chapter 2

An hour later, Mac and Liza were driving in their caravan, with prescriptions for Liza to fill out, for her high blood pressure and cholesterol.

Mac looked in the rear view mirror, where his wife was sitting behind him. Because she had become so big, she was no longer able to fit in the passenger seat beside him. He had installed a ramp in the back,, where his wife could be loaded up.

Mac saw Liza looking so crestfallen. "Cheer up, baby. I'll get you some lunch before we go home but first we're gonna make a pit stop somewhere."

"Mac...where...are... .we...going?" Liza asked, breathing heavily. She's notcied for the past month her conversations were getting choppy, and she was getting breathless, just speaking sentences, when she was sitting. It worried her.

"You're see," Mac said, as he pulled the van up to a truck weighing scale. There were already a truck in front of them.

"Mac...what...are....we...doing. ..here?" Liza started to panic.

"Honey, I want to see how much you weigh. It's too bad we couldn't see it at the doctor's, but you should be fine on these scales!."

With that, it was Mac's van turn to go onto the scale. But Mac put the hazard lights on, he got out, open the van's side door, and wheeled his wife out.

Trucks behind them were starting to honk, and when they saw Liza, a blimp riding out onto the platform in her scooter, some drivers rolled their windows down and hurled crude insults and jokes.

Tears started to roll down Liza's cheeks.

"Ignore them, honey," Mac said. He supported his wife as he got her to stand up, and helped her waddled the 5 steps onto the scale.

Liza looked up and with horror, saw the large numbers. 502 lbs.

Mac gabbed her largest belly roll, put his cheek to it, and rubbed it in circular motions.

"Well look at that. you passed the 500 lbs. mark!" He let her belly down and slapped it hard, and they both watch her rolls of belly flesh shake.

As Mac had Liza ride back into the van, with drivers laughing and still hurling out insults, Liza cried, numb. She was 5 feet 3, and didn't realize she had let herself get this huge. With her eating habits, she couldn't imagine being able to lose the weight.

To make her feel better, Mac brought Liza 5 big mac combos, with 5 large chocolate milk shakes. Liza ate them numbly, on the way home, while crying.