[Perdogg]

4 stone = 56 pounds

[LouAvul]

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.

[ShadowDancer]

Married at 15 and first child at 16? Good God.

[Dinsdale]

They told me she was only 25. They didn’t say she was only 25 stone!

Benny Hill

[elizabetty]

So very sad for her children.

[Viking2002]

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'.

[SGCOS]

This thread is PERFECT without pics.

[Keli Kilohana]

They found Jimmy Hoffa’s body...in one of her creases.

[traumer]

[dandelion]

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...

[Chode]

operation hell... all she needed was to quit being fed a dozen burgers a day by her enable-ers

[Tall_Texan]

...was classified as super-morbidly obese...

Because, I suppose, "morbidly obese" wasn't descriptive enough...

[Names Ash Housewares]

Whenver I see these kinds of stories, I think...

WHO BROUGHT HER ALL THE FOOD?????

Man. Cause and effect. Pretty damn simple.

[Cinnamon Girl]

Why do people bring immobilized obese people food? I'm sure she was on government assistance, but could that cover the food bills to put on that much weight?

Did this lady have parents? Doesn't seem like anyone was looking out for her at any point in her life. Sad.

[tutstar]

I used to have a neighbor who suffered from lymphedema, was not an overeater, and she was gigantic. Her calves had begun to touch the ground. She got a scratch on her leg that became infected and would not heal. She had also had a virus at the time of this infection. By the time she decided to go to the ER it was too late. She was dehydrated from the virus and went into cardiac arrest at the hospital. The day after she went in they took 25lbs of flesh off her thigh to try and halt the infection but as I said it was too late. She died a few days later.

[JRios1968]

The bedridden 29-year-old begged doctors to perform the operation when she became so large that she couldn't hug her two children.

Somebody hit that...twice...

[Moonman62]

Most people in this condition have genetic factors that make them that way. Hopefully, research will find a cure or treatment soon. And for the people who no sympathy, you should be thankful you don’t have the condition.