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Feb. 11th, 2009 02:43 amYou've never experienced a thunderstorm until you've experienced one in an steel barn. Tornadoes to the north of us, tornadoes to the south of us, and the wrath of God coming down on the steel roof. Pea sized hail ringing off the roof, but could you really tell with the torrential rain?
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Looks like I'll be making a road trip on Monday. Virginia has an appointment with a Doc in Mineral Wells and I'm the designated driver. She's trying to get SSI right now and this Doc is going to test her COPD levels.
She was highly agitated and angry that her PCP wrote her diagnosis as COPD and morbid obesity. She admitted she's fat. But she was insulted about the morbid part. I explained that according to the BMI scale used by all doctors, according to her height and build, she IS morbidly obese. That 100+ pounds over even your chosen comfortable weight is considered morbid.
It took me 20 minutes to convince her of this, and to also convince her that if that particular diagnosis would help her get SSI, she needed to thank her Doc, not gripe about his opinions of her weight.
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I suppose I should go to bed. I need to start getting up earlier in the day and staying up till 3 and 4 am is not the way to accomplish that.
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Looks like I'll be making a road trip on Monday. Virginia has an appointment with a Doc in Mineral Wells and I'm the designated driver. She's trying to get SSI right now and this Doc is going to test her COPD levels.
She was highly agitated and angry that her PCP wrote her diagnosis as COPD and morbid obesity. She admitted she's fat. But she was insulted about the morbid part. I explained that according to the BMI scale used by all doctors, according to her height and build, she IS morbidly obese. That 100+ pounds over even your chosen comfortable weight is considered morbid.
It took me 20 minutes to convince her of this, and to also convince her that if that particular diagnosis would help her get SSI, she needed to thank her Doc, not gripe about his opinions of her weight.
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I suppose I should go to bed. I need to start getting up earlier in the day and staying up till 3 and 4 am is not the way to accomplish that.
