Sunday, February 7, 2010

Bait





The famous "Adenosine NOW" twitter and photo. MckMama snaps a picture while three nurses stop her child's heart and sends it to strangers on the Internet.


"It's bad. Our parents and families are on their way." July 27.


"We just said goodbye to Stellan." July 25.




Stellan comes back from the brink of death, from "it's bad, the family has been called in" and "Stellan is being airlifted to Boston" and "trying to not think about what happens if it's too late to go to Boston", and, miraculously, goes home on August 3rd.

To celebrate, two days later on August 5th, Mckmama, her husband and three of her children go to California on vacation. Where's Stellan? Who is with him for this extended vacation to California? And what kind of mother would leave her child who, a week earlier was "dying" to go on a damn vacation??

Some facts from last July/August.

• MckMama twittered 29 times on July 26, while her son lies "dying". Writes 1-3 blog posts a day. Twitpics her baby's discomfort to strangers.
• MckMama twittered 34 times on July 27. Same deal.
• She averaged 25 twitters a day the rest of his visit.
• In the entire week Stellan was in the hospital, with 15,000+ Twitter followers praying and commenting on her hundreds of twitters and posts, MckMama only responded to two twitters: Dr. Phil and his wife, Robin.

But really, she cares about the followers. You're why she twittered hundreds of times while he was in the hospital; not because she needed the attention or money or notoriety. It was all about Stellan, and you, the faithful follower.