Thursday, August 14, 2008

Telling it like it is

Being polite and careful with our words is what most parents try to teach their youngsters as to not to hurt someone’s feelings.
And as adults we must always try to set a positive example with what we say to children to display this appropriate behavior.

With that said I do believe there is an honesty policy necessary for certain professions. And besides the law not pulling any punches with telling it as it is; I do really think that in the medical profession they too should do it as well.
A direct approach to fatal illness or even just certain diseases that need to be treated is a plus in the way to take care of the patient with them knowing how to deal with any specific situation.
So politeness while a plus in many of life's arenas it is not the right way to go in serious life and death situations by beating it around the bush or even denying that a problem exists.

The reason I mentioned this is because today I did have my doctor's appointment and did receive a new prescription for the 40mg of my cholesterol medication, which will be monitored to make sure I do not have any liver problems from this higher dosage.
The nurse who showed me to the room to wait for the doctor took my blood pressure, which again was low normal, but wanted to weigh me.
I do know that I am fat, and weighing me to prove it in my book is not necessary.
I blatantly said I was fat, and she said just as blatantly that I wasn't.
Her response triggered a wild certifiably berserk answer from me, and I told her that she should not say that!
I am a realist, and know that I have a lethal disease called obesity (listen it's true I am 70 lbs. overweight), and as a health care professional she should not deny it with so-called politeness.
What she should have said is that yes you are, and we have a way to help you to lose that weight healthfully, and would you like to speak to the doctor about that?
If a person said that they smoked they would more than likely tell them that they had a smoking cessation program to help them quit! Not so callously deny the effects of that deadly habit.
Well obesity is just as lethal.

At first the nurse went equally berserk and said do you want to report me and claim what I did was wrong. But after I calmly explained to her my reasoning she did agree
that there has to be some type of happy medium on handling this national disease that effects children as well as adults. If it doesn't start with the health care workers themselves then where should it start?

I know what you are saying of course it must start at home, but everyone needs to work hard to solve this unhealthy problem. It takes a village, where did I hear that one before? Oh that in it to win it woman wrote some book, oh yeah ... oh well.

Many schools have already started so the news says with healthier foods in their cafeterias, and vending machines.
Even fast food restaurants are trying by getting rid of transfats in their preparation of fooods and having more healthful choices on their menus.

A few years back I had a byline in our local paper when I was in excellent shape 70 lbs. lighter and working out at the gym five days a week for an hour and a half each of those days.
I had done some research and it said that being even just twenty pounds overweight was dangerous to your health.
Also that if a woman had a waistline larger than 35 inches that put a large amount of stress on the internal organs in the mid section, which are most of those important ones, and for a man the 40 inch waist was the limit for those same issues.

After trying two commercial weight loss programs and an over the counter pill that promised to help tomorrow I will be going back to that doctor to see if he can finally give me the tools to accomplish something myself and others have failed at. My appointment is for 12:45 P.M., and yes they made me make another appointment, fourth this month.
Far as exercise goes...My body has been sabotaging me by misbehaving with my hip and shoulder bursitis keeping me from using my recumbent bike, and free weights.
And the rain comes at the most inopportune moments for utilizing our pool; it's not really the rain as much as the lightening.

So please cross your fingers for me that this works, I want it to, really I do!

Good evening to all, and to all a pleasant night.

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