600-Pound Woman Dies After Being Surgically Removed From Couch

wftv.com ^ | 5:09 pm EDT August 11, 2004 | wftv.com

[kingattax]

[sweetliberty]

OMG! They had kids living in that filth????? The report seemed to suggest that...that, and the baby bottle and bicycle. D**N!

[Calpernia]

I saw that too. I think I was happier 'wondering' rather than knowing this much :(

Cause she has been on that couch for a minimum of 2 years according to the article....and the size of the bicycle suggests a 5 year old and the baby bottle suggests younger than a toddler.

I would rather not try to figure this one out. I'm passing mortified now.

[GeronL]

Thats just sad.

[GeronL]

Who was feeding her?

If she was melded to the couch, she obviously couldn't shop.

Thats why it may be a case of neglect

[GretchenM]

How big does a couch have to be to become a bed for a 600-lb. mass of humanity?

[GretchenM]

If I were not sitting in a chair with arms, scrunched up against my keyboard, I would be falling on the floor laughing at your post at 37.

Thank you.

[GeronL]

Do you think someone else should be held criminally responsible for her condition?

Not for her being fat. But someone who paid the bills, brought the food and hatever SHOULD have helped her get medical attention. Thats the crime.

[Libertina]

Thank you for cutting right to the important question! ;)

[ladyinred]

This is just almost too much to believe! How horrible is this?

[GretchenM]

I tried to put my cat on a diet and he got damn scary. I was afraid he would eat my eyeballs if I fell asleep

I had to put my 22-lb. cat on a diet -- he got that way because he had to eat prescription food for another medical condition and it plumped him up. He would scratch at and throw himself at my bedroom door around 2 or 3 AM and I couldn't sleep unless I got up to feed him.

So I got a baby gate he can't jump over, installed it in the hallway several feet from my door, and voila! he's lost 7 pounds.

[Libertina]

Where on earth did you get that? It can't be real..

[GretchenM]

The EMT's look like they have HAZMAT gear on.

[Calpernia]

Don't miss post http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1189705/posts?page=139#139

[Libertina]

Gotta say that What's Eating Gilbert Grape was a good movie. Leonardo DiCaprio was excellent - I had to ask if he was an actor or retarded (or whatever the current pc speak is).

[Libertina]

Oh my. Well the man was obviously a case of "diminished capacity." Awful.

[GretchenM]

I don't get the addiction to the food though. It isn't like a drug.

I've heard of / read about people who were badly abused in childhood who could not control anything about their lives and bodies, then grew up, got away from the abuser, and turned to food intake as something satisfying that they could have some control over, making eating a way of compensating for the lack of, and giving themselves, the loving care they didn't receive when they needed it. For some, it can become an obsessive/compulsive disorder, and lethal.

[Libertina]

Calpernia, those are probably old items. I doubt this woman has had a baby recently and the video didn't mention kids, did it? Horrible.

[Calpernia]

>>>obsessive/compulsive disorder

Now that I can understand versus addiction. Why not work on changing the focus of the obsession? I wonder if that would work.

[Calpernia]

I REALLY hope you are right. Could you imagine children living in that? ::shivers::