primitives discuss fat guy dying in home recliner

[franksolich]

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x7052213

Oh my.

My heart skipped a beat when I saw the headline, as I was concerned something had happened to the Vegas bllimp; fortunately, it's in South Carolina, not Nevada.

Contrary1  (1000+ posts)      Fri Nov-20-09 01:10 AM
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Obese man dies after 8 months in home recliner

"COLUMBIA, S.C. - When an ambulance brought Daniel Webb home from the hospital after he hurt his knee in March, paramedics warned the then 550-pound man he probably wouldn't be able to get up from his recliner if they put him there, his wife said.

Webb told them to leave him there anyway. He would sit in that recliner, slowly dying, for the next eight months. Finally, paramedics were called back to his Greenwood home on Wednesday because he was in a lot of pain.

Webb's body was physically stuck to the power recliner and firefighters had to cut him from the chair to take him to the hospital. He died a few hours later, his body covered with sores and a "very bad odor," according to a police report.

Webb, 33, didn't ask for help for all those months, because he was ashamed and didn't have health insurance, said his wife, Ada..."

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/34050673/ns/us_news-life/

JI7  (1000+ posts)        Fri Nov-20-09 01:13 AM
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1. why did they say he wouldn't be able to get up from there ?

Fire_Medic_Dave  (1000+ posts)      Fri Nov-20-09 01:53 AM
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2. Physics.
 
550 to 800 pound people with bad knees generally have huge difficulty moving without a considerable amount of assistance.

K8-EEE  (1000+ posts)        Fri Nov-20-09 01:56 AM
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3. plus he would be too big for the chair...stuck in it!

How sad!!

Posteritatis (1000+ posts)      Fri Nov-20-09 03:22 AM
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9. Stuck *to* the chair implies worse problems than just the weight.. ugh.

HipChick (534 posts)        Fri Nov-20-09 02:07 AM
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4. Wasn't there an obese person whose skin grew into the sofa

Beregond2 (1000+ posts)      Fri Nov-20-09 02:18 AM
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5. Meanwhile, his wife kept bringing him food of course.

That's what always gets me in these cases. How is she not guilty of manslaughter, at the least?

Electric Monk (321 posts)        Fri Nov-20-09 02:24 AM
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6. Somebody kept bringing him food, or he would have lost weight

Morbid obesity most often involves co-dependants as well, from what I've read and seen.

LostInAnomie  (1000+ posts)      Fri Nov-20-09 03:39 AM
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10. He gained 250 lbs in 8 months!?

That is ****ing insane. All his wife would have had to have done is not bring him food all the damn time. Letting him gain that that much weight is unconscionable.

katkat  (638 posts)      Fri Nov-20-09 07:48 AM
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12. yeah

A perfect opportunity to only bring him healthful food and a reasonable amount of calories. If he made her life hell for doing that, she could have left the house between meals.

Obamanaut  (1000+ posts)      Fri Nov-20-09 08:20 AM
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17. I read in another thread that calories in vs calories out doesn't affect weight gain/loss. It's either genetics or the body knows 'intuitively' what it's own 'set point' is.

Obviously the above comment's meant to bait the fat primitives, but oddly no fat primitives have shown up at this bonfire.

Sanity Claws  (1000+ posts)        Fri Nov-20-09 07:54 AM
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14. So eight months of excrement were there?

Or did he stop eating?

crazyjoe (78 posts)      Fri Nov-20-09 07:58 AM
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15. he was ashamed he didn't have health insurance 

so he gained 250 more disgusting pounds, shat all over himself, and committed recliner suicide? Me thinks he had more problems than a hurt knee.

[GOBUCKS]

One word for that guy:  Jazzercize.

[The Village Idiot]

remember the person who wouldn't leave the bathroom and died on the toilet?

Anyway, I usually walk my neice and nephew to school weekday mornings, it a bit more than a half mile away and I have to walk back too, of course.

So, I think that-even as big as I admittedly am, I will be be able to get out of a chair for a while.