Pneumonia makes me slenderize
I feel like I’ve been blenderized
Steals my breath and appetite
Work to breathe both day and night
My heart goes fast, trials one to four
I’d rather not have any more
Ten pounds down, gone like smoke
Carbohydrates make me choke
The legacy of my fourth round
I can’t eat gluten, ounce nor pound
And yet I still come out ahead
Since I am alive and still not dead
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Four pneumonias in 24 years. I have an antibody response, which peaks about six weeks after the infection. Colds don’t trigger it. This photograph is two months in to my 2021 round. I drop ten pounds in the first week and eating is always difficult. I do not recommend this method of weight loss.
For the Ragtag Daily Prompt: slenderize.
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‘Ills that don’t kill us make us stronger’ I guess. But I ain’t no Doctor! And thanks for the like.
Definitely life is better than death.
Sorry, but my first thought when I read “I feel like I’ve been blenderized” was from “Time Has Come Today” by the Chambers Brothers – “My soul’s been psychedelicized.”
The most effective weight loss methods are often hard to recommend. I lost 15 pounds in 9 weeks riding across the country, but that’s almost as hard to recommend to the average person as getting sick, which is the other way I’ve managed to lose a lot of weight quickly without trying.
I do not recommend the getting sick.
Psychedelecized is added to the future word list!