This is an...interesting profile of Amanda Kloots.

[Anonymous]

A new piece about Amanda Kloots on Buzzfeed.
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/shannonkeating/amanda-kloots-memoir-live-your-life-review

In early Instagram updates, for example, Kloots told her audience that she wasn’t allowed to visit Cordero in the ICU — which was the case for countless families worried for their loved ones hospitalized with COVID worldwide — but in her memoir, Kloots reveals that Cedars-Sinai did allow her to visit, many times. “The hospital asked me not to publicize that I was visiting,” she writes, sensing they were worried about creating a “media spectacle.” She was “conflicted about keeping the information from an army of people cheering for” them, but she was convinced that her presence would help wake Nick up, and she wasn’t willing to jeopardize her relationship with the hospital. Much of the book is devoted to her fighting for more and more visitation rights, and her deep frustrations on days when she’s afforded, for example, “only” four hours in the ICU. (When reached for comment about Kloots’ battles with administrators, a representative for Cedars-Sinai said they could neither confirm nor deny that any individual has been a patient there due to state and federal patient privacy laws.)

[Anonymous]

I remember she would instagram story standing outside of the hospital everyday at the same time. She very intentionally made it seem like she was only allowed outside and that she wasn't seeing him. As sorry as I feel for her terrible loss, she misled thousands of people a ta time when we were all hurting and scared.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:A new piece about Amanda Kloots on Buzzfeed.
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/shannonkeating/amanda-kloots-memoir-live-your-life-review

In early Instagram updates, for example, Kloots told her audience that she wasn’t allowed to visit Cordero in the ICU — which was the case for countless families worried for their loved ones hospitalized with COVID worldwide — but in her memoir, Kloots reveals that Cedars-Sinai did allow her to visit, many times. “The hospital asked me not to publicize that I was visiting,” she writes, sensing they were worried about creating a “media spectacle.” She was “conflicted about keeping the information from an army of people cheering for” them, but she was convinced that her presence would help wake Nick up, and she wasn’t willing to jeopardize her relationship with the hospital. Much of the book is devoted to her fighting for more and more visitation rights, and her deep frustrations on days when she’s afforded, for example, “only” four hours in the ICU. (When reached for comment about Kloots’ battles with administrators, a representative for Cedars-Sinai said they could neither confirm nor deny that any individual has been a patient there due to state and federal patient privacy laws.)

another quote from the article
At one point, the ICU director explained to Kloots that the “special treatment” they had been giving her wasn’t fair. “Some families had never been allowed to see their loved ones; they simply couldn’t let me visit every day,” she wrote. “Now that I was becoming recognizable in the media, I think their concerns doubled that I would be recognized entering or leaving the hospital. Word that they were ‘breaking the rules’ for me would get out.” She’s aware of the advantages, but she isn’t going to pass them up or second-guess why her family should be the one who benefits: “I knew this was true, and they were right. But it was a hard pill to swallow, and still I fought back.”

[Anonymous]

Maybe, OP should become the moderator of a subreddit thread on Amanda Kloots. It will give meaning to OP's life.

Hope Karma gets OP soon. Delta is still raging, right?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I remember she would instagram story standing outside of the hospital everyday at the same time. She very intentionally made it seem like she was only allowed outside and that she wasn't seeing him. As sorry as I feel for her terrible loss, she misled thousands of people a ta time when we were all hurting and scared.

Who cares? I would've done the same if it meant I'd be allowed the opportunity to be with my dying husband. She said she was conflicted about it, I don't think it brouht her any joy.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I remember she would instagram story standing outside of the hospital everyday at the same time. She very intentionally made it seem like she was only allowed outside and that she wasn't seeing him. As sorry as I feel for her terrible loss, she misled thousands of people a ta time when we were all hurting and scared.

Who cares? I would've done the same if it meant I'd be allowed the opportunity to be with my dying husband. She said she was conflicted about it, I don't think it brouht her any joy.

+1 She had to respect the hospital's wishes concerning discretion. What else was she supposed to do?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I remember she would instagram story standing outside of the hospital everyday at the same time. She very intentionally made it seem like she was only allowed outside and that she wasn't seeing him. As sorry as I feel for her terrible loss, she misled thousands of people a ta time when we were all hurting and scared.

Who cares? I would've done the same if it meant I'd be allowed the opportunity to be with my dying husband. She said she was conflicted about it, I don't think it brouht her any joy.

+1 She had to respect the hospital's wishes concerning discretion. What else was she supposed to do?

True, but imagine all those people who couldn't say goodbye to dying love ones in the hospital? I lost my grandmother during the hight of covid, we could not visit her in the hospital, it was horrible. She had a privilege that most of us do not have, yes I would have visited my grandmother if I could but I wouldn't write a book about it. Plus, she had a lot of family in town and was not quarantining while exposing the hospital staff to covid infection during the height of the pandemic. I'm glad the hospital called her out on that.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Maybe, OP should become the moderator of a subreddit thread on Amanda Kloots. It will give meaning to OP's life.

Hope Karma gets OP soon. Delta is still raging, right?

Sorry that this upsets you so much but another NP who agrees with the annoyance at the privilege and financial gain. Lots of unfairness and I'm sad for all of those who were not afforded the same breaking of protocol.

[Anonymous]

From the Buzzfeed article:

The massive amounts of goodwill she inspired are framed throughout the memoir as simply the results of positive thinking, prayer, and humility. “When I look back now on the help I received, I can only see God behind all of it,” she writes early in the book. “Every day I prayed for a miracle, and every day miracles appeared … I have always believed that people are innately good, and that we should ask for help when we need it and accept help when it’s offered. … I saw each act of kindness as an act of God.”

That’s what’s truly gross about the whole thing. My mom was the most God-fearing person I have met in my life but she died alone in a hospital with COVID. The priest came and gave her last rites standing in the other side of a door. I said goodbye to her over the phone. So I have to wonder why God have miracles to Amanda but not my family. Does God love Instagram influencers more than the rest of us? My goodness, she was able to see her husband in the COVID ward every damn day! In the early days of the pandemic! And somehow people pulled strings to get her family through closed borders! But she sees this all as “the power of prayer”, not the power of massive privilege.

GTFOH.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I remember she would instagram story standing outside of the hospital everyday at the same time. She very intentionally made it seem like she was only allowed outside and that she wasn't seeing him. As sorry as I feel for her terrible loss, she misled thousands of people a ta time when we were all hurting and scared.

Who cares? I would've done the same if it meant I'd be allowed the opportunity to be with my dying husband. She said she was conflicted about it, I don't think it brouht her any joy.

+1 She had to respect the hospital's wishes concerning discretion. What else was she supposed to do?

Maybe not brag about it in a memoir?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:From the Buzzfeed article:

The massive amounts of goodwill she inspired are framed throughout the memoir as simply the results of positive thinking, prayer, and humility. “When I look back now on the help I received, I can only see God behind all of it,” she writes early in the book. “Every day I prayed for a miracle, and every day miracles appeared … I have always believed that people are innately good, and that we should ask for help when we need it and accept help when it’s offered. … I saw each act of kindness as an act of God.”

That’s what’s truly gross about the whole thing. My mom was the most God-fearing person I have met in my life but she died alone in a hospital with COVID. The priest came and gave her last rites standing in the other side of a door. I said goodbye to her over the phone. So I have to wonder why God have miracles to Amanda but not my family. Does God love Instagram influencers more than the rest of us? My goodness, she was able to see her husband in the COVID ward every damn day! In the early days of the pandemic! And somehow people pulled strings to get her family through closed borders! But she sees this all as “the power of prayer”, not the power of massive privilege.

GTFOH.

I'm so sorry for the loss of your mom. Amanda has no clue as to how tone deaf her book is and how much it stings for those who could not say goodbye to love ones.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I remember she would instagram story standing outside of the hospital everyday at the same time. She very intentionally made it seem like she was only allowed outside and that she wasn't seeing him. As sorry as I feel for her terrible loss, she misled thousands of people a ta time when we were all hurting and scared.

Who cares? I would've done the same if it meant I'd be allowed the opportunity to be with my dying husband. She said she was conflicted about it, I don't think it brouht her any joy.

+1 She had to respect the hospital's wishes concerning discretion. What else was she supposed to do?

Maybe not brag about it in a memoir?

Agree!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I remember she would instagram story standing outside of the hospital everyday at the same time. She very intentionally made it seem like she was only allowed outside and that she wasn't seeing him. As sorry as I feel for her terrible loss, she misled thousands of people a ta time when we were all hurting and scared.

Who cares? I would've done the same if it meant I'd be allowed the opportunity to be with my dying husband. She said she was conflicted about it, I don't think it brouht her any joy.

+1 She had to respect the hospital's wishes concerning discretion. What else was she supposed to do?

Um, not lie to Instagram about it???

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I remember she would instagram story standing outside of the hospital everyday at the same time. She very intentionally made it seem like she was only allowed outside and that she wasn't seeing him. As sorry as I feel for her terrible loss, she misled thousands of people a ta time when we were all hurting and scared.

Who cares? I would've done the same if it meant I'd be allowed the opportunity to be with my dying husband. She said she was conflicted about it, I don't think it brouht her any joy.

+1 She had to respect the hospital's wishes concerning discretion. What else was she supposed to do?

Maybe not brag about it in a memoir?

Agree!

Was she bragging? Or coming clean? Seems like she felt bad about it.

[Anonymous]

Who??