i never watch this show, really. i've never been as heavy as these folks (except that one year when i was all pumped up on prednisone, or even the time i was pregnant but other than that...no)

anyhow, so i flip over for law and order suv (which i'm wondering if i indeed want to watch cause this one franchise has kind of become stale for me) and i catch the last few minutes of the loser show.

everyone agrees to kick this one guy, paul, off. he lost seventy-three pounds, pretty good, eh?

so he goes home, sees his family, "oh, you're an inspiration to us all" i'm sure. but a week afterwards, after he got home, he was hospitalized with double pneumonia. wow! that's tough.

however, while in the hospital, he GAINED SIX POUNDS.
sigh...there are so many things wrong with that. who has ever gained six pounds in the hospital? who?

honestly, before he could gain the six pounds he would have lost at least six-ten and he'd practically break even. pneumonia will do that to you, especially double pneumonia.

i've been hospitalized with pneumonia, bronchitis, crohn's, i've been fed sugary iv fluids to keep me hydrated. allowed to eat whatever i want to gain weight. allowed all the jello and ice cream i wanted. well, ok, i did gain weight a few times but it was because they were pumping me full of steroids and i mean mega-amounts---which is why now, i have no back and no knees.

if he had pneumonia, they surely weren't giving him ice cream and milk as those are two things you don't give patients with respiratory fluid build up...it thickens the mucous, the secretions and it's a no-no (that's a good mom-tip for you, lisa, if she ever gets a chest cold or anything that means a lot of mucous...no milk products because it thickens secretions). they could have given him steroids for his respiratory but i never had them for that and definitely not in the doses i got for my crohn's. not for pneumonia. never. i never got steroids for my pneumonia (even when i almost died from it, and i lost a good thirty pounds at that time)

someone was sneaking him in mac donald's and arby's, i guarantee it.

no one GAINS SIX pounds in the hospital. NO ONE.

sorry, just a little rant. you may now all return to your regularly scheduled programming (and just ignore me)