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What I put in the comments section of the feedback form for the Health Assessment thingy I took today at work:

I think that your educators could learn a lot from Health at Every Size, http://haescommunity.org/

Not all fat people are unhealthy. Not all fat people want (or need) to lose weight. Diets don't work. EVERYONE can take steps to be healthier, even if they don't lose weight.

And most of all, if I tell a provider that I'm not interested in dieting or weight loss, and she continues to, more than a dozen times, congratulate me on weight loss that I have told her a dozen times was not intentional, and that I don't think I should be congratulated for it, then she's not only misinformed; she's rude.

Sick day notes

That's the first time Dreamwidth's eaten one of my posts. Ah, well.

The gist:

Good stuff:

• Mango juice
  
• Aspirin
  
• Potato soup cooking on the stove
  
• An adorable partner experimenting with roasting his own coffee. The first batch was good. The second smells burnt (well, like wood-burning-stove smell), but tastes good.
  
• Sick pay
  
• Appointment with the Rheumatologist is this Friday
  
• My mom's coming tomorrow! Only for the night, but still; the kid and I will visit her in Burlingame this weekend if I'm well
  
• The kid likes college! ("College isn't so bad, Aunt San. It's way better than I thought it would be.") She goes when she's sick. She goes when she is tired. She is being so responsible and collegiate. I'm very proud.
  
• This weekend, the kid's going on her first college field trip, to the De Young, and it's free!
  
• Got away with buying most of her school clothes/shoes for around $100. She only lacks a jacket now, and maybe a few more pairs of socks.
  

Bad stuff:

• I'm guessing I have a sinus infection. Waiting to hear back from the doc. Missing Surviving The Apocalypse 101* with aquenigmatic, who will now have to be in charge when the shit comes down. My hero!
  
• Missing work. I loathe it, even though there's now sick pay for it. I think my revulsion toward taking days off is part neurosis, part American Work Ethic**, part good old-fashioned conscientiousness, and part self-involvement. I know intellectually that taking time off when I'm sick is best for everyone, but I fight with shame over it nonetheless. Likewise missing the appointment with aquenigmatic. Hate it!
  

I dropped the car off this morning at 7 and went to work, but I didn't last long. The boss says to stay home until I'm well. I do believe I'm going to take her up on it. Sigh.




*That's not really what it's called, but probably should be. Punchier, ya know?

**I was gonna say Protestant Work Ethic, but I was raised Catholic, and I really do think it's an American phenomenon more than it's religiously based at this point