I'm alive [and no longer Barbie...]

[denelian]

i really, really did make a post a few days ago, saying i was home from the hospital - had been ther 23 freaking days and they never did figure it out, but whatever the fuck. my leg is *almost* back to normal - the only bad thing is, i'm pretty sure it's getting better had NOTHING to do with anything they did

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[sankaku_atama]

Um, no offense to your mother, but what kind of clothes could you wear that didn't show off your boobs? A circus tent?

;p

I'm glad to hear you've gotten out of the hospital, and yeah, it doesn't surprise me that it was mostly due to convalescing, and not because of anything the doctors actually did. The longer I'm in a medical profession (and yeah, it's veterinary medicine, but you'd be surprised at how much things overlap in a lot of places), the more I realize that it's all just a bunch of guesswork. Educated guesswork sometimes, but guesswork nonetheless.

[denelian]

as a matter of fact... sometimes, my clothes *did* look like tents. as she became less... sane [as her back got worse and she worked more] she was less in charge of my clothes, plus i started to earn my own money - so by the time i moved to Alabama, i mostly dressed like everyone else.

i've never told her, but much of my body-hatred is from her, not from the other things. she's been sane [and COOL] for most of a decade, and i find i rather LIKE her now. she's seen in dressed for Outlands, and her response was "well, i couldn't go in public dressed like that, but it looks good on you." so... yeah.

i do indeed know how much they overlap - and there was a point where i knew a vet i'd go to before i went to a doctor. sadly, he's still in Georgia, so no dice.
TBH, i actually think it was the duladid - as soon as they started giving it to me, the swelling went down. once they put on the pump...
but there still a muscle in my calf that's, for lack of a better word, HARD. it's damned annoying. but it's getting better...

[762nato]

>...32FF-22-33

Uh, what? Oh, sorry. Behold! The power of cleavage! All kidding aside, all of the women I know even approaching that well endowed have horrible back problems. That might be an argument in favor of the water babies theory.

Barbie has all these great cars, houses and is the world's biggest clothes horse and yet she can't keep the same job. One wonders how she actually affords all this great swag. Considering that she was modeled after Bild Lilli, the answer becomes obvious.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bild_Lilli_doll

So, Barbie was modeled after a party girl and alleged amateur streetwalker and sold to American girls as a role model. BOOYAH! There's a lifetime prescription for therapy.

[denelian]

i didn't know that - that's hilarious! i'm gonna tell everyone that Barbie was modeled after a hooked *G*

as for back problems - i've got to be the ONLY girl with big boobs who *doesn't* have 'em. which means insurance won't pay for a reduction. then again, i'm sick of surgery, so...

[762nato]

You know that back problems are notoriously hard to prove or disprove. Especially when it comes to soft tissue injuries, like repetitive stress. Unless you have clear arthritis or herniated disks, there's no clear cut signs of back pain. Just complaining of lower back pain could get a prescription for what you need done

[denelian]

it is an interesting discussion

[gryphonsegg]

I'm glad you made it home. *hugs*

Slumber Party Barbie was introduced in 1965 and came with a bathroom scale permanently set at 110 lbs with a book entitled “How to Lose Weight” with directions inside stating simply “Don’t eat.”

Sometimes I get the urge to write really vicious satires and parodies of sexist messages in popular culture. Then I find something like this and realize I can't write anything like that because the reality is already too extreme. I could not have made that up.

[denelian]

*hugs* back - for a while, i wasn't sure i'd make it home. they were *really* resistant to me leaving at first. then all the sudden... and i'm not gonna complain!

the Onion has the problem - they write a parody, and it turns out someone's already gone even further.

we can't win. it's going to take at LEAST another century for us to get over this obsession with LOOKS over everything else when it comes to women. sigh.

[gryphonsegg]

Sadly, I think you're right. We have made some headway in making it more socially accepted for women to be financially independent, to do lots of activities that used to be viewed as for men only, to refuse to hide intelligence . . . but there's still a very strong message that no matter what a woman does, she MUST look good while doing it. If anything, US mainstream culture seems to be getting worse about demanding that all women be attractive to men all the time, or at least the range of what qualifies as "attractive enough to be presentable" is getting narrower and harder to maintain.

[denelian]

Yep. it's the backlash. i actively fear for my nieces and the daughters of friends... and my younger friends, like Kasan, now that i think about it :(

[mitrian]

*hugs* I'm behind on LJ, again, but am glad you're doing better and are home.

[denelian]

i'm more behind...

and i suck. i never remember to call you when it's a decent time - and i know you say call, but you've got a kid to watch and don't need me bugging you at 2am. sigh. i suck :(

[lady_ganesh]

::hugs::

If you need to sleep, you need to sleep!