DD is 10; she is currently fighting AML - she is responding really well to treatment
She has to get many blood tests/have lots of chemo, but as an out-patient (currently)...
She has to have her height and weight checked, amongst other things, before she gets it - she has just made it into the 'overweight' section. Maybe due to lack of exercise and me getting her anything she wants - I admit, it's all my fault, but when your child has cancer and you don't know their life outcome, you do absolutely anything you can to keep a smile on their face. She enjoys ice-cream, lots of it! It helps her dry and blistered mouth (so has 3 scoops through chemo) and then she picks a restaurant of her choice; she also cannot do much exercise. I get it, it's awful of me, but she's bloody happy and never goes without smiling and right now, that's all that matters.
She doesn't look overweight... She has only just touched it though, so isn't exactly noticeable.
Anyway, her doctor just decides to go "so, (DD's name) you seem to have put on weight" and taps her tummy, like WTF
She looks at me; she didn't laugh along either. He then says how she needs to come back down in weight, etc. etc.
So, I've now had a crying 10 year old, telling me how she is no longer pretty - I've spend so long trying to get her to believe she is beautiful without hair (which I think I have finally achieved) and now this! Nothing like knocking a little girl's, who is going through so much, confidence.
AIBU to think she should have just mentioned it to me, if he was going to mention it?
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AIBU to think DD's doctor shouldn't have told her that she needs to lose weight?
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Shorter12 · 10/05/2016 21:26
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10/05/2016 22:31
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