After Surgery To Correct A Potentially Paralyzing Deteriorated Disc In My Neck, I Was At Physical Therapy

After surgery to correct a potentially paralyzing deteriorated disc in my neck, I was at physical therapy explaining to the PT and his student how the original doctor I saw had told me to “just lose weight” and there was nothing wrong with me other than fatness. 

The PT went on to show the student the physical signs the orthopedist SHOULD have noticed that indicated cervical issues (those signs are now permanent, so since it’s something they don’t often see, he loved to use me as a demo) and I said to the student, “Please don’t ever tell your fat patients their fatness is their only problem, because often, it’s NOT.” I hope he took it to heart-he seemed visibly upset that I’d been told that, especially since he’d just seen the demo of symptoms. 

I work at a daycare with infants.

One of our baby girls is fat, in the 99th percentile for her age. She is super cute and sweet. Lately, she has been sick with various breathing issues, so she has been reluctant to take her bottles. Normally, she’ll take 4 ounces of formula at lunch and 8 ounces in the afternoon. Today, I was lucky to get to her take 5 all day.

There was a substitute covering a lunch break in my classroom today. We emphasized to her that we need to keep trying to get the baby to drink her bottle until she finished it. She said, “Why are you guys so worried about taking her bottle?”

My coworker replied, “That’s where all her nutrients are. She needs the nutrients and the water.”

To which the substitute replied, “But she’s so fat. She doesn’t need it.”

Thin privilege is a small, pretty baby getting better childcare because the caretaker doesn’t think she’s too fat to be allowed to eat.

me: I will do things when I am less tired

me: *never becomes less tired*

me: oh no

Amber Run

My favorite Sid moments from the 2017/2018 regular season. 

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What’s going to make you happy right now? Is it some cake? Is it a nap? Is it calling your mom? Is it going on a drive and blasting music? Is it taking a bath? Is it reading a book?

Check in with yourself because you deserve that happiness, whatever it is.

Me: wow my back and neck hurt so much all the time I should do something about that

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