Discovery Channel show... "Jackie's Story, The 627lb Woman"...

[Lola]

I have never seen something like this before. This woman is over 600lbs and is getting a gastric bypass.

I knew a little bit about the surgery, but this show really opened my eyes about over-weight and morbidly obease people. I always thought that it was always their faults they were so fat, etc. but this show really made me stop and think.

I will never say anything bad about a heavy person again.

They had to have 4 EMT's get her(by harness) onto a rolling bed to be put in an ambulance.

This is so sad.

Anyone else see this show?

 

[IronWing]

Why on earth would you want to watch soemthing like that? yech.

 

[apac]

What's her disorder?

 

[stormbv]

I watched part of it a few nights ago.

 

[cthulhu]

What's that hole in her?

 

[TitanDiddly]

I'm fat, but I don't have an excuse.

 

[Lola]

Originally posted by: ironwing
Why on earth would you want to watch soemthing like that? yech.

because it is something i have never seen and to make me gain understanding of another person.

it is really sad. It is gross... she had complcations. wound was infected, etc. but i am hoping to learn something about this.

What's her disorder?

she is MORBIDLY obease. she had surgery when she was 21 and had a blood transfusion and got hep c. After she got out of the hospital for that, she gained 100lbs in a month, and has gotten worse ever since.

 

[TitanDiddly]

Originally posted by: LolaWiz

Originally posted by: ironwing
Why on earth would you want to watch soemthing like that? yech.

because it is something i have never seen and to make me gain understanding of another person.

it is really sad. It is gross... she had complcations. wound was infected, etc. but i am hoping to learn something about this.

What's her disorder?

she is MORBIDLY obease. she had surgery when she was 21 and had a blood transfusion and got hep c. After she got out of the hospital for that, she gained 100lbs in a month, and has gotten worse ever since.

Does Hep C cause a person to gain weight, or does it inhibit activity, or... ?

 

[Lola]

Originally posted by: TitanDiddly

Originally posted by: LolaWiz

Originally posted by: ironwing
Why on earth would you want to watch soemthing like that? yech.

because it is something i have never seen and to make me gain understanding of another person.

it is really sad. It is gross... she had complcations. wound was infected, etc. but i am hoping to learn something about this.

What's her disorder?

she is MORBIDLY obease. she had surgery when she was 21 and had a blood transfusion and got hep c. After she got out of the hospital for that, she gained 100lbs in a month, and has gotten worse ever since.

Does Hep C cause a person to gain weight, or does it inhibit activity, or... ?

i am not sure. They really didn't go into that. She just said that when she got Hep. C she was in the hospital for 2 months and she could not eat during that time. when she got out, she gained all that weight. I am thinking that the blood transfusion had soemthing to do with it.

Either way, in 17 weeks, she lost 200lbs.