Aaaah bless....

When I saw the manometry doctor we were talking about my condition (funny that, normally I go and see the doctor to talk about sport ) and I mentioned that I had lost a lot of weight and was finding it impossible to gain any.

“We see that a lot with this condition”, he said. “People lose weight and generally just fail to thrive”

I felt like he wanted to pat me on the head and go "there, there"^*1....failure to thrive indeed - sounds so odd, doesn’t it?

^*1I like this version from Jools Holland Show....