Fat "acceptance" - from the PoV of a fat person

[Runningdawg]

115. I retired from nursing

in part because of the generally accepted attitudes towards overweight patients. In some cases it was nothing short of blatant discrimination. I myself, slightly overweight for most of my life, was a target.
I developed intense pain in my L foot. I went to the Dr and without examining the foot he said "well of course your feet hurt, loose weight" explaining that only one foot hurt, did nothing to persuade him. The second opinion was the same.
After several months, the pain intensified. I had to do something. I asked a friend who was an x-ray tech to give it a flash. Although neither of us were trained to read x-rays, it would have been clear to most anyone there was an olive-sized mass in my foot.
Armed with my x-ray and new determination I visited a 3rd Dr. Surprise #3 turned out to be one of the good guys. He diagnosed a tumor and scheduled me for surgery. By the time of this 3rd visit the tumor had displaced bones near it.
Not only did I need a surgery to remove the benign tumor, I need two more surgeries to correct the bones and tissues it had damaged. This also led to deformity of my foot and damaged nerves. To this day, I need a shoe 1-1/2 size larger and in a wide with for only the damaged foot.
To add insult to injury imagine my surprise when I learned I could not sue the first 2 for malpractice - because they had not given a diagnosis or any treatment. Nothing is going to change until excess weight is treated like other medical conditions - with the full arsenal of treatments available: drugs, surgery, counseling and physical therapy. Sad to say, I do not believe it will happen in my lifetime.