Dear Abby: People know something's up with our family. My wife says to tell them nothing.
Briefly

I wish your daughter a complete recovery. Her weight loss will be obvious to anyone who sees her. If I were doing the explaining, I'd shorten the message, eliminating the lost a bunch of weight to something like, 'Our daughter is having stomach issues. She's under a doctor's care, and her team is figuring out what's going on. Period.'
As a former sufferer of an eating disorder, my wife is reluctant to let anyone outside our inner circle know what is going on and risk our daughter beginning middle school with the stigma of an eating disorder.
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