"I'm trying to reduce my weight a bit right now so I can be in the right condition for the operation."

As in, able to get on the fucking plane?! Unless they were thinking of getting one of the military ones that can carry tanks.

I heard on NPR a couple weeks ago that some cities are starting to get larger ambulances b/c not all patients fit in the normal ones. (U.S. cities, it goes without saying.) (And yet I said it.)