Posted on 10/19/2009 8:36:59 PM PDT by Saije
Doctors fighting to save the life of the world's heaviest man are considering calling in an RAF Chinook to move him 150 miles to a specialist centre that will treat him.
Paul Mason, who weighs 70 stone, needs the help of weight-loss doctors and possible surgery to lose tens of stones.
But the treatment will have to take place in Chichester, West Sussex, a considerable distance from his home in Ipswich.
The Health Service has introduced a number of the specialist ambulances designed to transport massively overweight patients but it is not clear if one can be made available to take 48-year-old Mr Mason to Chichester.
Health chiefs are therefore considering a number of alternative ways to transport him there, including using a Chinook.
Mr Mason, who has made numerous unsuccessful attempts to shed weight permanently and is now virtually immobile, lives in bungalow with a 4ft-wide front door.
If a cargo helicopter were used to take him to Chichester, the operation would probably involve moving him from his home in a specially reinforced wheelchair or stretcher to a nearby clearing where the helicopter would be able to land.
Several paramedics would then be needed to push Mr Mason - possibly with electronic assistance - along the loading ramp into the aircraft.
Mr Mason, a former engineer who suffers from food addiction, has previously admitted tucking into three family-sized takeaways every day - equivalent to around 20,000 calories. A typical adult male needs around 2,500 calories a day.
His weight had soared to 62 stone before he managed to drop to 45 stone in 2007. But he has has since put on another 25.
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Or 101 cups of lima beans.
“How do those people get so fat?”
They smoke pot.
You left out "they have big bones".
His biochemistry, yeah. That's the ticket.
just one Thin Mint?
If you’re talking about Manuel Uribe, he got married to his girlfriend and is still alive. I’ve seen 2 shows about him and yeah, they did blame his weight on American fast food, but come on. You gotta eat a lot of pizza and subs to get that big.
Thanks - I think that was his name. What happened with his weight?
No info via Google on his present poundage but I did see that it was falsely reported on some sites that he had died.
I saw on a TV program once an ex super obese guy saying the only way he could was to shower.
It’s only... wafer-thin...
I have also read and watch TV programs where people say they overate in the first place but to maintain the weight because basically it has messed their metabolism up they only have to eat a little over what the body requires and it maintains the weight.
I saw a follow up program where he was loosing weight and his girlfriend was now preparing his food and cutting out fried stuff. He also had a team of doctors monitoring him.
You find time (and money) for what you really want to do.
<You find time (and money) for what you really want to do.
I imagine. I saw one show where the guy had a bucket and would lower it and some money down to the street and get his take out that way since he couldn’t get out of the house. American ingenuity at its finest.
But ingenuity perverted for a base purpose.
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