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The half ton mum: Tragic story of world's heaviest woman
The Daily Mail (UK) ^
| December 30, 2007
| TAMARA HARDINGHAM-GI
Posted on 12/31/2007 3:55:17 PM PST by rightwingintelligentsia
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To: rightwingintelligentsia
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posted on
12/31/2007 3:56:43 PM PST
by
Perdogg
(Fred Thompson - John Bolton 2008)
To: Perdogg
1 stone - 14 lbs
Meadow Muffin
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posted on
12/31/2007 3:57:27 PM PST
by
rwgal
To: rightwingintelligentsia
I didn't think they were supposed to operate on the morbidly obese. Such patients here in the states (at least in CA) are required to get their weight down to a managable level first. At her weight I'm surprised the surgeon couuld even find her organs.
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posted on
12/31/2007 3:58:36 PM PST
by
LouAvul
To: rwgal
She was 980 pounds, then?
To: rightwingintelligentsia
Married at 15 and first child at 16? Good God.
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posted on
12/31/2007 4:03:24 PM PST
by
ShadowDancer
("To succeed in life, you need three things: a wishbone, a backbone and a funny bone.")
To: rightwingintelligentsia
That was my calculation. Thanks to those who converted.
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posted on
12/31/2007 4:03:59 PM PST
by
ShadowDancer
("To succeed in life, you need three things: a wishbone, a backbone and a funny bone.")
To: rightwingintelligentsia
They told me she was only 25. They didn’t say she was only 25 stone!
Benny Hill
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posted on
12/31/2007 4:04:53 PM PST
by
Dinsdale
To: LouAvul
The article says that 12 doctors turned her down before she found one who would do the surgery.
She was told all the risks—what I wonder is whether her family will probably try to sue the doctor over her death regardless.
To: rightwingintelligentsia
So very sad for her children.
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posted on
12/31/2007 4:13:20 PM PST
by
elizabetty
("Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm." .Ralph Waldo Emerson)
To: rightwingintelligentsia
My wife is a surgical PA. The stories she tells about the OR crew trying to move the morbidly obese is just gross.
The problem with a super huge woman like the above is that the OR table won't support such an one.
Or their fat is rolling all over the place, like a lump of dough.
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posted on
12/31/2007 4:13:51 PM PST
by
LouAvul
To: rightwingintelligentsia
I doubt it would go too far considering she was given less than a year to live before she had the surgery...
To: LouAvul
Or their fat is rolling all over the place, like a lump of dough.
I saw a woman on one of those channels, she had a huge tumor removed and the surgery room had a crane rigged up to raise the tumor as they surgically removed it.
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posted on
12/31/2007 4:20:45 PM PST
by
BerryDingle
(With friends like the media, who needs enemas ?)
To: rightwingintelligentsia
Wanna tell you a story
'Bout a woman I know
When it comes to lovin'
Oh she steals the show
She ain't exactly pretty
Ain't exactly small
Forty-two, thirty-nine, fifty-six
You could say she's got it all
Never had a woman
Never had a woman like you
Doing all the things
Doing all the things you do
Ain't no fairy story
Ain't no skin and bone
But you give it all you got
Weighing in at nineteen stone
CHORUS:
You're a whole lotta woman!
A whole lotta woman!
Whole lotta Rosie!
Whole lotta Rosie!
Whole lotta Rosie!
And you're a whole lotta woman.........
Second song I ever learned on rhythm guitar, after 'Free Bird'.
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posted on
12/31/2007 4:22:29 PM PST
by
Viking2002
(Waterboarding the Left every chance I get.)
To: rightwingintelligentsia
This thread is PERFECT without pics.
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posted on
12/31/2007 4:23:24 PM PST
by
SGCOS
To: elizabetty
And for her. Given what I read, she had no chance at a real life from the get go.
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posted on
12/31/2007 4:24:44 PM PST
by
ShadowDancer
("To succeed in life, you need three things: a wishbone, a backbone and a funny bone.")
To: rightwingintelligentsia
They found Jimmy Hoffa’s body...in one of her creases.
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posted on
12/31/2007 4:26:11 PM PST
by
Keli Kilohana
(Editor, ZARR CHASM CHRONICAL [sic], Sore, WV)
To: rightwingintelligentsia
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posted on
12/31/2007 4:33:20 PM PST
by
traumer
To: rightwingintelligentsia
What a tragic story; even though some may deem her a pariah for her weight, I find her just as worthy of sympathy as some “beautiful” celebrity who overdoses on drugs. However, it does seem strange and VERY UNHEALTHY that she lost 56 pounds in 14 days. That should have been an immediate indicator that something went dreadfully wrong in this procedure.
God bless her in her life hereafter - certainly somewhere, she was beautiful to someone. Certainly she was beautiful to God...
To: rightwingintelligentsia
operation hell... all she needed was to quit being fed a dozen burgers a day by her enable-ers
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posted on
12/31/2007 4:36:04 PM PST
by
Chode
(American Hedonist ©®)
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