Re: could use a hug......
From: kim (anonymous@obgyn.net)
Thu, 11 Jul 2002 10:03:01 -0400
Shelly,
Just wanted you to know you are not alone. I feel like that a lot too.
Gotta believe that brighter days are ahead.
Kim
>From: "anonymous@obgyn.net" <anonymous@obgyn.net>
>Reply-To: anonymous@obgyn.net
>To: Multiple recipients of list PCOS-MEDICATION
><pcos-medication@mail.medispecialty.com>
>Subject: could use a hug......
>Date: Wed, 10 Jul 2002 13:54:51 -0500
>
>Well ladies, I've just come back from lunch. I picked up a chicken
>sandwich, plain and a softdrink. I took back my rental video and while in
>Family Video, I was perusing the selections one tall rack away from the
>check-out area when a woman came in asking to use the phone. She wanted to
>respond to something she had heard on the local radio call-in show where
>people call in to express opinions about things. Today's callers were most
>often discussing the latest additional cigarrette tax in our state,
>Indiana. A few also mentioned they think alcohol should be taxed higher,
>because it causes so many deaths thru drunk drivers.
>
>Well...this woman wanted to voice HER opinion. She said she's tired of
>OBESITY....SHE thinks that people who are obese should be taxed higher for
>junk food. (I think she also meant that everyone should be taxed higher
>for junk food, but she kept concentrating on OBESITY.) I tried to peer
>thru the shelves to catch a glimpse of her physique....as if it'd
>matter....but couldn't. The young kid behind the counter chimed in how he
>agreed with her and I didn't know whether to run and cry or jump over the
>shelves and whip the tar outta both of them.
>
>I've been battling a bout of depression for a while now. My best friend
>confessed this morning that she's been dealing with much deeper depression
>than she'd told me, including thoughts of suicide. I've just recently made
>the decision to put my schooling on hold for another five months because to
>go back in order to be eligible for financial aid (and there's no other way
>for me to pay for it) would mean starting in two weeks and I know I'm still
>battling severe burnout, would have to cancel my much needed "vacation"
>(where I go down to see my parents 13 hours away), and have been wanting to
>spend more time with my kids...9 and 17. I've also been struggling with
>the "lonelies" a bit....I live close to none of my relatives and miss them
>dreadfully, there are still very few people I know in my home location
>(most of us commute all over the place or else they've been retired for
>decades), and I'm trying to figure out how I feel about the guy I've been
>seeing a couple months. (Life is sometimes such a mess, isn't it?)
>
>Anyway.....I sure didn't need to here this biased chick's "opinion"!!!! I
>am sick to death of people who think being overweight is as much a choice
>as getting drunk!!!! I am sick of them viewing us as "lesser" saying that
>we have no willpower (believe me, it took LOTS of WILLPOWER to keep from
>following her out the door and throttling her...*wicked laughter*).
>
>I tried to be Christian about it.....even tried hard to say a prayer much
>like "forgive her because she knows not of what she speaks and protect her
>from ever having to understand what it's like because she would have to go
>thru it herself"....but I just couldn't really do it.
>
>And....I remembered the story I'd read years ago....a woman, who had always
>been heavy, was at her 25th class reunion. She was remarkably thin and
>everyone kept coming up to her and saying how amazing she looked now that
>she'd dropped the weight. As the evening wore on, she turned to her best
>friend who knew the true story....that this woman was thin because she'd
>been fighting cancer for many months and indeed, had not been given much
>longer to live....and with tears in her eyes she pleaded for
>understanding..."Why do they accept me NOW that I'm dying? Why couldn't
>they have loved me and accepted me for who I was when I was HEALTHY?"
>
>*sigh*
>
>Life's just not fair.......but there are some days, weeks, even years that
>I sometimes feel that some of us get a whole lot more of that "unfairness"
>thrown our way than others. I don't want to hear that I can deal with it
>because I'm "strong"......I don't want to be strong anymore....I want to
>curl up and let someone else be strong for a while.
>
>Just had to vent......thanks ladies.
>
>HUgs,
>
>Shelley
>
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