My doctor told me that I had an inflammation of my abdominal wall, and he wanted to make sure I didn't have gall stones or kidney stones. So I was off to get an ultrasound.
While lying on the table, I heard the doctor say, "Wow, look at that." "Ooh, can you imagine."
She asked, "When's the last time you ate?"
I replied, "Don't worry. I know I wasn't supposed to eat for seven hours, and I didn't."
"Yes," she said, "But did you eat before that?"
"Of course, I ate before that," I said. I probably hadn't eaten tons, but I'd eaten good healthy food.
"Well, your ultrasound looks like you haven't eaten in a week."
Maybe I ate such healthy stuff that it was all absorbed into my body. :)
Then she asked, "Have you lost a lot of weight?"
"Yes, I have. Why do you ask?"
She said, "Your organs show everything."
Then the doctor said something that really surprised me. "You know, it is much more complicated to do an ultrasound on an overweight person."
It's harder for the beams to penetrate the tissue when there's a lot of fat in the way, or something like that. (Of course, when I was more overweight they didn't tell me how difficult an ultrasound was on me, and how much harder it would be to see important things inside my body.)
She said, "If people knew how much easier it is to do an ultrasound and diagnose illnesses on a thin person, they'd be motivated to change their eating habits."
"I'll tell them," I said. (This was telling you!!)
"You're organs are picture perfect," she said with a smile.
"Then what's the pain in my stomach?" I asked.
"Well, you've got no kidney stones or gall stones, B"H!" she said.
Hmmm....Maybe someone really did punch me in the stomach, or maybe I got jabbed and I just don't remember. Meanwhile, B"H, I'm feeling well. The pain is gone, and I'm thankful I have picture perfect organs.
Change your eating habits and you can have picture perfect organs too.
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