Okay, this article says she has lymphedema.
http://www.newschief.com/article/20110529/news/105295053
So I have more sympathy for her. I was uncharitable.
But I’m not sure how anyone can live carrying around 600 lbs of fluid - it would be weeping through her skin.
The disease is terribly frustrating, can have numerous causes, including being congenital and due to breast cancer, or happen spontaneously after a lymph node biopsy.
I knew a woman who had it, and it had developed to the elephantiasis stage, in just one leg. The rest of her was normal sized. The tissues of the leg had become fibrous-tough, and she and her husband had become used to looking at her toes at frequent intervals, because unpredictably it might cut off blood flow to her lower leg, and she would have only minutes to get to an ER, or lose her leg.
And the worst part was that every day, she had to ask herself the question, “would it just be easier if my leg was amputated?” That sort of thought really eats away at you.