NSV: Official medical record change

[loridee11 519]

A fun NSV. While on a call with my Dr. yesterday to check on some other things, she took a couple minutes to update my official medical record. Under issues, I used to have super morbidly obese --- she deleted it Also, on the scale front, officially 20 lbs to goal (which will also be half of my previous weight).

[Jaelzion 1,127]

1 hour ago, loridee11 said:

A fun NSV. While on a call with my Dr. yesterday to check on some other things, she took a couple minutes to update my official medical record. Under issues, I used to have super morbidly obese --- she deleted it Also, on the scale front, officially 20 lbs to goal (which will also be half of my previous weight).

Congratulations! On the problem list in my medical record, it says "Morbidly Obese - RESOLVED" 😀 Feels good doesn't it?

[The Greater Fool 2,024]

4 hours ago, loridee11 said:

A fun NSV. While on a call with my Dr. yesterday to check on some other things, she took a couple minutes to update my official medical record. Under issues, I used to have super morbidly obese --- she deleted it Also, on the scale front, officially 20 lbs to goal (which will also be half of my previous weight).

Congratulations.

You reminded me of something when all those years ago when as a pre-op I was working to put together documentation of my situation. I needed 5 consecutive years of documented Morbid Obesity. Now this was beyond ridiculous that weighing 600+ pounds I had to "prove" it. Like 600+ pounds happened overnight.

They said pictures would work. Like I hadn't been avoiding cameras for... well... forever.

And doctor files? Like I hadn't been trained for years that Doctors were to be avoided because, to them, I had one problem and one solution: "Morbidly Obese" and "Lose weight."

But, I had been to the Doc for one reason or another for which medications were a 'short term' mitigation, so our final hope was that the Doc made some sort of notation that would help.

As it turned out, I had Doc visits in each of the last 5 years. There was hope. But, I couldn't fit on their scales, even if they wanted to weigh me. Hope was dying.

We got the file copies. As it turned out on each appointment the Doctor noted I was "Super Morbidly Obese". After staring at the notes for a few moments we both started laughing maniacally and gasped that this was the first time I was glad to be described as "Super Morbidly Obese."

Since about September 2004 it has not described me since.

Funny how all this flips reality in unusual ways.

True story

Tek

Edited October 24, 2020 by The Greater Fool

[STLoser 1,099]

That's such an amazing non-scale victory!! Congratulations!

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[skyewolfe 92]

Congrats! I look forward to having obese remove from mine! I need to get my drs to update it lol