Pompous gloating. Smug boasting. Evasive enough in delivery to slink around staff recognition. Patients were not so aloof.
Bragging was a right inherently ascribed to the malnourished. The lower the number on the scale, the higher one was on the stratification scale.
Beyond electrolyte imbalance, esophagus erosion, and tooth decay, few of us bulimics had bragging leverage. Anorexics, now they certainly made adverse conditions known to the rest. Gaily wallowing in bombastic pride derived from the hallowed glory of bodily sickness.
Osteoporosis, heart murmur, hypoglycemia, low blood pressure, virtually no blood pressure, lanugo cro