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[quote=Anonymous][quote=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.)[/quote]

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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.”[/quote]

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