To: LuLuLuLu
This is really sad. I know someone who is really heavy. She has cancer. Doctors told her they cannot operate on her for the cancer because she's too fat. Something must be done about all of this. It's just awful.
3 posted on
10/02/2003 2:22:33 PM PDT by
Saundra Duffy
(For victory & freedom!!!)
To: Saundra Duffy
Something must be done about all of this Yea, some fat people should learn to take responsibility for their actions.
To: Saundra Duffy
Something? How about these people start exercising a little self discipline or suck it up and take the consequences?
To: Saundra Duffy
I know someone who is really heavy. She has cancer. Doctors told her they cannot operate on her for the cancer because she's too fat. I'm sorry to hear about your friend. It sounds like she needs to find another doctor (or more likely, another anesthesiologist).
To: Saundra Duffy
,,, a few years back I saw a movie where there were some kids and a mother who lived in the country in a two storey house. The mother lived downstairs and slept on a sofa because she was too big to ascend the stairs. She died and they knew they couldn't lift her out thru the front door, so they afforded her the dignity of leaving her on the sofa and torching the house to cremate her. Good film - wish I could recall the title.
To: Saundra Duffy
I know someone who is really heavy. She has cancer. Doctors told her they cannot operate on her for the cancer because she's too fat. Something must be done about all of this. It's just awful. Something is being done.
Think of it as Evolution in Action.
So9
To: Saundra Duffy
This really is becoming a problem. There was a news report the other night that said many folks are too big for the diagnostic equipment, too (MRIs, CAT scanners, etc). They literally can't use them.
50 posted on
10/02/2003 3:01:38 PM PDT by
mewzilla
To: Saundra Duffy
As one who recently moved to a normal size casket, I must say that something CAN be done about this. Believe me, I was headed for a similar size casket myself, I was 3/5 of the way there!
It's not easy but it can be done. Eating less and more exercise. Yes, it can be done, despite the protestations that will come from many who read this. But stay away from the fad diets like the low-fat ones. Just cut the junk out of your diet and eat plenty of natural foods like meat, fish, vegetables, berries, cheese, nuts and olive oil. And exercise, exercise, exercise.
What's Eating Gilbert Grape is a great movie. A cult classic. That movie deals with a woman who is similarly obese. Not an easy way to live. You can have sympathy for her but your sympathy will not help her. In fact, it will likely encourage her to make no positive changes in her life.
When I started climbing towards 300 pounds and losing all my energy, I had people starting to joke about me getting so fat. It definitely was a motivating factor in me reversing the trend and now I am giving many of them a hard time (in a good natured way) because I am now slimmer than most of them! And getting slimmer still.
We do not have both sides of the story here. It could be that the family did not want to pay for a special order casket and the funeral home was doing their best to accomodate them with the largest casket they had in stock. We just do not know and we should not jump to the conclusion that the funeral home was being inconsiderate or unprofessional. They could have been in a no-win situation with this. We're talking 500 pounds of woman here!
52 posted on
10/02/2003 3:05:55 PM PDT by
SamAdams76
(212.8 (-87.2) Homestretch to 200)
To: Saundra Duffy
I'm sorry about your friend but when people get too large for surgery it is probably kinder not to attempt than to operate anyway and have them die due to failure of an incision to heal.
To: Saundra Duffy
Something must be done about all of this.
But what, exactly, and who will do it?
78 posted on
10/02/2003 6:16:51 PM PDT by
Dimensio
(Sometimes I doubt your committment to Sparkle Motion!)
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