Memo to skinny people: have you ever thought about all the things fat people can't do? Things like tie their own shoes, fit into a restaurant booth, wear a belt, sit in a lawn chair, wear a seat belt, push a grocery cart around a store, dry their own toes...the list goes on (but some of you are too young :).
A lady came to school today to pick up her son. She couldn't come in and sign him out herself because she was too heavy to get out of the car and walk up the steps and into the office. I signed him out and took the signature slip out to her and indeed, this lady was quite huge. My heart went out to her and I wanted to ask her if she had ever heard of gastric by-pass.
Often when we see someone who is fat (and I am equally guilty of this) we assume that they are fat because they are lazy. Maybe they are "lazy" because they are fat. Put yourself in this scenario: you find yourself in water too deep for you and no one is around to hear any of your desperate cries for help. Just before you draw your last gasp into nearly water soaked lungs, someone comes up under you, lifts you to the surface of the water, heaves you out of the deep and onto dry land. Rolling onto your side,you cough and spit as you look into the eyes of your life-saver. Gastric by-pass is the life-saver for fat people.
Sure, maybe you have 20 or 50 or 80 pounds to lose and you just know you can do it. So do it already and shut up about it. But if you find yourself drowning in your own vicious cycle, gastric by-pass can break the cycle and provide the salvation you need.
So, two pieces of advice: 1)if you need help, get it and 2)stop judging fat people by your own warped determination of worth.
Oh, and the real reason you read this blog: Gene Wood, man-being-saved, has lost 110 pounds.
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I just found your blog and I AM SO PROUD OF GENE! Please tell everyone in your family that I said hello. We miss everyone on that side of the state. Keep up the great work Gene (with support from his family)!
JULIANNE HICKMAN BOWMAN
Thanks Sonja for the update! We are so very proud of Gene. It is like watching a serial (surely some of you who remember what that is) movie called "The Disappearing Man", Each week gets more exciting!
Thank you to you also for keeping Gene on track and being his support.
Let's have a triple digits party!!!!!! I am so proud of both of you.
Bring on the pictures! I am so proud of you both and this blog. I am grateful that you are showing and telling the whole truth, not just the wonderful side of gastric by-pass. I think you know Micki Daniel who is in the Technology department and I was amazed when I saw her yesterday for the first time since August. I'm sure you are also amazed to watch your husband change right before your eyes!
Congratulation for the shoe tying, booth sitting, etc.
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