neptronix said:
Those who keep rattling on 'just eat less and move more' don't understand what is going on with people that have metabolisms like me. People like me are becoming more common by the day.
Picture two guys who don't really know each other but going to the same gym. One being me. Two guys, two broken Lega about the same time, neither knowing about the other.
I should say fractured, no cast. No recovery, either, almost a year later I'm in deep tissue therapy. The guy tells me there should be a syndrome name for what I was going through, first a leg injury leaves you moving wrong, bring a back injury. What he did to my leg was agonizing, but it worked. This after an inactive year of cramping, never ending pain. . . .
It's one thing to eat less, it's another to have your body expecting you to eat so much and telling you that you're starving while it hurts to move at all. I put on a bit of weight in that period, but I did end up going back to the gym.
So there was this guy coming in with a wheelchair and struggling to get himself into the jacuzzi. Only reason he came to the gym because he said it helped. I didn't recognize him, he'd put on so much weight. He used to be in some serious shape.
He didn't cry talking about the pain. It didn't start until we were commiserating on the things we used to do and I was at least moving towards doing and he wasnt.
Then there was everyone telling him he needed to lose weight. I could say at least I never got THAT big. But I understood how he did. And if you don't eat enough, your body becomes more efficient and doesn't let anything go.
At the time there was another guy. Maybe having less trouble but we seemed to be on and off the crutches and the walking stick at the same time. One day he said he was resigned to the stick the rest of his life. As I was being told I would be. Unless maybe I tried this surgery. Need I explain how I feel about surgery? Has it been 10 must have operations they've demanded so far?
Right after he said said he'd given up, the best thing that could have happened, under the circumstances, was someone stealing my walking stick.
Yeah, such dirtbags out there. A handicapped person puts it down in the store, one of them grabs it. And I made up my mind I wasn't buying another. Was slower without it at first, but I got better. The other two never really did.
What set me apart from them? They followed the doctors advice. Obviously I didn't.
There's this phrase I really don't like. 'Common Sense.' People act like that's a good thing. All it really means is 'Don't question what everyone else believes.' Yeah, I guess you can see where I'd have a problem with that. Old wives tales, urban legends, doctor knows best. . . .
ALL WRONG! Awww, there's people on ES who get so upset when I talk that way. (You know I'm lovin' that.)
But it's not going to change. People are going to dismiss my avoiding so much surgery and being better off as some sort of accident. That's their problem