Hey, I have a great doctor in the Philly suburbs too!

I'm so sorry. My mother also has a blood clotting problem that is hereditary that almost killed her, and she's on blood thinners for the rest of her life. I hope you're well and managing your condition.

Are we trading ancedotes now? Good, I've got one:

Someone's always gotta prove the point!

That's funny, because my experience was exactly the opposite! It was my terrible ob-gyn who kept telling me I must be imagining things and telling me to take up swimming, and its my really amazing PCP who got my diagnosis. I literally burst into tears when my PCP took my concerns seriously and didn't tell me to just…

I knew I was forgetting one.

While its a nice suggestion, doctors and midwives are just like other people — they run the board from great to horrible. My worst doctors? All women, and they were especially bad when it came to my weight (I have PCOS and didn't get a proper diagnosis for almost a decade because my female doctors told me I was 'just…

Psst, read down this response thread.

"Of course I'll be able to keep it off for 5 years! I don't see why this would be an issue at all, ever! "

Inevitably a young man under the age of 30!

I hear you. I've told that story about my substitute doctor who accused me of lying about how I got an injury (roller derby) and refused to check me out properly because I was 'just fat' and 'fatness' was why my hand was hurting. (Torn tendons!)

Now, since I've been around these parts a while, while Lindy makes a lot of good points in the article, I just wanted to highlight this particular section before we get the usual suspects in the comment section saying the usual things:

Hello, nurse!

You can if you want! I was mainly jokingly referring to the comments on that article, where a lot of 'straight' guys made humina-humina remarks about Omar.

Obviously, Mike Wallace has not heard about Omar Borkan Al Gala.

http://jezebel.com/meet-the-man-w…

Sort of— if I recall, when the cops first show up at the house, the mother tells them that all the little kids are from her home daycare, but when she's arrested and the cops have to call the kids parents, they find out that they're all the mothers.

WHAT IS THIS? A MODEL FOR ANTS?!

But plus size 'models' are different from sizing. Models seem to be largely around a size 12-ish.

NORMAL SIZE IN MY PERSPECTIVE, BY WHICH EVERYTHING IS JUDGED>

I thought by posting this in a different thread I could save myself some time and promotion of identical grey comments.