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OK, I have to mention this.
I've avoided ranting about the Schaivo situation in my journal. I'm sure most of you know, or can guess, my position.
But yesterday, several protestors were arrested for tresspassing at the hospice facility.. they were trying to bring Terri cups of water.
Which would have killed her. See, she hasn't had a swallowing reflex in a decade. Pour water down her throat, and it goes right into the lungs.
This shows the level of idiocy of the "save Terri" people. They don't care about the most basic facts of the case, prefer to believe in flights of fancy that this woman, lacking a cerebral cortex, will someday sit up and speak. It isn't going to happen.
Were I in charge at the hospice, I would have taken the trespassers into a conference room and told them in gloating terms how they almost committed murder, how they were idiots, and that they should all go finish grade school before making medical judgements.
But yesterday, several protestors were arrested for tresspassing at the hospice facility.. they were trying to bring Terri cups of water.
Which would have killed her. See, she hasn't had a swallowing reflex in a decade. Pour water down her throat, and it goes right into the lungs.
This shows the level of idiocy of the "save Terri" people. They don't care about the most basic facts of the case, prefer to believe in flights of fancy that this woman, lacking a cerebral cortex, will someday sit up and speak. It isn't going to happen.
Were I in charge at the hospice, I would have taken the trespassers into a conference room and told them in gloating terms how they almost committed murder, how they were idiots, and that they should all go finish grade school before making medical judgements.
Re: Ok, I gotta say
1) spoken like someone who has never had a weight problem of any kind
I'm 340 lbs, 5'10".
I'm not the only 250+lb former anorexic I know. Ironic, huh? Oh, and compulsive over-eating, anorexia's companion condition, is also an eating disorder
http://www.surgeongeneral.gov/library/mentalhealth/chapter3/sec6.html#eating
"About 3 percent of young women have one of the three main eating disorders: anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, or binge-eating disorder (Becker et al., 1999)."
http://www.cdc.gov/nccdphp/dnpa/obesity/defining.htm
"...an estimated 64 percent of U.S. adults are either overweight or obese..."
If these are connected, it seems odd that 40 times as many people go straight to being fat as pass through anorexia, bulimia, and such on the way.
(2) Also spoken like someone who has never had any experience with eating disorders, or any addiction issues, either.
I recently "discovered" I was eating 2-3 times what I needed to, and was still hungry a lot. Now I've cut back, and feel I am making progress, but it's still damned hard to pass up double-cheeseburgers for a dollar at every McDonalds.