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To: johnny7
Having lived with a bulemic (my sister), I don't understand how anyone living with her could not know. We KNEW something was wrong, but in the late 1970's, no one could give us a name for it. Anorexia is much easier to hide, IMHO.

All the binge foods and sticky toilet seats. Long trips to the bathroom. My sister was 5'6" and down to 85 lbs and could still point out how fat her forearms were.

The irony was, I was the fat sister. From age 7 to 16 I was taken from one doc to the next and put on all kinds of meds to make me lose weight (none worked). Once I understood what my sister was doing, I even tried..but couldn't develope bulemia (by the Grace of God). It's always been curious to me that in a time period where society was aware of eating disorders, no one close to her caught on. Yet I also read that when Terri fell in her kitchen, Michael didn't attempt CPR, which even the untrained will attempt in an emergency.

70 posted on 04/06/2005 6:44:11 AM PDT by sweet_diane ("Will I dance for you Jesus? Or in awe of You be still? I can only imagine..I can only imagine.")
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To: sweet_diane

How is your sister doing? I used to listen through the bathroom door, making sure my oldest wasn't barfing up her food. Her trip was exercising. She ate ok, but she exercised up to 4 times a day. My second oldest was huge, until she shot up 3 inches in height, and dropped 50 lbs when she was around 16. My boy has always been skinny, and the youngest one is a little chubby, but nothing to worry about. I was chubby at her age.

You know, even though the "husband" denied an eating disorder existing, he is a pathological liar. Did he deny to get the insurance money?


169 posted on 04/06/2005 12:02:53 PM PDT by TheSpottedOwl (Free Mexico!)
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