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.
Lose weight you fat cow
Moooo
Look, there is nothing funny about that. Many SEVERELY obese people just have metabolism problems.
There's the most shocking part of the story, she has a husband.
Nah, they just need an XXL shoehorn.
A woman in town recently had a total knee replacement. She admits to 350#.
I don’t think it’s funny. I think it’s terrible.
a “metabolism” problem implies that they have no control over their weight. whether hypothyroidism or cushings syndrome, none of them would be overweight if they did not eat so much.
Their metabolisms are too slow to use all the calories they keep eating, so the calories are stored as lard.
I would think that the pro football team might have a machine that could accommodate her - 275 pounds isn’t that big for a lineman, and they could have gotten some free publicity out of it. But the KC Zoo might have been a better option.
I don’t understand why she’s upset: at five-foot-nothing she weighs an impressive 276 lbs — that’s heavier than me, and I’m a big boy.
It’s not an insult, it’s just that MRI equipment isn’t made of elastics: they are more than adequate in size for most people, but not people that are huge. They have equipment that will fit fine at the zoo. That’s because many animals are bigger than the average person.
Ergo, the MRI that fits is at the zoo. Use that and be thankful. No embarrassment necessary. And it’s nothing that diet and exercise and perhaps medicine can’t fix.
Eat Less
Do More
I question the judgement of the orthopedist that would put a new joint in an obese person.....rates of infection and failure really increase...
You’re right, your metabolism tends to slow down when all you do is sit around and eat. It also tends to speed up when you exercise properly and maintain a decent diet.
Funny how that works.
having to get an MRI at the zoo - a sure sign God is telling you to lose some weight.....
125 * 2.2 = 275
While that me be an interesting theory, there does not seem to be much evidence to back up that claim.
If that theory were true, there would be an equal distribution of obese people throughout the world and in every region of the United States. However, that is not the case, the U.S. has an Obesity Rate of 30.6% while South Korea has an Obesity Rate of 3.2%.
http://www.nationmaster.com/graph/hea_obe-health-obesity
So why is it that humans that happen to live in the USA have such a higher rate of these so called metabolism problems?
*****Carolyn Ragan, who has a tumour on spine, needed to get an MRI scan in her home state of Kansas.****
THIS COULD BE IMPORTANT PEOPLE!!!!!!!
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