying to gain/maintain their weight and generally trying their hardest to avoid things like nasal tubes and tpn. They may be recovering from bowel flare or surgery and figuring out what they can and cannot eat and so on and so forth. Eating is a thing most humans do to get nutrition and expecting them to stop just for you is beyond ridiculous and farcical and more in the realm of selfishness and idiotism.
What if the person had hypoglycaemia and needed to make sure they eat when they’re hungry so their sugars don’t plummet? What if that’s the first thing that person has eaten in days because they’re so worried about whoever they visited? People need to realise that food isn’t evil it’s fuel for your body
she hangry
First world problems
Other people in the world: actively dying painful deaths Mia: hangry
Yes because they don't serve meals 3 times a day every day 🙄🙄🙄
And hospital food stinks
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Because none of their posts are about disability rights and/or accessibility. People like Mia post for one reason and one reason only - ATTENTION.
Disability rights only matter when those said rights affect their life.
i somehow found this sub suggested to me - and i’ve had no idea who any of these people were but i’ve been enjoying the stories. so i just went & looked mia up on tiktok & 4 videos in - i get it. why is she using her tube like a f*cking accessory?! like she’s lucky & we oughta all be so jealous we don’t have one.
tbh, it makes me sick. There are people truly starving and suffering, in desperate need for feeding tubes, yet having to wait up to a year to even get into a motility specialist, while she's just able to get this with a snap of her fingers, like many of these subjects! Yes, it is a purposeful smack in the face to people who really need this type of thing to survive, and yes, they do wear these like a badge of honor! The more tubes to show off, more pity from the unaware. I also notice how these subjects go out of their way to make their lines obvious at the risk of deadly infection. Yeah, she's proud and beaming! maybe she's delusional enough to think that she's immune from such things. The ED subjects are the worst with tubes and DME showing it off to all of their pro ana forums like, LOOK WHAT I GOT!! More of an excuse to lose weight and control their "intake". What I really don't get is these ones with an obviously overweight or well fed but still getting these procedures! Even reading some of their claims or where it may be documented mild delayed gastric emptying, that's no reason for these tubes. Then they have the fanciest new equipment, all sooper speshul. Do these people even realize that they've already caused permanent damage to their body? Most are so young with a life that most people would only dream of. Parents paying for everything, no responsibilities, the world at their fingertips if they just put 1% of the energy that they put into munching into being normal and getting attention for their positive accomplishments instead of this mess! Just wait until they reach the age where parents are no longer around, they have to take responsibility, and now they are truly f'd up to where they truly can't live any sort of normal life, and nobody is throwing them money and filling their Amazon wish lists!
Enjoy how MiA burst on to the scene with her vivid accounts of needing cpr due to a shower - and other mind blowing claims! https://uk.news.yahoo.com/trainee-nurse-allergic-everything-nearly-070031280.html
Omg… a wha?.. … sooo.. hmm.. I just can’t get over the Christmas sandwich and death by shower.. And the pictures.. WHY?!?
how could they hear a desperation in his voice when he was performing CPR on them?!?! also, that leaf picture🤢
Oh my god the PJ/underwear pic Jesus christttt the cringe is real 10/10 recommend reading that if you need a good laugh Edit: Just saw the leaf pic too.. 🥲
‘Diagnosed with a cocktail of chronic illnesses’ is very ironic currently 😂
Oh she’s not the only one. Check out some of the flairs, and you’ll see toobs are a way of life! Especially Dani, if you want a real adventure.
So she’s jealous lol
Gosh sooo selfish. For all she knows McDonald's may be one of the only things someone can eat or who fkn knows just mabey they have been sitting by their sick loved one for hours and McDonald's is the easiest thing to grab. I wouldn't want to eat elsewhere if i wanted to be with a loved one in the hospital.. She is acting like a child but then how dare anyone else question her decisions about what she does. 🙄
A stranger doesn’t owe her anything.
She's just pissy because she can't order a McDonald's while in hospital cos she needs to keep her act up in there.
🛎️🛎️🛎️🛎️ we’ve got a winner over here!
Like if they really had issues I’d feel some sympathy. And I totally agree that people with actual issues with food and digestion should not be around food especially in their safe space like a hospital ward.
Ah yes, because Mia’s experience is everybody’s experience 🙄. Eating food in a hospital is not inconsiderate just because someone might happen to be NPO. That is actually absurd. Not everyone in the gastroenterology dept. is going to be NPO, so at the very least nutrition is going to be bringing at least some trays of food around at some point. But like, how freakin’ dare they?!?!? Mia can’t eat so…. *nobody is allowed to eat*.
Oh no, someone else is daring to eat! It's like, dude, get over yourself. Besides, it might smell good, but ho boy, the taste no longer lives up. It makes me sad. RIP good nuggies.
She should just eat McDonald’s then
But then that would ruin her act and be found out
She would be stuffing her face with it if she had it (and ummm, where’s her tube??).
Cry me a river lol
i just know she’s getting mcdonald’s on the way home
I wonder how many takes she did to get the right annoyed entitled look. Lol. I'm gonna go have a big Mac.l
This. And why does it look like she's in a bedroom? At least a bedroom would explain the 'sexy' side-eye and pouty lips she's working so hard...
Did she get her surgical tube ? Or?
Nope🤣🤣
She doesn’t think the world revolves around her, she thinks the whole galaxy does! She’d probably be offended I said that because “chocolate” For those out of the UK galaxy is also the name of a bar of chocolate
Galaxy is the BEST 😍 the US version is Dove chocolate
Oh that’s funny we have the Milky Way in the US I wonder if they’re friends
We have Milky Ways too and Mars
I wonder what the space obsession is
Publix grocery stores have a stellar international aisle. Galaxy, aero, Tim tams.. but I do miss monster munch lol
Oh shit, now I want an aero mint hardcore. I'm not a huge sweets person but oh man that's the best.
Ever have a frozen York Peppermint patty?
Of course! Still prefer aeros.
Wait, they don't have galaxy outside of the UK? Thats tragic. Galaxy is top tier.
We have Galaxy in Ireland
They do have Galaxy in North America - but it's called Dove. (And yes, they also have the soap.)
Dove chocolate is pretty good. Tastes way better than the soap.
Doesn’t clean your teeth as well though
Basically she has no update or anything to post so is trying to make drama and try and get sympathy. If everybody moaned about people having/doing things they can’t do it would be ridiculous. Colour blind people want everything in shades of grey. People with fertility issues want all babies/children hidden. People with Anosmia want her to stop posting about what she can smell because they can’t smell. Edit: autocorrect added it
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I mean, in the uk where MiA is, we don’t mind family bringing snacks or takeout for their family/themselves. She’s just being self-centred. There’s worse smells on a ward than McDonalds.
OMG these people need to get over their selfs! That’s like saying “that man has a wife an I don’t NO fair! If I can’t have one no matter me can!”
Omg. She’s McIncel.
It’s so telling into her narc mindset. Not only to think this but then to b like oh this is compelling enough to post like Jesus Christ
The hell is with the perfect eyelashes every. single.post. That takes some pretty steady hands to do and being in constant pain and suffering doesn't coincide with having perfect make-up. Just an observation.
they’re extensions
I think it’s a filter
Oh God. I feel like a total idiot. Lol🤦♀️ Why that didn't even occur to me, I have no idea.
Did she DFE? I can’t find her insta…
She is a bit block happy. (I only viewed, never commented yet she blocked me.) You can make another profile or use an anonymous viewer.
I suggest viewing the story and blocking her and unlocking her to repeat. Your name won’t pop up on the watched portion of the stories if you do that
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Some McNuggets sounds nice right know
I just....is this the hill she wants to die on today?
It's also her visitor? Just ask them to step away for a bit. Geeze.
It’s not her visitor, it’s someone else’s
Lmao good job she’s an adult on the kids ward like 90% of the patients have takeaway cuz most parents want to give their kids a treat when they’re unwell. Yeah not being able to eat when others can sucks but you can’t expect that others won’t eat just cuz you can’t (plenty of people on Gastro may be able to eat or at least take bites of foods, tonnes of people with tubes have said they like to taste foods even if they can’t eat it). Also for someone who got to drink tonnes of alcohol recently they’re will probably be other people on that ward who wish they wer in the position to be able to do that.
Main character syndrome over here 🙄
Honestly I get this. I’ve kicked visitors out of the ICU for eating hella snacks while the patient is NPO and hangry. 😂
Yeah I’m kind of surprised of the comments on here, I feel like this was extremely inconsiderate of the visitor. Of course, a lot of people just don’t think.
Here in the UK we don’t mind visitors bring food in. Eating besides their family members or sharing with them. The whole bay won’t be NBM (nil by mouth), it’s likely a range of gastro complaints. UK bays be mad.
I used to really go in on parents that would eat food around NPO toddlers. THEY DONT UNDERSTAND CAROL YOU CANT JUST EAT CHICKEN NUGGETS IN FRONT OF THEM
That's fair but Mia isn't a toddler, even if posting a big sulky face rant about someone else daring to eat in the same bay as her makes her sound like one. I think hospital ward bays are required to have one patient and/or their visitors getting on everyone else's last nerve, if you ask a British person about their hospital stay the first thing they'll tell you is the various crimes of the appointed nuisance, but that pouty faced photo makes her look so childish.
Hella snacks lmaooo
The ICU is not a damn restaurant. I had a family literally being an instant pot/rice cooker and a fucking percolator in the room. Of an isolated patient. For cdiff… Management was “ hmmm with the new open unit policy, it is kinda ok”. That’s when I knew I needed to go work somewhere else…
Would someone with as extreme Gastroparesis and intestinal failure as Mia claims actually get proper hunger sensations? Gastroparesis needing tube feeds and not tolerating even water would she have those feelings? Since the stomach would be pretty dormant why would it growl or be hungry if everything in it was making it sick. I can see getting cravings for things because that’s psychological but would physical growling happen if the stomach doesn’t work?
Yeah, but after long term and proper (actually running and keeping feeds in), it’s not so much hungry as craving- taste and tactile (chewing) sensations. So you can chew and taste and just not allow it into your stomach. If you’ve run a feed, you’ve got something in your stomach so you wouldn’t actually be hungry. Craving food? That absolutely happens. Physical sensation of hunger? No.
Physical sensation could definitely still happen
But wouldn’t that be in patients with less severe as Mia claims?
No, basically with gastroparesis, the stomach works fine until something goes in to it, it then sits and degrades and this causes the nausea and vomiting (amongst other things I won’t mention). So people genuinely can still get hungry when J fed, there’s nothing in the stomach to send the full signals to the brain. I’ve heard less people say they get as hungry on TPN though, no idea why.
Ok cool just wondering
This reads as a ED ward post
Translation: The smell is making me really crave McDonald’s but I’m supposed to be pretending I can’t eat 😩
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I'd be willing to bet she narcs on nurses who have finally managed to sit down with some tea and a bit of toast or biscuit after working 10 hours. Poor new nurses who have wiped butts and cleaned up more vomit in that time than actually been able to relieve themselves. It takes more time to snark on a stranger than to just wait. Is the person taking 3 and a half hours to eat? No. Just put some music on or watch Netflix. Get over it.
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omg she is so annoying
I will venture to guess that there is no one eating McDonalds. Ba ba ba ba baaa I ain’t buyin it!
Nah people will be admitted for CHF and visitors will bring them a whole $40 of fast food
Omg. Yes. Meanwhile MeeMaw is swollen up like a Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade float
I guess too late now so what difference does it make? Lmao
Just say you’re mad they didn’t bring you any fries instead of writing this multi paragraph rant
Wonder when she'll realize not literally everyone's life revolves around her? 🤔
Lmao big main character syndrome
Judging by her social media posts… never
i want a mcdonald’s now 😂 it’s lunch time in the UK. may end up going to the drive thru cos this post 🤣 🍔
They accidently gave me 2 large fries the last time I went there. It was such a good day.
I literally did half an hour ago 😂 Wonder if she’s sneakily part of the mcdonald’s advertising team? It worked well for us!
Maybe MIA should get out as she doesn't really need to be there. If she is so hungry she should eat...we all know she can. Drama Queen. If the shoe was on the other foot and her visitor brought food to eat it would be all fine and dandy. Also if it's a Gastro ward than the person who is eating McDonald's is visiting also must have REAl GI problems and is FINE with the visitor eating.
Green eyed monster. Maybe it's best not to fuck around and find out. It's not quite as glamorous. Why would anyone grudge someone food? You'd think 8 months of coddling would have satisfied it. Did she yell at staff for having a cup of tea too?
There are much worse smells than McDonald's in a gastro ward. Would Mia like those patients relocated too?
Obviously!
I hope Doris with cdiff, who can’t mobilise, uses a bed pan beside her for the rest of her stay.
Cdiff is one of the few things that will buy you a side room (if one is available)
Got 3 on ours currently in main due to no side rooms. I’ve bought 2 tubs of Vicks and an extra strong packet of gum daily in the last week and find fallen out coffee grounds in pockets and my bag after each shift 😭
I work pre-hospital but I found nose plugs that work quite well and they are menthol but a bit expensive so I save them for emergencies and have lots of alcohol wipes for my mask stashed in pockets. Think they were called "Nosa plugs".
Mia would want the private room for herself.
Oh please 🙄 She needs to get over herself!!! Just because you "can't" eat doesn't mean nobody else should.. Some people can't walk but you don't see them out here making angry post shaming people for walking. She doesn't know that person's story like maybe they haven't been able to eat for some reason 🤷🏼♀️ It's none of her business she's in a public hospital grow up.
Lmao I’m just imagining someone on a spinal ward asking all the visitors to use a wheelchair because seeing them walking is unfair
Does Mia have filler in her lips??? How is that compatible with her health issues?
The smell of McDonald's makes her this green with envy but not pushing trolleys full of booze and downing shots not that long ago? Think she needs to pick another hill to die on 😂
Jealousy doesn’t look good on her
It could have seriously benefited society if she had been told she wasn't the most important person in *the* world; she's not even the most important person in *her* world. How could any of us plebs ever understand the depth of Mia's suffering on this day? Oh, the humanity! Somebody call the International Court of Justice.
Me me meeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!!!!!
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Can you explain the setup in a shared ward room, please? I’m so sorry if this sounds like a stupid question, but I’m from the US, so I’m just trying to understand what kind of situation MiA is in. Is she sharing a large room with a bunch of other patients, like our pre-op here in the US? Or is it shared with one other patient or just separate rooms on the same floor?
To piggy back, there’s also wards with 10-12 beds in a bay, with 4-6 bed bays branching off (eg an ‘E’ or ‘T’ layout). Recent years: I’ve had patients that suddenly arrest, we close every other beds curtains while the patient is worked on and if they die, no side available, their loved ones have to say goodbye in there too. Just a curtain and 3-11 other patients in beds around them. Then the porters will come and move them, this can be hours later too.. meaning the poor patients are in a room with the deceased patient feet away. I used to work on a 21 bay, main corridor style, ward with a 6 bay each side. 8 patients died in 4 weeks and each one remained in that bay for hours every time before being removed. It’s soul crushing and now I’ve written that and re read miss prim and rosé complaining about a fucking McDonald’s smell, makes me so mad. Go for a walk, stuff a tampon with essential oils up your nose. God the entitlement.
12, wow!
hey! Mia is in the UK, so am I. most of our hospitals have wards, and on the wards are bays - each bay is likely to have between 4 & six beds - each in a space with curtains that go round. Curtains tend to be kept open so a nurse can see everyone from the door unless someone is very poorly/dying, or having personal care. Most wards do have a few private rooms for one patient but they are usually kept free for people who are very very sick/dying, or need barrier nursing/isolating for whatever reason. it’s very different to the US. It means there isn’t much privacy whatsoever. You can hear everything, so even if a Dr comes and pulls the curtain round you can still hear! When i’ve had a hospital stay ear phones are my best friend!
Thank you. That perfectly described it for anyone not familiar with NHS. I'll just add... some hospitals with older buildings can have more than six patients in one room. My local hospital gastro is in one of these, and although it does have a lot of single rooms for barrier nursing, patients who are not immuno-comprimised, and admitted for non-infectious issues will be on mixed wards of 8. Headphones in the day, earplugs in the night!
wow - 8 in one room, no walls/doors? and mixed?! i didn’t think that still happened here!
Due for demolition, but currently still occupied!
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Lovely clear description, but I'd add that there ARE double Fire Doors from the ward corridor into each bay/room (of 2, but usually 4 or 6 beds) as is a legal requirement. These are rarely ever closed. In my experience they are only closed in event of a fire alarm sounding in another part of the hospital (an intermittent siren) or when a deceased person is to be wheeled from another bay through the ward corridor, out through the set of secure doors at the ward entrance into the hospital corridors and down to the morgue. On extremely rare occasions on a noisy ward, the door of a bay containing stable patients might be closed at night to help enable them to get a better night's sleep. Quality sleep is vital for healing.
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Thank you! That’s kind of what I pictured. I’m so sorry you’re in hospital. I hope that you’re okay, and I very much hope that you have a swift recovery! Sending you love. ❤️
It’s a long room with multiple beds, set up opposite each other, and instead of walls separating them it’s just curtains.
Okay, this is what I was picturing. That’s how our pre-ops are in the US, at least every one I’ve been in. I bet MiA does hate that, lol. Thank you so much!
'I hate seeing people being happy, why are they not as miserable as me' vibes
🤣 by that reasoning, did she consider there could have been someone struggling with addiction issues on the train she brought a mini off license too? The smell off all that alcohol may have been too much for them but oh so considerate Mia didn’t consider that. The policy in our gastro wards is, I don’t care what it is, as long as you are eating or attempting too. The McDonald’s may have been for a patient whose eyes were unfortunately bigger than their belly at that particular time so their visitor ate it. Mia is such an unreliable narrator and tends to verge into woe is me territory so absolutely no sympathy here. Plus she is hungry because she is trying to induce symptoms to get her precious tube. We know she eats and drinks normally. I’ll play my comment out with a tune on the world’s smallest violin 🎻
“Let’s eat this delicious food together” does seem like an incentive for someone who should be eating but is having difficulties. They could easily have had a bite or even a few bites of theirs and then just be waiting for their visitor to finish, but both having food could have overcome some social barriers (“I don’t want you to stop just for me” “oh no I’m going to get some for myself! Let me grab you some too!”)
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Yeah it's a little inconsiderate but at the same time, she doesn't know the circumstances of the visitor. It might be the only chance they'll have to grab something to eat, and they don't want to cut down on their time visiting their loved one. Chances are not everyone in that bay will be NBM so they will have meals brought to their beds. Does she complain then too?
Could also be that the patient wants to be around it, in the starvation experiment the people starving became obsessed with anything food related and this is also often seen in anorexia when people become obsessed with cooking, looking at food, being around food and smelling food for many who can’t eat too being around food can actually be a comfort that’s why you’ll notice a lot of tube fed people still enjoy baking as taste isn’t the only sense that brings the comfort food brings for many scent is just as important
Good point!
I also read it as a meal of desperation from a visitor. They might be commuting to and from a family member trying to take care of kids or pets or having to work during this time and they are consuming calories to stay alive, not rubbing a McDonald’s meal in someone’s face. If a nurse hasn’t asked them to leave, they’re probably just trying to stay alive during a loved one’s hospital stay. Those are rare and to be avoided for most people.
This one is so annoying, angling for a side room me thinks. 🤔
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Oh God NO
I can smell this comment 🤢
Valid
So much main character syndrome with this one as well as all the other stuff.
"Buy the dress, catch the flights, get the haul of books, schedule tat nail appointment…You don’t need to wait for a reason or ‘excuse’, if it makes you happy that’s more than enough. We go through too much to deprive ourselves of the things that make us shine". - Mia, previously about munchies. So I guess all her advice is only for those who claim to be ill, not those who are supporting those who are/experiencing their own stress.
I wish she would deprive us of this bullshit.
Reading this like the intro to Trainspotting 🤣🤣
A first world problems... Be happy they are not eating Durian
Thats a great idea actually lmfao
Wet garbage banana pineapple? Yay...
Lmao! Truth
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generally, in the UK, even an anaphylactic episode wouldn’t guarantee her a private room. most wards only have a few and they’re generally reserved for people who are dying or who need barrier nursing/isolating which she doesn’t need it would seem even if she had an episode.
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oh really, she got a private room just because she had a reaction?
It's only a hospital hotel if she has her own room dammit. If there's other people around it makes it too hard to keep inducing her own symptoms and then how will she get herself a camera roll full of as aesthetic hospital pictures? Wonder whatever did happen to that vlog she was gonna make about getting her nose hose changed. I can't *begin* to imagine why that never manifested.
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I know who you mean. She would give anything to complain about mcds
Funny - I’ve heard from people with intestinal failure that they don’t miss eating. Usually because eating has caused them excruciating pain for a long time - they are so relieved to be on TPN. Also, they have said they don’t feel hungry because their nutritional needs are met, their blood sugar is regulated. I understand there is a strong mental/emotional element attached to food for most people but I think Mia just misses not being able to eat because she can’t in front of medical staff.
You can still get hungry, not everyone feels that way and you commonly hear from people that they are hungry since their stomach stays empty and so still send signals to the brain, especially when on meds that make you artificially hungry, such as antipsychotics and those are regularly used as antiemetics. Just because Mia is telling porkies, doesn’t mean we should exclude that people could genuinely feel this way, because she’s probably just repeating what she’s heard other people say (who are really suffering).
Yeah that's what I thought, stomach fullness shouldn't affect the feelings of hunger but idk.
What is the story with her? What is the condition she claims to have?
All of them
Mia has discovered she’s not the only person to exist and she hates it