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Originally Posted by Elspode
If she was grafted to the couch, she obviously wasn't making to the loo on her own, either. Egad.
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I've dealt with quite a few people that for one reason or another live in their own waste. This is extreme, even for my experience, though. I have one friend who is not quite that obese, but is heading in that direction. She has already had double knee replacements, and faced consequences of that surgery (and some incorrect treatment with blood thinners that caused further damage leading to nerve damage in one leg). She's getting around a bit, but has difficulty walking, needing either a cane or a walker. She's talking about doing things like getting one of those "power chairs" and a car/van that has a specially designed seat to make it easier for her to get in and out ... she's already overstressing an ordinary automoblie bucket seat ... she is literally wedged in behind the steering wheel. When she makes a turn she has to return the wheel to "straight ahead" by hand because it won't spin back on it's own. There are bits of herself that she can't get to easily to wash, and, while she does bathe with ordinary frequency, she doesn't smell particularly fresh. She overuses Jean Nate to compensate. It's not pretty. For as long as I've known her she claims to be "on a diet" or "losing weight" but I've never seen physical evidence of it. It's quite sad.