You guys all have good points, i agree too the letter section has very close writing styles-it was the first thing i noticed. This part I just had to laugh at

"I was up all night and my normally flat and trim tummy is distended to the point that, when I lay on my back, I look seven months' pregnant!"

Amazing that she could lay down in such and live through the nite with only "discomfort". Sounds more like a major reaction to a bee sting, in which case - she should have not been at home. Maybe, since it was jelly beans, it was the other chemical tartrazine (a.k.ayellow 5 or E-102) that caused that reaction. Another no-no thats banned in other countries. However, since she knew everything in the ingredients, she would know that tarazine it is partly made with coal tar. Some claim lupus can result from it. But I suppose that does not mean anything to her.
Just too funny.....