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- Sep 20, 2016
I'm imagining the smell (because @Constellationzero has permanently damaged me in that regard), but mostly I'm imagining just how hellishly uncomfortable constantly wearing surgical-grade compression that is multiple sizes too small has to be.
I mean, I've worn Spanx (in my actual size) under (semi-)formal dresses (in my actual size) just to smooth things out, make the clothes hang better, and look nice in photos, for 3-5 hours at a go. I cannot imagine going down even one size to maximize the squish—that shit gets shucked off in the ladies' room at the venue, or in the car, right before I drive home as it is. And even harder to imagine is tolerating that shit all day, every day, in heavy-duty form—and multiple sizes too small.
That's a form of hell I can't imagine anybody entering into voluntarily unless they were consumed with self-loathing and a need to punish themselves, but our gorl has done it, and is doing it, and is going to keep on doing it for the forseeable future.
There's got to be somebody out there in this world who makes custom compression garments for people who don't fit into what's available off-the-peg, for one reason or another. There just has to be. And if I was in Anna's position, and had her means, I would see getting custom compression garments made as worthwhile investment. It would be expensive, but it would be totally worth it from a QOL perspective.
Ah, but that would mean confronting how goddamned huge she actually is. And it would probably mean letting go of the idea that her bahddy was going to change so much she was going to shrink right out of it. She can't do that, so she's going to continue to stuff herself into compression that is much too small, and may actually be doing her more harm than good. I now wonder how much of that underarm scarring is due to the stresses of wrestling too-small compression onto herself.
She should have tried wearing compression before the lipo procedures, instead of lying and claiming she had as part of "doing all the right things" for her lipedema. We know she didn't try compression; she didn't even have proper compression socks, and right before surgery bought the athletic kind because they came in crazy colors. And I'll bet that if she had done so, and known what living in compression was going to be like, she never would have had the lipo done.
Anyway, she's living in a hell that is entirely of her own making, and I can't even begin to feel sorry for her.
I mean, I've worn Spanx (in my actual size) under (semi-)formal dresses (in my actual size) just to smooth things out, make the clothes hang better, and look nice in photos, for 3-5 hours at a go. I cannot imagine going down even one size to maximize the squish—that shit gets shucked off in the ladies' room at the venue, or in the car, right before I drive home as it is. And even harder to imagine is tolerating that shit all day, every day, in heavy-duty form—and multiple sizes too small.
That's a form of hell I can't imagine anybody entering into voluntarily unless they were consumed with self-loathing and a need to punish themselves, but our gorl has done it, and is doing it, and is going to keep on doing it for the forseeable future.
There's got to be somebody out there in this world who makes custom compression garments for people who don't fit into what's available off-the-peg, for one reason or another. There just has to be. And if I was in Anna's position, and had her means, I would see getting custom compression garments made as worthwhile investment. It would be expensive, but it would be totally worth it from a QOL perspective.
Ah, but that would mean confronting how goddamned huge she actually is. And it would probably mean letting go of the idea that her bahddy was going to change so much she was going to shrink right out of it. She can't do that, so she's going to continue to stuff herself into compression that is much too small, and may actually be doing her more harm than good. I now wonder how much of that underarm scarring is due to the stresses of wrestling too-small compression onto herself.
She should have tried wearing compression before the lipo procedures, instead of lying and claiming she had as part of "doing all the right things" for her lipedema. We know she didn't try compression; she didn't even have proper compression socks, and right before surgery bought the athletic kind because they came in crazy colors. And I'll bet that if she had done so, and known what living in compression was going to be like, she never would have had the lipo done.
Anyway, she's living in a hell that is entirely of her own making, and I can't even begin to feel sorry for her.
