Hormones

Anorexic

Jian walked into her house and saw her dad sitting in the couch reading a book. She walked passed the living room and into her bedroom taking her puff out of her pocket.

She sat down in her bed, scrolling through her phone. After a while her dad knocked on the door. She quickly hid the puff bar under her pillow. "What?"

Her dad walked into the room. "You have a doctors appointment Jian. We need to leave in 10 minutes."

Jian nodded and her dad left. She sighed and got up. She went into her bathroom and brushed her hair. She decided she was gonna change her clothes, and went back into her room to pick out an outfit.

She chose to wear a grey hoodie and some blue skinny jeans with rips by her knees. She stripped her clothes off and caught a glance of herself in her body mirror that hung on her bedroom door.

She was pale, almost sickly. She collarbones looked very visible and her rib cages too. Her legs had a thigh gap. Her hip bones stuck out slightly. She knew this appointment wasn't going to go well.

She put on her clothes and went into her bathroom again. She pulled out her makeup pouch and put some mascara, lipstick, concealer, and blush to try and make her look a bit more alive.

She grabbed her phone and walked out of her room and to the door where her dad was waiting patiently for her so they could leave. They both left the house and drove to her doctors office.

They both waited in the waiting room until a nurse called her name. "Jian kwon!" She stood up and followed the nurse out of the room. He dad stayed in the waiting room while the appointment went on.

"So Jian! If you don't mind, could you please take your shoes off and stand right here?" The nurse said pointing to the wall so they could measure her height. She walked over to the wall and stood by the numbers on the wall. The nurse came over a moved the bar down to the top of her head and wrote down how tall she was.

"Ok and now I need you to come over here and step onto the scale please."

Jian froze for a second and just eyes the scale. She hadn't weighted herself in quite a while but she knew she had dropped in weight drastically.

"Is everything ok Jian?" The nurse asked. Jian looked up at the woman and nodded slowly. She took careful steps towards the scale and slowly stepped onto it closing her eyes.

The nurse stayed quiet for a second before saying "ok Jian. You can get off now."

Jian slowly opened her eyes and looked at the numbers. The scale read 79 pounds. She got off the scale and watched the numbers disappear. Then the nurse led her into another room and told her to sit down. "The doctor will be in here shortly. Just fill out this paper while you wait." The sure handed her a paper connected to a clip board with a pen. Jian smiled at the nurse.

The nurse left and Jian started to fill out the paper.

It asked questions like: have you consumed any drugs or alcohol in the last year, have you had trouble sleeping lately, feeling sad or anxious without any reason, ect.

She answered all the questions on the paper before the doctor came into the room. "Hello Jian!" The doctor said brightly. "How have you been?"

"Good" Jian replied smiling a bit. "That's good to hear." The doctor said sitting down in a black chair with wheels in it. She looked at the computer to see the notes the nurse had left her. "So... last time I saw you was last year and I correct? Around November?"

Jian nodded and looked at her hands that where sitting in her lap. She interlocked her fingers together as a way to give herself comfort.

"And it looks like you got taller as well! You grew about an inch."