Posted on 11/19/2009 1:26:57 PM PST by JoeProBono
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) -- Authorities say a severely overweight South Carolina man stayed in his recliner without moving for eight months until shortly before his death.
Firefighters had to cut Tillmon Webb from the chair after his mother called paramedics because he was in pain. Greenwood County deputies say the 33-year-old weighed about 800 pounds when he died Wednesday at a hospital....
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google search for several sentences of above news story
You'll note that the first few results are different websites which are carrying the story, but none are yet cached away. There should be a cache version within a few days, maybe even tommorrow.
Lazy-Boy of course,no pun intended.
How long before someone says the fat-man stuck in the chair would have lived if he’d had government healthcare?
What the... How? Why?
When they get fat enough they can’t leave the chair it becomes gross neglect by the family. Maybe begging and pleading won’t help, but you don’t have to bring them food or clean up after them either, and if they can’t feed themselves that’s a diet.
More disturbing than that picture is why you have that picture.
We gotta find out the namebrand of that recliner. It held an 800 lb. man for eight months in a row????
And we gotta give the mother some credit for being a loving mother. I’m not kidding on this one. She accepted her son even though he was 33 and never moved off a recliner. I often tell my 17 year old son that I would still accept him and love him no matter what. This woman proved that love!
I’ll bet the mother even served him dinner on a tray in front of the TV. That’s love, people!
I don’t even know where to begin with that picture. Its best I keep my comments to myself in this instance.
I’m not directing this specifically to you, Joe Pro Bono, but to all those who jump on this with wise cracks. Mental illness at this level is not funny.
Thanks.
He probably urinated into a container . As for defecation...I recall reading about a morbidly obese man-this particular one was bedridden, and had a sister who brought him food 2-3 times daily. This sister was a nurse BTW, and she still brought him food even when he was so fat he could no longer move-a HCP, and she did nothing apparently before he got to that state. Anyhow, he claimed to have a BM only once every 3 or 4 months. Yes-MONTHS. Not days or weeks-MONTHS. I know, I find it hard to believe, someone taking a dump only 3 or 4 time s a year, but that’s what he claimed. Can’t recall if this man is one that died or one that got help in time. There are so many stories now about the super morbidly obese that they are becoming hard to keep straight.
Is that the Mayo jar parked in the drink holder or her sunscreen?
What happens when some people when they are very obese and finally get the energy/will/medical help to lose the wieght is some fatty pockets never melt without extreme surgical intervention.
The lose wieght ads never show truly before and after pics.
Not on this forum unless in sarcasm I would guess.
She’s only having one sandwich at least and her hair looks nice.....
It IS photoshopped, right?
PLEASE tell me it's photoshopped, and no one really gets into a state/shape like that. Please???!!!
Wide ride does not describe it......
It’s possible but hard to tell.....
Not having a thyroid gland I will reserve any judgement of an internet pic.
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