“This photo was taken one week before her death. She chose it for her obituary because as she said, “I look so good for someone almost dead!” Her brief time diagnosed with inoperable cancer gave her mere days to live.”
“A final message Ellen wanted to share was about the fat shaming she endured from the medical profession.
Over the past few years of feeling unwell she sought out medical intervention and no one offered any support or suggestions beyond weight loss.
Ellen’s dying wish was that women of size make her death matter by advocating strongly for their health and not accepting that fat is the only relevant health issue.”
Fatphobia is deadly.
Your fat hatred kills people.
People who are loved, people who are desperately missed.
Good grief. Share her story, because it could easily be anyone’s story who has ever had to deal with fatphobia in medicine or doctors not listening to them for whatever bias-fueled reason.
ForLoveFromFear 