I checked when I started this thread (an hour ago?) and we were still FB friends. Just checked now to delete and we are no longer. Someone has been on an unfriending spree.
Yep. Me too.
Guys, I'm really sick over this. Like I have this gross feeling in my stomach. Just that I ever sent this person money... I started read some of the threads she posted in on that silent grief site, and, ugh, I just couldn't. Such heartbreaking stories. How could you even want to immerse yourself in that world if you were not in search of support?
I'm going to go home and look at only happy things for awhile
I checked when I started this thread (an hour ago?) and we were still FB friends. Just checked now to delete and we are no longer. Someone has been on an unfriending spree.
She had 257 friends on the one FB page when I went home at lunch. She has 199 now. :/Â
Yep, she and I still had 18 mutual friends an hour ago, but no longer.
Nonetheless, her page does not appear to be locked down.
I know this is a tiny piece in her shit puzzle, but I really thought that she said her son has celiac disease? I think she said that it's one of the primary reasons that she continues to nurse him, because of his otherwise limited diet.
We don't need to read her "apology" to know how it will go. Lots of excuses and attempts to garner sympathy, but nothing that will change the fact that she lied and trolled vulnerable people either for her own amusement or to make money. There's no coming back from that.
I'm not even FB friends with her, but I do wonder if she is going to post something publicly about this. I can't imagine that someone here isn't going to rat her out to her customers, etc.
I know this is a tiny piece in her shit puzzle, but I really thought that she said her son has celiac disease? I think she said that it's one of the primary reasons that she continues to nurse him, because of his otherwise limited diet.
I thought so too. Which just makes me feel more awful for her kid and wondering if it's even true.
Post by kangaroo11 on Aug 15, 2016 15:31:41 GMT -5
I finally made it through both thread on this and just...wow. I can't believe someone would be so heartless and selfish to make up a dead child and then come back around like no big deal. What an awful person.
I know this is a tiny piece in her shit puzzle, but I really thought that she said her son has celiac disease? I think she said that it's one of the primary reasons that she continues to nurse him, because of his otherwise limited diet.
Well that's a completely b.s. excuse. My H has been living with celiac for 35 years, frombback before gf was a thing and it was rarely diagnosed (he was patient #3 and helped the research hospital refine their tests when he was a kid). It means you have to read labels and be careful of cross contamination and it may mean eating out isn't always safe but it's certainly manageable. Extended breastfeeding is not compulsory.
As the dung beetle on the great big pile of shit, I was looking at her FB business page. Some woman commented that she had to wean her 2 year old due to an upcoming surgery and asked for weaning advice. Celiacmom replied "I'm sorry, we are a site that encourages breastfeeding so I don't have weaning advice." I'm clearly already done with her, so this rubbed me the wrong way. I mean, surely weaning is part of BFing, no? She could just have said she didn't have any advice, she didn't have to phrase it in a way that basically shamed the other mum.
But obviously this pales in comparison to her other shenanigans.
I know this is a tiny piece in her shit puzzle, but I really thought that she said her son has celiac disease? I think she said that it's one of the primary reasons that she continues to nurse him, because of his otherwise limited diet.
Which is weird because my son and I are celiac and manage to eat a ton of food.
Not the point, I know.
So you're not still breastfeeding your 17 year old? Why don't you love him?
I'll share a couple of things. She reached out to me a few weeks back after sent shared her ordeal and I had posted something like "I wish we'd known so we could have helped" and she messaged me asking if I was FB friends with sent and if we were going to set something up. I am not and we weren't so that was the end of that. She was eager to participate in some kind of effort to help her.
I do think she has been trying to atone for her past by being very generous here. I always kind of scratched my head at that eagerness because it seemed over the top at times, but now it makes a lot of sense.
PDQ the below as I may delete this story: another Usborne consultant also reached out to me and told me she'd had a bad experience with celiac. That's she'd done a FB party for her that didn't generate a ton of rewards/free books and celiac was very angry and escalated it all the way to the CEO and got free stuff to pacify her. It was very stressful for my friend that ran that party though she did eventually get an apology from celiac about it. My friend wanted to warn me when she saw we were mutual friends with celiac.
We don't need to read her "apology" to know how it will go. Lots of excuses and attempts to garner sympathy, but nothing that will change the fact that she lied and trolled vulnerable people either for her own amusement or to make money. There's no coming back from that.
True this. I am about as interested in hearing her sick and twisted excuses or lame-ass apologies as I am in hearing what Trump plans to do to "make America great again."
Holy crap. This is all horrible. I can't believe I am always so gullible and never realize anything.
This is where I'm at. I think of MMM as this caring community. I've seen our posters mobilize for members experiencing hardships, for themselves or their children. We've all donated. Sometimes it's diapers for a diaper drive. Sometimes it's financially for someone's medical bills or for personal belongings after a flood. We frequent MMM's Etsy shops/LLR consultants because we rather see our friends get business, than some random person. Many times, the contributions are not monetary - it's just a group of caring women (and dude) offering some kind words, supportive advice, or thoughts & prayers for another member. Checking in on others when you know they're having a tough time post partum or going through a tough family situation.
FUCK ANYONE that takes advantage of the caring nature of our posters. I hate that I'm (and many others on here) are gullible. I hate that this experience with celiacmom may make GBCNers hesitate to reach out and help someone the next time a poster needs help.
Way to go celiacmom. You wanted attention, you've got about 22+ pages worth of attention. But it ends here. I don't want to hear what you have to say. There's no explaining or excusing what you've done.
I know this is a tiny piece in her shit puzzle, but I really thought that she said her son has celiac disease? I think she said that it's one of the primary reasons that she continues to nurse him, because of his otherwise limited diet.
Which is weird because my son and I are celiac and manage to eat a ton of food.
Not the point, I know.
I know! I'm not buying it, LOL, it's just that I remember the specific explanation because of that detail. She was like "eh, I could read labels but it's easier to just give him breastmilk because I know it's safe."
I know this is a tiny piece in her shit puzzle, but I really thought that she said her son has celiac disease? I think she said that it's one of the primary reasons that she continues to nurse him, because of his otherwise limited diet.
Well that's a completely b.s. excuse. My H has been living with celiac for 35 years, frombback before gf was a thing and it was rarely diagnosed (he was patient #3 and helped the research hospital refine their tests when he was a kid). It means you have to read labels and be careful of cross contamination and it may mean eating out isn't always safe but it's certainly manageable. Extended breastfeeding is not compulsory.
Agreed! It's just the reason that I recall who in the family had celiac, because of that specific (strange) explanation.
Post by undecidedowl on Aug 15, 2016 15:43:10 GMT -5
I keep typing and deleting. I have to wonder if her son is safe. With all the lies, does he really have celiac? Who is really pushing the AP relationship?
kdubs923 exactly. I messaged her on FB not because I was personally wronged, but because you ladies (and dude) are MY PEOPLE and I care for you fiercely and hate to see this kind of thing happen in our community. I wanted he to know that me, a real person, was calling out her, a real person. Not ambiguous message board people, real people.
She garnered support and sympathy for herself by sharing her story and many in turn supported her business or recommended it to others (I certainly have, even ordered as a gift for someone once). But even if she HAS changed, which maybe yeah, who knows to what extent, it was bound to come out eventually and everything is now revealed to be built on lies.
I don't want to expend any more emotional energy on this. Especially when I can't drink.
pugz , what?! That's like party sales 101 -- you get free stuff for the access to people willing to buy shit. If no one buys anything, you get no free shit!
I'm not sure what people want her to explain. She made up a story about her child dying. That shit is so damaging to the grief community. A lot of people end up not reaching out for help because of people like her. They're too afraid of people thinking they're making it all up since this is one of the cons that seriously sick people play. Much like MoMs are always suspicious about someone who comes to their boards and starts posting about their triplets or quads super high risk pregnancy.
What really gets me is that she didn't just do it on the nest. She was peddling her story out to the grief community itself. Going to blogs and posting her own links. That's a high level of dysfunction right there, and you don't suddenly become a good person after doing that.
I'm just frustrated that people knew who she was and nothing was ever done about it until today. I'm not blaming y4m or ellie, but if another mod was directly told and she did shit... I'm judging her hard core right now.
I keep typing and deleting. I have to wonder if her son is safe. With all the lies, does he really have celiac? Who is really pushing the AP relationship?
I think you are conflating Munchausen and Attachment Parenting here.