Weight discrimination in healthcare is not about fat people feeling hurt when their doctor says something about their weight.
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Weight discrimination in healthcare is not about fat people feeling hurt when their doctor says something about their weight. It is about fat people not getting adequate care for their conditions and symptoms, and being told that losing weight will solve everything.
@fatbot so much this
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Weight discrimination in healthcare is not about fat people feeling hurt when their doctor says something about their weight. It is about fat people not getting adequate care for their conditions and symptoms, and being told that losing weight will solve everything.
@fatbot EDS and joint issues over here, instead they sent me to a fucking nutritionist.
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@fatbot EDS and joint issues over here, instead they sent me to a fucking nutritionist.
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Weight discrimination in healthcare is not about fat people feeling hurt when their doctor says something about their weight. It is about fat people not getting adequate care for their conditions and symptoms, and being told that losing weight will solve everything.
@fatbot Loosing weight totally heals a broken limb! Cancer? Just loose some weight!
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Weight discrimination in healthcare is not about fat people feeling hurt when their doctor says something about their weight. It is about fat people not getting adequate care for their conditions and symptoms, and being told that losing weight will solve everything.
@fatbot one of my best friends in high school was told that her stomach hurting was because she was young and fat and she would feel better if she lost some weight. After a year of being sicker and sicker and not losing the weight, she ended up in the ER. She would not leave the hospital again. Two weeks later she died of small cell ovarian cancer. She wasn't even twenty.
She gave me some crayons as a graduation present from high school and the yellow. Is a dandelion yellow. They do not make the dandelion yellow any more.
Danni should have been taken seriously and her cancer should have been discovered earlier and we should have been able to mourn the dandelion yellow together. Instead I have a yellow crayon that I cannot bring myself to use because it and the other crayons are some of the only physical pieces of her touch in my life I have left.
Fat phobia killed one of my best friends
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Weight discrimination in healthcare is not about fat people feeling hurt when their doctor says something about their weight. It is about fat people not getting adequate care for their conditions and symptoms, and being told that losing weight will solve everything.
@fatbot My mom was told she couldn't get a kidney transplant because she was overweight.
After years on dialysis, her weight was low enough the hospital, doctor, and insurance approved of the procedure, but her blood pressure was too low because of the dialysis. The surgeon, fearing a risk to his record, denied the surgery.She died later that year.
If she has been allowed surgery when she was still fat, her heart would have been strong enough to handle surgery. -
@fatbot EDS and joint issues over here, instead they sent me to a fucking nutritionist.
Heh. I know people who suffer from joint issues *because* they ate right and worked out. Lot of good that did.
As for excessive daytime sleepiness, there's one way obesity can cause it—obstructive sleep apnea—but that can be worked around with an air-pressure machine. This isn't the Stone Age.
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@fatbot one of my best friends in high school was told that her stomach hurting was because she was young and fat and she would feel better if she lost some weight. After a year of being sicker and sicker and not losing the weight, she ended up in the ER. She would not leave the hospital again. Two weeks later she died of small cell ovarian cancer. She wasn't even twenty.
She gave me some crayons as a graduation present from high school and the yellow. Is a dandelion yellow. They do not make the dandelion yellow any more.
Danni should have been taken seriously and her cancer should have been discovered earlier and we should have been able to mourn the dandelion yellow together. Instead I have a yellow crayon that I cannot bring myself to use because it and the other crayons are some of the only physical pieces of her touch in my life I have left.
Fat phobia killed one of my best friends
@circuitsunfish @fatbot
They brought back dandelion yellow this year. -
@fatbot one of my best friends in high school was told that her stomach hurting was because she was young and fat and she would feel better if she lost some weight. After a year of being sicker and sicker and not losing the weight, she ended up in the ER. She would not leave the hospital again. Two weeks later she died of small cell ovarian cancer. She wasn't even twenty.
She gave me some crayons as a graduation present from high school and the yellow. Is a dandelion yellow. They do not make the dandelion yellow any more.
Danni should have been taken seriously and her cancer should have been discovered earlier and we should have been able to mourn the dandelion yellow together. Instead I have a yellow crayon that I cannot bring myself to use because it and the other crayons are some of the only physical pieces of her touch in my life I have left.
Fat phobia killed one of my best friends
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@fatbot one of my best friends in high school was told that her stomach hurting was because she was young and fat and she would feel better if she lost some weight. After a year of being sicker and sicker and not losing the weight, she ended up in the ER. She would not leave the hospital again. Two weeks later she died of small cell ovarian cancer. She wasn't even twenty.
She gave me some crayons as a graduation present from high school and the yellow. Is a dandelion yellow. They do not make the dandelion yellow any more.
Danni should have been taken seriously and her cancer should have been discovered earlier and we should have been able to mourn the dandelion yellow together. Instead I have a yellow crayon that I cannot bring myself to use because it and the other crayons are some of the only physical pieces of her touch in my life I have left.
Fat phobia killed one of my best friends
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@fatbot My mom was told she couldn't get a kidney transplant because she was overweight.
After years on dialysis, her weight was low enough the hospital, doctor, and insurance approved of the procedure, but her blood pressure was too low because of the dialysis. The surgeon, fearing a risk to his record, denied the surgery.She died later that year.
If she has been allowed surgery when she was still fat, her heart would have been strong enough to handle surgery. -
@circuitsunfish @fatbot
They brought back dandelion yellow this year.@Energetic_Nova @fatbot I'm going to get so many in her honor thank you!
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@fatbot My mom was told she couldn't get a kidney transplant because she was overweight.
After years on dialysis, her weight was low enough the hospital, doctor, and insurance approved of the procedure, but her blood pressure was too low because of the dialysis. The surgeon, fearing a risk to his record, denied the surgery.She died later that year.
If she has been allowed surgery when she was still fat, her heart would have been strong enough to handle surgery. -
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