Posted on 01/25/2009 11:27:52 AM PST by BuckeyeTexan
An overweight woman in the United States has been advised to undergo her MRI scan at the zoo.
Carolyn Ragan, who has a tumour on spine, needed to get an MRI scan in her home state of Kansas.
But at five feet tall, and 125 kilograms in weight, Ms Ragan was told none of the hospital’s MRI machines could hold her.
An assistant began searching for somewhere that could accommodate her, eventually suggesting the Kansas City Zoo.
"I thought, I know I'm big but I'm not as big as an elephant," she told America’s Fox News.
"And my husband got mad."
Most MRI machines have two problems with overweight patients – firstly that they can’t handle the pressure and secondly that the tubes aren’t big enough.
Ms Ragan eventually found an open MRI machine that could hold her but said her search was frustrating and embarrassing.
How about, what's 22 ft pounds in kilojoules? ;-)
it is inaccurate to say that you know a fat person who eats nothing. i guarantee you that they would be skinnier if they consumed less calories.
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