40 stone lady

evg002

After reading the story about the 40 stone mum who was rescued from her home by firefighters, I was amazed at how this poor lady could be left like that. How many times do the authorities need to fail before they actually sort themselves out!

custardy

i havent a clue what you are talking about

Proc

I hope this is a troll post.

You're blaming the authorities because some greedy woman didn't know when to stop eating.

Surely she looked in the mirror when she was say, 14 stone, and said to herself "yeh I need to work on my bum/belly/bingo-wings. I'll go for a jog"

Then when she was 18 stone she should have been like "yeh I really should cut down on the pork-pies and do something about this".

Then when she hit 20 stone, she should have realised her health is at risk and yeh, she's a fatty.

Then at 25 stone, she ....well....you get the picture.

The annoying thing is that a great deal of taxpayer's money is used to bail out someone who is too bone-idle to care for herself.

JohalaReewi

It's in the Daily Mail !!

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1276641/40-stone-mother-Joanna-Ettienne-rescued-20-firefighters.html

angie_baby

Who the hell kept feeding her!

foxwales

To be honest I would rather my tax money go to help a morbidly obese person than to fund the drunks on the weekend who spew everywhere, urinate everywhere, cause criminal damage, put strain on our health service and attack health staff in the name of a good night out.

Our town centre is a disgrace on the weekend and thats coming from me! a 27 year old!

custardy

foxwales wrote: »

To be honest I would rather my tax money go to help a morbidly obese person than to fund the drunks on the weekend who spew everywhere, urinate everywhere, cause criminal damage, put strain on our health service and attack health staff in the name of a good night out.

Our town centre is a disgrace on the weekend and thats coming from me! a 27 year old!

the sad thing is that articles like this will be the norm very soon
I watched a prog not so long ago about NHS depts paying for larger beds/wheelchairs etc to cope with the rise in what i call superfat patients

C_Mababejive

They should send her the bill for hauling her fat !!!! out of the house.

Proc

foxwales wrote: »

To be honest I would rather my tax money go to help a morbidly obese person than to fund the drunks on the weekend who spew everywhere, urinate everywhere, cause criminal damage, put strain on our health service and attack health staff in the name of a good night out.

Our town centre is a disgrace on the weekend and thats coming from me! a 27 year old!

Well at least these drunks are contributing to the upkeep of the NHS through high tax levels. Collectively, drinkers financially benefit the health service more than they drain it.

I'm gonna go out on a limb here though and assume that this women doesn't have a job. So no, I'd rather bail-out a few idiots on a night out than someone who has probably never contributed a single penny in tax to the country.

CarerQuie

I am so sad to see the total lack of compassion shown to someone who is morbidly obese. If it was just a matter of eating less and exercising more people would do it.

However,obesity is a complex issue and is different from other addictions in that you need to eat to live.

Dietitians can tell people what to eat but this doesn't address the underlying addictive and psychological issues which will be lurking in the background for someone with such an immense weight.

Just because this is an area that all of you moral upright thin people have control over,not everyone does.

Obese people face the same addiction issues as alcoholics.

Please think before just being so judgemental.

I used to be obese but have shed a lot of weight and will face an uphill struggle to remain slim.It isn't as easy as you all think. xx

jimbms

Sometimes you have to be cruel to be kind. 2 years ago a bloke near me sat in his garden, he is over 30 stone and quite a pleasant bloke, but he was moaning that his doctor wouldn't do anything about what they think may be a possible heart condition until he has lost a lot of weight, this he did not want to do as he is happy as he his. I then pointed out that when he has the almost inevitable heart attack, the paramedics who attend will have no chance of lifting him and by the time they get help and get him to hospital it will be too late. Seems he thought about this, he is now 17 stone after 20 months and still losing it and has thanked me for the harsh but wakeup call words.