From the very beginning this case sounded a little fishy to me. I think it was the overplaying of the "amazing coincidence" that she'd just bought a pair of sunglasses and that saved her eyes. Our local media are pretty easily reeled in by a good story (see
Kyron Horman) and there's a few cases of things like this every year. Definitely Munchausen syndrome. She got major press every day for over a week and
I bet all the people that fell for the slew of fundraisers for her feel pretty dumb now.
I guess now it's back to 25 minutes per news program of coverage of the Horman case...