600-lb woman surgically removed from couch

[Ted Striker]

My question is:

If she was stuck on that couch for 5 years, how did she get all of that food?

Did someone bring it to her???

[molly bloom]

Originally posted by Ted Striker
My question is:

If she was stuck on that couch for 5 years, how did she get all of that food?

Did someone bring it to her???

They probably placed it on nests of occasional tables, whatnots, armoires and seachests, and she just expanded and absorbed them.


They'll be doing the autopsy, and finding sets of furniture under her arms, in folds of skin, under her navel- there's probably a warehouse full of stuff for the Goodwill lodged in folds of cellulite.

Reminds me of a chap I knew at Manchester's medical school, who doing his stint in general practice had to examine a somewhat obese woman. He was doing a breast examination, and clearly she hadn't washed properly in some time, because there was mould growing between the underside of her breast and her abdomen.




Niiiiiiiiiice.

[Ted Striker]

*throws up*

[Lonestar]

Originally posted by molly bloom



Reminds me of a chap I knew at Manchester's medical school, who doing his stint in general practice had to examine a somewhat obese woman. He was doing a breast examination, and clearly she hadn't washed properly in some time, because there was mould growing between the underside of her breast and her abdomen.

That sounds suspiciously like an urban legend to me.

[Felch]

It's still gross

[Last Conformist]

Word.

[Zylka]

Originally posted by St Leo

But, of course, the US does not have free healthcare.

A - Wrong

B - And even in such case, why even try - right? Yep! What happened here was obviously a failure of "the system"!

[Zylka]

anyway, this is really really sad

an obese, severely mentally ill woman sits in a couch and her own s* for possibly a half decade and then DIES. It's treated as a complete joke, with bits of attack on the woman even thrown in

absolute compassion from our most liberal of posters (ie you General Ludd, you worthless *ing douchebag)

[Heresson]

The fact that it's sad is pretty obvious. Nobody wished her death, and nobody is happy with it.

Felch, nice avatar

[molly bloom]

Originally posted by Lonestar


That sounds suspiciously like an urban legend to me.

Well it ain't.


I knew the gentleman in question (not a friend of a friend, or a man in the pub), his stint in general practice happened to be in one of the poorer inner city areas of Manchester, and from the expression of revulsion and disgust he exhibited at the time, I can testify to his unwillingness to indulge in recounting such an 'urban' legend.

[Having looked through his textbooks on s.t.d.s, I'm really not telling you the worst of it. Try the effects of untreated tertiary syphilis on a woman's face when she comes from an undeveloped country where women habitually go veiled.]

Think about it- in hot weather (yes, even Manchester a.k.a. Rain City has been known to have the occasional hot weather) you perspire.

If you are large and fat, and have, ah, generous chest endowments, and are

(i) lazy
(ii) dirty

dirt will build up, along with rank sweat, et cetera, et cetera. She smelled sour, he said, like rancid meat.

[General Ludd]

Originally posted by Zylka

absolute compassion from our most liberal of posters (ie you General Ludd, you worthless *ing douchebag)

Everyone here has always called me a cynic, pessimist, or nihilist, so what do you expect?



But what's uncompassionate about wondering how she was fed, and how she relieved herself? What I was geting at is that this is either a hoax, or there where people who knew about it, and made it happen by feeding her like a caged pig.

[Lancer]

Hey! I could use another couch, ought to be cheap enough. Be a nice conversation piece, what with all the imbedded skin and odd quivering chunks of fatty flesh.

[Adagio]

But did they ever get her out of the chair? Wouldn't it be fitting if she was burried while sitting on it?

[Last Conformist]

Having looked through his textbooks on s.t.d.s, I'm really not telling you the worst of it. Try the effects of untreated tertiary syphilis on a woman's face when she comes from an undeveloped country where women habitually go veiled.

Ouch. That takes the prize for most unsettling thought for today, this far.

By the way, on the mental health issue - I cannot really imagine anyone could spend years like that withou getting a mental issue or twelve, but did it say explicitly anywhere that she was mentally ill? Is it know if she was sane before settling down on that couch?

[Dis]

apparantly there was a man who lived at the house. that is how she was fed.