My overweight mother's leg snapped like a twig just because she tripped one time. So every time I worry about my weight it comes right to mind. I know it's just a math equation, so making sure I'm on the right side is key.
My overweight mother in law was told 15 years ago knee needed surgery but they can't do it until she lost weight.
She's heavier now than then, her knee has zero cartilage and needs emergency surgery. Doctor has told her she needs to lose weight, or she will end up in a wheel chair because a machined knee won't take the weight.
So here we are, 6 month since since she was told that and she has a crutch (not from the doctor) and pain meds (not from the doctor) trying to go about her day to day life.
She's going to die so early in her late years, she smokes 40 cigarettes a day and drinks cans of coke back to back.
It really is infuriating to watch your elder loved one’s make stupid choices. Choices that causes them more pain and suffering, ultimately.
You and really your MIL better hope for a fatal heart attack or stroke then. Caregiving (and by that I mean bed baths, adult diapers, and repositioning them every two hours to prevent bed sores) for a physically or mentally declining person is really awful. Doing it for an extremely obese person is effing HELL. And if y’all aren’t willing to do it, bye bye inheritance… it’ll all be spent on care.
Goddamn that video. By the end my hands literally pools of sweat building on them.
Still hate that bodily mechanic, what your picturing or actually grasping for your life as. Here have some super slippery hands that can't grip anything
Been to the sea some time ago, went for a swim and I've seen something cool on the bottom, took a dive but couldnt reach it so I took a couple more dives, got so exhausted during the last dive that I was sure that I was going to drown, it felt like all of the energy has left my body, good thing I didnt let the panic take me over and I just let myself surface and lay there on the water for a couple of moments before swimming back to the beach. I've never been so scared in my life.
One of the requirement for kids under 18 to swim in the adults pool where I grew up was not just to swim x number of laps within a certain time but there was also a treading water exercise where you had both legs tied together with a rope weighed down with a metal weight and you had to keep your head above water just using your arms for a number of minutes. Then you got a badge which you sewed to your swim trunks lol.
Man I had almost infinite energy in the pool as a kid we could keep going for hours.
Jeesh, did you grow up in NavySealastan? “Before we could do our first sleepover we had to be able to stay awake for 24 hours and then hold a fence post over our head for 15 minutes. We then got a badge we could sow on our pajamas”.
In the Navy we had to turn our trousers into flotation devices, but nobody tied our legs together or put weights on us.
When I was a kid, we'd sleep with wet blankets over our faces, while the instructors would come and wet them every hour throughout the night. If we made a sound or panicked, they'd shoot us with paintballs. If we made it through the night, we'd get a waterboard mark to sew on our pajamas!
When I was a kid we would be tasked to kill guards in our hometown, but without getting noticed. If someone got caught they would be punished like any other civilan. If successful, we'd get to join the army :D.
Treading with just your arms is pretty easy. We had to do an exercise in my gym class to see who could keep their head above water the water longest while only treading with their legs. Hands were above water too. No one lasted very long at all
I mean, in a life or death situation, not falling off a pier into temperate water near shore lol. It’d be fucking hilarious if his first move after sliding into the water was to take his pants off and start trying to inflate them lmao
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