EITM: Robin From Richmond 4/24/24

Lays an onion!

Episode Transcript

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Hi elliot the morning. Uh.Hi, my name is Robin. I'm
sorry Richmond. Yes, yes,Robin from Richmond. Uh huh. I've
had gastric bypass and one of thefirst things they do is warn't warn your
uh sugar alcohols, which anything thatends an ol, like sorbitol malatall.

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They will give you some serious diarrhea. They and uh it's uh. And
actually people have paid gas and bypass. They call it dumping. And when
you've had too much sugar, auntcall your whole body dumps and I mean
it, you get seriously sick.But now do you I take it you've

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had the surgery. Yes, Iweighed almost seven hundred pounds. No you
did not. Yeah. And it'ssay people were like, or when did
you go back to work? Inever stopped working at seven hundred pounds.
How did you get to the office? Will work? No, I'm being
serious. I walked, you walked, walked. I want you to get

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a handicapped spot. And at thetime, one of the men that was
he was like a h maintenance guythere. He arranged to have benches put
in strategic places so I could stopand rest. Wow, that is nice.
I know a guy who watched hiscoworker eat it, and he looked

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at his watch and was like,how long do I have to stand here
with him? Now? It's uh? And it it became. I was
very good on computers, and oneof the ladies that worked with me was
computer illiterate, Right, So Iwould do these things for her on the
computer, and she would make longdistance walks to other buildings for me.

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I can't. And you weighed sevenhundred pounds. Yeah, I just recently
retired after almost thirty nine years.I finally retired in February. Good for
you. Good. I did thework of like a contractor. I was
a level three. They just advertisedit as a five or six. Hey,

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what so can I ask you this? Like what? Like, listen,
I'm not trying to hurt your feelingsif I asked something that that you
don't want to answer? What isit? No? But like for like,
like what clothes were you wearing?Like is it seven hundred pounds?
Isn't that like underwear? No?No? Actually, the fat Man's store

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a big man's store, right,they had bigger doors than women. So
I'd go to the fat man Storeand give me some jockeys. Said the
whole shot. I mean, I'llhave nothing to hang out of it.
Robin, you said you had thesurgery. How much did you end up

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losing? I'm down to something nowyou've watched five hundred pounds. Yeah,
and it's like you do get tothe point where you start to fluctuate again.
You have to really do watch whatyou eat all that. But how
bad was your diarrhea? You know? I never I only had it hit

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me one time. And I wentout to a restaurant with a friend and
at the time I was commuting toOld Dominion for classes. I was going
to school too and working full time, and I had a paper due and
I had to get home to finishthe paper and submitted by a certain time.

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And halfway home the dump ain't hitme. That's why I was so
blast is thick. And I managedto make it home and in between running
between the bathroom and the computer,I managed to get my paper done.
But is a it is a turt. I haven't had one since Wait a
minute, you you know, well, first of all, where did you
eat anywhere? Well? Actually,I kind of it's believing or not.

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I ate at home, pick upstuff and eat it home, right,
oh okay, but when you whenyou when you were dump and you weren't
in the car, no, no, I got home, and it just
it's a really bad feeling. It'slike it affects you mentally as well.
It makes you get this overwhelming feelinglike the world's coming to an end.

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You have part so clean afterwards.It is a terrible, terrible feeling.
I mean it is really. Onceyou have one, you don't want to
have another. And I haven't hadone, and in years. I can't
believe you lost five hundred. Thatis amazing to me. And it just

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and I've had two knee replacements,I bet and and I'm waiting on a
hip. Hey what'd you do withall you? What did you do with
all them fatman underwares? I threwthem away? Had a girl? Good
for you? Good for you?You know when I think back of it,

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Some of the things that happened tome at work, like one a
couple of secretaries found out on thehow they found up and the found what
I was wearing, and they actuallyjerked my dress up in the bathroom to
show other people. Are you serious? That's carrucah So you know, but

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I had a friend that made myOh that's for me. We would go
and pick out material and all shedid was take the two ends of the
of the material and solved together padthe back. Yeah, and she put
a hymn in it in the waistbandand we're good to go. Good for
you, good for you. Well, listen, you know, I'm glad

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that you. I'm glad you gotthe surgery. I'm glad you're down to
two something good for you. Yeah. And uh, but like I said,
uh, the sugar alcohol some peoplemore sensitive than others, and it
will make you sick. It willgive you serious direct if you ever want
to get back somebody. And Idid this. Oh, buy two boxes

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of Brussels Stover candy, one sugarfree, one regular, and interchange some
of the candy and don't tell themgreat. Anything more than what's recommended will
cause have laxative effects. Right on. Good to know, good to know,

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all right, very good. Iappreciate it. Thank you, ma'am,
Thank you, m hm. Wellyou gotta love you you too,