Picking On Da Fat Man

Sep 18, 2009

Back in January '09, I was unloading a bunch of large music instruments for a convention out of my work van and twisted the wrong way causing me to hurt my back.  I reagravated it a week later doing the exact same thing for a second convention.  I had an appointment with my PCP and asked him to look at it.  He looks at me, asks me what I did, and then proceeds to say, "yeah, you probably strained it.  Lose some weight and you'll be fine."  Really doc?  Really... lose some weight is your remedy.

9 months later and I'm still having back problems.  Work finally decided to send me to an Orthopedist.  He poked, prodded, and asked me all kinds of useless questions.  He says, "yeah, it is probably a muscular issue however your weight probably isn't helping things any." 

Do doctors really think by constantly pointing out that I'm fat will help me become motivated to lose weight?  Do they really think I don't know this?  I've been at 300 lbs +/- for several years now and my back was fine before January.  Really?  This doesn't motivate me.  It pisses me off to no end.  I know i'm fat... been that way all my life.  I know I need to lose weight, and I even know that a lot of my medical issues are weight related.  I know this and I have every desire to do something about it.  BUT I CAN BARELY WALK 10 YARDS WITHOUT MY BACK TWISTING INTO A PRETZEL.  I CAN'T EVEN STAND UP FOR MORE THAN A FEW MINUTES BECAUSE OF MY BACK.  Lay off my damned weight problem and come up with a way to help me get my back into a live-withable state!

So how was your day?

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