Okay Elle, take a deep deep FREAKING
DEEP breath. Calm, thinking calming thoughts, think of the ocean,
think of Aberystwyth, think of the good, the nice and all things fluffy. You
need to remain Calm.... Callllmmmmm.
I CANT FREAKING DO IT BECAUSE THE
WORLD HAS GONE INSANE!!!
Okay so you're probably wondering What The F00k I am going on about, and don’t worry, I’m gonna tell you. A
couple of months ago, as you all know by now, I was in hospital for 2
solid weeks in which I had to be put on a feeding tube. My swallowing
reflex had failed for the umpteenth time and I had to horrid, horrid,
and one more time for effect, HORRID, experience of having to be fed
by a nasal-gastro tube. Tube gets inserted down your nose, pressed
through your throat and down into your stomach so that you can
receive emergency nutrients. EMERGENCY, MEDICAL, INTENSIVE CARE!!!
But oh, no, people. The World Has Gone
Insane.... Because people are now using this as a DIET!!! They are
willingly having tubes put down their throats so that they can lose
up to 20 pounds in 10 days. BRIDES TO BE, are getting so desperate to
get thin and into their wedding dresses that they are putting
themselves through TORTURE. And to be honest this ISN'T even what I’m
most infuriated at.
It makes a mockery, a DAMN MOCKERY, of
everything I went through, everything severe M.E. patients go
through, it makes a mockery of everything any extremely sick person
has gone through when they are incapable of feeding themselves and
are forced to be fed by tube. I still have a scarred throat from
where my tube was forced through my reflex. SCARS, For Freaks Sake. I
was practically starved because I couldn't swallow, there are M.E.
patients who are so severely effected that they have no CHOICE, than
to be fed by a tube.
To Quote:
'"It
is a hunger-free, effective way of dieting," Dr Di Pietro said.
"Within a few hours and your hunger and appetite go away
completely, so patients are actually not hungry at all for the whole
10 days. That's what is so amazing about this diet."'
Surely
it can't get any worse... au contraire mon ami
'Di
Pietro says patients are under a doctor's supervision, although
they're not hospitalized during the dieting process. Instead, they
carry the food solution with them, in a bag, like a purse, keeping
the tube in their nose for 10 days straight. Dr Di Pietro says there
are few side effects.'
So
lets break this sick sick thing down a little bit.
- This is actually happening
- This makes a mockery of every sick person fed through a tube on this planet
- A DOCTOR is endorsing this as 'amazing'.
- Hunger and appetite -basic human essential skills- are taken away for a long period of time (I had a flipping nightmare starting to eat again after mine was taken out)
- The 'patients' are NOT hospitalised.
- They carry their food solution around in their HANDBAGS!!!
- And their tube is kept in for 10 days straight.
- Oh, and the doctor says there are few side effects other than bad breath.
WHAT
THE FUCK!!
I'm
sorry that people feel so insecure about themselves, that woman
running up to their wedding day feel so insecure about themselves,
but SERIOUSLY??!! Is THIS what it is coming down to?
I
don’t care, to be honest what brides do to lose their weight (the
woman in link looks positively gaunt anyway) before the big day, but
to have this done to themselves, to have this done when there are
people out there where this is their only way of surviving, it makes
me SICK. Its not 'amazing', its not fantastic and it DOES have side
effects. It plays on insecurities, it makes a MOCKERY. And I can't
stress that enough.
Further
on in the article it says that this diet has been around in 'Europe'
for years, and that the woman who they interviewed said she felt
'tired' and 'Sometimes I had to make excuses to people who were
asking are you sick? And I was like, 'No, I'm not sick, I’m not
dying, I’m fine''.
And
the kicker, this so called Doctor is charging $1500 for the
privilege.
When
so many doctors in this world are fighting against diagnosing M.E,
when so many young people are dying of M.E, and CD/FND, and lives are
made UNBEARABLE, by diseases such as Fibromyalgia, Lupus, Cancer,
Dementia, Altzeimers, Asthma, Diabetes, Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease,
AIDS/HIV, Haemorrhagic fevers. NOT TO MENTION, the flu virus, and all
of the 'common' things like surgery, and neonatal babies who require
feeding tubes. And I haven’t even touched the surface. Doctors are
fighting against OUR conditions, yet there are those out there who
are willing to do and encourage this...
But
what happens if people start to take this too far? They want to lose
MORE weight, they want to continue in this 'lifestyle', or my god
strike them down, those people who are using this as a way of getting
sympathy? Where will this end? It Wont. Because now that it is out
there, and people are becoming more aware of it and it sickens me
that I have felt the need to highlight this as well, and I better not
hear of anyone doing this because they heard it from me so help me
god, but will this ever go away? Or is this going to be just another
fad diet? If it is exclaimed to be so easy, so effortless and these
woman and men want to look their best, for the BIGGEST day of their
lives, then is it REALLY going to go away?
I
fear it won't and the mockery will continue.
A
woman walks down the street with this 'diet' in her handbag and bumps
into a woman who also has a feeding tube in, hers is in a backpack,
or tied around her waist. And the first woman says to the second 'OMG
you're on the same diet as me?? Isn't it so fantastic?! I have
literally lost 20 pounds in the past 8 days alone!!, How are you
finding it? How much have you lost?' And the second woman turns
around to her and says, 'I have terminal cancer/M.E, I've been let
out of the hospital for an hour so I can see the sun. So I can see my
children at a café instead of a hospital room. So I can say goodbye
to my loved ones in a place that isn't sterile'...
What
would you do?
I
am SERIOUSLY asking the question, what would YOU do? Would you even
see the pain and suffering that people go through and that they NEED
these feeds to LIVE? Or would you just see a quick fix to get into
your wedding dress?
I
would be ASHAMED of myself. Ashamed and asking for forgiveness,
PROFUSELY.
But
I wouldn't even do it in the first place. THATS the point!
