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The tapeworms 😂

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Mail order tapeworms from Brazil- WOW- don't we do ANYTHING,domestic anymore?

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The tapeworms would be funny-- if it wasn't actually true. I assume some of you have heard about the mother who got mail-order tapeworm eggs from Mexico. She fed them to her teenage daughter without her daughter's knowledge. The daughter ended up in the ER complaining of abdominal cramps. While still in the ER, the daughter asked to use the bathroom... to her horror, the toilet was filled with adult tapeworms desperately trying to escape from the toilet bowl. I don't know if social services was contacted, but they should have been. Apparently, the mother was trying to save her daughter from the embarrassment of being too fat. Yeah, as if worms crawling out of your butt isn't embarrassing enough...

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Don't you just love it when this forum highlights "eggs" with the intent of focusing on something healthy except it's really highlighting TAPEWORM eggs.

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Yeah I saw the program on Discovery Health. That and the one where the mother decked Daddy when he didn't want her delivering and ruining the Morrocan Leather seat covers in his fancy,schamansky sportscar.

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Creekimp13, OMG you just made my day. I am going to have to borrow a few of those. You are to funny.

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"I worked with my medical team. I eat a high Protein diet. I cut out Pasta, bread, sugar, alcohol and most other carbs pretty much permanently. I exercise at least an hour a day."

All of that is true. By the time I get to what I cut out, most people start running because the thought of cutting out all those carbs gives them the shakes.

If they ask more pointed questions, I respond with a question - "did you get laid last night?" When they looked shocked, I tell them that I view my medical issues as privately as they view their sex life. And then I change the subject. It usually ends questions.

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Gosh I wished when my PCP asked me, at 72 and 6 years widowed, if I was still sexually active, I should have said, "No Doctor, are You?" Better he feels uncomfortable than remind me no one wants me THAT way?

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@GreenTealael in Mr. T’s voice “ I pity the fool” some people are just down right noisy, that’s it, no explanations for them...I’m bad...I would have looked her up and down with a smirk on my face and walked away like Bye 👋🏽 Felicia Lol

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Smooth, To the Point, I love this answer, I really do!👍😛👍

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      On day 4 of the 2 week liquid pre-op diet. Surgery scheduled for June 11th.
      Soooo I am coming to a realization
      of something and I'm not sure what to do about it. For years the only thing I've enjoyed is eating. We rarely do anything or go anywhere and if we do it always includes food. Family comes over? Big family dinner! Go camping? Food! Take a short ride or trip? Food! Holiday? Food! Go out of town for a Dr appointment? Food! When we go to a new town we don't look for any attractions, we look for restaurants we haven't been to. Heck, I look forward to getting off work because that means it's almost supper time. Now that I'm drinking these pre-op shakes for breakfast, lunch, and supper I have nothing to look forward to.  And once I have surgery on June 11th it'll be more of the same shakes. Even after pureed stage, soft food stage, and finally regular food stage, it's going to be a drastic change for the rest of my life. I'm giving up the one thing that really brings me joy. Eating. How do you cope with that? What do you do to fill that void? Wow. Now I'm sad.
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      1. summerseeker

        Life as a big person had limited my life to what I knew I could manage to do each day. That was eat. I hadn't anything else to look forward to. So my eating choices were the best I could dream up. I planned the cooking in managable lots in my head and filled my day with and around it.

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