Also, if you like medical stories, Bad Batch is great; it is with Laura Beale same journalist who did the seasons of Doctor Death. I really enjoy her work and I enjoy listening to her voice.
Post by luckystar2 on Jul 15, 2023 21:36:06 GMT -5
I just finished the main episodes. Omg soooo infuriating!! I think the worst part was the freaking courts gave them full custody of Jessa and ripped her away from her mother?!! They jumped back and forth some so I wasn’t sure the timeline but how the hell does that happen and at some point they declare bankruptcy and Amanda is so sick. Just seems crazy that oh yes give them another child to take care of?! That poor girl to be taken away from her mom and to think her step mom is dying and it was all lies!
I just finished the main episodes. Omg soooo infuriating!! I think the worst part was the freaking courts gave them full custody of Jessa and ripped her away from her mother?!! They jumped back and forth some so I wasn’t sure the timeline but how the hell does that happen and at some point they declare bankruptcy and Amanda is so sick. Just seems crazy that oh yes give them another child to take care of?! That poor girl to be taken away from her mom and to think her step mom is dying and it was all lies!
I had wondered if the “illness” bizarrely worked in their favor. Like the judge felt sorry for them and thought that if they wanted Jessa so badly when they had so much going on, things must be really bad at Jessa’s mother’s? Amanda and her husband/family seemed really charismatic. Judges can be really strange.
I don’t know. The podcast skipped around so much it was hard to follow when things happened and how old anyone was at the time.
Listened to this on a road trip. And so many just WTFs but also, a decent amount of the story does check. Like, she did get some treatments and dude effects right. I gotta say though, it really bothers me because so many people got skeptical because she didn’t “look sick.” Which is something that really bothers me. Probably because so many people would comment on how I looked. And cancer can look so many different ways. Even when it comes to hair. Personal, I lost eyebrows eyelashes the first time, but not the second line treatment (for Hodgkins). And one of the comments was she was bald but still had her eyebrows. On the one hand, I’m glad people were tipped off. On the other, I felt so judged on the way I looked. Ugh. This is so triggering.
Story time: I was walking out of a radiation treatment and someone in the elevator stopped me because “some lady laid that blanket down on her way into the locker room.” Yes, it’s my blanket. I put it there and grabbed it on my way out. But “no, that’s is some lady’s blanket”. Yes. I am some lady. Like other cancer patients treated me like I didn’t belong. Or, there was the man in the elevator who commented that I just shouldn’t stay out so late if I wanted to no be tired in the afternoon. Or the old man who chased me down for parking in patient only parking. It ain’t fun being the 20 something in the cancer center, and knowing people are judging how you look is just. Ugh.