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mini sari

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Her frigid fingers blending a single packet of sweet'n'low into her 16 ounces off coffee and a tablespoon of non fat french vanilla creamer, 50 calories is still her biggest fear. Her mother sits back at the kitchen table and watches her daughter slowly melt away before her eyes. Sarah tips back her cup of steaming splendor to that first body warming sip, Though both at the table are aware that she will be punishing herself for the carbohydrate content that she hadn't specified when calculating today's grueling 450 calories diet.

She heads to the top of the refrigerator and grabs down a bowl of vitamin bottles, Pulls out the potassium pills and grabs a glass of water, 4 ounces so is not to add weight when she checks on her ounce to ounce digital sale that awaits her in the cold room. She reaches the cold room ad strips down to a tiny bluish body, Exposing herself every physical detail to a body length that rests upon the door. She turns the lock shut, Switches on the bathroom fan so her mother is not to hear the chaos that is about to escape from her mouth and into a herself in thrown.

Steps on the scale to see a mysterious added pound, Not thinking that it has anything do with water weight. No, It's time for punishment, She's fat. Snap of a finger on bended knees, She releases every worry, Every stress, She vomits her own broken heart. Too tough to swallow and leave be, She dwells upon moments that she can no longer touch, She can no longer attempt to move on.

As she returns to her toes with a pounding heart, She knows this feeling, She's been here before.

Stresses released are no longer important, New ones are born upon the flush of the toilet. She tosses back a potassium pill into her throat with a pray of hope, That an electrolyte imbalance wont occurs yet again. Takes two ounces of her water to wash it down whole, Though she feels she will regret that extra weight.

She steps on her scale that no longer gives accurate readings, It no longer properly calibrates because she has used it more in 4 months than most would find use in ten years. Only 14 ounces gone, And without a single thought rolls back over to her spot. Not satisfied until every ounce upon two others is gone.

The potassium rolls back out and she chokes.

"What am I doing?"

she asks herself in the lowest voice.

"God, I think we need to have a talk."

Upon her final words to God, She exhales the rest of her tiny precious breath, And collapses into a floor that seems bottomless. Her loving mother, From the kitchen table, Can hear a muffled clash and takes it upon herself to check. She goes to the cold room and knocks, No answer. Again, No movement.

She's been here before, Her husband knocks down the cold door, Only to land on Sarah's frozen back. Blue to the face, This isn't what she dreamed to accomplish fro this, She simply wanted to fill the hole of emptiness inside. Her mother grabs her lifeless hand, Calosed and bleeding from the savage attempt at upping a single serving of creamer, Not a breath existing in her frail body.

With the call of an ambulance, Her mother scrams. Tha ambulance ride was the longest of her daughters short lived life. A lifeless body is shocked with two paddles upon arrival to the sene, And death is nearly called. Sarah is stronger, Sarah can fight this. A faint beat appears on a monitor and she is hooked to a set of iv's, Loaded with nutrients that her brain is starving for. A tube inserted in this erroaded throat, She begins to vomit on her side and a large amount creaps down into her stomach. "Liquid calories", As she had rememberedit from the first time.

Upon arrival to the psych unit on the fourth floor, She looks out her window, And to God she says "If thisis a challange, Please take it. I may have been strong enough in body to survive this one, This time. But my heart has been crushed long ago.".
 
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mini sari said:
She vomits her own broken heart.

WOW. What a powerful image. :(

Such a sad, sad story, but i'm so glad you're telling it whether or not it's fiction.

I think i'd be able to pay this piece the attention it deserves if it were broken up a little, into a few paragraphs. I don't think you're looking for crit but this isn't intended to be critical, i only want more people to read it.

Thanks sooo much for writing and sharing this, once again.
 
if the sentences were split up, it would make it ALOT easier to read.

this was absolutely excellent! i'm surprised only one other responded.
bump.
 
Here, I'll fix that now :) Thanks for the feedback, So far. xoxo.


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and it is fixed.

To clairify this piece for those who are reading and have already read, this is infact based on my life. I have been battling an eating disorder for a few years now, This was written upon accepting myself for me - And not for a scales reading. In additon to finding other things that I can find stability in, Other than binging, Purging, fasting, and abusing laxatives.

The actual events, They never took place.

The scene of my colapse prior to my hospitalization took place in my fathers home, And kept me in a hospital for a month with both psych and medical care.

I myself did nearly lose my life from an electrolyte imbalance though, And it did occur after freaking out over a few ounces that made the scale read heavier - Resulting in me feleing the need to purge out the water, Along with any stomach acids etc that could have made the scale say that weight again, For the rest of the day.

Bulimia is a scary thing, As is anorexia. I've been there with both.

Thank God, Thank God.. I've managed long enough to share my words with people.
 
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Mad props to you girlie :)

Eating disorders are hard to face and for me even harder to write about.... you put it so clear and powerful I loved reading this,,,, thank you especially from me for writting this.

* Hugs*
 
This wonderful work of yours reminds me so much of another young author, MArya Hornbacher, who penned her own battle with anorexia and bulimia in a memoir titled Wasted (i bought a copy several years ago...) Thank you for sharing this part of you.....
 
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Wow! What a powerful story. In High School I had a friend who became severly aneorexic. Her family even called my Mom and had her put 1'st on the Emeregency list after family because she was so weak the doctors said she could collapse at any moment.

You are strong and beautiful. Don't forget that.
 
I would like to thank all of you for the support and positive feedback that has been given to me on this thread. It means a lot to see that my work is being given recognition and that something semi based upon my struggle is looked at with such empathy. This is probably one of the best short stories that I have composed, So far, And I am ery proud of both this story and my recovery in progress. I hope to see more feedback on this over the next few days and I have decided to make this a long story, By creating both a begining of the bulimia and a beautiful recovery ending. I'll be sure to post the entire thing once it is completed. I wish Anthony could see this, He would be proud of me. Sure of it.

Once again, Thank you all :) xoxo!
 
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