"And you only have two weeks to live, fatty."
Today I had to venture down to our local family clinic because, for some reason, the medical practice I go to believes that you shouldn't be able to refill your birth control prescription like any other prescription.
If you have arthritis and need pain killers, you can refill your prescription by email.
If you need heart medication or anti depressants you can do the same.
But by god, if you just want to fuck for fun and not get pregnant - you must be punished!! No matter how long you've been on the pill or on the same prescription, the only way you can get a refill is by going down to the family clinic and waiting...and waiting...and waiting...and waiting...
It's not as bad as going to a Planned Parenthood where you could end up being there for 4 hours- but you still have to wait a long time. But worst than the waiting, you have to put up with the other people who go to these clinics.
The trashy teenagers who need to travel in packs to get their pills. The nasty couples who are all over each other who want you to know just how badly they need that bag of free condoms, and the teenage mothers who, yet again, need to bring a posse with them to wait. It's just depressing.
I actually had a woman in there last time yelling at the staff that they didn't give her enough free condoms in her bag,
I swear to god.
So today, I go. I wait. I wait. I get called into a room.
I step on an ancient looking scale, fully clothed and with my shoes on.
I go sit in a room where the lady pulls up a screen on a computer and says, "So last time you were on this....OK, six more months...OK."
She takes my blood pressure and says that it's good. And then she looks at me and says,
And then I couldn't speak. I quietly took my prescription and zombied my way out of the clinic.
MY WEIGHT IS OVER THE TOP!?!?!!
Had I been living in a world where when I thought I was a bit heavier and a bit curivier than I had ever been before when I was actually dangerously over weight and unhealthy?!
Are the UK size 12 jeans I wear actually plus sized jeans and I just didn't notice?
Perhaps it was somebody else going to the gym at least twice a week since April.
Maybe it's some other girl that's been eating fucking vegetable soup and god damn Special K snack bars every day for the past two weeks.
Maybe that girl doing push-ups each morning and sit-ups before she goes to bed is just a figment of my unhealthy, lard-filled, fatty McFat-fat imagination.
WHERE DO I EVEN BEGIN?!?!?!
How unbelievably, retardedly irresponsible of her!
Do you want to know how much information she had on me?
My weight. What birth control medication I've been on. My blood pressure.
THAT IS ALL.
She didn't have my chart, she didn't know how tall I was, my BMI, what my diet was like, if I exercise at all, ABSOLUTELY FUCKING NOTHING.
She didn't know if I had an eating disorder or not!What if I was bulimic and she just flippantly said that my weight was "over the top" and that I should "lose it anyway I can".
How about binging and purging, does that sound like a good idea to you, you fucking idiot!!!!????
I'm sorry, but from what I've learned about body image and health, WEIGHT doesn't not equal HEALTH.
You DO NOT tell a young woman that she has a weight problem without knowing ANYTHING about her! Especialy if you're a fucking NURSE.
So, FUCK YOU nurse lady.
I don't have a god damn weight problem. I'm curvy. I weigh more that other girls my height because I have a different body type than they do. (OK and I like to eat pizza.)
I've been trying really hard to eat better lately. I've been trying to lose weight before I go back to California in September. I exercise. I take vitamins every single day. I drink a lot of water. And I don't drink as much as I used to, and I've really cut back on junk food.
I am healthy. So, if being curvy and healthy makes me fat, than you can kiss my fat ass, lady.
If you have arthritis and need pain killers, you can refill your prescription by email.
If you need heart medication or anti depressants you can do the same.
But by god, if you just want to fuck for fun and not get pregnant - you must be punished!! No matter how long you've been on the pill or on the same prescription, the only way you can get a refill is by going down to the family clinic and waiting...and waiting...and waiting...and waiting...
It's not as bad as going to a Planned Parenthood where you could end up being there for 4 hours- but you still have to wait a long time. But worst than the waiting, you have to put up with the other people who go to these clinics.
The trashy teenagers who need to travel in packs to get their pills. The nasty couples who are all over each other who want you to know just how badly they need that bag of free condoms, and the teenage mothers who, yet again, need to bring a posse with them to wait. It's just depressing.
I actually had a woman in there last time yelling at the staff that they didn't give her enough free condoms in her bag,
"Hello!! Can you fill this bag up! I tell ya! You people really skimp on these and never give me enough. It's your fault I have 8 kids!!!!"
I swear to god.
So today, I go. I wait. I wait. I get called into a room.
I step on an ancient looking scale, fully clothed and with my shoes on.
I go sit in a room where the lady pulls up a screen on a computer and says, "So last time you were on this....OK, six more months...OK."
She takes my blood pressure and says that it's good. And then she looks at me and says,
"Your weight is over the top. You should try to lose the weight any way you can."
And then I couldn't speak. I quietly took my prescription and zombied my way out of the clinic.
MY WEIGHT IS OVER THE TOP!?!?!!
Had I been living in a world where when I thought I was a bit heavier and a bit curivier than I had ever been before when I was actually dangerously over weight and unhealthy?!
Are the UK size 12 jeans I wear actually plus sized jeans and I just didn't notice?
Perhaps it was somebody else going to the gym at least twice a week since April.
Maybe it's some other girl that's been eating fucking vegetable soup and god damn Special K snack bars every day for the past two weeks.
Maybe that girl doing push-ups each morning and sit-ups before she goes to bed is just a figment of my unhealthy, lard-filled, fatty McFat-fat imagination.
WHERE DO I EVEN BEGIN?!?!?!
How unbelievably, retardedly irresponsible of her!
Do you want to know how much information she had on me?
My weight. What birth control medication I've been on. My blood pressure.
THAT IS ALL.
She didn't have my chart, she didn't know how tall I was, my BMI, what my diet was like, if I exercise at all, ABSOLUTELY FUCKING NOTHING.
She didn't know if I had an eating disorder or not!What if I was bulimic and she just flippantly said that my weight was "over the top" and that I should "lose it anyway I can".
How about binging and purging, does that sound like a good idea to you, you fucking idiot!!!!????
I'm sorry, but from what I've learned about body image and health, WEIGHT doesn't not equal HEALTH.
You DO NOT tell a young woman that she has a weight problem without knowing ANYTHING about her! Especialy if you're a fucking NURSE.
So, FUCK YOU nurse lady.
I don't have a god damn weight problem. I'm curvy. I weigh more that other girls my height because I have a different body type than they do. (OK and I like to eat pizza.)
I've been trying really hard to eat better lately. I've been trying to lose weight before I go back to California in September. I exercise. I take vitamins every single day. I drink a lot of water. And I don't drink as much as I used to, and I've really cut back on junk food.
I am healthy. So, if being curvy and healthy makes me fat, than you can kiss my fat ass, lady.
Comments
JESUS! That is unbelievable. Even if someone is morbidly obese you could be a tad more tactful. A 'professional' saying your weight is over the top is not helpful at all.
'You need to lose weight any way you can.'
okay how about I cut my leg off, how about that for weight loss?
jesus, what a moron. is there anyone you can call to complain about this wench?
Ugh. Way to ruin my day..having some old, thin nurse telling me that I'm a fatty. I wish I had gotten mad and defended myself, but instead I just blushed and got out of there as fast as I could. Derrrr....
Maybe just push her down the stairs. Softly.
Maybe I will call. Or throw a brick through the window. Or maybe both.
Gamany - LOL. Makes you wonder what she's told other patients...
Can't wait to learn what I'll be hearing at my ortho appt next week. I told them I'm obese and got an "oh, my... that's not good" response. Not shit, sherlock! But, see... all the exercise in the world ain't gonna do me no good if I CAN'T DO IT CAUSE MY KNEE IS FUCKED UP! (though, honestly, even if my knee wasn't fucked up I probably still wouldn't do it.)
I know have docs telling me to consider gastric bypass. How sad is that?!? Plus, totally unreasonable as gastric bypass without addressing eating issues = recipe for disaster.
As I keep trying to get docs to understand, if not being able to walk is not enough motivation for me to magically lose 100lbs, then not much else will be either.
http://www.iwantgreatcare.org/
It's a review site for local doctor's practice. So go! review! Get the bitch fired.
Besides just being stupid insensitive, that is outrageously unprofessional - not to mention extremely poor advice to lose weight "any way you can."
That is outrageous. Her behavior absolutely should be reported. That is abusive! What if she says something like that to someone else - someone with less confidence - who then kills herself afterwards? It's really not hard to imagine with young women/girls and the body pressure people are under. Over the top, indeed.
Jesus Cate ..what a dumb bitch! I think you look awesome!!!!!!!
"Lose weight anyway you can" PFFT!!!! What kind of a professional response is that anyway?! She should have her nursing licence taken away...seriously!!
Make ya feel like saying..."Yeah well, I hear fucking is great exercise, so just give me my prescription and STFU ...you constipated twat!
Your problem is you’re not a crack-addicted whore who couldn’t gain weight only if she ate lead weights. So compared to that type of under nourished drug addicted whore, a normal healthy woman who eats on an at regular meal times is an enigma and since you are not an unnatural 2 you must need to do something about that!
Or there incredibly F#*king nuts over there and if your recent photos of you are any picture of your size then what the hell are they talking about!?
Also the photo you posted the girl needs to iron her outfit it has a few wrinkles!
That's the bitch you met.
But how fucking stupid do you have to be to blurt out the anyway you can-thing? Even if you were the size of 5 elephants combined?
"Ah, yes, thank you. May I borrow a stick so I can make my lunch make a quick combeack easier?"
What a fucking douche.
Perhaps she rented her uniform and is in actuality an extremely bored and irresponsible person who just wandered in off the street.
No medical person in their right mind would recommend a patient to do anything "anyway you can".
Your photo tells me that you are lovely and healthy. Ignore the pseudo-nurse. Enjoy life.
Ridiculous fucking woman. (Her, not you, obviously)
*seethes*
Fucking bitch.
What an irresponsible thing to say. It's just lucky you're smart enough to walk out and ignore her, because saying that to a lot of girls would be the fast-track to an eating disorder, like you said.
Next time poke her in the eye and tell her she should get glasses.
A girl should always take an article about that study, that people with an bmi between 25 and 30 live longest and healthiest, with her.
Just to shove it in the face of dangerously stupid people who shouldn't work in a medical profession. Really.
Brandy - Maybe she meant at the top of the scale? The top of the fatty demographics? Top of my weight class?
Siany - You could always bite her. That's sort of fun.
LeendaDLL - They tell you to get gastric bypass?? Fuck sake. You're totally right about the whole addressing the eating issues. It's like when doctors just toss out anti-depressants without even offering therapy or counseling. UGH. Fucking doctors.
Rogue - I know, it's horrible. I just can't imagine how many other women she's done that, too. I can take it. It pissed me off but I have the Internet to unleash my fury on and a wonderful, reassuring partner who was just as pissed off about it as I was. It really worries me how someone else would have taken that. :S
Auds - Thanks! Yeah. To be honest I haven't gone in a week, but STILL! LOL
Kzinti - I should go back there and be like, "Yeah? Well THE INTERNET likes me! HOW ABOUT THAT1?"
SnoringKatz - I'm actually starting to suspect that the nurse was actually a columnist from The Daily Mail...
Strawberry - Thank you. I whole heartedly agree!
Deborah - OBSESE? Oh for fuck sake. Were they using a system from the 1800's or something?
Patty - I will. I was going to today and then I got scared. I'm such a baby.
Marie - Constipated Twat?? LOVE IT. I need to use that...
Jamie - Yeah. Maybe I should come back in a month as a crack-whore bag of bones and be like, "How you like me now, sucka???"
Jenni - Wait...you're not supposed to put suppositories in your nose for maximum affect? That bitch told me - god dammit.
Aubrey - I love the idea that she's actually just some hobo that enjoys wreaking havoc at family clinics in the suburbs. "You're fat....you're pregnant...oh you weren't here for an abortion? Whoops."
Alex - When I can muster up the balls I'm going to call and report her. Or call and ask if she recommends the lemonade diet or the maple syrup diet...
ScarlettSusi - She did have a posse of thin nurses behind her high fiving each other and screaming out things like, "Oh NO she DIDN'T!" They tried to initiate a dance-off with me, but decided it would be unfair, as clearly, as an overweight person, I don't have the stamina for such nonsense.
Gemma - Yup! Who knew trying to not get pregnant could also lead to eating disorders and low self esteem!
Megan - Or maybe just sit on her and suffocate her to death.
Neeva - Yeah. They sure don't make it easy or comfortable to not get pregnant, no matter what country you're in.
As everyone else has mentioned already, you look fantastic (and we're seeing you in photos, which even add 10 pounds).
It is about more than just a number on a scale and if she truly was that concerned, she should have evaluated you and had a conversation/dialogue with you about it. I've watched that "You Are What You Eat" show, and you are BY FAR the least of her worries when it comes to the overweight in England. Seriously. I'm curious if she speaks to the British patients the same way.
I'm sorry that happened to you, girl. That's a ridiculously fucked up comment and she really did have no basis for it. Sounds like you're doing well with your attempts at a healthier lifestyle. Keep at it.
Oh well, I'm gonna break her fucking legs and ask questions later.