I have an appointment tomorrow with my regular doctor. It's my
annual physical, but it's also a follow-up on both my thyroid
surgery (six months ago) and my recent heart tests.
I've been working on educating this guy about fat stuff for years.
Some days I feel really good about this -- he's a really good
doctor, and I just want him to see his fat patients as something
other than candidates for weight-loss surgery.
Other days, I wonder if I'm hurting my own medical care by not
changing doctors, and still other days, I go looking for a new
doctor. So far, though, I'm with this one, and it's going fairly well.
showed some problems (I'll find out what kind of problems tomorrow),
and he's already mentioned my weight in passing with regard to this.
He knows weight-loss talk is off-limits, so I think he's getting me
ready for a big WLS push, but we'll see.
Here's what I plan to do for tomorrow:
1) Print out some studies about the ineffectiveness and danger of
diets and WLS (he cares a lot about studies, and is always pu****ng
studies on me that talk about how obesity kills, etc.)
2) Make a list of the questions I want to ask and medications I'm
taking, so that I don't have to expend a lot of energy trying to
remember stuff
3) Play the broken record of "I don't want to talk about weight
loss. I want to talk about what I can do to be healthier in the body
I have now."
4) Ask for a copy of all my test results so that I can look at them
and think about them while I'm not feeling pressured by the doctor
5) Tell him, if he continues to push about weight loss, that I've
run out of energy for that, and plan to find another doctor
Can you think of anything I'm missing? I'm feeling an
uncharacteristic-for-me need for lots of cheerleaders.
Serene
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