Visit to Hospital as a precaution=followed by anger

Dec 17, 2014

Yesterday morning I woke up to terrible pain across the upper portion of my back between the bra line and the shoulders all across the back.  This had happened a few weeks earlier and it got better throughout the day.  I figured I had just pulled the muscles cause I had a restless night of sleep.  This time things didn't get better as the day went on, in fact by about 7pm taking deep breaths hurt.  I got concerned cause my chest was so very tight and figured cause I'm over weight I better get it checked out.   I went to the local ER and was greeted by a very nice doctor.  He decided that he would run some test to rule out other issues, like heart attack, phenomena etc.  All the test came back negative so in fact I had just pulled the muscle.  His polite way of suggesting my issue was lack of movement "I suggest you get out for a walk each day to strengthen the muscles".  At which point my husband and I both got angry and before I could say anything my husband says to the doctor, "how much more do you want she plays soccer twice a week and volleyball once a week you think she is just sitting around doing nothing."  He had no response. I responded with "I'll check on line to see what I can do to strengthen the muscles so it doesn't happen again".   I grinned inside knowing how wonderful my husband was, but was so upset that people always assume that because your over weight you don't do exercise.   It is very sad I now expect people to treat me this way, but a doctor should know better. I suspect a thin person would have been asked what kind of activity do you do, but because I'm overweight the question is always different.  I cannot wait to sit on the losers bench and stop all the discrimination. 

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