Silent Disease
In terms of disease’s being silent, the one that has come into my life with a vengeance just happens to be Anorexia. The person in my life who suffers from it is my wife. At one point her weight got dangerously low more than a couple of decades ago and then she bounced back to somewhat normal after we had our son. That lasted for quite a while. Something recently or within the last year or so seems to have triggered her and she is on a kick to lose weight yet again.
She looks at herself and seem to think she is too fat, though at this point I would guess she barely weighs 100 lbs.
She always says that she just doesn’t like food, so she just doesn’t eat. Today is a good example, something got in her head that she should fast every Monday, and has been doing so for a couple of months now. This is bad on her body because it doesn’t like her not eating.
When she does eat it is barely anything at all. Hell pound for pound I am pretty sure our 9 lb chihuahua eats more food than she does.
I look at what she is doing and almost see it as a slow form of suicide, because at some point her body is going to give up the ghost and start to quit, when that will happen I don’t know, and that is the scary part for sure. Being she pretty much eats less than 1K calories per day, most likely closer to 500, and then she is exercising twice a day 4 days a week…
