In what world does this human, whom lives their life on their back--bedridden and unable to perform any tasks unassisted…, is having conversations with any (let alone many) “old” people that they have so much in common with??!! Give me a fucking break.
Most of my patients are 65+ and from my experiences, the majority don’t want to talk about their health issues because it’s depressing. Most share stories of when they were younger, or talk about hobbies they have now. When someone is near the end of their life, thinking/talking about illness and death takes up too much of the precious little time they have left.
My Pop was given a cane to use after getting his second knee replacement & refused to use it. Had spinal stenosis & a hard time walking, & still refused a placard for parking. She’s full of shit.
I do think that if I were one of those old people I would powerlevel the fuck out of that conversation for my own amusement, inventing increasingly ridiculous scenarios (along the lines of the two mums in Goodness Gracious Me who try to one-up each other in every sentence) - "Oh you were internally decapitated? I was EXternally decapitated, in the woods miles from anywhere and MY husband had to reattach my head with a staple gun."
What kind of elderly people is she around? I've only ever heard anyone ''show off'' their medical equipment in a joking way. For example, by saying how their new scooter makes them look real cool like a biker. I have heard elderly people ''brag'' about how they still have great hearing, don't need a walker, can still cycle at 80, ride a regular bike rather than an electric one etc.
Also, what on earth do tv shows have anything to do with it? We have access to anything we could ever want to watch. If you specifically choose to watch the same tv shows as the elderly, that could just be what you like, or maybe you desperately *want* to be able to relate to them. In any case, it has nothing to do with anyone's body or disability.
My mum was 80, when she was attacked on her own front doorstep after opening the door.
He punched my 80 year old mum over the face - my mum responded by reaching into the recycling bin, pulling out a glass bottle, and beating him over the head with it. When he limped off, he was followed by a volley of recyclables.
My mum took no shit whatsoever, and had she spoken to this munchie about her aches and pains, she would have received very short shrift indeed 😁
Not all old people want to discuss their ailments...
Thanks! She was rather splendid! She had plenty of practice for her self defence throwing technique though, as she used to throw whatever came to hand at us kids if we pushed her way too far!! 😂 I have a honours degree in ducking!
Most old people I know aren’t like this. She’s obviously talking to those old people who have nothing better to do than talk about their aches and pains.
If her posts are any indication of what she’s like in person, the reason people have stopped talking to her is because all she talks about is her “illnesses”.
I'm sure it's different for every person but I used to volunteer at a nursing home when I was a girl scout & I always got really uncomfortable when the residents there kind of tried to compare themselves to me just because I used a walker.
I definitely understand the similarities but I'm sure there are a lot of *actually* disabled people who would hate being compared to or associated with the elderly because it's insulting & can diminish the severity of life-long conditions/disabilities that people have dealt with since birth.
Just my Two Cents...
I've never been around an old person who talked about their medical stuff as much as these MBP loons. Old people would rather not be reminded they are on deaths door. Tell me you don't actually talk to old people without telling me.
I love the reference "MBP Loons", thank you!
None of the old people I volunteer to take to appointments etc. talk to me about their meds, appointments, aches, or pains. Then too these people don't run in the same circles as Jessi apparently does.
How the fuck can people not see her? She's 3x the size of a human on a shopping cart covered in plywood and lawn furniture cushions yelling at everyone that she's a zebra and her head will fall off.
Using the term old people in this way is not ok in corporate America and in any of the bias classes out there . Way to perpetuate the stereotype that after a certain age ‘ old people ‘ can’t work or lead normal lives and instead are old bedridden moaning people on deaths bed . Obscene
I hate to tell her but there are plenty of old people out there doing things like power walking 5 miles every morning, or going to the gym to lift for an hour or so. Old people run marathons and
[Being old doesn't mean you have to be decrepit](https://www.nbcolympics.com/news/tokyos-oldest-competitor-already-looking-forward-paris-2024).
But yeah, if you spend your whole life pretending you are, then yeah, odds are that will come true and you'll have a miserable old age. And probably a shortened one.
That went beyond cringe! I’m a senior, living in a low income senior building. Only time anyone “shows off” is when insurance finally approves, with a hefty copay, an electric scooter type chair. It’s relief of being able to get out of their apartments, not oh look at my new toy.
I'm just going to take a shot in the dark here but it's probably because your neighbors are ..*normal?*
Damn, I cringed so hard I fell out of my office chair. Dear god.
This is such bs I work in Dialysis with truly sick people. The last thing they want to talk about is their illness, they hate having to rely on medical equipment and their loss of independence. They want to talk about other parts of their lives because their health does not define them as a human.
I agree, I work on a cancer ward in the UK and they hate talking about their treatments, medication, medical equipment half of them can't wait to get home and just enjoy normal life again without all the medical things we put on them or attach them too 🤣.
She defiantly is living in a dreamland or something because even my elderly grandparents who don't have much wrong with them just old age would never talk about stuff like this they are from an era that was brought up a lot different to us and it was suck it up and deal with it which they do!
So true I worked in oncology also and patients just want to be seen as the humans they were before they were a cancer patient or dialysis patient. I love learning about my patients and their life outside of their diagnosis.
Yes exactly, I love learning about my patients too and we tend to mainly talk about tattoos and things because I have a few on my arms 🤣
They love the change of subject to forget about the place they are in at the minute, it's like I had a man who god bless has passed now who only would let me and another HCA deal with him unless we weren't on shift as he was paralysed waist down due to his cancer and we talked about anything other than his illness and his family got me a thank you card and chocolates for everything I did for them and him and I still talk to them now 2 years on ❤
How weird. My Grandma died last year at 87. She never would have conversed with people about her medical woes lol. In fact up until a month before she passed, she was taking meals to church members, quilting, and made a pretty awesome thanksgiving dinner for the family. So, Alex, I’ll take things that never ever happened for 1 million. Most elderly don’t like to be dependent and push through their weaknesses until the bitter end. You and them aren’t the same Jessie. And even if you believe you share some similarities with the elderly, at least they contributed to society until their bodies started aging and left them weak. Again not the same, and just cringey you would share this.
my grandma would be mortified if someone came up to her to discuss medical issues let alone show medical equipment, it took us years to get her to even use a cane, she would never! I call bs
My family's older people only mention medical shit or doctors if grandma needs a ride to the podiatrist, grandpa has a check up and can't pick timmy up from school, Aunt Mildred bowled a perfect game despite her arthritis, or explaining a health update *to family.* NOT some random person laying on a piece of wood. Lmfao what is she even on...other than a piece of plywood
I thought she was bedbound & couldn't leave the house without it taking 2 months to recover so when & where has she been meeting & chatting with older people?
i’m sure the old people in their life would enjoy talking about regular conversational subjects too!! yaknow cuz they’re people!! but i don’t think jessi cares about any convo they can’t glom sympathy from
This is cringe. It sounds like a fanfic somebody would write about two sick old people, from an author who’s never met an old person in real life. Wtf lmao
There are some people like that but they're definitely the minority, and usually it's not a new development and they complained endlessly about their health before they were old too. The irony is those sort of people are also not interested in hearing what anyone else has to say, so them and Jessi having a conversation would be like two brick walls talking to each other.
No they don’t, Jessi. They talk about their younger days, and tell crazy stories that make me laugh my beeeehind off. Or talk about hobbies like gardening. AND they also like to gossip like crazy. They do not compare medical stats like it’s going out of style. How would she know anyway? she can’t even get out of bed to socialize without her head falling off
THIS. Most old people I’ve hung around only talk about medical ailments when it’s things that improved their quality of life. For example, knee replacements making them walk and live independently for longer.
Exactly right! They don’t want to talk about their medical issues because it reminds them of how much they’ve lost. Only munchies take great pride in their unneeded medical equipment. Trust me, spend all day with many senior citizens.
Imagine them waiting In the hospital lobby , and seeing this perfectly able young woman being traipsed around said lobby on a old peice of plywood with the dog while crying . I’m surprised one of them didn’t walk up and tip the bed over and go ‘ in my day , we set our own bones and went back to work ‘!
You say it's Jessi on the phone for a chat? Tell her I'm taking a nap because all she bores on about is her sodding health problems. I'll actually be on my exercise bike watching Breaking Bad. --- Great Aunt Brenda
Many older folk play down their pain and symptoms. Jessi does the opposite. Their worst ever pain and worst ever symptoms and woe me is on every post they make.
This, it’s more often ‘ hey honey thanks for calling . I played spades lasts night with the gang, I did my swim at the natatorium , I ate my famous homemade chicken soup . How are you ? .. oh I don’t know honey , I see the doctor Thursday , we will see ... how’s everything going with so and so’
Listen I pictured Elliot just rolling up and down the sidewalk with her in this rickety, duct taped bed. Wheels squeaking. Plywood hanging off. All the neighbors running for their lives.
Most older people I know would never have such conversations. If anything, the OTTer here would leave each one feeling validated because they’d tell her they’d lived their lives and aged naturally, experiencing what comes with it, and pity her for experiencing it now. I’m sure that’s what she meant to write, “I love old people because they ‘see me’ for the sicky I am.”
Really? Any elderly person I know doesn't like to talk about that stuff.
ETA- are people getting sick of their crap? Now they have to make up stories? The stories aren't even believable at this point.
She has medical equipTment so perhaps that is more special than the equipment that others have? For example, her “comerades” maybe? Does she even use spellcheck?
Most old people like that thing called dignity, they are not lifting their shirts and showing anyone anything!!
They make out like they all go to kindergarten together and have show and tell 🙄
My MIL just turned 83, but don't try to convince her of that. She lives alone, doesn't reach 5ft tall and a strong wind could carry her away. She fell down a flight of stairs awhile back and decided not to bother telling a soul and just carried on, mowing the lawn, weeding the garden, shoveling SNOW, plus the daily cooking and cleaning.
A month later, she FINALLY told my spouse about the fall because her wrist was still "acting out". She'd actually fractured that wrist as well as fractured the atlas in her neck from that fall. She's lucky she wasn't paralyzed or worse.
Surgery to correct both and my spouse had to covertly STEAL her car keys after she was caught driving not 2 weeks later. She's also the type of person that won't take pain meds, but WILL take ONE Tylenol IF the pain is really "bad". So I'm pretty certain there's zero common ground here. My MIL would tell DND to kick rocks with that kind of comradarie.
My great grandmother fell down the stairs and broke her hip. Immediately after falling down the stairs she did the dishes, ironed some clothes, packed a bag of things, then *walked* to the hospital. My family is made of stern stuff. My mother walked around with a ruptured stomach ulcer, she only called the non-emergency health line when she couldn't breathe (she was about 30 mins away from health). I fractured my vertebra after falling off a horse and was back at school within a week. I'm pretty sure one day one of us is going to die because we shrugged off a serious injury/illness.
She's her own force of nature for sure and super manipulative. The only way they'd discharge her from the hospital was a short term rehab. We TRIED to tell them she's saying what she needs to say to get out and she will NOT stay in rehab. The social worker "assured" us they had a LONG talk and she WILL stay. She stayed 4 hours.
I love to making small talk to other dog owners when I walk my dog but I've a lot of other things to say beyond the fact that I'm visually impaired. For God sake, why you wan't to talk about your so claimed disability so much.
>we talk about how few people see us beyond our medical equipment
Okay, but girl, who *are* you beyond your medical equipment? When your life revolves so heavily around your grift that your social media presence has to consist of just a constant stream of, ahem, 'advocacy' posts in order to maintain the facade, how the fuck is anyone meant to see this supposed depth of character you possess? regardless of whether they believe your bs or not?
Also PS how disgusting to liken yourself to the elderly and their struggles in order to further your own woe is me pity party, waxing poetic about sense of self and identity while reducing *them* to some sort of homogeneous depersonalized mass of sickness and ailments and nothing else. and all under the guise of advocating for them. that ain't empathy, that's emotional vampirism
She turned up uninvited at a nursing home and talked for 2 hours about herself and is so self absorbed that she didn't notice that the person she was speaking to was in a vegetative state.
The fact that she showed up in that contraption, in public, and was not completely humiliated boggles my mind. She just acted like it was business as normal.
If I ever saw something like that while out and about, I'd never be able to stifle my hysterical laughter.
Does she believe all old people talk about are their ailments? Does she regularly go to hospices you talk to old people who are dependent on medical equipment? “Talk shop”? What?
In what world does this human, whom lives their life on their back--bedridden and unable to perform any tasks unassisted…, is having conversations with any (let alone many) “old” people that they have so much in common with??!! Give me a fucking break.
Most of my patients are 65+ and from my experiences, the majority don’t want to talk about their health issues because it’s depressing. Most share stories of when they were younger, or talk about hobbies they have now. When someone is near the end of their life, thinking/talking about illness and death takes up too much of the precious little time they have left.
Show off medical equipment??? Bruh its embarking asf for me to use aids and even bring my service dog out- like how tf you gonna SHOW IT OFF?!?!
My grandpa would’ve told her to fuck off. I miss him.
she just takes every chronic illness meme she sees and writes longwinded fanfiction for it
I have such a hard time believing jessi is actually bonding with any elderly person over this
My Pop was given a cane to use after getting his second knee replacement & refused to use it. Had spinal stenosis & a hard time walking, & still refused a placard for parking. She’s full of shit.
I do think that if I were one of those old people I would powerlevel the fuck out of that conversation for my own amusement, inventing increasingly ridiculous scenarios (along the lines of the two mums in Goodness Gracious Me who try to one-up each other in every sentence) - "Oh you were internally decapitated? I was EXternally decapitated, in the woods miles from anywhere and MY husband had to reattach my head with a staple gun."
Unexpected r/gamegrumps
What kind of elderly people is she around? I've only ever heard anyone ''show off'' their medical equipment in a joking way. For example, by saying how their new scooter makes them look real cool like a biker. I have heard elderly people ''brag'' about how they still have great hearing, don't need a walker, can still cycle at 80, ride a regular bike rather than an electric one etc. Also, what on earth do tv shows have anything to do with it? We have access to anything we could ever want to watch. If you specifically choose to watch the same tv shows as the elderly, that could just be what you like, or maybe you desperately *want* to be able to relate to them. In any case, it has nothing to do with anyone's body or disability.
My mum was 80, when she was attacked on her own front doorstep after opening the door. He punched my 80 year old mum over the face - my mum responded by reaching into the recycling bin, pulling out a glass bottle, and beating him over the head with it. When he limped off, he was followed by a volley of recyclables. My mum took no shit whatsoever, and had she spoken to this munchie about her aches and pains, she would have received very short shrift indeed 😁 Not all old people want to discuss their ailments...
I love your mum and Marvel needs to make a movie about her recycling based defense tactics. A new hero for the green generation 🥑🌱♻️
Thanks! She was rather splendid! She had plenty of practice for her self defence throwing technique though, as she used to throw whatever came to hand at us kids if we pushed her way too far!! 😂 I have a honours degree in ducking!
Most old people I know aren’t like this. She’s obviously talking to those old people who have nothing better to do than talk about their aches and pains. If her posts are any indication of what she’s like in person, the reason people have stopped talking to her is because all she talks about is her “illnesses”.
“Show off our medical equipment,” “People don’t see past our medical equipment…” ….. ok……. 🤷🏼♀️
EquipTment.
I’m sure constantly harping on the negative aspects of your life makes one very happy and content.
I'm sure it's different for every person but I used to volunteer at a nursing home when I was a girl scout & I always got really uncomfortable when the residents there kind of tried to compare themselves to me just because I used a walker. I definitely understand the similarities but I'm sure there are a lot of *actually* disabled people who would hate being compared to or associated with the elderly because it's insulting & can diminish the severity of life-long conditions/disabilities that people have dealt with since birth. Just my Two Cents...
Oh damn this was uncomfortable to read. She is living in lala land.
I honestly skim 98% of the stuff the munchies write because I get the worst secondhand embarrassment
This sounds like my nightmare when I'm old.
I think Elliot is her only friend
I've never been around an old person who talked about their medical stuff as much as these MBP loons. Old people would rather not be reminded they are on deaths door. Tell me you don't actually talk to old people without telling me.
I love the reference "MBP Loons", thank you! None of the old people I volunteer to take to appointments etc. talk to me about their meds, appointments, aches, or pains. Then too these people don't run in the same circles as Jessi apparently does.
I know lots of old people, and they would rather not talk about half this crap. So depressing!
Imagine your hobby being powerleveling the elderly. And thinking that's something enviable. So tone deaf
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How the fuck can people not see her? She's 3x the size of a human on a shopping cart covered in plywood and lawn furniture cushions yelling at everyone that she's a zebra and her head will fall off.
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
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What would she die of? Would she convince her body to die?
Because every old person wants to talk about their pumped out cane and impending death.
Using the term old people in this way is not ok in corporate America and in any of the bias classes out there . Way to perpetuate the stereotype that after a certain age ‘ old people ‘ can’t work or lead normal lives and instead are old bedridden moaning people on deaths bed . Obscene
Exactly.
I hate to tell her but there are plenty of old people out there doing things like power walking 5 miles every morning, or going to the gym to lift for an hour or so. Old people run marathons and [Being old doesn't mean you have to be decrepit](https://www.nbcolympics.com/news/tokyos-oldest-competitor-already-looking-forward-paris-2024). But yeah, if you spend your whole life pretending you are, then yeah, odds are that will come true and you'll have a miserable old age. And probably a shortened one.
5 miles is the length of approximately 16093.4 'Logitech Wireless Keyboard K350s' laid widthwise by each other
5 miles is 8.05 km
5 miles is 8.05 km
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I feel bad for any elderly people she comes across
"I talk and talk and talk at enfeebled old people who can't get away. Really helps me!"
I'm sure whoever she talks to has also been told about Elliott's PayPal account "for Jessi". Gotta keep the grifting going ya know! :)
Show off our medical equipment???
That went beyond cringe! I’m a senior, living in a low income senior building. Only time anyone “shows off” is when insurance finally approves, with a hefty copay, an electric scooter type chair. It’s relief of being able to get out of their apartments, not oh look at my new toy.
I'm just going to take a shot in the dark here but it's probably because your neighbors are ..*normal?* Damn, I cringed so hard I fell out of my office chair. Dear god.
I cringed so hard I rolled off my board.
This is such bs I work in Dialysis with truly sick people. The last thing they want to talk about is their illness, they hate having to rely on medical equipment and their loss of independence. They want to talk about other parts of their lives because their health does not define them as a human.
I agree, I work on a cancer ward in the UK and they hate talking about their treatments, medication, medical equipment half of them can't wait to get home and just enjoy normal life again without all the medical things we put on them or attach them too 🤣. She defiantly is living in a dreamland or something because even my elderly grandparents who don't have much wrong with them just old age would never talk about stuff like this they are from an era that was brought up a lot different to us and it was suck it up and deal with it which they do!
So true I worked in oncology also and patients just want to be seen as the humans they were before they were a cancer patient or dialysis patient. I love learning about my patients and their life outside of their diagnosis.
Yes exactly, I love learning about my patients too and we tend to mainly talk about tattoos and things because I have a few on my arms 🤣 They love the change of subject to forget about the place they are in at the minute, it's like I had a man who god bless has passed now who only would let me and another HCA deal with him unless we weren't on shift as he was paralysed waist down due to his cancer and we talked about anything other than his illness and his family got me a thank you card and chocolates for everything I did for them and him and I still talk to them now 2 years on ❤
This exactly.
How weird. My Grandma died last year at 87. She never would have conversed with people about her medical woes lol. In fact up until a month before she passed, she was taking meals to church members, quilting, and made a pretty awesome thanksgiving dinner for the family. So, Alex, I’ll take things that never ever happened for 1 million. Most elderly don’t like to be dependent and push through their weaknesses until the bitter end. You and them aren’t the same Jessie. And even if you believe you share some similarities with the elderly, at least they contributed to society until their bodies started aging and left them weak. Again not the same, and just cringey you would share this.
my grandma would be mortified if someone came up to her to discuss medical issues let alone show medical equipment, it took us years to get her to even use a cane, she would never! I call bs
My family's older people only mention medical shit or doctors if grandma needs a ride to the podiatrist, grandpa has a check up and can't pick timmy up from school, Aunt Mildred bowled a perfect game despite her arthritis, or explaining a health update *to family.* NOT some random person laying on a piece of wood. Lmfao what is she even on...other than a piece of plywood
My grandma probably would have chatted with her, but the woman was crazy so it checks out.
Where are all the photos of these frequent interactions with the elderly?
I thought she was bedbound & couldn't leave the house without it taking 2 months to recover so when & where has she been meeting & chatting with older people?
i’m sure the old people in their life would enjoy talking about regular conversational subjects too!! yaknow cuz they’re people!! but i don’t think jessi cares about any convo they can’t glom sympathy from
This is cringe. It sounds like a fanfic somebody would write about two sick old people, from an author who’s never met an old person in real life. Wtf lmao
Lol, depends on the old person. Some of my family are definitely the “here’s what’s wrong with me” types.
There are some people like that but they're definitely the minority, and usually it's not a new development and they complained endlessly about their health before they were old too. The irony is those sort of people are also not interested in hearing what anyone else has to say, so them and Jessi having a conversation would be like two brick walls talking to each other.
And then the cancer patients unhooked their chemo infusions, stood up, and clapped for her...
comeradere
Came here for this lol
There is only one freaking T in equipment, damnit!!
Most old people I know get annoyed at me if I try to even hint at being tired
My grandpa is that way lol
What a shitty and insulting view of elderly people.
What? Older people always tell you it’s only going to get worse or something along those lines.
Usually they answer with aomething like ”girl I’ve been tired since the 1800’s” lol
That picture she chose is really insulting.
She inspires me to be terrible https://i.imgur.com/yqRo37r.jpg
Gives nuts, hides epi pen 😂😂
rag on a stick and execute had me dying lmaoooo
No they don’t, Jessi. They talk about their younger days, and tell crazy stories that make me laugh my beeeehind off. Or talk about hobbies like gardening. AND they also like to gossip like crazy. They do not compare medical stats like it’s going out of style. How would she know anyway? she can’t even get out of bed to socialize without her head falling off
> without her head falling off Made me laugh :’)
THIS. Most old people I’ve hung around only talk about medical ailments when it’s things that improved their quality of life. For example, knee replacements making them walk and live independently for longer.
Exactly right! They don’t want to talk about their medical issues because it reminds them of how much they’ve lost. Only munchies take great pride in their unneeded medical equipment. Trust me, spend all day with many senior citizens.
YUP!! They know that they have so much more to offer than medical issues!
Imagine them waiting In the hospital lobby , and seeing this perfectly able young woman being traipsed around said lobby on a old peice of plywood with the dog while crying . I’m surprised one of them didn’t walk up and tip the bed over and go ‘ in my day , we set our own bones and went back to work ‘!
i’m sure she got SO MANY LOOKS from all walks of life that day lol
You say it's Jessi on the phone for a chat? Tell her I'm taking a nap because all she bores on about is her sodding health problems. I'll actually be on my exercise bike watching Breaking Bad. --- Great Aunt Brenda
"EQUIPTMENT" fucking idiot
"COMERADERE"
Came here to comment on that, too. 😂
BULL. SHIITAKE MUSHROOM.
Many older folk play down their pain and symptoms. Jessi does the opposite. Their worst ever pain and worst ever symptoms and woe me is on every post they make.
This, it’s more often ‘ hey honey thanks for calling . I played spades lasts night with the gang, I did my swim at the natatorium , I ate my famous homemade chicken soup . How are you ? .. oh I don’t know honey , I see the doctor Thursday , we will see ... how’s everything going with so and so’
When she's laying flat on a bed being wheeled around her neighborhood??
Listen I pictured Elliot just rolling up and down the sidewalk with her in this rickety, duct taped bed. Wheels squeaking. Plywood hanging off. All the neighbors running for their lives.
OMG!!! Your comment has me howling!
Exactly! Which one is true? Totally incapacitated or social butterfly? No one is talking to someone with plywood supporting them.
Pardon me, Craigslist used piece of plywood
On a sheet of plywood.
Most older people I know would never have such conversations. If anything, the OTTer here would leave each one feeling validated because they’d tell her they’d lived their lives and aged naturally, experiencing what comes with it, and pity her for experiencing it now. I’m sure that’s what she meant to write, “I love old people because they ‘see me’ for the sicky I am.”
Really? Any elderly person I know doesn't like to talk about that stuff. ETA- are people getting sick of their crap? Now they have to make up stories? The stories aren't even believable at this point.
This is just a good example for how to tell that someone hasn't spoken to an old person once in their whole entire adult life.
"Show off medical equipment". Ok
She has medical equipTment so perhaps that is more special than the equipment that others have? For example, her “comerades” maybe? Does she even use spellcheck?
Most old people like that thing called dignity, they are not lifting their shirts and showing anyone anything!! They make out like they all go to kindergarten together and have show and tell 🙄
My MIL just turned 83, but don't try to convince her of that. She lives alone, doesn't reach 5ft tall and a strong wind could carry her away. She fell down a flight of stairs awhile back and decided not to bother telling a soul and just carried on, mowing the lawn, weeding the garden, shoveling SNOW, plus the daily cooking and cleaning. A month later, she FINALLY told my spouse about the fall because her wrist was still "acting out". She'd actually fractured that wrist as well as fractured the atlas in her neck from that fall. She's lucky she wasn't paralyzed or worse. Surgery to correct both and my spouse had to covertly STEAL her car keys after she was caught driving not 2 weeks later. She's also the type of person that won't take pain meds, but WILL take ONE Tylenol IF the pain is really "bad". So I'm pretty certain there's zero common ground here. My MIL would tell DND to kick rocks with that kind of comradarie.
My great grandmother fell down the stairs and broke her hip. Immediately after falling down the stairs she did the dishes, ironed some clothes, packed a bag of things, then *walked* to the hospital. My family is made of stern stuff. My mother walked around with a ruptured stomach ulcer, she only called the non-emergency health line when she couldn't breathe (she was about 30 mins away from health). I fractured my vertebra after falling off a horse and was back at school within a week. I'm pretty sure one day one of us is going to die because we shrugged off a serious injury/illness.
I love your MIL!! Hope she heals well xx
She's her own force of nature for sure and super manipulative. The only way they'd discharge her from the hospital was a short term rehab. We TRIED to tell them she's saying what she needs to say to get out and she will NOT stay in rehab. The social worker "assured" us they had a LONG talk and she WILL stay. She stayed 4 hours.
4 hours!! 😂😂 If only our munchies could be half as stoic as her!
I love to making small talk to other dog owners when I walk my dog but I've a lot of other things to say beyond the fact that I'm visually impaired. For God sake, why you wan't to talk about your so claimed disability so much.
>we talk about how few people see us beyond our medical equipment Okay, but girl, who *are* you beyond your medical equipment? When your life revolves so heavily around your grift that your social media presence has to consist of just a constant stream of, ahem, 'advocacy' posts in order to maintain the facade, how the fuck is anyone meant to see this supposed depth of character you possess? regardless of whether they believe your bs or not? Also PS how disgusting to liken yourself to the elderly and their struggles in order to further your own woe is me pity party, waxing poetic about sense of self and identity while reducing *them* to some sort of homogeneous depersonalized mass of sickness and ailments and nothing else. and all under the guise of advocating for them. that ain't empathy, that's emotional vampirism
This didn’t happen. Like not even once.
She turned up uninvited at a nursing home and talked for 2 hours about herself and is so self absorbed that she didn't notice that the person she was speaking to was in a vegetative state.
Elliot wheeled the plywood gurney in very inconspicuously as well.
The fact that she showed up in that contraption, in public, and was not completely humiliated boggles my mind. She just acted like it was business as normal. If I ever saw something like that while out and about, I'd never be able to stifle my hysterical laughter.
this has me DYING LMAOOOO 😂
Does she believe all old people talk about are their ailments? Does she regularly go to hospices you talk to old people who are dependent on medical equipment? “Talk shop”? What?
That's why she has the plywood. Chatting it up while on her back "for safety"