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Mar. 12th, 2010 07:08 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
hathycolMy aunt had a second heart attack today. She has been moved to Wolverhampton for a specialist operation to sort out the blocked valve.
Not really much to say on that one, other than that... it exists. It is not entirely self-inflicted to be fair; terrible, terrible family history of heart problems but combined with the fact that she is diabetic, doesn't exercise and eats nothing but crap then it's a miracle she has lasted until 47 as it is. This is not sizeist; you can be large and healthy, but you cannot be morbidly obese with diabetes and high blood pressure and take no exercise, eat high-fat and eat high-sugar food and basically march yourself into your own grave.
It's her decision, of course, to eat this way and to basically kill herself, but I don't think my grandad can handle losing another daughter.
I'm going to the pub.
(My mum is 46 in two weeks.)
Not really much to say on that one, other than that... it exists. It is not entirely self-inflicted to be fair; terrible, terrible family history of heart problems but combined with the fact that she is diabetic, doesn't exercise and eats nothing but crap then it's a miracle she has lasted until 47 as it is. This is not sizeist; you can be large and healthy, but you cannot be morbidly obese with diabetes and high blood pressure and take no exercise, eat high-fat and eat high-sugar food and basically march yourself into your own grave.
It's her decision, of course, to eat this way and to basically kill herself, but I don't think my grandad can handle losing another daughter.
I'm going to the pub.
(My mum is 46 in two weeks.)
