Reply #4: It's very rampant. I have a friend who ran into it with her drs nurse. [View All]

[woodsprite]

My friend has had a thryoid issue her whole life. She is physically fit, eats right, but cannot lose a substantial amount of weight and keep it stable. The only thing she hasn't done was the surgery and both her and her dr. think it is too risky since she is otherwise healthy and fit.

The new nurse was giving her a fit, making comments that her kids were probably obese too and she should be ashamed since she was such an unfit person to be a mother. My friend tried to explain politely about how she really does have an ongoing physical issue and her kids are normal 50th percentile average healthy kids. She told her she is healthy and fit going to the gym regularly, to which the nurse made some other remark. It all devolved to my friend challenging said skinny-mini nurse to push-ups, wall-squats and a third thing (can't remember that). My friend beat her in all! :)

The doc came out when they were doing push-ups and wanted to know what was going on. The nurse told him a bit, my friend filled him in the rest of the way. His comment? "Oh, she's gonna whup your ass. She works out at my gym regularly." Last time my friend went to the docs, that nurse wasn't there anymore!