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08-11-2004, 10:51 PM | #1 |
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So not the way i want to go
at first i wanted to chuckle but then i just felt really sad for a person that lived this way - if you can really call it living. i would hope that if they couldn't help me, that my family would at least euthanize me.
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08-11-2004, 10:56 PM | #2 |
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I can see the FARK headline now:
<b>Rescue workers dig up 600 pound couch potato</b> |
08-11-2004, 11:05 PM | #3 | |
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So who was bringing food to this woman? She obviously wasn't getting up to go to the fridge herself. That is seriously messed up. |
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08-11-2004, 11:21 PM | #4 |
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If she was grafted to the couch, she obviously wasn't making to the loo on her own, either. Egad.
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08-12-2004, 01:06 AM | #6 | |
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08-12-2004, 01:21 AM | #7 |
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Let everyone eat what they will, I just can't imagine being <i>grown into</i> a couch. That's just fucking sick.
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08-12-2004, 12:01 AM | #8 | |
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08-11-2004, 11:34 PM | #9 |
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As far as being ultra-obese, I would have thought 600 lbs would still afford some basic mobility...
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08-12-2004, 12:02 AM | #10 | |
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What I want to know is how a person can let themselves get that bad. I mean once you cross the 300 lbs. milestone you think these people would get help somehow. Get their stomach stapled or something. My first thought also when I read that article is where was her bathroom duties going. Thats just nasty, I cant fathom how someone could live like that.
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08-12-2004, 08:14 AM | #11 |
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Oh, this is truly sad. The article says a man lived with her--in that stench?? Oh my. I used to go into private homes to do nursing (home health care--I don't recommend it) and it is truly shocking sometimes to see how other people live. And I'm trying not to be too middle class here, either. Some things just shocked me. I wonder if this woman (only 40!) had had any health care at ALL in her two years on the couch?
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08-12-2004, 09:59 AM | #12 |
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Wow just reading the responses made me not want to see the article.
As someone who has been overweight since age 8 or so, I would see extremely obese people and think, "God I do NOT want to be like them ever". I can't imagine. However, after gaining 40 pounds in the last years from the dialysis (and reaching my highest weight ever), I started to become concerned. I can relate somewhat to the woman who was having pains due to the heavy weight putting a strain on her legs. It is somewhat hard getting around sometimes (it's also due to other health issues). It ain't easy folks.
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08-12-2004, 10:26 AM | #13 |
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"A group known as the League of Human Dignity helped arrange for Deuel to be driven to a local livestock scale, where he could be weighed."
Well that doesn't seem right...
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08-12-2004, 01:05 PM | #14 |
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People much smaller than him have had to do that, too. Normal doctor's office scales only go up to 350-400 pounds. My mom is a former Weight Watchers counselor, and I remember her riding to Winn Dixie (a grocery store, I think they're a local chain) with a woman who was over 450 pounds to be weighed every week on their meat scales until she lost enough weight to be weighed on the regular scale. I thought it was extremely courageous of the woman to go through all that humiliation. IIRC she did get down to and maintain a healthy weight.
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08-12-2004, 09:26 AM | #15 |
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