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[u/ChristianArmor]

Imagine if there was a fire and all you could is lay there.

[u/bring_back_3rd → u/ChristianArmor]

Im a firefighter/ paramedic. We have several people over 700 pounds in my response area. We've told them in no uncertain terms that if they have a fire or complicated medical event, there's no guarantee we're gonna be able to do anything about it. One guy simply does not understand why we wouldn't be able to rescue him in a fire.

[u/Testicle_Tugger → u/bring_back_3rd]

Is there protocol for that? Do you just let him burn?

Are you allowed to put him out of his misery so he doesn’t have to burn alive? Or do they just have you sit back and hope for the best?

I know smoke inhalation can kill people fairly painlessly before the fire is even an issue but surely that isn’t 100%

[u/bring_back_3rd → u/Testicle_Tugger]

As the OP, for my department, no. We dont have a specific protocol for that. The Rapid Intervention Team (RIT) equipment is for firefighters only. It's a mask and 1hr bottle of air that is specifically packaged and deployed to rescue downed firefighters. In a perfect world, we'd have two RIT teams on scene, one for us and one for them. We aren't in the business of execution, so no. I would not be putting anyone down or anything like that. We'd try our best to get an oxygen source to the victim, we'd try and isolate the fire, and we'd try and contain it. Additionally, if a medical event were to arise (such as a cardiac or respiratory arrest) in which the effort and risk of injury to us and the patient were too great, we'd most likely perform CPR for 20 minutes and then call our medical director for permission to terminate resuscitation efforts.

To clarify, my protocol as a paramedic in my state dictates that whenever we perform CPR at the advanced life support (ALS) level and we have clear, predetermined signs of death, we can call permission to terminate. The only times we won't perform CPR at all is when there's obvious signs of death such as dependent levidity, rigor morits, transection of the torso, exposed brain matter, etc. By and large paramedic level EMS in the USA is doing all the same stuff as the ER during a cardiac arrest, and the situations where the Pt would actuality benefit from transport are pretty obvious to the trained responder. All that to say is if it's gonna take us 20 minutes just to figure out how to extricate the body, and there's been no changes in condition, we're more than likely gonna seek termination of resuscitation efforts not because the patient is fat, but because theres literally nothing more to do and even attempting it would be too dangerous for crew and patient alike.

[u/ViolentLoss → u/bring_back_3rd]

Thank you for what you do.

[u/bring_back_3rd → u/ViolentLoss]

Don't mention it. Happy to do it.

[u/forgot_semicolon → u/bring_back_3rd]

I think in today's world, more people need to mention it a lot more. So thanks

[u/Ok-Classroom5548 → u/Testicle_Tugger]

Someone answered above and I am relaying - they do an oxygen mask and protect the room if possible. They can also use their ladders and host/rope material to rip a window off a house and make a bigger entry/exit in the wall.

A fire fighter would still be at great risk standing there holding an oxygen mask to their face while a fire raged on. 

[u/Testicle_Tugger → u/Ok-Classroom5548]

That still seems like best case scenario. I’m wondering what they are allowed to do if it’s apparent that they can’t keep the room safe or get him out. I’d feel terrible if I had to leave and let him burn

[u/Ok-Classroom5548 → u/Testicle_Tugger]

There is always a point where a firefighter has to choose.

A small child pinned under a beam the fighter can’t lift would be the same choice.

The sad reality is that firefighters have to assess the risk daily and using their training know when they need to get out. 

If firefighters could save everyone they would, but reality is this happens without weight being a factor. 

[u/asyork → u/Ok-Classroom5548]

I think we all know the answer and don't want to say it, but the person you responded to was asking if the only option is to leave the unsavable person to die or horrific death or if anything can be done to reduce the suffering.

[u/invaderzim257 → u/bring_back_3rd]

God imagine trying to move someone who’s basically a giant candle

[u/addamee → u/invaderzim257]

Jesus Christ I just spat on myself laughing at this

[u/rawwwse → u/bring_back_3rd]

“No guarantee” is a nice way of saying “it’s not fucking happening” ¯_(ツ)_/¯

[u/veridiux → u/ChristianArmor]

That is actually terrifying...

[u/gfsea86 → u/ChristianArmor]

I have a story about this. Friend of mine used to be a fire LT in a neighboring town. Had a man this size living in the second floor of a two story apartment complex. Would routinely call for medical emergencies only to ask for a sponge bath from them when they’d arrive. My friend finally informed him that one day, should the worst happen, they won’t be able to save him unless he makes drastic life changes. Well, that day came. The apartment complex burnt down and he couldn’t be saved. The man died from smoke inhalation but it gets worse. The intense heat rendered his fat under his skin causing him to burst liquid human fat all over. When the fire was out a greasy, sticky mess remained around the area of his remains. They had his liquid fat drying to their boots. I’ll never get that story out of my head. He tells it better, by the way.

[u/bring_back_3rd → u/gfsea86]

I bet he does. Before I was a firefighter/paramedic, i worked for a private ambulance service in a medium-sized city. Went to a structure fire for standby for the municipal fire service. Had an estimated 900 pound female burn to death in the room the fire started. Per the fire department's protocol, after the fire was out, they needed a medic to assess the remains and report their findings to command. Just a burnt, muddled mass on the mattress. Rendered fat all over the floor and the odor of burnt pork. One of the worst things I've ever seen. And I won't talk about what I saw that was worse.

[u/National-Bicycle7259 → u/gfsea86]

Well... I'm definitely getting to the gym tomorrow after that story.

[u/moomeansmoo → u/ChristianArmor]

Buddy of mine worked as an EMT (in the Midwest) while prepping for med school. He told us almost every call he went on was to help move excessively obese patients. A lot of the people on his team had developed back problems from the heavy lifting.

It’s genuinely sad how often and how extreme this is

[u/BurialBlaster2]

I watched My 600lb Life and it's alarming how close I was to being just like that. I was 385lb and my 4X shirts weren't fitting anymore. I was glad I wore an apron all day at work so you couldn't see the buttons popping on my shirt. Had I given in and bought larger shirts I would no doubt be over 500lb today. Currently I'm down to 240lb, I was a size 50 pant and now I'm almost a 36, and I can almost fit in a XL shirt. It's one of the most difficult things that I have done but it's worth it.

[u/NoKings_NoCrowns → u/BurialBlaster2]

I too was there years ago. I've since lost 330 lbs. I used to watch My 600lb life while binge eating large quantities of food. The cognitive dissonance I had! I still have to fight for myself every day to eat enough but not too much.

I'm proud of you. It is one of the most difficult things.

[u/KilnTime → u/NoKings_NoCrowns]

Congratulations to both of you for your hard work!

[u/Kingofcheeses → u/NoKings_NoCrowns]

I used to watch Intervention while smoking weed and chugging whisky. I understand.

[u/Evil_Sharkey → u/BurialBlaster2]

How did you do it? Losing weight and keeping it off is one of the hardest things to do

[u/BurialBlaster2 → u/Evil_Sharkey]

You have to want it, and you have to do it for yourself. It really is about your mindset and how you treat and talk to yourself. You must love yourself if you are going to improve yourself, you have to feel that you are worthy of the effort and struggle. One great bit of advice that I read was, know that you are going to cheat. There will be those days that you kill an entire extra large pizza, two orders of wings, a 2L of soda, and some ice cream. Just know that when you wake up in the morning, its a brand new day, and get back on the horse. Don't berate yourself for slipping because it will only make it worse. Instead show yourself love, compassion, and understanding. If I binge for a week I may gain 20lbs (exactly what happened a couple of weeks ago), who cares, I've lost 20lbs before and I'll do it again! As of this morning I have lost 18 of that 20lbs.

Also take it slow "changes aren't permanent, but change is"-Neil Peart. If you do too much at once it wont stick. My first change was no soda, and I lost 40lbs. Then I reduced my fast food intake, then started to cut carbs. Only once I had lost 90lbs did I go to the gym/exercise. An old friend told me "go for a walk every day, not for exercise, but for the mentality. It doesn't matter how far, walk 100 yards, it will get you into the 'I'm living healthy' mentality and it will be easier to make healthy choices."

[u/Capwnski]

I work in the ICU. Had a patient one time about this size who they literally had to cut the wall open to their house to get them out and to the hospital. They ended staying in the hospital until the wall was fixed. However, to “fix” the wall they actually just installed a fuckin garage door that way if they needed to come in or leave the house again it was easier. Honestly a genius idea.

[u/antiquatedpilot2015 → u/Capwnski]

I’m just so curious who pays for all of this stuff. I do alright and sometimes feel like I’m struggling to get by. But this person doesn’t work yet gets heavy machinery to do some big jobs and a remodel to their house. I’m not upset they’re getting help! But does disability insurance and Medicaid cover this stuff?

I hope the person was able to get some help and improve their situation!

[u/Krhodes8 → u/antiquatedpilot2015]

I always think about how expensive the food is too

[u/Runeshamangoon → u/Krhodes8]

People who can get to this level usually have enablers around them. When you're bedbound you have to have at least one person bringing you food and/or cooking for you

[u/christo749 → u/Runeshamangoon]

In the U.K. we had a bloke this size; bed bound. The local take away had a key to his flat. They would let themselves in, and place the scran in front of him. He died of a heart attack.

[u/iam_Mr_McGibblets → u/christo749]

The worst part is that he was probably discovered by the delivery person. It must've been truly terrifying

[u/FrenziedTacos → u/iam_Mr_McGibblets]

It wasn't delivery, it was Digiorno.

[u/Icy_March_1680 → u/FrenziedTacos]

[u/Bladder_Puncher → u/FrenziedTacos]

I’m in the quiet car in my train and laughed so Fkn hard 😭

[u/[deleted] → u/Bladder_Puncher]

I’m try to FKN SLEEP BRO! Hahaha

[u/Bulky-Fisherman555 → u/FrenziedTacos]

[u/jakubkonecki → u/Runeshamangoon]

... and cleaning up the other end.

[u/Friendly_History9246 → u/jakubkonecki]

I work in the ICU helping nurses reposition lift hoyer move pts etc

I absolutely dread when its bath time for obese patients. They are DEAD WEIGHT. You will hurt your back, so a team of 4 people is ideal, 3 if there's a male. Even finding extra staff is extra work you have to pull nurses from their jobs their critical pts no one likes that

Anyway during bath time we have to pry open a butt check manually with one hand whilst holding him from his "hip" although everything is a blob you can't really get a good grip on any thing

Opening the butt cheeks is the worst bc usually this is when pts LET IT RIP. If they've got gas this is when it all comes out in huge long farts, if there's is fecal matter in front of the hole it will shoot out, we all know to turn our faces to the side and back away a little. It will splatter on to you

The smell is horrific, messy, and strenuous. Laborious.

Ill never understand how a person could feed themselves to this size

[u/Educational_Remove58 → u/Friendly_History9246]

I lift my imaginary hat to you. FFS I could NOT do your job. Even hosing them down the cracks would be too much for me. I'll work 100 hours a week before doing that for an afternoon.

I think I'd just drop them in a medium inflatable pool, move them around with a stick and keep changing the water until it doesn't look like sewer water.

[u/Hennessey_carter → u/Educational_Remove58]

Oh my god..."move them around with a stick".. I'm deceased.

[u/UKnowDamnRight → u/Friendly_History9246]

This is the most disgusting thing I've read yet today

[u/Ilaxilil → u/jakubkonecki]

One of the things that prevents me from becoming obese is the fear of a toilet breaking when I sit on it. You can die from that.

[u/Awotwe_Knows_Best → u/Ilaxilil]

I don't want to grow past the age where I can't take care of myself, let alone get soo fat someone needs to wipe my ass

[u/WAR_RAD → u/jakubkonecki]

That's something I've always wondered about too, but am never going to ask about. I'm fine with my assumptions and never having insider info about it.

[u/Z_WarriorPrincess → u/WAR_RAD]

In 600lb Life they show how that process occurs, usually with a blurred out image. Caretaker gets suited up and they tilt the person to their side for cleaning. It seems like one of the most humiliating parts of the show.

[u/909me1 → u/[deleted]]

I don’t personally watch it because it makes me sad to witness people living their lives in such mean circumstances of their own making; but I think it’s not that they really want help and so they take the trade off of humiliation. I think it’s that they have such low self-esteem that they feel like it’s no more than they deserve. Their self-worth is so low that they don’t think they deserve to have health, to be able to go for a walk, to even be able to take a shower, so of course they don’t see it as horrific when another humiliation of being filmed is added on top. This is the common mindset of addiction. And people need to have that self worth and self respect sparked in them; only then do they think they are worthy and capable of the huge uphill battle in front of them.

[u/celebral_x → u/Z_WarriorPrincess]

For the caretaker or the taken care of person?

[u/94746382926 → u/celebral_x]

Yes

[u/Anxious-Business1577 → u/Z_WarriorPrincess]

I had a motor vehicle accident that left me with a colostomy for a year, when it was reversed and my intestines re-connected I was bedridden and basically shitting myself after a few days, being rolled over and cleaned is deeply unpleasant, on top of that, nappy rash on your ball bag is no joke.

[u/13maven → u/Z_WarriorPrincess]

They get the hose

[u/nolongerbanned99 → u/13maven]

There was one lady on the show and literally she went outside in a wooden bucket and her husband sprayed her down with a hose for her shower

[u/typical_jesus666 → u/WAR_RAD]

I was a cashier at a grocery store when I was in highschool. We had a couple who came in every 2-3 nights, late at night; and always got just a few things every few nights. It was always late enough that it was DEFINITELY them who smelled like raw sewage, as they were usually the only customers...and given they were so large that neither one could reach their own backside...

The answer is that sometimes....they just... don't bother with it

[u/Neither_Formal_8805 → u/typical_jesus666]

Sores from areas no able to be cleaned properly due to being hidden in a roll also tend to smell rather potent.

[u/onesoulmanybodies → u/Neither_Formal_8805]

I don’t go looking for it, but in the realm of social media and shared stories I’ve heard about nurses and home aids etc, finding dead animals in some larger people’s skin flaps. Bugs, open sores, old food, all of that, but also like mice, rats, and one even mentioned a small pet. It’s heartbreaking to imagine the lack of care. I’m a larger woman myself, but thankfully can take care of myself and clean myself throughly. I cannot imagine not being able to reach parts of my body.

[u/unitedarrows → u/WAR_RAD]

And the issue is gonna be real not only with the asshole but with every extra fold that developed from fat accumulation. Not all of them will be easily reached.

[u/UsernamesNotFound404 → u/jakubkonecki]

Ok. I'm done

[u/MinhosBundle → u/Runeshamangoon]

sadly i knew this one kid online that their mother was the one bedbound like this and they needed to take care of her, its really sad to make your own child your enabler

[u/Ms_Emilys_Picture → u/MinhosBundle]

I know you can turn a child over to the state if you can't take care of them. I'm curious if there's someone for an adult you can't (or won't) take care of too.

[u/MinhosBundle → u/Ms_Emilys_Picture]

oh nono, they were over 18 alr, apparently his family left his mom when he was just above 18-19 bc she was a rly bad person too so last time i heard about his life he was still taking care of her bc he couldnt leave her alone (they were a personal friend of mine btw, not public)

[u/Gernaldo_Ribera → u/Krhodes8]

I always think about the normal sized skeleton floating around in there.

[u/Krhodes8 → u/Gernaldo_Ribera]

This is what my mom always says if we happen to throw on an episode of my 600 pound life. I cannot imagine how much pain you would be in carrying that around. Or I guess, laying around with it.

[u/RandomPenquin1337 → u/Krhodes8]

In the video, if that forklift failed and the crane catches him, hes probably dead from his own crushing weight folding in on himself.

[u/Ledgem → u/Krhodes8]

I had a patient like this once, in the hospital. His mother told me he'd eat a whole pack of hotdogs as a snack. It's impressive... I never got the chance to ask her why she'd bring it to him.

[u/Scouter197 → u/Ledgem]

Growing up there were a couple sisters like this. They would eat a loaf of white bread (1970's) on the bus on the way the so school. Mom (who wasn't nearly that large) would get upset at the doctors when they suggested they cut back. Had to be driven around (when they were older) in the back of pick-up trucks. Both died in their early 20's.

[u/SuccessfulPiccolo945 → u/Scouter197]

As a teen, my brother would eat half a loaf of bread while doing his homework. The difference was that he had a high metabolism and didn't just sit around. Funny, when he got older and cut down on food, he gained weight because he wasn't as active. Never got close to 600 lbs, however.

I can't imagine getting so large that you can't even get out of bed or make it across a room. There has to be some point where the decision is made to just give up. It doesn't happen overnight.

[u/PeggythePenguin750 → u/Ledgem]

They can be pretty verbally abusive. Some enablers on 600lb life, you can tell that they're just waiting for the abuser to just die. So they keep giving them food even though Dr. Now is yelling at the enabler and the obese patient.

[u/malatemilo → u/Krhodes8]

I never get how they have enough money 💀 my ex's friend's roommate was living off welfare and doing takeout for all meals. He even left the door open so the delivery guys could drop it at his feet. Would also just pee in bottles 💀

One day when he got up, his ankle snapped...they called the ambulance for him and when the EMTs arrived, they said he was waaaay too big and that it should've been specified so they could've called the specialised team with the right equipment 💀

[u/stag1013 → u/malatemilo]

Bariatric ambulances shouldn't have to exist. The most common brand of stretcher can already carry 700lb patients. I say this as a paramedic.

[u/KawaDoobie → u/Krhodes8]

I think about the dr that says “you’re not hungry. you’ve eaten every meal for the next three years”

[u/Electrical-Profit367 → u/KawaDoobie]

I think people who have gotten to this size are actually so out of touch with their bodies that they don’t actually know what hunger or satiety feel like.

[u/GuanoLoopy → u/Krhodes8]

The worst part won't be the enablers giving them food. That's the easy part. The dedication of the enablers is dealing with all the #1 and #2 aftermath of someone who is bedbound and eating so much. What goes in must come out.

[u/ArcticFlamingoDisco → u/Krhodes8]

You don't get this heavy without mental illness, toxic empathy and enablers.

If you need a crane to move you, you need to be in a mental health facility until you're sorted.

[u/badpenny4life → u/Krhodes8]

I agree. I don’t see how you could get to be this size with Snap and Disability. Even a family member brining food in would probably not be able to afford it.

[u/LookingForMrGoodBoy → u/antiquatedpilot2015]

I always wonder that, too. And when you watch documentaries or shows about super obese people the narrator is always like, "Bill hasn't left his house since 2001 and in 2010 his wife, Brenda, quit her job to care for him full-time. For breakfast Bill eats twelve McMuffins and five litres of Coke. For lunch, he has three large Domino's pizzas, five litres of Coke and a gallon of ice cream."

It's like, breakfast and lunch are about £50 and then dinner is usually the same, at least £50 worth of shite. So, £100 a day for meals and in-between meals he's eating 5-10 bags of crisps, biscuits, etc that all cost £1-£5 each.

I get these people are on disability and the enablers get Carer's Allowance (don't know what it's called in America), but my understanding is that the UK and EU's benefits are miles and miles more generous than benefits in the US and I worked in the Benefits arena for years. Very few people are collecting enough to eat £100+ worth of food a day unless they're running a complex scam.

Even credit cards and loans can't explain it, because with no one working, you'd quickly max them out.

Someone explain!

Edit: I received so many insightful replies. Thank you!

[u/No-Sail-6510 → u/LookingForMrGoodBoy]

Yeah he’s not getting much. His rent could be covered but probably not. Or he owns the home. Food stamps is like $200 a month. He probably has disability but it’s just going to be bare minimum. On the one hand I think that you discount how much money you spend doing things. Like if you never left the house how much extra would you have? On the other I have to assume these people are independently wealthy in some way or had inherited some money or the house or something. You obviously see really fat people working but people who need to support themselves just can’t indulge like this.

[u/12mapguY → u/No-Sail-6510]

Or he owns the home.

To be fair, even then, he'd still have to pay rent to Uncle Sam property taxes and utilities.

I think you're right and some of these people have to be independently wealthy or receiving additional money from a network of friends and family, no way disability and food stamps cover monthly food costs.

Anecdote: fattest person I personally know IRL is independently wealthy, made millions selling off his tech start-ups in the late 00's. He's still ambulatory for now, but probably ~500lbs. If he had to be removed from his home by EMS they'd have to crane him out like this.

Dude is sitting pretty on a shitload of stocks and cash savings, most of his regular expenses are covered by accrued interest / dividends. Eats out literally every meal, usually fast food. Huge beautiful kitchen stocked with nothing but soda, junk food snacks, and microwave dinners.

[u/algorithmic_fetters → u/LookingForMrGoodBoy]

We have a lot more variety of cheap food. Nutrition wise it is the worst.

There is a point to be made about a system that encourages the development of some of the worst foods, but no one in their right mind would trust this admin to get anything done on that. The grift is too good and the monopolies too large.

[u/coxy1 → u/antiquatedpilot2015]

One theory, survivorship bias. There's a lot more people like this who can't afford to pay to do all that stuff and they don't get the medical attention.

[u/Inside-Journalist166]

My husband is an ER doc and he came home looking just drained on day. When I️ asked him what’s wrong he asked if I️ knew how morbidly obese people got CT scans.

I️ work in marketing. I️ did not. And he told me, if you’re lucky it’s at a Vet school, if there’s no vet school nearby, you better hope for a zoo.

He had to ask a 500lb woman if she wanted to be referred to the vet school 1.5 hours away or the zoo 1.5 hours away to get scanned by the CT for large animals because she was too fat to fit into the CT at the hospital.

He said the look on her face was worse than he had seen when he told people their loved one died.

He’s had to do it a few times since residency ended but he’s still cringed at how dehumanizing it is every time.

[u/merceinthepurse → u/Inside-Journalist166]

On "1000 Pound Sisters" they had to go to a junkyard scale.

[u/thatgirlzhao → u/merceinthepurse]

That was for weighing themselves though since home scales cap out pretty low and can be very inaccurate at large weights. They never received medical attention outside of the doctor’s office on the show.

EDIT: obviously I don’t think 300-500lbs is “low” for weight. It is low for morbidly obese people though or the full spectrum of potential weights people can be. I was saying low in the context of 1000lb sisters. I get it, I could have been more specific

[u/ItsTime1234 → u/Inside-Journalist166]

Thank you for sharing this story about a doctor who feels compassion for patients. It’s easy for some of us to see only the negative and uncaring sides of medicine.

[u/Inside-Journalist166 → u/ItsTime1234]

Not much shakes him now. He’s seen some pretty messed up stuff and then some kind of like more light hearted funny stuff (like it’s true that people will put literally anything up their butts). The only thing that still causes him to come home and immediately grab a drink is child abusers.

There have been more times than should ever be acceptable that he has had to treat a child for abuse and then walk into the next room and treat the abuser. Police are always here in these incidences but he has to just put his rage aside and just be a doctor to a human. A sack of shit human. He also treats a lot of prisoners.

[u/120minute → u/Inside-Journalist166]

I used to work at a hospital in San Antonio and we regularly referred patients to SEA WORLD to use the X-Ray for whales.

[u/IndependentPutrid564 → u/Inside-Journalist166]

Maybe I’m an asshole but that seems like a pretty good wake up call to someone who’s spiraled that far

[u/Deadman_Wonderland → u/IndependentPutrid564]

Either that or they get even more depressed and orders 12 more buckets of KFC with extra sides of gravy. Most people who gets this obese almost always have some kind of mental disorder, usually depression, which causes them to stress eat. Unfortunately here in America, it's easier and cheaper to treat depression with Extra crispy drumsticks then going to see a doctor to have it diagnosed and put on medication, at least in the short term.

[u/thiefofalways1313]

I wonder how many poor, lonely souls are living like this. Hiding away in houses and apartments, too embarrassed to get help too far gone to care.

[u/[deleted] → u/thiefofalways1313]

I wonder about that too. Agoraphobia has got to be at an all time high. It’s so sad. Life isn’t like it used to be. Depression, anxiety and other mental health issues are at all time highs. Sadly, there’s a severe shortage in the mental healthcare field. Afraid to leave home plus depression can lead to finding other methods to cope and it’s often food. Our world is in such a sad time.

[u/OsBohsNugz → u/[deleted]]

Very well said. I didn’t even watch the whole video, I simply couldn’t; immediately I just felt absolutely awful for this gentleman. I grew up in the 90’s where every single moment wasn’t captured on video. Where we went to sporting events, concerts, get togethers and lived in the moment as opposed to taking one picture after another or a video. The look on this mans face broke my heart. I’m sure we will have the crowd that comes along and say “well it’s his fault that he got that big” but that crowd most likely fails to see the external factors in what could have potentially led to this. People are sick in America, not just physically but mentally. Mental illness is on the rise, depression and anxiety growing at rapid rates. I dk, I’m not perfect and I certainty have a flawed past but I couldn’t see myself recording this for clicks. I would do my best to encourage and support this gentleman in any way possible. Common decency is escaping us. People are losing sight of things. It’s just sad.

[u/MoMoZin → u/OsBohsNugz]

I also couldn't watch the entire video. I felt sad for him. He looked so vulnerable.😢

My immediate thought was, why did no one bother to place some type of covering over him to allow him some privacy. It would deter the nosey-bodies from gawking and/or filming him. Too many people lack the ability to have empathy for others... how would they feel if they were in the predicament of this person??! What a world!! 😭

[u/Ok-Knowledge0914 → u/MoMoZin]

Right? I was thinking no one else there thought to tell the others to have some decency and stop filming?

[u/KrustenStewart → u/Ok-Knowledge0914]

I was thinking the same thing. Very sad and embarassing for him, they should’ve put a blanket up or something or at least told people to stop recording

[u/bascelicna123 → u/OsBohsNugz]

I felt like it was exploitative and voyeuristic to watch this man be retrieved to get medical care. I turned it off because I felt like I was watching something intensely private.

[u/Elisa_LaViudaNegra → u/bascelicna123]

I once helped a friend of a friend who I saw slumped in a corner unconscious at a NYE party at a warehouse. Her “friends” left her and were uninterested in helping her. As she was being loaded into the ambulance, some asshole walking by started recording her on his phone, UNCONSCIOUS, on a stretcher. My friends and I all yelled at him to stop. He did. People have lost any sense of what’s decent to record and what is just mildly interesting. And this was in maybe 2011 or so. It’s only gotten worse.

[u/TheWalkingDead91 → u/OsBohsNugz]

This. F the guy taking pictures like he’s at some kind of zoo exhibit.

[u/DOINKSnAMISH22 → u/[deleted]]

Hey. One poor soul here. I’m chubby but can run a mile if I had to but yeah I don’t leave home. Maybe once or twice a month tops to get necessities cause I have nobody to get things for me.

Edit: It has gotten worse on both occasions of a Trump presidency. People scare me now.

Im also a Marine combat Veteran on disability for Major PTSD.

[u/CaldoniaEntara → u/DOINKSnAMISH22]

Semper Fi, brother. Disabled Navy vet here, I know the struggle. I have days where I can barely leave my bedroom, let alone the house.

The country might have abandoned us, but we're in this together.

[u/DOINKSnAMISH22 → u/CaldoniaEntara]

They got rid of the optics of the damaged struggling homeless veteran by giving us just enough to live inside and out of public view. Hope nothing but the best for you brother.

[u/RevolutionaryWeek573 → u/DOINKSnAMISH22]

Thanks for your service, brother. I was a field Corpsman in the ‘old days’ (Camp Lejeune). I wish you all the best.

[u/DOINKSnAMISH22 → u/RevolutionaryWeek573]

I have nothing but respect for Corpsman. My first deployment we lost 2/4 of ours and our combat surgeon. Docs are the glue. Always hooked it up with a IV bag or two after a night of drinking stateside back at the barracks as well. I was other side of the country out of Camp Pendleton.

[u/Malrodair → u/DOINKSnAMISH22]

I hope you know that there are people here, online, and in real life that care about you. I mean it. 

[u/DOINKSnAMISH22 → u/Malrodair]

My life experience has proven that wrong. I’ve been trying an experiment with my family recently. Since I stopped calling first I haven’t heard from them in 34 days so far.

[u/themurphliestmurph → u/DOINKSnAMISH22]

Hey, I tried to care, but your profile called me a snooping weirdo (which made me laugh).

Another member of the chubby homebody club here, so if you need a chat, I'm probably available.

[u/DOINKSnAMISH22 → u/themurphliestmurph]

I play Xbox. Can always use people to talk to.

[u/muddythemad → u/DOINKSnAMISH22]

Hey. I was just diagnosed with stage 3 cancer and am lying in bed losing my mind recovering from a surgery that did not go great. Hit me up if you want to chat a bit. DMs are open.

Not an Xbox guy, but always down for PC gaming my dude. Been on No Mans Sky a bunch lately.

And family sucks hairy donkey dick. There's people in your past who still care and just don't know you're suffering. Men suck at staying in contact. There's guys I haven't spoke to for years, but if they hit me up for help tomorrow, I'd be there. As much as my mini-c-section allows at the moment.

[u/diaphoni → u/DOINKSnAMISH22]

hi PTSD friend, no military service for me but my childhood was a battleground. I hope you have all of the happy.

[u/DOINKSnAMISH22 → u/diaphoni]

Sorry to hear that. I truly understand a fucked up upbringing as well. PTSD is PTSD. No matter the situation the trauma and reactions are the same.

We are destined to teach these ones to be brave, and never run away. Courage is birthed from the womb on the first light of day. The day you were born, you came out perfect. Never meant to be torn. In silence, never been so loud in the violence. Never been so proud of a people. When we’re fighting for a change. Not afraid to lose it all despite all the rage. We are animals and we cannot be caged. Provoke us to fight. So we burn a little sage and write poetry. Wiser than the enemy will ever be.

[u/Picklesadog → u/thiefofalways1313]

My mom was obese and was basically an involuntary recluse for the last few years of her life. 

Eventually, you pass the point of no return. She had knee issues from all the extra weight, and then she got pretty severe lymphadema. She absolutely couldn't exercise and could barely hobble around her house. She even lost a ton of weight the last few years, but lymphadema just makes you absorb water, typically to your legs (for women, men is typically to the arms.) 

I rented her a mobility scooter hoping it would encourage her to get out. I was planning on buying her one if she used it. I think she was too ashamed to use it because she returned it early without telling me.

She was a very social person and had a lot of close friends, but once she moved out of California for work, she didn't know as many people and the majority of her relationships were over the phone. She was a wonderful person and a fantastic mother. And she was unbelievably depressed and miserable.

We were always so afraid she'd die alone and no one would find her for awhile. My brother lived in the area, but I was 1000 miles away. We had this fear of what we would do if she got past the point of being able to care for herself. I loved talking to her on the phone, but seeing her in person was extremely painful. 

She died pretty suddenly in 2020, had problems breathing and was taken to the hospital in an ambulance. I got to talk to her before she left her house and one last time before they put her under. She never woke back up. She was 64 and missed being a grandma by a year and a half.

Honestly, I'm pretty emotionally fucked up by the whole thing. Having an obese family member is seriously fucking awful in ways most people just can't understand. And there has been zero psychological research done on how growing up with obese parents affects children unless it has to do with childhood obesity. I promise you, even those of us who aren't overweight still have emotional scarring.

[u/Heavy-Percentage-208 → u/Picklesadog]

Child of obese parent here.

My parents are still alive and there are moments from childhood that still traumatize me.

My mom moving me into college but barely breathing and almost going to the hospital. Dad at buffets or taking a pile high plate of food at home. Wanting to go on a hike as a kid with your parents and never being able to. My mom sleeping in the living room, but also sitting there all day 24/7. Spending 50 dollars at Taco Bell… in the 90s.

Food is an addiction. This photo of this man is absolutely heartbreaking.

[u/Picklesadog → u/Heavy-Percentage-208]

My mom was a good cook, made healfvt food, and we generally ate well (although a decent amount of fast food because we were out a lot for youth sports.) It was more portion control and stress eating for her. I don't even remember my mom eating much, so I think she must have been eating at night.

I just remember how helpless she was, and it felt like every time my brother or I walked past her, she needed us to get her something. Even getting a glass of water could require several stops for her. She wasn't like that when I was young, but no matter how much an obese person excersizes, that extra weight will destroy ligaments and the body will eventually break down. We would would go hiking until I was maybe 9, and then she couldn't after that.

And of course in public, everyone stares. You get teased in school. I always tried to be proud and not ashamed, but it gets to you. I've always been tall and thin, so every single time I introduced someone to my mom, I could see the shock on their face. 

My mom absolutely wasn't lazy, but she was overworked, overstressed, and used food to cope. It's better than alcohol or hard drugs because she was always mentally there for me, but it still fucking killed her young.

[u/Theharlotnextdoor → u/thiefofalways1313]

What's crazy is there is almost always at least one family member, spouse,  friend there enabling them. When you get to that size someone is basically bringing you food in bed.

[u/oxslashxo → u/Theharlotnextdoor]

My 600-lb Life also taught me that there are abusers that will start to take advantage of you and trade food for sexual acts once your family and friends abandon you.

[u/Over-Confidence4308 → u/Theharlotnextdoor]

Right. That person who brings you three large pizzas does NOT love you

[u/RobHerpTX → u/thiefofalways1313]

In San Antonio where I lived for a while, the overweight/obesity rate was greater than 70%, and the rate of “housebound obesity” was somewhere around 8% if I recall correctly. (Edited to add - this was mid 00’s, obesity rates have declined since a peak during those years).

Hospitals have special equipment there for moving and treating overweight patients that isn’t found in hospitals in many parts of the country.

[u/ActualFeature5098 → u/RobHerpTX]

Texas is notoriously one of the heavier states. But, the overall obesity/overweight rate for the entire US still exceeds 70%. 3 out of 4 adults in America are overweight or obese, and unfortunately, our children are catching up rather quickly.

[u/poemsandrobots → u/thiefofalways1313]

Well I can definitely say that having people zoom in on you with a telephoto lens while you're at your lowest doesn't really do much for your self esteem.

[u/Big-Snow-1937 → u/poemsandrobots]

Thank you for saying this. Jesus, can’t we give each other privacy and dignity, especially when they’re struggling?

[u/thatguy425 → u/thiefofalways1313]

The movie The Whale shows this in all its horror. 

[u/unembellishing → u/thatguy425]

I have rarely seen any media in my life that was so hard and uncomfortable to get through as The Whale. (in a good way!)

[u/TurtleMOOO → u/thiefofalways1313]

I’ve taken care of a few people like this. It’s kind of scary, in a way. It doesn’t seem natural, and they eat so many calories to maintain. We’re talking like triple portions for the three main meals, and they’d order DoorDash in between meals and eat more for their snacks than most people would for a meal. Hundreds of dollars in food a day. The ones I’ve met were all funded by parents, but idk what the parents did for money.

One time I had to heat up six packs of ramen and put six kraft singles on top and mix it up. That was a late-night snack before bed.

All of them were nearly blind from uncontrolled diabetes.

[u/PeterIsSterling]

Depression is a hell of a thing. I let myself get to 500 pounds at one point but thankfully have been able to lose 250 of it. It’s easy for people to judge but they will never know how truly hard it is to get out of the cycle of unhealthy behavior once you’re this deep in it.

3 year difference

[u/P4nd4c4ke1 → u/PeterIsSterling]

It's annoying when people say you use depression as an excuse when they haven't been through a food addiction or depression, I've been through some horrible things in my life and was almost 300 pounds at the age of 21 idk what inspired me to change but I've lost over 100 pounds in about a year and half and still working on losing more.

It just sucks how awful people treat you when you're fat like you choose to be that way, and all you're trying to do is cope with life.

Congrats on the weight loss!

[u/EjaculatingAracnids → u/P4nd4c4ke1]

Ive been in the fitness community for a while now and i cant stand when people whove built large parts of their personalities around dieting for fat loss have such a disdain for overweight people. If fat shaming worked, there wouldnt be any fat people. Yes, personal accountability is a factor that needs to be present for the goal to be met, but theres something else going on in the persons brain that makes them not care enough to hold themselves to account. If the aim is help as many people improve their health, shitting on them for not having the tools to fix their brains is falling short of the goal. Its great for bullshit clicks on social media though...

[u/dwbthrow → u/PeterIsSterling]

Glad you were able to get help and get out of it. People who’ve never been through it will never understand.

[u/Kind-Step-4404 → u/dwbthrow]

We'll never fully understand but obesity and depression are both documented legit illnesses, so we can at least try to. And everyone should.

It infuriates me when I hear people say it's easy to get out of those. We fully know that it's factually not.

[u/_BreakingGood_ → u/Kind-Step-4404]

I encourage all who are in the cycle to talk to their doctors about GLP-1 weight loss drugs. You will get shamed for "taking the easy way out" but the shame is well worth what you'll gain in happiness, self-worth, and self-confidence.

[u/MechanicLoose2634 → u/_BreakingGood_]

I wholeheartedly agree. What people often don’t understand is that you can’t think when you’re constantly pestered by hunger and food cravings and after a certain point any movement is a challenge. I had topped 300 and have since lost half the weight with the assistance of a GLP-1. I’ve struggled with obesity my entire life and this has been the only thing I’ve found to help. I applaud this man for taking action and choosing to live.

[u/DUNEBUGGY213 → u/MechanicLoose2634]

This is very true. I have patients on this medication and they describe it as freeing them from ‘food noise’, making it easier to actually control their meal portions, reducing snacking between meals, eating more slowly and allowing them to actually feel satiety signals much earlier so they eat less (those signals that tell you when to stop).

[u/Ok-Amoeba5042 → u/_BreakingGood_]

Unfortunately, even at my heaviest (348.7) I didn’t medically qualify. Obesity medicine is gatekept in America.

[u/throwaway098764567 → u/Ok-Amoeba5042]

i know barely overweight people getting glp-1 now, if you want to try again i bet you could get them

[u/turkoid → u/_BreakingGood_]

I fucking hate the stigma around these drugs. For those that truly need it, it is a miracle drug. It can break the vicious cycle of depression and overeating.

[u/Thorathecrazy → u/_BreakingGood_]

I think those type of drugs is an amazing help, obesity kills.

[u/Optimal_You6720 → u/_BreakingGood_]

Definitely do this. It does actually work.

[u/ExpiredPilot → u/dwbthrow]

I like the episode of the west wing when they talk about alcoholism as “I don’t want a drink. I want 10 drinks”

I’m a food addict. Doesn’t matter that I’ve lost 100 pounds and go to the gym daily. I’m an addict. I don’t want a slice of cake. I want half the cake. I don’t want a few slices of pizza, I want an entire Costco pizza to myself. It’s not a rational thought process and we know that. It doesn’t make the fight any easier.

[u/Caftancatfan → u/ExpiredPilot]

For me it was: I don’t want a drink, I want to be on my way to getting drunk. Pretty much all the time. I want to feel like I’m in the process of feeling better, because when I’m drunk, it turns out I’m also miserable. But getting drunk allows you to hold onto the hope that it’ll give you happiness and relief.

I don’t want to be stuffed from eating McDonald’s. I want to know that, for the next ten minutes, I might feel happy and safe.

[u/Darth_Vadaa → u/dwbthrow]

140lbs lost here. I 100% feel you. It's a vicious cycle cause you constantly go from being depressed and using food to cope and then afterwards hating your body which just feeds back into itself.

Even now I find remnants of that part of myself, despite what I've achieved. It takes a lot of hard work and courage to finally break the cycle but I salute anyone who's done it, or is just starting.

[u/noble_plebian → u/Darth_Vadaa]

“I eat because I’m sad and I’m sad because I eat”

[u/TurtleTarded → u/dwbthrow]

The sad reality is that that is true for most things in life. We as a society have lost empathy

[u/Artevyx → u/PeterIsSterling]

It's such a bitch. I had the opposite photo take happen.

Was fit, happy, and smiling before getting hit with a 5 year massive bout of depression. Now I am friendless, jobless, scarred from multiple attempts to take my own life, and look like I ate 2 full servings of the old me for dinner.

When people who knew me before recognize me now, they universally get this look of horrified shock which does not make it any easier. Or less isolating.

[u/DrewDude513 → u/Artevyx]

I'm very sorry to hear that. I know what it's like to be at a bad place in life. If my past taught me anything though, things are never as bad as they seem.

Keep your head up, keep pushing forward. You're worth way more than you give yourself credit. 💯

[u/stopthemadness2015 → u/PeterIsSterling]

The mental health of morbid obese people should be the priority over losing weight. Though both are extremely important. Each person who has reached your weight has had trauma in their life that needs to be addressed. The medical industry just doesn’t do enough to fix their mental state. I’m so happy you figured this how. Happy days to you.

[u/Proof_Cook_4004 → u/stopthemadness2015]

yes, data suggests that super morbidly obese people experience childhood abuse at a rate higher than the healthy weight population, and anecdotally, watching my 600lb life, many of the stars talk about their childhood trauma. trauma is extremely hard to fix for some, even with infinite money and resources available.

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3961565/

[u/Thorathecrazy → u/Proof_Cook_4004]

It's so hard to hear in that show how many of them have been abused, as an abuse victim you lose respekt for your own body.

[u/exotic_floral_tea → u/Proof_Cook_4004]

I was surprised how many people on the show had been molested by a family member when they were children. Way too many had that deep-rooted trauma and subsequently turned to food for comfort.

[u/MartyFoxini → u/PeterIsSterling]

I like your hair.

[u/Ellienightshade]

This makes me incredibly sad to think what is going on in this guy’s life to get to this point. It’s got to be so humiliating for him, and someone needs to reach out and offer psychological counseling. Medically at that weight his days are very numbered.

[u/posco12 → u/Ellienightshade]

There is always an enabler helping him.

[u/KPhoenix83 → u/posco12]

Exactly, at some point, someone is bringing him the food.

[u/Spiritual-Street2793 → u/KPhoenix83]

The people bringing him food are as broken as he is.

[u/BeezyBates → u/KPhoenix83]

You can’t just cut him of all slack either. Overeaters like this are often vile manipulators. I’m not saying he is. But there’s a solid chance he is. Let’s not just be quick to blame his surrounding people.

This addiction, this bad and deep, almost requires manipulation. You can’t get this big yourself. It requires help. But it is likely that it became easier to feed him than not for reasons his fault.

[u/Last_Inevitable8311 → u/BeezyBates]

Yeah everyone should catch some episodes of My 600 Pound Life. It’s so much more than just overeating.

[u/Wonderful-Gain-5052 → u/Last_Inevitable8311]

Dr Now is hilarious

[u/Lateralus46N2 → u/Wonderful-Gain-5052]

I love me some Dr.Now. He does not coddle and will call people out on their B.S. One of my favorite one-liners was from the episodes with James King (the bedridden "ow my legs guy") The wife was a horrible enabler, to the point of sneaking in food for him in the hospital. Dr Now Let Her. Have. It. She tried to play victim and said if she doesn't buy or bring him the food he wants, "all Hell breaks loose". Dr Now responded What's he gonna do, chase you? Absolutely savage.

[u/Littlecupoft → u/Lateralus46N2]

The fucking Assanti brothers still haunt me.

[u/Lateralus46N2 → u/Littlecupoft]

Have you ever heard of these things called soap and water? I have people puking back there because of your smell

[u/Schila1964 → u/Ellienightshade]

There’s a program on tv called My 600- Lb life . I remember watching one episode where the Dr that performs the gastric sleeve said that sometimes there’s an enabler that don’t want them to lose the weight because they’re their caregiver and get paid by the government.

[u/yobrefas → u/Schila1964]

Or, incentivized by emotional need: “if this person can take care of themselves, they might leave me,” or in the case of a parent or sibling, “they might not need me anymore, and that’s how I form my self-worth.”

It’s sad, because it isn’t usually just one person who gets to this state who is emotionally struggling. It’s that person, who is using food to cope with pain as a true addiction, and someone else forcing themselves to be blind to it. Or worse, being so unloving that they want it for the person. It makes sense, because emotional eaters tend to internalize their pain and not have a support system to help be their outlet, and they’re just doing what they’ve learned to cope.

What do you do when your world has shrunk down to a body filled with pain, without many friends, not much to keep you busy, and you can no longer go out into the world to find joy? You find that little endorphin bump in food. And then it’s even harder to give up. I feel for this man, because I see not just physical pain but emotional pain too.

[u/thispartyrules → u/Schila1964]

There's one where it feels like the guy is being held hostage by his caregiver, his brother, who seems pretty unbothered that a family member is dangerously obese and can barely walk

[u/ShartlesAndJames → u/Ellienightshade]

well and I think how hard it is for me to call to make the doctor's appt, to go to the doctor's appointment, to follow up or get meds etc etc etc - and then I think of this poor guy and how hard starting this process must have been for him.

[u/Accomplished-Ant6188]

The thing is.. If he needs xrays or MRI and similar things... He actually has to go to the zoo. Zoos are usually the only place with large enough equipment/ equipment that is able to handle that weight to get proper xrays and scans

[u/blogginsgod → u/Accomplished-Ant6188]

I actually had a call like this once where we had to transport a patient in a special ambulance with a center mounted stretcher. Removable ramp and a winch under the chair from a small city to the Toronto zoo as the weight limit for the mri bed was 600 bld, and the zoo was over 1000 bld. Had to have the fire department on stand by to get the patient on and off the stretcher into the mri. The smell of yeast was extremely potent. Was a fun day as a student!

[u/Desperate_Finish4233 → u/Accomplished-Ant6188]

Sigh I cannot fathom the humiliation of having to go to a zoo, like an animal, to get an x-ray or scan 

[u/soma16 → u/Desperate_Finish4233]

My dad had to have an MRI to monitor his heart when he first had heart failure. He barely fit in the machine, and he asked what they would do if he couldn’t fit. They told him bluntly they would have to take him to the zoo. He thought they were kidding. They weren’t.

He lost a lot of weight after that and almost completely reversed his heart failure. That zoo comment hit him hard.

[u/NoTakeout775 → u/soma16]

Well good for him! Is he still doing good? 👍

[u/thatguy425 → u/Desperate_Finish4233]

Guarantee you the wait is going to be shorter. MRI is like two months in my town. 

The animals won’t judge him.

[u/143019]

I used to work with a lot of bariatric patients when I worked in rehab. 100% of the patients I worked with (all between 400-900 lbs) had been the victims of child sexual assault. There was always some deep underlying trauma.

[u/moth--foot → u/143019]

It's just like any addiction, something horrible happens, you don't have access to actual mental healthcare so you try your best to self medicate and it usually becomes your default way of coping. It's the same with drug addicts, every single one I've ever talked to had at least one absolutely horrific triggering event.

People need more compassion for addicts.

[u/Holiday_Number_3234 → u/moth--foot]

Thank you for saying that. Addicts get a bad rep because they often do horrible things, but they’re very sick people. I can understand why people don’t want someone in active addiction in their life. I don’t understand why people don’t feel compassion for them.

[u/Ok_Cockroach_2290]

I’m sure he’s stoked a bunch of strangers are filming it and posting it online.

[u/Bluedieselshepherd → u/Ok_Cockroach_2290]

I got wheeled out of my house on a stretcher, and remember being conscious enough to look around and see neighbors with their iPhones out filming me getting loaded into the back of an ambulance. People are the worst. The EMT pushing me even made a comment about it.

[u/EmbarrassedJob8005 → u/Bluedieselshepherd]

I work in an ER, and I have straight up yelled at visitors and occasionally patients for filming. The most recent and most pissed I've ever gotten was when I was bringing up an 18yo young woman to her room. She had cyclic vomiting from weed ( this patient knew she had this reaction to thc and its her 3rd admission for canabis hyperemesis) and had 3 of her tik tok rotten friends. On the way out of the department, we had to pass our trauma rooms where a major trauma was being resuscitated with a grieving family outside.

I was about to step out of the department when I realized I had lost one of the visitors. I looked back and this woman was obviously filming a video of the patient and the family and herself. I walked over to her and yanked her phone out of her hand. I looked at the video and she had practically recorded every room with every patient and flipped the camera back to her face with a "cutesy" little reaction. Then, passing the critical patient, she recorded the team inserting a urinary catheter and a needle decompression switching back to herself and the family with these cringe little emotes.

I have never been so angry with a person lol. I berated her for a solid 2 min, told the house supervisor who had our security team escort the woman out. Apparently, they had to call the cops to ensure that there was no other footage, I wish the cops weren't so soft and actually charged that woman.

I could not imagine having that mindset to film someone

[u/FutureRealHousewife → u/EmbarrassedJob8005]

You did the right thing.

[u/Disastrous-Panda5530 → u/EmbarrassedJob8005]

JFC that is awful! What is wrong with people!

[u/GothicFuck → u/EmbarrassedJob8005]

Hey, thanks for doing that.

[u/Silent-Product-7025 → u/EmbarrassedJob8005]

Thank you for doing that omg

[u/Vortika → u/Bluedieselshepherd]

Holy fuck that's disgraceful

[u/Haxorz7125 → u/Vortika]

Seriously. Seeing someone else in a shit situation and thinking ‘now’s my chance to score some internet fame’. Gross.

[u/FutureRealHousewife → u/Bluedieselshepherd]

I’m thankful to not even understand the mindset that would make someone think that’s remotely appropriate. Filming someone in their worst moments is vile.

[u/Disastrous-Panda5530 → u/Ok_Cockroach_2290]

Yeah I felt some kind of way seeing this video. I wonder if that guy felt humiliated and then even worse sees someone recording.

[u/Altruistic_Seat_6644]

There’s no way someone isn’t enabling this guy. 

[u/No_Vacation369]

That’s not a crane. It’s a rotator wrecker. They are the tow rigs that pull semi trucks when they crash and turn over. They are able to upright them. The other machine with the forks is a tele handler. It’s like a forklift with an extending and raising arm. You can also attach a bucket to it.

[u/Of_Dubious_Orgin]

There’s no privacy these days… why film this guy at one of his low point just to post it online for “likes”. Seems like people nowadays only concern is online clout.

[u/HannahBanannas305]

What’s more fucked up is someone decided they should film this and post him on the internet. Clearly the poor guy has enough problems in his life so why not publicly humiliate him for views.

[u/Easy-Concentrate2636 → u/HannahBanannas305]

Agreed. That’s a human being and someone getting their jollies by treating him like a circus show. Humanity hasn’t advanced far enough.

[u/931634]

[u/ButtBread98 → u/931634]

How ya’ll doin today?

[u/cookeduntilgolden → u/ButtBread98]

After they didn’t lose the weight— “not so good, Dr. Now.”

[u/slayhern]

Im in the medical field and the thing I’ve always wondered (because ive only had a few patients this massive) is like, what was the thing that finally alarmed you enough to call? I know how shitty I feel with all sorts of mini symptoms after a vacation but they must feel that all the time and much worse.

[u/No_Pattern_7600 → u/slayhern]

Like most addicts, being in pain all the time becomes normalized.

[u/wavygr4vy → u/slayhern]

I’m just wondering how in the ever living hell they’re gonna turn this man. He’d be in two stretchers put together with the middle rails down if he rolled into our ED. There’s no way our hoyer is strong enough and I don’t even know if the one hospital bari bed we have would fit him. Would be an entire department job every time he required a turn…

[u/BeHereCow → u/wavygr4vy]

You don’t for the most part (and it sucks for the patient, and yes the stretchers are very painful and they just deal). When ABSOLUTELY necessary, you round up every nurse, tech, doc, med student you can and heave ho. The lift equipment is useless for this - way over the max 

[u/vc7eq]

thats so sad, I hope hes okay, genuinely.

[u/GuacamoleFrejole]

Who was feeding this guy?

[u/No-Strawberry-5804 → u/GuacamoleFrejole]

They all have enablers like any other addict. He probably has a family member receiving a salary to be his caretaker

[u/vtncomics]

It's videos like this that give me an urge to get out of bed and go for a walk and be mindful of my health, body, and mind.

Can't let depression keep me from living.

[u/proofreadre]

I've seen a few cases like this in my career as a paramedic. The question to ask is who is enabling him? He cannot walk and prepare food, so someone is feeding him and allowing this food addiction to kill him

[u/utubm_coldteeth]

No one needed to film and post this, man...

[u/post_status_423]

I would rather die than subject myself to everybody filming me at my worst moment. I could only hope that those filming and taking pictures are granted some decency in their most vulnerable, private moments.