Hee. This fic takes place in 2005, and the question of whether Voldemort is dead is still up in the air. Still, yes, the blindness is related to Voldemort somehow.
As for HEAVY (the episode of which you speak), the show did the very questionable thing of curing the girl of being fat.
Yes. They actually did that.
Basic run-through: They go through a whole bunch of things that it isn't, as per usual. Poor kid get lesions on fatty tissues -- at one point, Mom is faced with possible cutting off of daughter's breasts.
CAUSE: Cushing's disease. A tumor behind the eye or something like that, and it was causing her obesity as well as the other symptoms.
As soon as the tumor's removed and a week or so goes by, she comes back to the hospital and is VERY skinny.
It's annoying, because both of my sisters are overweight, and the episode was basically saying, "Hey, look, we can cure being fat!"
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Date: 2005-08-13 04:13 pm (UTC)As for HEAVY (the episode of which you speak), the show did the very questionable thing of curing the girl of being fat.
Yes. They actually did that.
Basic run-through: They go through a whole bunch of things that it isn't, as per usual. Poor kid get lesions on fatty tissues -- at one point, Mom is faced with possible cutting off of daughter's breasts.
CAUSE: Cushing's disease. A tumor behind the eye or something like that, and it was causing her obesity as well as the other symptoms.
As soon as the tumor's removed and a week or so goes by, she comes back to the hospital and is VERY skinny.
It's annoying, because both of my sisters are overweight, and the episode was basically saying, "Hey, look, we can cure being fat!"