[admiralsn]

I am not sure what habits he has to change. According to the article I read, he does not eat an enourmous amount of food. Even the mention of soft drinks was past tense- "Laird grew in size during the 12 years he worked for a grocery store chain. He dieted periodically, but soft drinks topped his list of weaknesses. For years, Laird drank as many as 20 Coca-Colas a day. His thirst unquenchable, he gulped them, he said, one after another, habitually, "the way people smoke cigarettes."

[thoughtomator]

Diet and exercise need to be a long-term and diligent commitment for him. He needs to develop good habits in this regard. It's not like he is busy with anything else while lying on his back 19 hours a day. By not choosing to commit himself to a regimen that will alter the situation, he is choosing to remain in this pathetic state.

Sympathy is just another form of enablement. What he needs is tough love. Whatever shame he admits to is apparently not enough to put the fear of God into him. He has rightly earned the world's disgust. When he gets sick and tired of being the object of disgust he will change his ways. As long as he is made comfortable in his circumstances he will remain a grotesque perversion of humanity.

[I still care]

If his weight is not caused by eating large amounts of food, why would stomach stapling help him? And soda drinks I am not sure, but I don't think they would be slowed down by a gastric bypass.

I think he has to be eating, and if he can barely move, someone has to be feeding him.

If he is on social security disability, he should have medicare. If he truly has a life threatening condition, wouldn't medicare kick in to at least some extent?

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

I am not sure what habits he has to change. According to the article I read, he does not eat an enourmous amount of food.

Then why does he need gastric bypass surgery? To make him eat less. Ergo, he eats too much.

A detailed list of what he does eat is missing from this article. I believe it would speak volumes.

[cowtowney]

"According to the article I read, he does not eat an enourmous amount of food. Even the mention of soft drinks was past tense- "

Thus breaking one of the laws of thermodynamics, I reckon.