you're so thin.....

ok, so today was my thursday county...and things are alternative universe there.......for example...select staff are competing as to weight loss til just before christmas.....and today i was the only person to actually lose, rather than gain weight....and when asked what i brought for lunch....pasta salad and cottage cheese and grapes......there was a deflated gasp.......as if to say that their lunches could not compete.....hmmm...but that is not my raison d'etre in this blog...no it is the uncomfortable session i had with an 80 year old woman with a cane.....who is round.....less than 5 foot by 190 pounds......accompanied by her much thinner and much more glammed daughter......not quite to botox-level but just shy.....and this daughter wanted me to tell her mother that she was killing herself by eating all the time....and if she would only walk about rather than going back to bed after she cooks meals she would be better off.....and when i commented on something said...the mamma turned to me and said that i had no idea what it was like to be heavy, given that i was so thin......and i almost choked......because there is nobody in my circle of trust who would go so far........everything is in the eye of the beholder, n'est ce-pas?.......everybody is a little smaller or a little bigger......and yet this woman has manged to stay alive for these 80 years.....go figure how she managed dragging around this extra weight?........i regret not setting the daughter straight...but i kept to the company line...and encouraged mamma to nibble on fruit rather than twinkies...and to walk up and down her hall three times a day before she goes back to bed......she is coming back in a few weeks....at which time i may have to set daughter straight...that mamma has lived long enough to be in the driver's seat with her own eating habits......i won't mention that i am not thin....i will cling to that illusion a bit longer........