ok, so.......

ok, so this was a workday of contrasts........a thin parent of a toddler who gained 10 pounds in 3 months......and cannot understand why the child could be so heavy when she (mom) struggles to keep up her weight (nicotine may eb a factor...)......then there was the 300 pound 18-year-old new mom who never smiled at her infant the entire time she was in my cubicle...and is pumping breast milk because she is concerned that unless she sees the milk going in she will worry that she isn't making enough milk.......she seemed unmoved when i mentioned that julia roberts is breastfeeding twins.......and then there was the 60+ diabetic client who kept talking about the diet that 'kathy the dietitian in danville' had given him in 1982........and finally his wife said.....honey, this is the dietitian who gave you the diet in 1982.........he told the funniest story about what i said to him then.....he had lost 8 pounds between the 1st and second visit.....and i had commented that it was like carrying around an 8-pound baby, and then passing it off to somebody else.......and he had been encouraged by that comment....to the point that as he was leaving he had turned to me and offered that next visit he was going for twins........his wife was really nice and gave me a big hug when they left......that is the sweet side of what i do for a living.....as opposed to the moms who allow their children to run wild.......the client of the overwieght toddler had an older sibling with her....and this child's front teeth were decayed nearly to the gums.....'from candy' the mom explained.......i asked anout her plan to make sure this doesn't happen to the toddler.....and she looked at me like a had 2 heads.....as if prevention was not something that had occurred to her....this si much too common.....the moms who say...she'll only eat cookies an crackers.......like this 3-foot child runs the house and has her/his menu written in stone.......ah well.......another day......