Angela Ledcke Cancer Faker
I have never posted about this before, mostly because it’s never come up. But over the last year or so, I got caught up in the tale of Angela ledcke at bustedscammers.com. People use the web to cheat each other out of money all the time. It’s happened before Angela Ledcke and it will happen long after she disappears from the web. But around 2:30pm today, I seen an anouncement on her introduction page that she had ovarian cancer and was taking Etoposide, then would under go surgery then chemotherapy.
As an RN, a cancer victim, a mother of a daughter who had cancer, an aunt whose nephew suffered and died of cancer earlier this year, and an employee of a pediatric cancer clinic, I don’t think Angela is entirely telling the truth about her alleged cancer diagnosis.
Red flags went off for me when she said she was given Etoposide then surgery then chemotherapy. Etoposide is a form of chemotherapy. I was also shocked that she was not given a surgery date. When cancer is in a tumor form, normally surgery is the first line of defense. If the cancer is embedded in a part of the brain where surgery cannot be performed, the patient then goes through rigorous rounds of chemotherapy, biopsies and MRIs.
I just had my second MRI and biopsey Monday for detection of organ failure due to excessive doses of chemotherapy. It was not fun nor was it pleasant, and it certainly was not something I’d get on the web and lie about for attention or pity. The iodine dye used in my MRI made me nauseated and unable to eat for days. Everything I ate I vomited up. I am just now able to drink and keep down chocolate milk. This has made me lose massive amounts of weight when I was not overweight to begin with.
Other red flags were her links to her disease and diagnosis. They were all WebMD.com links. The oncologist that I work for, as well as my own doctor, have told me that places like WebMD.com and Wikipedia should be banned from the internet because people self-diagnose themselves and often mis-self-diagnose themselves and order medicine from places like Mexico or Canada on the web and end up sicker than they originally were. Some people mask cancer pain with extreme pain pills from those places. While it’s possible that Angela Ledcke got the diagnosis and just Googled around to put her diagnosis in simple, user-friendly terms, that doesn’t explain why she did not Google her medicine and word her scamming note as “I am currently on chemotherapy called Etoposide…”
A red flag: Angela’s daughter didn’t make a video about wanting her mother well. What 11/12 year old wouldn’t be scared their mother might die of ovarian cancer, especially when she was given end-stage chemotherapy drugs, enough to make a video about it? When my nephew was dying, we made lots of videos of him. Most of them are on our Revver account, but they are all preserved on CDs for us to view whenever we want. My nine year old even made a video about how she misses her cousin.
The last red flag for me was that she made this public on her website, though she claimed it was for her loved ones overseas. If that was true, why not make it in a private blog on Myspace? Why post it where all your “haters and their followers” can see it?
Yes, I alerted bustedscammers.com about the alleged cancer hoax. I took my screen shot, I put a load of laundry in to wash, loaded the dishwasher, and came back and refreshed Angela’s page and guess what? She’s changed it. They’ve reported about it here.
This whole Angela thing made me remember a woman, about 40, the age Angela just turned, who pretended to have cancer over the course of two years. I became close to her, because I was freshly diagnosed with leukemia, something I thought this woman had. I also thought she was 19 years old, but that’s a different story. When the girl died, people were sad. When they found out she was a fake, people were enraged. Others were questioned. I was questioned. The few of us who had cancer-survivor blogs were questioned, called out, proof was demanded of us. One of the reasons I cannot stand fakes is because it makes those of us who are telling the truth about our lives that much harder to believe.
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Whoah! If it’s true I don’t know what’s her intention was. It’s not funny. My mom died of leukemia, my sis died of big C also. And I couldn’t tell how we pained ourselves seeing our loved ones dying in agony. The chemo, the radiaton…is not a funny thing. This is something everybody dreaded to think about. I just hope people in blogosphere post something honest, and won’t use the web to hoodwink people or do something maliciously. Thanks for the info. I like your blog…will visit again soon.
I’m just curious here… Why do three of you have the same IP? A proxy IP at that? Amazed/Karry/Stacy have the same IP: 67.159.44.138. Angela, are YOU commenting here to make it appear that I’m getting all these comments and that’s the ‘reason’ I called you out? How much lower can you go? Faking Blogcatalog profiles, stalking me on Blogcatalog, faking blogs, lying about me. Yes, you’re EVERYTHING that Bustedscammers.com says you are. PLUS, you are a COWARD, because you cannot use your real name or even IP to “put me in my place”. You REALLY need a life.
Jamie, I am sending this to the email and your blog as I would like to make sure YOU gt this email.
I am ver Serious when I stated in my blogs on how much I admired Yoy, how you in your own blog archives they gave me such inspiration until I saw you blog about ME, it bothered me that in your blog you clearly stated that “you have been following the great story of Angela Ledcke” I can fully understand that the story about me is very entertaining, interstesting, amusing, and……what have you.
I wish I would have never posted on my own website (which…pass on I am closing it down), however, I wish I had never even mentioned a word about me on my page. I can fully understand you calling me out, and questioning me….I should have realized when I added such a serious condition it was going to be questioned, I am such an idiot. Although, I never did get the email you sent me as I have all of my email blocked right now, due to the numerous hate mails I get. As for you stating I should be able to show proof to YOU, and everyone else, I can’t. NOT because it is not true, I do not have a scanner, I do not know how to do this proof without copying it in a zerox and taking a picture of it, and you and I both know that is not going to satisfy you or anyone else on the internet. So I am damned if I prove it and damned if I don’t.
When I complimented you on your blog, in my own blog, I was sincere. As I read your blog, it gave me inspiration, your archived blogs really touched me, then when I saw the one about me……well naturally it hurt me. Would it not hurt you? (Don’t worry, I don’t expect an answer).
I have come to the conclusion that no matter what I say, write, it holds no bounds. So why am I such an idiot to continue to ashame me, my kids, my family? All I can think of to answer that with is, I just wanted to keep believing in myself, think if I showed the good in me, the good I have with my marriage and kids it would show , everyone else who has read about me that deep inside I really am a good person. But…..I am a world class loser, there is no doubt! I have changed my email, I am closing my own website, my daughter’s website is going down, and as for my blogs, those are going down too.
There is no sense in me trying to show or even express myself. The internet, busted scammers Win!! I am as low as they get, the scum in my own pond.
I apologize for retaliating to you and your own personal blog and feelings about me, the “BIG LOSER” or as we all know “Hall of Shame”.
I know and fully expect for you to give this to the busted scammers site, but I also know as long as I am OFF the net and DEAD to the net, ( I do PRAY) in time my own name dies too.
Thank you for m making me see that “I am the BIGGEST Loser”!!!!!!!!!
You finally made your point: My butt has no business being on the internet. Goodbye! I am now Dead on the net!!!
I will have an email OnLY for my friends and oversas family, maybe I will hear from you, although I do not expect to. However, I would like to know that YOU got my personal message to you! angela.ledcke@gmail.com
I hope everyone is happy, as I am now DEAD ON THE INTERNET! I have closed my myspace, my bloger, my own website, and my daughters website, all my blogs, all my go daddy domains, and I am going to remove my facebook, my kids myspace, and…….go to sleep and never remember who you, or the bustedscammers site is ever again. You finally got your wish……goodbye and now I am gone for good! make sure you let BUSTEDSCAMMERS.COM know i have finally said Goodbye…….I am now DEAD…..I hope you are all happy!!!
Jamie,
There may be accounts in my name that are not closed, but, evEryone, please know that my website email is deleted. I would like to make a FINAL STATEMENT: I do not want to ever be on the internet again, I have decided that I LOSE and EVERYONE OF YOU WIN!!! I can no longer go on trying to show or try to show what good is left in me, as the internet has atually, and finally KILLED ME AS A PERSON. So from this last and final post, as I hope EVERYONE who hates me so, I am DEAD!!!!
Jamie, Why do YOU not reply? You got your wish, bustedscammers got their wish…..for me to remove all of me on the net. I just wanted to know that you would atleast , and since you have so much courage to speak of me, atleast have the courage to reply.
I was with my family at a friends today, discussing this blog, the bustedscammers, my health, and we all have come to the conclusion that without me on the net, busted scammers will be lonely, I am a great Loser to talk about, and when or if something does happen to me, (which personally is none of your business what is going on with me) if for some reason I DIE I hope all of you have a HUGE celebration as I know that if I end up dying you and every person on the net will be super happy! So personally, it is probably best i just not fight and give up…..die as you all wish. I love my family, yet i am a big dsappointement, I am a big shame, and why does someone like me deserve to live. I hate what i have become, what I have done, what this STUPID internet has made me, and the shame I have placed upon my family. It is 10:07pm, I have decided to ……………it doesn’t matter.
Tell bustedscammers they were a big help in my breakdown, and I hope that they all have a blast when I am gone!!!!
I am so sad to hurt my family, but I no longer want to be on this earth embarasing them
Enjoy you your life, and me no longer in it!