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My sister and her fianc� are both obese. He is about 400 lbs. They are in their early 30's, and otherwise healthy and active. They work together, and last week he was late, but hadn't called in. After 20 minutes, she called me in a panic, and said "this isn't like him. What if he had a heart attack or something?"
I find it interesting that she would jump to this conclusion about his health, but she disregards anyone elses concerns for her health, saying "I go to the doctor regularly, and my blood pressure is fine". At 100+ pounds overweight, her risk is equal to his.
FYI-he is fine...it was a flat tire and dead cell phone battery that made him late and unreachable.

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I have a son who's 3 rd grade sent us 'assessments' she had done on him. She told us to bring the assessments to his doctor and have him diagnosed as ADD/ADHD, because her was acting out in class. I refused, as I knew he was just bored. She refused to test him for TAG. I had to go to the school administration to have him TAG tested. This teacher has received numerous district awards for her work with ESL teaching etc. , but to her my son was a square peg that didn't fit in her round holes, soshe decided that trying to get me to medicate him was easier than dealing with his obvious lack of stimulation in her classroom.

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