When your doctor sits down and says, "You have cancer", there is no way to predict how your body and mind will respond. Getting the answer to the unthinkable question immediately opens the floods of hundreds of new questions that you would never think you should ask. There are obvious, big questions like "How will I tell my grandmother that I wouldn't outlive her?" But there are less questions like "What will be my last meal before cancer treatment to swinging my tastes?" A few moments in life are more isolated, confusing and threatening than hearing a doctor to miss the big C, no matter how strong your support system is. My parents were in the room with me when I got the confirmation. My father-goo pessi, a working class, the hard man of Chicago-Italian-folded chair. Cancer carries even most macho people on their knees.

Last year, I wrote about my pancreatic cancer trip Through the lens of "inside out" and "inside 2", And with that I mentioned how my loved ones were ... Super great for processing the fact that I was sick. When people love you, they often impulsively have this desire to try and fix your problems. But when you have cancer, there is nothing to do to "fix" it, leaves them to feel helpless and try to do anything to bring you a sense of peace. For my father, he spontaneously bought me random, overpriced items from the hospital gift shop that he thought would bring me happiness (and therefore I still have a teddy bear Hello Kitty, stylized by Peter Chris of Keys and a box of wicked witch in the West on top of a cloud of red smoke). And this has expanded out of my family. I was sent so many stuffed animals, gift cards, candles and at home "self-care" products that I ran out of the room to keep them.

I was also sent a copy of "The Whole Tea, Tea Kitchen", the Bell Gibson Recipes Book - Griffter for Cancer, which is based on the new Netflix Apple Apple Vinegar series.

Netflix wants to produce a limited series based on true stories, but ethics behind every show varies. In the "Baby Irvasi" case, a series of loosely based on real life incident, sustained by comedian Richard Gad, was made with him at the center, allowing him to take control of his story (Despite the inability of Netflix viewers to respect its boundaries) on its own conditions. At the other end of the spectrum is something like "Monsters: Lyle and Eric Mendez Story" or "Dahmer-Judovishte: The Story of Effe Damer", where the families of real life are shown in the series spoke against the retroamatizing existence of Netflix shows. But in the last few years, there has been a hyperspecific trend of real crime dramatizations: a white woman's scarf.

Netflix's "Inventation of Anna" handled the fraudster for wealth, Anna Delvi (real name Anna Sorokin), "The Draptout" by Julu, Teranos founder Elizabeth Holmes, and ABC recently took the popular podcast " give treatment with the documents focusing on another Cancer Grifter, Amanda Riley. It makes sense why people become fixed to these types of stories; They provide a rush of psychological fascination found in true crime, but people in the center usually do not carry the ethical luggage gossip or theorizing a serial killer. There is also the excitement to believe that you were in the same circumstances, "you will see the red flags" and avoid being deceived as they had. It is a way to convince ourselves that no matter how scared or insecure that you can feel at any given moment, you can rejoice in Shadenfraid that "at least you didn't fall for the fraud of Anna".

But what people tend to forget is that when it comes to fraudsters in the landscape of health or wellness industry, many realistic victims remain ahead. Bell Gibson may have been at the center of Apple Apple Vinegar, but the story also focuses on a woman named Mila Blake, a fictional character who creators claim to be a merging of three different Wellness entrepreneurs, including "wellness warrior" Essica Essica , Essessica Ainshoff (who tragically passed by epithelial sarcoma when alternative cancer methods do not succeeded). While Blake's character was not cheated by Gibson, she was absolutely led by the pseudo freely reviewed online and immortalized the same cycle to tragic results.

Bell Gibson, Anna Delvi, Elizabeth Holmes and Amanda Riley all have a few things in common; They are conventionally attractive, they are incredibly convincing storytellers and are white women. These are women who have understood the way society perceives and underestimates the specific intersection of the identity in which they all live and found a way to use it for personal gain. Given the real audience for crime entertainment, it is also mostly made up of white women, there is no surprise to collect in these stories like Catnip.

But there is an inherent difference in the way stories like "apple cider vinegar" are seen in the cultural zeigeist compared to male fraudsters. These are women who need to ridicule, ridicule, gossip and send death threats to their crimes, while Jordandan Belfort receives his life story tailored to Martin Scorsese Wolf's Wolf Street and Frank Abagni, Runior gets Steven Spielberg- Directed "Catch Me If You Can", with the two men played by Leonardo DiCaprio to heavy Praise.

And yes, of course, it could argue that the stories are "different" because the stock market or lying about the pilot is not almost morally failed to succeed in pedening. That there was actually you had actually had that you had actually had actually you had actually had that you had actually to have cancer), but it would not be denied that Stories of white male fraudsters and snacks become the subject of Oscar bait films, while stories of white women's fraudsters become heavy television socially categorized at the same "unwanted food" camp watching a real television. As for the fraudsters and griffers what no White, well, we already know that there is no ransom in America given to those who are not white. I also strongly recommend the book of arcs of Mosley. "Fraud goddess: Lessons of life on cons, mistakes and patterns"Or her Freeform TV Show for more information.

As "apple cider vinegar" shows, there were frightened, vulnerable people who believed in white Gibson's wellness and completed the search for traditional medicine in the hope that something more homeopathic and naturally would be a cure for ending their illness and suffering. There is no way to know how many people were affected by Gibson's lies because there are countless stories like mine. When I was given "the whole pantry," it was before Gibson was expelled from reporters Beu Donnelly and Nick Tuscano in 2015 as a cheat.

I was gifted by a well -intentioned beloved person who was desperate to help me in any way possible, hoping that if I made some of these recipes and completely changed my diet, my body would react in a way that would help me survived. I had a 4% chance of living for more than 5 years, so to say that people in my life were desperate for miracle put it easily. I do not surprise the person who gave me Gibson's book because their intentions were clean (and, to be honest, the recipes in the book are legitimately delicious). But that is what makes snacks and cheaters so insidious; They actively use people at the end of the rope. I do not blame sick people for conducting alternative treatments. Cancer is hell, the American health system is a joke, and when you have someone to promise you a miracle when you need is Miracle ... Good, logical thinking just can't reduce it.

I would lie if I did not admit that when I was in my absolutely lowest and most noticeable - when I mocked in public because I had visible drainage pipes hanging from my body as I tried to do something nice for myself to distract it from burning the pain that I burned it in the stomach - I was thinking of preceding traditional treatments and focusing on alternative methods. I didn't see hope for my survival and the statistics were already against me, so what damage was there in my body trying to die on my body if I wanted to die no matter? I am grateful that I stayed on the course because it has been 11 years since my diagnosis and I am still here.

Apple apple cider vinegar is more than just a limited series or the latest topic for a Netflix -led water cooling, and should be discussed with as much seriousness as its topic. It's a way for countless people, including me, to greet the rest of the world by giving griffs like Bell Gibson a huge middle finger because she, like all other fraudsters mentioned in this article, deserves it.