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You're Gruesomely Fat

9/5/2013

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As I was cleaning out our home office the other day, I was sorting through a pile of papers that had accumulated over the past several months.  Glancing through them, I found the hospital discharge papers from when my son was born.  Attached to the back of one of the packets was a copy of a billing statement.  On the statement there was a place for the diagnosis/reason for treatment.  What caught my eye actually stung a little.  Not because I didn’t think it was true, but because I felt a little hurt that my doctor (who I absolutely ADORE) would actually say it.

There is chunky.  Then there is overweight.  Then there is obese.  THEN there is morbidly obese.  That’s what he wrote down…morbidly obese.  The only thing left after that is knock-out-the-wall-because-you-can’t-fit-through-the-door-anymore obese.  I realize that he was speaking clinically but it still took me off guard.

I found this on Dictionary.com:

Morbid
adjective
1.  suggesting an unhealthy mental state or attitude; unwholesomely gloomy, sensitive, extreme, etc.: a morbid interest in death.
2. affected by, caused by, causing, or characteristic of disease.
3. pertaining to diseased parts: morbid anatomy.
4. gruesome; grisly.

I don’t want anything about me to be associated with the word morbid.  I don’t want to have diseased parts and I definitely don’t want to be considered gruesome or grisly.  I want to be healthy and whatever the opposite of gruesome is.

Yet another reason to keep it moving.  Soon, I hope to be downgraded to just regular old obese.  Then we’ll go from there.

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Stacy
9/5/2013 03:42:08 am

Hang in there Rhonda! You are doing it, you are working to lose weight and to improve your overall health! Don't get discouraged....use what the doctor wrote as motivation to keep pushing forward!!

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