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DP wrote:
The strangest thing to me is that anyone would actually put it out for the whole world to see!
She's an aspiring "social influencer" with just over a thousand followers before this started.
It seems perfectly natural that she would use the same channels to put out a request for help.
The surprising thing is that she supposedly waited a week or more to go online to talk about her problem.
Professionals would have been out there on day #1 exploiting the publicity for a big GoFundMe payoff, free travel, free medical treatment, clothes, wigs, and pledges from celebrities and their hairstylists.
She got that stuff anyway, and then some, but it seems a little different that this is happening to a 40 year old mother of six from Louisiana with a failing business impacted by the pandemic and not some player from Los Angeles.
Kidding aside: I hope that this is ultimately of benefit to her family and that she doesn't have long-term scarring and hair loss.
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DP wrote:
The strangest thing to me is that anyone would actually put it out for the whole world to see!
Maybe it's a PSA now...
From what I’ve read, her turn to social media was a legit effort to find a remedy. By then, not only was she unable to remove the adhesive, she was experiencing headaches, bouts of high blood pressure and other ramifications. I read one other report that as time progressed she faced the prospect, after not too long a time, of her hair roots actually dying.
She’s of course been a social media piñata since going public. But if you look just a little bit into the circumstances, no, she’s not going to appear to be the brightest person in the world, but not a hell of a lot different than a very large flotilla of people who do things just as, or almost as, foolish, that aren’t just ill advised but put the lives of others at risk as well.
So many of those stones being thrown are coming straight from glass houses. :biggrin:
And one need look no further than the innumerable “challenges” on TikTok and elsewhere to see grown a** adults risking embarrassment and injury for nothing but a handful days of being gawked at by others.
If Tessica Brown is a poster child for The Dumbest Ever, it better be a damn big poster, because she’s going to have a LOT of company.
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I use industrial structural adhesives at work all the time. Usually it takes a few days for it to slough the skin that it's adhered to. It's annoying, but not really a significant problem. I'd think that one's hair would grow out eventually enough to remove it. This reeks of a stunt for 15min of internet fame.
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I use industrial structural adhesives at work all the time. Usually it takes a few days for it to slough the skin that it's adhered to. It's annoying, but not really a significant problem. I'd think that one's hair would grow out eventually enough to remove it. This reeks of a stunt for 15min of internet fame.
The skin on your hands and the skin on the scalp are not the same.
And the risk of bald patches is very real.
And this brings up all sorts of cultural problems with black women and their hair. For many, hair loss is a big scary demon looming over their every waking moment. The stereotype of the middle aged black woman with a collection of wigs has a great deal of truth to it and it's not all about the versatility of modern wigs. If you don't know to factor that in, you're missing a big chunk of the story.
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Hi everyone,
My question is about money. Who is going to pay for the medical procedures from the first time at the emergency room to the final procedure that was used to remove successfully the Gorilla Glue covered hair? For some reason, I sincerely doubt it's going to come out of Tessica Brown's wallet. The last thing I want to see is an insurance company and/or taxpayers pay for the results of her dumbassery.
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Robert M wrote:
Hi everyone,
My question is about money. Who is going to pay for the medical procedures from the first time at the emergency room to the final procedure that was used to remove successfully the Gorilla Glue covered hair? For some reason, I sincerely doubt it's going to come out of Tessica Brown's wallet. The last thing I want to see is an insurance company and/or taxpayers pay for the results of her dumbassery.
Robert
The plastic surgeon who performed the successful removal did it for free.
https://www.tmz.com/2021/02/11/gorilla-g...c-surgeon/
As we first reported, Tessica took up Bev Hills plastic surgeon Dr. Michael Obeng on his offer to perform the $12,500 procedure for free, and it was a pretty grueling process. ... about 4 hours long!
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Sarcany wrote:
[quote=ztirffritz]
I use industrial structural adhesives at work all the time. Usually it takes a few days for it to slough the skin that it's adhered to. It's annoying, but not really a significant problem. I'd think that one's hair would grow out eventually enough to remove it. This reeks of a stunt for 15min of internet fame.
The skin on your hands and the skin on the scalp are not the same.
And the risk of bald patches is very real.
And this brings up all sorts of cultural problems with black women and their hair. For many, hair loss is a big scary demon looming over their every waking moment. The stereotype of the middle aged black woman with a collection of wigs has a great deal of truth to it and it's not all about the versatility of modern wigs. If you don't know to factor that in, you're missing a big chunk of the story.
So, someone who has concerns about their hair and it’s condition chooses to spray something called Gorilla Glue in their hair? In my book, that’s the definition of idiotic.
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GGD,
What about the original emergency room visit? Who's paying for that? What about all the additional expenses related to the surgery at the hospital? Who's paying for them? The doctor's fee is just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to expenses and I sure as heck hope she has to pay for all of them out of her own pocket. I stand by what I said about her dumbassery.
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Robert M wrote:
GGD,
What about the original emergency room visit? Who's paying for that? What about all the additional expenses related to the surgery at the hospital? Who's paying for them? The doctor's fee is just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to expenses and I sure as heck hope she has to pay for all of them out of her own pocket. I stand by what I said about her dumbassery.
Robert
Presumably, her insurance paid for most of her first visit to the hospital before she got the publicity. She said that she needed $1,000 to cover emergency room expenses and that sounds pretty close to what I paid the last time I went to the ER with insurance.
The doctor who performed the procedure covered the expenses for it. He did not just waive his own fees.
Beyond that, with this publicity came a GoFundMe to cover expenses related to this. She has promised that with the procedure provided for free the bulk of the GoGundMe money ($20K) will go to the Restore Foundation to help provide reconstructive surgery to those born with congenital or or accidental deformities, primarily children
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