"The Heavy Nurse"

I am aware of the fact that I am "heavy" or "fat" even. I don't think that being overweight defines me, it merely is an aspect of my physical appearance that I am trying to change. Well, today while talking to a family member of one of my patients she said something about talking about me to another family member and referring to me as "the heavy nurse"... Um what? Okay I am a lot of things and heavy is just one of them. How about the blond nurse or the blue eyed nurse or even the white nurse, or the friendly nurse, the nurse that's usually there in the daytime, but no it was the heavy nurse. Aside from that, how was it even close to being appropriate for her to mention that to me? I am aware of my appearance, I have mirrors at home but come on people. This may sound very juvenile but that's just not nice.

A few days ago I had a different patient that was very resistive to care who didn't want to take her medication get frustrated with me and say to me "Is that how you got so heavy? By forcing people to take medicine" Yes! That is exactly how it happened! I clearly have forced many people to take there medication, where do you think I got my butt?

People are clueless. Some things are not appropriate to say. I work amongst people that are smaller and larger then I. Further proof that people see fat and they generally don't take the time see much else.