Woman's Crazy Story About Her Friend That Lied About Having Cancer (19 Tweets)

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    lying about cancer - Text - Theresa Bateman Follow @BadGalTuhRiri Did I have a friend who faked cancer for (count em) FOUR years?? YES!! But before I found out did we get matching tattoos because she had "2 months left to live" ALSO YES!!!!
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    lying about cancer - Text - Theresa Bateman Follow @BadGalTuhRiri Ok, the thread. HERE WE GO *deep breath*
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    lying about cancer - Text - Theresa Bateman Follow @BadGalTuhRiri This was one of my life long childhood neighborhood best friends. My sophomore year of college, she falls down the stairs, hits her head, goes to the hospital, claims they found a tumor in her brain
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    lying about cancer - Text - Theresa Bateman Follow @BadGalTuhRiri I'm abroad for the semester so I can't see her til summer, by the time I get back to Philly she is claiming she has full on stage 4 brain cancer
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    lying about cancer - Text - Theresa Bateman Follow @BadGalTuhRiri Important to note, she had a baby the year before so as she's starting to say this, she also has a 1.5 year old daughter
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    lying about cancer - Text - Theresa Bateman Follow @BadGalTuhRiri This goes on for years I give her rides and drop her at different hospitals throughout the years, she always insists no one come with her. Asks me to borrow money from time to time for copay for chemo???
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    lying about cancer - Text - Theresa Bateman Follow @BadGalTuhRiri Eventually has no hair (shaved her head every day), Looks pale and sick all the time, never eats in front of anyone, always claims to be naused
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    lying about cancer - Text - Theresa Bateman Follow @BadGalTuhRiri As the years go, I get guilted countless times into coming home to philly from nyc on weekends while in college to visit her
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    lying about cancer - Text - Theresa Bateman Follow @BadGalTuhRiri Eventually I Graduate college, move back to Philly, blah blah, several months after that we start planning a trip to LA to visit our other best friend who lives out here
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    lying about cancer - Text - Theresa Bateman Follow @BadGalTuhRiri Right before this trip she starts telling me she's having kidney failure. She's some kinda medication, which is always loose pills in a change purse (should've suspected then)
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    lying about cancer - Text - Theresa Bateman Follow @BadGalTuhRiri She also at this point is claiming to have seizures
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    lying about cancer - Text - Theresa Bateman Follow @BadGalTuhRiri We trek to LA, she reveals to me that this trip is her "goodbye trip" because the doctors only gave her a few months to live. On this trip she convinces and our other friend to all get memorial matching tattoos, this happens after I witness one of her "seizures" alone
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    lying about cancer - Text - Theresa Bateman Follow @BadGalTuhRiri In my head I think "matching tattoos the kiss of death but I guess nothing could go wrong, she's dying!"
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    lying about cancer - Text - Theresa Bateman Follow @BadGalTuhRiri Two weeks after we get home from LA She faints at her daughter's doctor appt, they send her to ER, her mo "she's a cancer patient at Jefferson, we should have her transferred"
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    lying about cancer - Text - Theresa Bateman Follow @BadGalTuhRiri They try to transfer her, there's no record of her ever having been there. They scan her brain, no tumor! No cancer
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    lying about cancer - Text - Theresa Bateman Follow @BadGalTuhRiri They monitor her brain and call her seizures "pseudo stress seizures" cause there's no activity that would be causing seizure. She threatens to kill herself, gets 5150'd and put in the mental ward for 72 hours
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    lying about cancer - Text - Theresa Bateman Follow @BadGalTuhRiri Calls me to pick her up. When I pick her up, her hair has already grown back substantially, making it clear it had fallen out and she was just shaving it
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    lying about cancer - Text - Theresa Bateman Follow @BadGalTuhRiri And her skin looked more tan, she had been wearing makeup to look more pale. And she refused to admit that she lied or seek help so we are no longer friends!
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    lying about cancer - Text - Theresa Bateman Follow @BadGalTuhRiri She also no longer has custody of her daughter. Fin!

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