This truly is random but I realized that I've been seeing mp 's posts about jigsy on TikTok. I don't think we have any mutual friends and definitely don't know each other IRL. It took me some time to catch on but they've all been on my FYP. The world is very small and mp my heart goes out to you.
That is super random because as I was scrolling through TikTok while eating lunch an hour ago, mp 's post showed up on my FYP too! I am guessing somehow all the stuff I am doing on the internet is connected, which is creepy. Or maybe her post is just getting momentum and showing up for everyone?
I follow her on Instagram though and have several mutual social media friends so I assumed that's why I got it.
My two main posts lately have been super viral, I think many women in America on TikTok have seen my goodbye video at 1.8mm views💔
She passed at 12:13pm PST today. It was fast and peaceful. Nothing will be publicly posted on social media until her sister has had a chance to tell her children in person. So if you’re social media friends with Jen, please don’t post publicly yet.
My birthday is tomorrow. Jen and I were supposed to be flying to Cabo. Instead. I am flying to so cal to see her one last time - not the way I’d anticipated spending my birthday weekend with her. Please keep me and her family in your thoughts this weekend.
I am bringing home Jiggles ashes and will be helping her family clean out her apartment. Fuck this sucks.
My birthday is tomorrow. Jen and I were supposed to be flying to Cabo. Instead. I am flying to so cal to see her one last time - not the way I’d anticipated spending my birthday weekend with her. Please keep me and her family in your thoughts this weekend.
I haven’t shared specifics yet out of respect for her sister who hasn’t broadly shared details yet. The consensus is generally that Jen’s brain is past the point of recovery, but for obvious reasons her sister wants a second opinion before taking irreversible next steps.
Please don’t post online or message her sister directly, if anyone is in contact with her.
Oh my gosh! I didn’t mean to spread misinformation. I don’t know anything other than what is posted in the GFM and your post. I have a background in neuro and read your first post to mean things were not good. I can delete. I’m so sorry for any added hurt. I also have no intention of contacted her family and just send them virtual love.
No, it’s ok. I knew where you were coming from. This wait is hard and I also “know” where things are going, but family needs more signals for confirmation (understandably so)… but it means that saying what I know to be true might also feel like jumping the gun, since it hasn’t been formally confirmed yet. (Don’t know if this rambling makes sense or is useful but it’s what’s in my head.) so while nothing has been confirmed - it would take a miracle of all miracles for Jen to even be able to breathe on her own or open her eyes, let alone more.
I have been following her GFM for updates. The details shared were devastating, but there seemed to be hope. I'm sorry to read the last EEG results confirmed worst case scenario and so incredibly sorry that all who knew and loved her ( including so many us here) are grieving.
((mp)) (( JIgsy and her family))
Where did you see the EEG confirmation? I didn’t see anything on the GFM or did mp post more here? I so badly want it to not be true 😔
I haven’t shared specifics yet out of respect for her sister who hasn’t broadly shared details yet. The consensus is generally that Jen’s brain is past the point of recovery, but for obvious reasons her sister wants a second opinion before taking irreversible next steps.
Please don’t post online or message her sister directly, if anyone is in contact with her.
Long time lurker here. mp , thank you for the update, although I'm sorry that you had to share this terrible news. I've been checking the GFM every day for updates and have been praying for her recovery. Does she still have Mr. Jiggles? I hope that you continue to post here,and allow this community to support you through this incredibly awful time.
Thankfully (?) Mr Jiggles passed away last year - though I would have taken him in if needed. (As it stands, I'm already mentally prepared to ask to take his ashes, so he can join my pack of animals that have crossed the bridge.)
I posted this on fb initially a few weeks ago - and another friend ended up messaging me and telling me that she had something similar and went to the ER only because of what I'd shared about jigsy (Jen). My friend found out that she had blood clots in her leg that, left untreated, could have had dire consequences.
Women are so used to being ignored, gaslit, whatever it is - that we downplay our needs and our discomfort. No one can say if Jen would have had a different outcome if she had gotten help sooner - but I DO know that she didn't deserve to feel crappy and "tough it out" the last 10 days pre-hospital.
So this is my reminder to you - that you deserve better. You deserve to not be in pain. You deserve to be healthy.
Promise I'll slink back into the shadows soon - I've just really appreciated seeing all of the good vibes for Jen. ---
Did you know that something like 10% of the adult US population carries around the neisseria meningitis bacteria strain as a carrier? I didn’t! But for whatever reason it never enters the brain for most of us to cause issues, and for younger folks the vaccine most have helps avoid the worst outcomes.
Jen got Covid the week before she started having meningitis symptoms. There’s just not enough research to know yet whether she had the bacteria already, then Covid suppressed her immune system enough to cause issues - or whether she got it after her immune system was suppressed.
The blood vessels in her brain are also quite narrow right now - and again, no way to know if this is Covid related, as Covid has been shown to narrow blood vessels. Or if this is in reaction to the infection and subsequent stroke.
No matter what the mix of issues is that has led to the ICU, at the very least, Covid masked the symptoms and caused Jen to doubt the severity of what she was facing. Covid is real. Covid has real impacts that last long beyond the virus itself.
Don’t downplay Covid, and if you’re feeling long haul effects - please please talk to your dr. Don’t ignore them. 💔
mp I’m so sad to hear and wish we could carry this pain for you
Thank you. ❤️
I wouldn’t wish this on anyone, but I am so glad I’ve been able to connect with so many people that care about her in this process. She really chose good people to surround herself with.
The last 5 weeks I’ve alternated between trying not to grieve too early, and being heartbroken. I’ve held hope - the tiniest bit of hope- until the last few days.
I haven’t logged in here in … how long? 5+ years. But I saw this thread as I was wondering if any posts had been made here.
We are waiting on eeg results that happened earlier today. Any small gains Jen had made are long gone. I visited her on Sunday and there was just … nothing. I think she’s gone, and her sister is just waiting on confirmation before confirming next steps. But those next steps will likely be to turn the machines off and let her go.
This whole thing has been surreal. I am heartbroken. Traumatized. And thankful to this weird little community that gave me my best friend for the last 8 years.
Ditto SQL. A lot of this is dependent on the field within analytics that you want to get into. For example, google analytics is not really super helpful if you're not evaluating web analytics. ETA - yes, they have offline data options, but it's strengths are online in my experience. I work in web/advertising analytics and have for 10 years. SQL has been a needed component my entire career, and the other tools come and go based on employer and needs. Tableau is one of the industry standard options for visualization. If you were totally confident in SQL and tableau, you'd probably be good to apply to entry level analytics roles.
I ditto the idea that it's more logic based than math based... but... if you're uncomfortable with math I do feel that you'd find yourself struggling to move forward and grow in a role like this, again depending on field. There can be a lot of modeling and basic statistics involved - I do not use a lot of heavy statistical programming in my daily work, but a lot of data mining, cleaning, modeling, and recommending strategy, etc.