That's... I have no words. No. Just no. That's not how you support your patients! Ugh.

Unfortunately, I think a lot of doctors are probably worn down by an unforgiving career, and it's caused them to lose their empathy.

Sadly, my insurance at the time gave me no choice. But yeah, I was HIGHLY insulted.

And you ARE kicking ass. You deserve to hear it. Losing weight is super hard.

Totally valid and as far as I'm concerned, they should be stopping at "wow you're kicking ass"

(When I had my gallbladder removed, my surgeon seriously asked "While I'm in there anyway, want me to do the bariatric surgery?" How about no, you jerk? I'm doing fine on my own.)

Okay fair 🤣 The correct number is one of that is your current default setting or if multiple pieces are not due to new damage. 🤣

That's both a relief and vaguely terrifying, if that makes sense. Like I'm glad it's not recent damage but also oh dear god that the damage was there at all. Thank you for staying in the appropriate number of pieces. (The appropriate number is still "one".)

I was just SO EXCITED. I started devouring every book I could get my hands on, because I come from a long line of bookworms.

That hasn't changed, really. Books are life.