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Heh.
My wife took that for a while.
Her head got HUGE.
I’m talking, “Jerry-Lewis-on-steroids” HUGE.

It’s back to normal, but she still gets mad when I bring that up.

"It’s back to normal, but she still gets mad when I bring that up.

You mean like on a political discussion board that's read by tens or hundreds of thousands of people? I'd keep her away from the computer for a few days.

And yet here you are, still doing it. Latent hostility??

My hubby who died in 2006 from liver cancer had taken the prednisone in the 70’s for Hodgkin's Disease. Prednisone was such a new drug that we had to sign consent forms for him to take it. He only took it for about 3 months and he was cured but he gained about 100 lbs which was very hard to lose. Then in April, 2006, he had lost about 60 lbs and his dumb-o dr here who was an oncologist said it had nothing to do with cancer. My daughter and I finally took him to B’ham and they did a simple ct-scan and found a tumor 5x5x5 on his liver. They gave him 6 months but he died on 8 July 2006. Our younger daughter was told she had Crohn’s Disease when she was about 18-20 and the drug of choice was prednisone which caused her to gain a whole lot of weight. She had so many complications from the Crohn’s that she died on 15 Jan 2004. I still miss them with all of my heart and would take them back, severe weight gain and all!

When I was 2 my nephew was born. His right leg was crooked from the knee down. It was turned toward the back. He had to have it amputated when he was just a toddler but that never stopped him from doing what he wanted to do. He would go to the swimming pool, take his leg off, jump in and have fun just like all of the other kids. We never treated him any differently than the others and if he did something wrong, he got punished by my parents who helped raise him while his parents worked. My favorite story about him is when he was in high school. The school had a new principal and one day one of my nephew's friends came running up to him and said that my nephew had broken off his foot! The guy was scared to death because he did not have a clue as to what was going on. Another favorite story was when he was very young and was in a Memphis hospital. Roy Rogers, Dale Evans and their group came to see the kids one day. One of the guys with them asked my nephew who his favorite cowboy was expecting him to say Roy, of course. His reply kind of stunned them when he said Hopalong! They did give him and the others a replica of Trigger which he kept until he was married and had kids. He brought it over to my parents’ for safe keeping and my mom did not know what happened to it after that.

Most people know when someone is on prednisone for the shape of the head even if the weight gain does not. I am just so greatful that we had them as long as we did but that does not stop the tears from flowing even after all these years.