Who here remembers the worst day of their life. The day you'll never forget. The day everything changed.I'm not talking about a bad grade or a lost tennis match. If you haven't lived that day yet, good for you. As for the others, would you please raise your hand.Thank you. Personally, I can no longer raise my arm, but I'll answer my own question anyway. I remember that day perfectly.December 8th, 2020. After a sudden and unexplained bike accident, my right leg was constantly dragging, my muscles twitching, ...

Maybe you're so big you should be on oxygen. That's what a doctor said to me as I struggled to breathe. Had she just looked at my chart, she would have seen I'd recently been cleared to walk 5ks.That's the equivalent of 45 times around a baseball diamond. But she didn't look. She just saw one number, my BMI, body mass index.And in that moment, all I heard her say was, "You don't deserve to breathe." That day, I became a statistic. One I'd spent years trying to prevent. Because when people are made to feel s ...