Update to "Did she run or not" from last year!

All I can say is WOW!

Some people are indeed chronic liars, but pretending to have cancer is a real dirtball move.

Especially since we had a staff member go through cancer last year.  In hindsight, Becky was never able to tell that staff member which doctor was treating her--she always said 'a little oriental man, I can't pronounce his name'.  Of course that fit 2/3 of the staff where she said she was getting treated.

That is awful.  The lady clearly has mental issues - that goes well beyond attention seeking. 

It's still possible she did run that marathon. 

Too bad you couldn't have gotten to the bottom of that question......you may have been able to save her from cancer. 

There needs to be a "like" button, because I am sure by the end of all the comments on this page, I will have put a like on most of them and actually LOL'd on some.

The problem of her mental status needs to be taken care of.  Have you talked to her sister to let her know what is going on and to have someone actually check on her.  I am not in the mental health business, but it sounds to me like someone that is very close to going too far with things.  Like in the "danger to self or others" category.

But how did the team do?

Confirmed with her sister that Becky has never trained for nor ran a marathon in her life--even though Becky would tell me how her husband would drive her out 15, 18 miles and drop her off and wait for her to run home.  Of course, there is no husband--or home!  At 37 she lives at home with her mom and dad.

Her sister knows what is going on but is not willing to discuss it any further. Something tells me this has been a pattern with Becky for a long time.  I sure hope the sister has made their parents aware--Becky lives at home with them.

Wow that is crazy.  I can't imagine keeping all of those lies going for so long.  As someone who has my own cancer scare (finding out the tumor is benign is the best thing ever!) I can't imagine putting people through that.

Makes you wonder, something can't be quite right with them.

The extent of her deception is mind boggling--she was a pro.  She knew what adults never crossed paths during the day so she knew who she could tell what to.  One of her best friends in the building had no idea of any of it because Becky had told the other good friend not to say anything because she didn't want the first friend to 'get all emotional about the cancer'--so they never discussed it even though the three ate lunch together every day. 

It has been very difficult for the kids--they just don't understand why she would lie like that.  We'll probably never get an answer.

I have scabies but so far it hasn't affected my ability to live at zero gravity on the Russian space station.  Don't tell anyone, my wife thinks I'm at Wal-mart.

I remember the thread from last year.  That's amazing you got to the bottom of all that.

We got your back. Your secret is safe with us.

But, wow! What a story, Kim.

I remember this story... Wow. She clearly has some serious issues. Thanks for the update!

I would worry about how far she could go.  What if lies aren't good enough?  I wouldn't think killing off loved one or munchausen by proxy or something along those lines to get attention could be too far away.

The pathological liar is a tough one.  My best friend in grades 7 and 8 was one. She came from an abusive home that had recently been split up so i often just let her do it.  I mean, if she felt strongly that she needed to lie to me it was fine. It became so tedious - even at 13, knowing when someone was lying and trying to sift between what was real and what wasn't.  But the hard part was why.  I would have been her friend anyway.

Though, it seems it did come to head when we were in grade 9 and she had started hanging around with kids i didn't want to hang around with so we drifted apart.  I am not exactly sure, but if i do the math she caught herself in a lie where she told people she was pregnant and tried to lie about miscarrying.  She ended up having a baby in the summer between grade 9 and 10 - several months beyond the 9 months when she told people she was first pregnant.  It seems she went out and got herself pregnant in order to prove the lie.  Sad. Incredibly sad. 

When I did catch up with her again and she came back to our high school she was still telling ridiculous lies - she was pre-accepted on scholarship to an ivy-league school, why she came back, etc etc. I just didn't get it. I thought it might have been me for a while that she just felt the need to make herself look better/more exciting. But i think it was how she presented to everyone. 

Makes me sad though. 

Believe me we have all considered that scenario.  We're keeping an eye out for her vehicle anywhere near the school.  Hopefully since she lives in a town 60 miles away she'll just stay away.  Last I've heard is that people in her town have heard everything (she had a whole different set of lies going there) and is now moving to Oregon where a family member lives. Good riddance!

I don't know.