flynn23 wrote:
] ] Emergency workers had to remove some sliding glass doors
] ] and lift the couch, with Grinds still on it, to a trailer
] ] behind a pickup truck. Removing her from the couch would
] ] be too painful, since her body was grafted to the fabric.
] ] After years of staying put, her skin had literally become
] ] one with the sofa and had to be surgically removed.
]
] wow.

What I want to know is if this lady was ever denied adequate medical treatment for obesity as a disease. Something is dreadfully wrong here. This lady either was neglected by her primary caregiver and not taken to the doctor, or she had stupid doctors with the hermit crab attitude that obesity is ONLY a flaw in character. Another possibility is that her insurance refused to cover treatment like a trip to a bariatric MD, or refused her a gastric bypass for her condition. I would LOVE to know what went wrong here.

The medical system, like most of America, needs to realize that overweight people, primarily woman, are NOT invisible and have worth and value as human beings. No one wants to talk about weight prejudice though - its so widely accepted that most of this country would not even think it is wrong to ridicule the obese or deny them proper treament. Indeed, many would not even consider it to be an issue.

skullaria wrote:
] flynn23 wrote:
] ] ] Emergency workers had to remove some sliding glass doors
] ] ] and lift the couch, with Grinds still on it, to a trailer
] ] ] behind a pickup truck. Removing her from the couch would
] ] ] be too painful, since her body was grafted to the fabric.
] ] ] After years of staying put, her skin had literally become
] ] ] one with the sofa and had to be surgically removed.
] ]
] ] wow.
]
] What I want to know is if this lady was ever denied adequate
] medical treatment for obesity as a disease. Something is
] dreadfully wrong here. This lady either was neglected by her
] primary caregiver and not taken to the doctor, or she had
] stupid doctors with the hermit crab attitude that obesity is
] ONLY a flaw in character. Another possibility is that her
] insurance refused to cover treatment like a trip to a
] bariatric MD, or refused her a gastric bypass for her
] condition. I would LOVE to know what went wrong here.
]
] The medical system, like most of America, needs to realize
] that overweight people, primarily woman, are NOT invisible and
] have worth and value as human beings. No one wants to talk
] about weight prejudice though - its so widely accepted that
] most of this country would not even think it is wrong to
] ridicule the obese or deny them proper treament. Indeed, many
] would not even consider it to be an issue.

What a pansy ass, finger pointing position for you to take, skullaria! Let's call it like it is. This woman was an over-indulgent pig. I only feel bad for the trees that need to be cut down to make this disgusting bitch a coffin. Let's hope they cut her down and use that blubber for some lamp-fuel. This way, two factions of liberals can be sated at once: the tree-fuckers and the whale-fags. Too bad the fatass-huggers are laying blame on healthcare providers, doctors, the government, society, America and everyone else besides the fat cunt whose fault this truly is. I would love to discuss weight-prejudice with you, skullaria. Treat the slobs to a fat farm. They deserve all the ridicule they get. After all, they were not born this way, like other groups that usually cry prejudice. They made themselves this way and can take their place at the table of Darwin's big losers!

skullaria wrote:
] flynn23 wrote:
] ] ] Emergency workers had to remove some sliding glass doors
] ] ] and lift the couch, with Grinds still on it, to a trailer
] ] ] behind a pickup truck. Removing her from the couch would
] ] ] be too painful, since her body was grafted to the fabric.
] ] ] After years of staying put, her skin had literally become
] ] ] one with the sofa and had to be surgically removed.
] ]
] ] wow.
]
] What I want to know is if this lady was ever denied adequate
] medical treatment for obesity as a disease. Something is
] dreadfully wrong here. This lady either was neglected by her
] primary caregiver and not taken to the doctor, or she had
] stupid doctors with the hermit crab attitude that obesity is
] ONLY a flaw in character. Another possibility is that her
] insurance refused to cover treatment like a trip to a
] bariatric MD, or refused her a gastric bypass for her
] condition. I would LOVE to know what went wrong here.
]
] The medical system, like most of America, needs to realize
] that overweight people, primarily woman, are NOT invisible and
] have worth and value as human beings. No one wants to talk
] about weight prejudice though - its so widely accepted that
] most of this country would not even think it is wrong to
] ridicule the obese or deny them proper treament. Indeed, many
] would not even consider it to be an issue.

It would be an interesting forensic mission to look at that, but it probably won't happen because someone's ass will get fired. A woman in her position was undoubtedly on Medicaid, but because she a) never left the house and b) probably didn't have a phone, then there's really no way that the system could triage her or treat her. I'm sure that even if she was on a commercial health plan at some point, it was most likely a brutal HMO and not a plan that would've even considered gastric bypass or any other means of helping her. Neither of these are necessarily failures of those systems. There will always be exceptions that don't fit, and there will always be people who refuse to cooperate.

While there is definitely a responsibility on her part for this, the journey would obviously highlight specifics on how it could've gotten this bad. I don't think anyone would pick this course on their own, but it's certainly impossible to rectify once you're down this road a bit.

What's really sad is that there are probably a hundred more people in this country (at least) that are just like her that you'll never hear about.

flynn23 wrote:
] ] Emergency workers had to remove some sliding glass doors
] ] and lift the couch, with Grinds still on it, to a trailer
] ] behind a pickup truck. Removing her from the couch would
] ] be too painful, since her body was grafted to the fabric.
] ] After years of staying put, her skin had literally become
] ] one with the sofa and had to be surgically removed.
]
] wow.

A disgusting comment on the fat fucks in America today. What I want to know is how these poor, lazy pieces of shit who live in trailer parks get together the money to stuff themselves with 480 lbs of fat. I mean, for chrissake, couldn't the bitch eat a bit less and afford a house? If she had been on the couch for 6 years, where the hell was she getting food? Were the residents of the trailer park using her in place of an incinerator? Did they line up each day to toss bags of trash down the bitch's throat? I work like hell and still go hungry some days! Jesus Christ. Fat, poor people should be thrown into "starvation camps" where they are forced to slim down at their own expense. Let's start taxing people 100 dollars annually for every extra ten pounds of obesity the self-indulgent pigs have packed on! Fuck 'em. I am paying a small fortune for cigarettes each day, and shitty diets still kill more people than smokes. Punish the fat fucks! Never let some fat cunt's ass meld into her couch again! Down with FAT FUCKS!

mal wrote:
] ] Emergency workers had to remove some sliding glass doors
] ] and lift the couch, with Grinds still on it, to a trailer
] ] behind a pickup truck. Removing her from the couch would
] ] be too painful, since her body was grafted to the fabric.
] ] After years of staying put, her skin had literally become
] ] one with the sofa and had to be surgically removed.
]
] wow.

Thats just really sad, that she got to the point that she was so big that she couldnt even get up to go to the bathroom.