Doctor Avoidance
… last week, I put off calling to get a doctor’s appointment despite chest tightness and needing to use my albuterol inhaler multiple times a day, after having had a cough and sinus stuffiness for a month. Why? Because I didn’t feel able to deal with medical practitioners when I was tired and sick. I feared the stress of dealing with “You’re fat and therefore you don’t deserve to be healthy” more than I feared the chest pains. (Granted, I put the pain at about a 2, and breathing shallowly or using albuterol relieved it. But still.) When a friend urged me to get an appointment — which turned out to be with a new-to-me doc at my practice, because that’s who was available — memories of weight lectures past, and others’ bad experiences, caused me to bring the man of the house with me for support.
—- from https://living400lbs.wordpress.com/2012/02/26/doctors-doctors-doctors/
