Wow, someone else who knows who he was. (Or at least took the time to do some research.)
The guy was 6’4 and 400 pounds of solid muscle.
Maybe you could tell me what the hell the docs were thinking because this guy sure as hell wasn’t fat but for some reason the docs refused to operate because he was “too big”.
[quote]Sliver wrote:
Wow, someone else who knows who he was. (Or at least took the time to do some research.)
The guy was 6’4 and 400 pounds of solid muscle.
Maybe you could tell me what the hell the docs were thinking because this guy sure as hell wasn’t fat but for some reason the docs refused to operate because he was “too big”.[/quote]
Could it be that the surgical guidelines are based on straight weight, and not on body composition? I have no idea, but if they are, it’s just a matter of following those guidelines (I have no expertise or knowledge here, but I did stay at a holiday in express last night).
I think they need to get Shugs on this show as a motivator.
[quote]Sliver wrote:
Wow, someone else who knows who he was. (Or at least took the time to do some research.)
The guy was 6’4 and 400 pounds of solid muscle.
Maybe you could tell me what the hell the docs were thinking because this guy sure as hell wasn’t fat but for some reason the docs refused to operate because he was “too big”.[/quote]
He was 400 pounds, that’s why. You don’t honestly think carrying that type of body mass is healthy? doesn’t matter if its muscle or fat.
his heart was probably under incredible strain to pump blood fast enough to keep a guy that big alive, which is why he died. No doctor in his right mind would cut a guy like that open without extreme precaution, his heart was already weak as it was.
I grew up in a family full of medical professionals and they would always have stories about people they couldn’t save because of the patients other health issues.
Its not just obesity, sometimes they do blood tests before surgery and find medications or other things that require surgeons to wait a day or two to operate and the person dies during that window. Happens every day. You just don’t go sticking scalpels into people indiscriminately.
TLC does have some unbelievable shows and I am in awe of how bog some people get. I don’t understand how you allow yourself to get that huge. Don’t people realize they have serious problems leading up to a situation where they literally cannot get out of bed? It is beyond me.
One other point I thought about when considering the shut-in guy eating greater than 13,000 cals/day…
People have wondered about his delusions…keep in mind that he is a) shut in b) has what probably amounts to a VERY monotonous routine centered around eating and regular bodily functions (perhaps some TV and reading?) and c) looks at the same walls day in and day out.
It’s not very difficult to believe that he suffers from some degree of psychoses.
Mufasa
[quote]Mufasa wrote:
One other point I thought about when considering the shut-in guy eating greater than 13,000 cals/day…
People have wondered about his delusions…keep in mind that he is a) shut in b) has what probably amounts to a VERY monotonous routine centered around eating and regular bodily functions (perhaps some TV and reading?) and c) looks at the same walls day in and day out.
It’s not very difficult to believe that he suffers from some degree of psychoses.
Mufasa[/quote]
I think everyone gets that. What perplexes me is that it was allowed to get that bad in the first place. How the hell does someone even get to 700lbs? There has to be denial on all sides for that to even happen. He was overweight as a kid so at some point, his parents just quit worrying about it to any degree that could have stopped it.
I would imagine there is some traumatic circumstance in his past and possibly some guilt from his family because of it. No one just suddenly starts wanting to hang inside one room all day and only eat food. He said he hadn’t been out of his bedroom in ten years since last Thanksgiving. Short of agoraphobia, it is against human nature to want to be that confined to one space.
Agree, Prof…
I remember being laid up in a Hospital Bed for about 3 days after a knee surgery. I began to notice things like the clicking of the clock and the pattern of leave and branch waving of trees outside my room window!
It was crazy! (And that’s the beginning of psychoses…)
There was a point at which (I think) the family could have put the breaks on…and it seems like it would have been those first few weeks of being shut in and immobile.
Amazing stuff…
Mufasa