Monday, February 07, 2005

easy answers......

ok, so there are days when i like the answers to be self-evident......no need to put on the thinking cap.....nothing out of the ordinary that requires sherlockholmesian investigative skills.......and so today was my redletter day.....the client whose mother called all worried about the daughter's weight loss diet....and her subsequent hair loss....turned out to be an easy answer.....when the girl walked in and she had her hair tied in a ponytail so tight that the skin around her eyes kind of listed backwards.......'when did your daughter start wearing her hair in a ponytail?.....i asked, after dutifully noting a 24-hour list of all foods injested.......maybe a week, you say......and i pulled out the downloaded list of reasons why women lose their hair.....and tension-related hairstyles was near the top of the list......then the mother started in on why she was worried that her daughter was losing so much weight.........170 pounds down to 140......and i had to play spin doctor.....as this girl has been walking, riding an exercycle, doing situps, and cutting down/out of the usual juvenile junk...and she has really worked too hard to get unto reasonable eating and exercise habits for her mother to claim she is obsessive and should stop.........i have seen obsessive.....and this girl is nowhere close.......but now that i at home, and have had time to consider all angles....it occurs to me that culturally, thinness may be an issue.......i know so little about hispanic culture......the mamma, and the interpretor brought by the mamma....are both short and roundish.......and maybe they are afraid the thin.......i don't know......and i am not sure where to find this out.......

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