750 lb Woman Taken To Morgue by Wrecker

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22 May 2009, 3:47 pm

Am I sick for finding this kind of funny?

http://www.theindychannel.com/news/19517549/detail.html

And she had a boyfriend!



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22 May 2009, 3:56 pm

I don't know. I wonder how she got this big in the first place? Did she have a medical condition that made her that big or did she have a condition where she was hungry all the time and couldn't stop eating and didn't have the willpower to not eat all the time. Or did she have some imbalance in her body where her body wanted to be a certain weight and it happened to be 700 pounds lets say. That makes it hard for them to stay small like us.



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22 May 2009, 3:58 pm

Not funny, not right, not nice.

Just because she weighed 750 lbs does not make her less human.

I think her mortal remains should have been treated with some more respect. It is wrong to think of all "fat" people as greedy people who choose to be fat, there are a lot of medical conditions which make people put on weight.

When I see an overweight person, I do not want to pass judgement. Maybe they just like their food too much or maybe they have a medical condition, it is not for me to enquire or judge.


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22 May 2009, 4:04 pm

I would think once one gets to the point they cant get through the door/get off the couch it's time to call Richard Simmons or a surgeon.



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22 May 2009, 6:15 pm

Spokane_Girl wrote:
I don't know. I wonder how she got this big in the first place? Did she have a medical condition that made her that big or did she have a condition where she was hungry all the time and couldn't stop eating and didn't have the willpower to not eat all the time. Or did she have some imbalance in her body where her body wanted to be a certain weight and it happened to be 700 pounds lets say. That makes it hard for them to stay small like us.


Prader-Willi Syndrome. Google it. It's a disorder of the "sensors" in one's body that say "I'm full", so the person literally is famished all the time and cannot stop eating. P-W people often have to live in group homes with extensive, redundant locks on the kitchens and the cabinets inside, because they'll rip cabinet doors off to get to the food. If left untreated, such people become incredibly obese, because P-W people have haywire metabolic systems. Death from obesity related disorders is common among untreated P-W sufferers. I heard of one case where a 12 year old P-W girl grew to 660 pounds before dying. She had fecal sores and bedsores. She was given all the food she wanted. It is not a joke, and it is very real and very heartbreaking.



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22 May 2009, 10:20 pm

Considering they probably weren't going to be able to get a large zoo to donate any equipment to move her in a timely manner, so the coroner's options were either use the tow truck or carve her up into pieces and move them seperately.


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23 May 2009, 10:12 am

MattShizzle wrote:
I would think once one gets to the point they cant get through the door/get off the couch it's time to call Richard Simmons or a surgeon.


Agreed. But keep in mind that not everyone has the money for that kind of stuff. If it was a medical condition though, that's sad.



23 May 2009, 3:50 pm

pezar wrote:
Spokane_Girl wrote:
I don't know. I wonder how she got this big in the first place? Did she have a medical condition that made her that big or did she have a condition where she was hungry all the time and couldn't stop eating and didn't have the willpower to not eat all the time. Or did she have some imbalance in her body where her body wanted to be a certain weight and it happened to be 700 pounds lets say. That makes it hard for them to stay small like us.


Prader-Willi Syndrome. Google it. It's a disorder of the "sensors" in one's body that say "I'm full", so the person literally is famished all the time and cannot stop eating. P-W people often have to live in group homes with extensive, redundant locks on the kitchens and the cabinets inside, because they'll rip cabinet doors off to get to the food. If left untreated, such people become incredibly obese, because P-W people have haywire metabolic systems. Death from obesity related disorders is common among untreated P-W sufferers. I heard of one case where a 12 year old P-W girl grew to 660 pounds before dying. She had fecal sores and bedsores. She was given all the food she wanted. It is not a joke, and it is very real and very heartbreaking.



It's more than that. There are other problems too people with PW have.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prader-Willi_syndrome



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In Utero:

Reduced fetal movement
Frequent abnormal fetal position
At Birth:

Often breech or caesarean births
Lethargy
Hypotonia
Feeding difficulties (due to poor muscle tone affecting sucking reflex)
Difficulties establishing respiration
Hypogonadism
Infancy:

Failure to thrive (continued feeding difficulties)
Delayed milestones/intellectual delay
Excessive sleeping
Strabismus
Scoliosis (often not detected at birth)
Childhood:

Speech delay
Poor physical coordination
Hyperphagia (over-eating) from age 2 - 4 years. Note change from feeding difficulties in infancy
Excessive weight gain
Adolescence:

Delayed puberty
Short stature
Obesity
Extremely flexible
Adulthood:

Infertility (males and females)
Hypogonadism
Sparse pubic hair
Obesity
Hypotonia
Learning disabilities/borderline intellectual functioning (but some cases of average intelligence)
Prone to diabetes mellitus
Extremely flexible
General physical appearance (adults)

Prominent nasal bridge
Small hands and feet
Soft skin, which is easily bruised
Excess fat, especially in the central portion of the body
High, narrow forehead
Almond shaped eyes with thin, down-turned lips
Light skin and hair relative to other family members
Lack of complete sexual development
Frequent skin picking
Stria
Delayed motor development