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The reality is most NHS patients in Deborah’s position would have died years ago. And some of them likely had a better chance of survival than she. However, she won’t ever understand this because of her privilege. For that very reason she isn’t a relatable ambassador at all.

Monique has gone through years and years of pain and set backs. I was reading some of her first posts where she said she was diagnosed with Stage 4 cancer after her bowel perforated and she had emergency surgery. This was after five years of pain and discomfort in her stomach, which began when she was 16! Her cancer was overlooked for years as she was deemed to young and as a result she was stage 4 at the age of 21. She's had a decade of pain and suffering and she's still only 26.

Even after these experiences, she is so gentle, sweet and grateful for any small comfort.

She makes me feel so humble.

Pass_the_popcorn#2 said:

I have read so much of Monique’s story now its harrowing what that poor young girl has been through.

Her parents posted a lot of updates on her go fund me page and have mentioned multiple times that they have run out of options for treatment on the NHS and need to raise money to pay for options.

I hope the people who posted on this thread saying BB was getting NHS treatment and/or her PHC was only £20 per month, which we can all get, read that and realise how misled people have been.

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Just to piggy back on this I have been treated for stage 4 bowel cancer through the NHS I had 62 cycles of chemo until it stopped working and alongside this because I had the right gene I was able to have an additional drug that interfered with the cancer to slow growth. This drug initially was free but.. because I needed surgery I had to come off it for 8 weeks. This meant that I was no longer eligible as per NICE guidelines (even though it was working) on the NHS so to continue we were told we had to self fund. Until you are in that situation where it is literally life and death you don’t really consider this. We had literally 5 mins with Cons to decide so we of course said yes thinking OMG how the hell on-top of mortgage living etc would we find £3.5k per month. so in addition to dealing with terminal cancer we had this stress we set up crowdfunding and managed to raise some money but in the end we ended spending £40k we didn’t have to get this until it eventually stopped working. At this point chemo wasn’t working so I was running out of options - I know BB always says there are plans! But trust me there often aren’t. Anyhow because of my particular gene profile I was enrolled into an immunotherapy study and 2 yrs on still on it, saving my life currently gone from multiple metastases to NED. Don’t know how long this will last but I’ll take it. BB may have the money and connections but honestly if you have the wrong genes for current treatment and what she has BRAF is really aggressive being wealthy/ having PHC makes absolutely no difference in the long run. She needs to bow out gracefully now and enjoy the time she has left.

I think the tide is going to start to turn I really do. I think her latest escapades whilst being on deaths door are going to rub a lot of people up the wrong way. It's all just the Deborah show. The outfits, the dancing, the lunching and expensive shopping, swiftly followed by her diving back into her hospital bed witha thumbs up being the sick cancer patient again. It's so weird it's like she's playing a character.

I have spoken to a number of my friends lately who don't use tattle and they are all saying the same as tattle about Deborah. I think a lot of people are sick of it and arw just too afraid to speak up.

Again, Monique posts a contrast just now of her NHS experience, and she's so grateful for just a larger than average room. Then you see BB who is prancing about at the Ivy before she throws money at all the Doctors so she can get every drug going. Quite honestly it's sickening

There's something incredibly inappropriate about recording ads from your hospital room. Posting things to share with family/friends/followers - wouldn't be my choice but I can understand why people do it and as long as they are considerate to other patients I don't have a problem with it.

People are only inpatient in hospital if they are seriously unwell. If BB was working for an employer, any ethical company would not allow her to work while she was hospitalised and would insist that she took the time off. I have no idea how it works contractually with influencers doing advertising but I cannot imagine that any of them would insist that someone continue with any agreement while they were in hospital.

Do the companies paying for these ads not check them before they go out? Bowelbabe might want to continue working but the companies who she is doing ads for should stop her. For one, hospital bathrooms and seriously unwell people don't exactly scream aspirational, which is what I thought the whole idea of advertising was? But more importantly, it makes the companies who are paying for these ads look unethical and exploitational.

LittleMissRuby said:

My experience is very much that of yours also (speaking as a daughter who nursed her mum to death thru a pandemic AND a nurse practitioner.) Not all GPs but sadly, a vast majority are choosing to keep remote consultations.

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Personally think it's a disgrace the way GPs shut their doors during the pandemic. Their profession is to look after sick people and from my experience they put themselves first. Supermarket workers ploughed on so why couldn't GPs? This online diagnosing greatly undermines their profession.

No matter what you do or what your circumstances are, I will always view someone who writes for the Scum as a scabby cunt.

I’ve actually got tears rolling at that latest update. She has given it literally everything since her diagnosis - private or not. And no matter what she has raised awareness. I just wish her and her family lots of love and peace

Not sure if this has been said before, but I PMd her once to say I was offended that she made out ALL cancers are something you 'live with and get on with'....I think this was whilst she was attending Wimbledon etc with her chemo pumps attached. I said my mum went thru a gruesome chemo which had her hospitalised thru most of her treatment, and she still died 8 months after diagnosis. She didn't have time to 'live and get on with it'. She makes out like all cancers are equal and we all have access to the same treatment. No Deborah, whilst your cancer is terminal, you've had 5 years to make additional memories and enjoy life. And she should be under no illusion, if it wasn't for her husbands money, her public profile and her private treatment, she'd sadly have died a long time ago. Tries to make out like shes completely relatable whilst being completely unrelatable. I wonder do her children board at school, because anyone else would have all this to contend with whilst looking after their kids too...

You cannot accept the sweaty Betty brand ambassador, the Ralph Lauren clothes, the Elemis beauty products, the Elizabeth Arden beauty products and hotel stay, the Emma mattress, the fandf clothing (to name a few!) and then get upset people are discussing you. You’re selling to us but we’re not allowed an opinion because you have cancer?

If only all cancer patients lived the charmed life she feels entitled to!

I sometimes feel like we're living through an episode of black mirror. To see a women who is gravely unwell with an ascites drain attached to her flogging pointless crap seems so bizarre to me. I guess we have social media to thank for this shear insanity. And shame on the brands who are clearly taking advantage of an extremely ill women.

Evening! WOW! I’ve stumbled across all these threads googling BB to see if there was any update as she’s quiet! I’m so refreshed to read like minded people! Like you all I’ve searched every day for Monique, and am heartbreaking to read her update.
BB I just struggle with. I’ve followed her for years. It’s like I just cannot help myself to search for her and BG but equally am annoyed. I can’t stand the never ending “firsts” of treatment, endless make up and “look at me”. Gaby Roslin prancing for her was the cherry on top. There’s positivity, then downright arrogance to others going through this who aren’t as privileged. At last! I’ve vented!

OH.FFS said:

Out of all of them, (the new you me and the big c gang), he, for me, is the worse. I don’t know why really, or maybe I do, I just don’t want to address it.
But, he pisses me off no end.
Here’s one reason, but I disliked him before this. He’s a weak man who picked a girl, who by the way I feel desperately sorry, that looks so much like Rachel it’s an insult to the pair of them (Rachel and the new girl (can’t remember her name right now)). Do I need to go on? … I could go on about him forever lol, but he riles me that much I feel stressed by the feelings he stimulates in me. He makes me cringe. I do wonder how anyone would could take this man seriously. He’s a dick and a spineless twat …

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I also can't stand Steve Bland. Rachel was far too good for him. He's a thoroughly mediocre man who has made himself Instafamous off the back of his dead wife (to the extent of taking over her podcast, which she was so passionate about!), while simultaneously replacing her with a younger lookalike version within months of her dying. I think he's grotesque and if he had any decency whatsoever he'd fade into obscurity with his new woman/babysitter and stop making a mockery of everything Rachel achieved.

jackolantern said:

That ad is really harrowing. I don’t even know what to say anymore, poor poor woman.

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Same. I can't believe we're at a point in society where an obviously dying person advertising rubbish on Instagram is a thing.

Yes. Poor Monique is really struggling and her post is very open.
BB - as is her right, of course - is not detailing quite so much, but her “rebellious hope” post said it all, I thought, about where she’s at.
I wish them both peace and comfort. Can’t find any other words really. It’s very very tough for both of them.

My mum has stage 4 bowel cancer so I don’t need to keep hearing the 8% figure, quite honestly.

Both those last posts kind of summed up the problem with following BB. It's easy to ADMIRE her. It's hard to LIKE her.

I’ve just seen BBs latest post, and started to read the column she’s written.
I can’t put into words how it’s made me feel.
I’m sorry that she’s feeling so traumatised. I get that. I keep reliving watching my Dad take his last breath, and having to put my head to his chest to check that he wasn’t breathing any more, before giving in to the heart wrenching grief. Because like many others, once Dad was discharged from hospital to die, we were left to get on with it.
I’ll never be the same, and I’m sure others will know that feeling. It is a form of post traumatic stress; I do believe that. I do understand how the fear of feeling like she was reaching the end has affected her.
But, oh my goodness; the absolute lack of self awareness in the telling of the story.
I don’t think she can help it. We are who we are, and we’re probably formed by our life experiences, our backgrounds and upbringing.
I can’t even articulate how I feel right now.
May she continue to be offered new options to prolong her life.
But I can’t follow her anymore. It’s stirring up thoughts and feelings that I don’t want to have.

The fact 'bowelgran' makes money/gets free shit off her daughter's impending death and sits chugging wine while she lies there riddled with sepsis actually makes my skin crawl. What a sorry excuse for a mother.