>----- Original Message -----
From: "Karla" <ifirgit@new.rr.com>
To: "Multiple recipients of list ADHESIONS"
<adhesions@mail.medispecialty.com>
Sent: Thursday, February 07, 2002 7:29 PM
Subject: Re: Fat Girls Under The Knife
> Isn't that the truth. They don't have a problem with your weight until
they
> are looking for excuses not to do the surgery.
>
> I have a question for everyone. How many of you have ever been told...or
> found it in your records...that you are chronically malnourished? I was
> told a couple years ago that I was chronically malnourished and that my
> muscles were eating away at themselves because of this. I also found
these
> same results in my medical records on a number of occasions prior. Why
> wasn't I ever told? Could it be because doctors and others don't have a
> problem with labeling fat people as lazy, overeating malcontents but throw
> in some evidence that says that these individuals aren't overeating or
even
> lazy and they don't know what to say. You certainly won't find them
> correcting their hurtful statements. It seems to me that there were
others
> that had these same results. It is time that members of the medical
> profession and even plain old ordinary members of society stop pointing
> their haughty little fingers and look for reasons for a persons obesity
> instead of degrading them.
>
> Karla
>
> Somewhere up in the stars.................
> My angel and me!
>
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>> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "cathy:-" <anonymous@medispecialty.com>
> To: "Multiple recipients of list ADHESIONS"
> <adhesions@mail.medispecialty.com>
> Sent: Thursday, February 07, 2002 4:41 PM
> Subject: Fat Girls Under The Knife
>
> > Funny thing... According to all the charts I should weigh somewhere
> > between 120 and 140 lbs. When I got pregnant I weighed 195lb. 9 months
> > later I weighed 226. Well when the doctor decided that my pokey
> > stop-start labor was too boring for him he certainly didn't let the
> > extra 100lb get in between him and the surgery he wanted to do...
> >
> > --
> > cathy :-)
> >
>